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The specialty shoe division has been created to sell specialty shoes, specifically clown shoes, elevator shoes, animal face slippers, and unpaired shoes for the one-footed. For “one-foots,” I propose a service I call “shoe buddies,” in which a single-footed customer could search our database to loc…

BACK AT THE laundromat, I offer to volunteer my time for free every other Sunday, starting for the first two weeks with every Sunday, so as to cover all bases. I explain to the manager that I just enjoy doing laundry. I sell it to her as a win-win situation for us both. She takes this in, nods, pul…

Amazing. That is indeed forty. It is as if Apatow had a camera in my house when I was that age. Even though I know I did not get the scene verbatim, it’s a testament to the power of the writing (and the performances of Ruddmann, as I have dubbed Paul Rudd and Leslie Mann, so organic and believabl…

"I’ll have a whisker,” I say.

“Whisker?”

“Whiskey?”

“Scotch, rye…?”

Now he is impatient to get back to Tsai.

“Um, rye,” I say, because I heard somewhere it is a thing now.

“Brand?”

“You choose,” I say and immediately feel it comes across as coquettish, something a girl might sa…

Like a party favor, a thought pops into my head: My daughter coming home from school. She is, what, twelve or eleven. I don’t know. She wants to be with me, and I’m working, watching Talfan’s Dysgu i gi Bach Gachu backward. It is one of the most significant films in all of Welsh cinema, and that is…