Friends
Shouts & Murmurs
Some Other Unlikely Friendships
The tortoise and the hare, Hansel and Gretel and the witch, a leaf and a leaf blower . . .
Road Trips
Wide World of Disney
“We went to Disney World not out of some ironic feeling for Disney and what Disney represents but because we wanted to ride Space Mountain.”
Shouts & Murmurs
The Leftovers of New York City Deserters
People leave the city all the time, often without their stuff.
Shouts & Murmurs
Dear Pepper: Scheduling Slackers and Overachievers
What you need is to be a little more selfish and a little less aware.
Shouts & Murmurs
Dear Pepper: Zoomed Out
It sucks, but all of our needs are different now than they used to be.
Onward and Upward with the Arts
The Women Behind the Thirteen-Year-Olds of “PEN15”
How the show’s co-creators found comedy in the pain of revisiting adolescence.
Shouts & Murmurs
The Filibuster Belongs in my Group Chat, Not the Senate
It would allow forty-one per cent of the chat’s members to block terrible ideas, such as doing this again sometime.
Dept. of Fandom
Rachel, Joey, Monica, Phoebe, Chandler, Ross . . . and Wolfgang
Wolfgang Van Halen, the front man of Mammoth WVH and the son of Eddie Van Halen, pays a visit, in between stadium shows with Guns N’ Roses, to his happy place: the Friends Experience, in Gramercy Park.
Shouts & Murmurs
Left Behind
Daily Cartoon
Daily Cartoon: Thursday, June 10th
“They say you’re a man who knows how to cancel plans.”
Shouts & Murmurs
I’m Totally Open to Anything
I do have a very specific set of requirements for our activities together, but, within those parameters, you choose, because I’m easy and breezy!
Daily Cartoon
Daily Cartoon: Thursday, May 27th
“Could this be any more of a small outdoor gathering with vaccinated friends?”
Shouts & Murmurs
Sons of Commandment: Tales from the Nineties Bar-Mitzvah Circuit
Every single bar or bat mitzvah had the same d.j. play the party, so you could prepare.
Shouts & Murmurs
The Boyfriend Identity: Part 3
Part of him wants to bash her brains in. But another part wants to go home with her, put on their shlumpies, order Thai food, and watch three hours of “Shark Tank.”
Personal History
How to Practice
I wanted to get rid of my possessions, because possessions stood between me and death.
Shouts & Murmurs
The Antichrist
Personal History
The Ability to Cry
If I shed one tear, I might become Alice, swimming in an ocean of my tears.
Shouts & Murmurs
Dear Pepper: Social Distancing and a Brotherly Snub
“My advice: let go of the obligations that you feel toward your friends. And be an even better friend to the ones you actually want to see.”
Culture Desk
Fifty Years of Friendship with Larry Kramer
Kramer was a pain in the ass as a matter of policy. He was also our beloved family friend.