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Hey listen, honey. I just wanted to meet a few people, you know. Have a good time. But to be honest, I’m a little freaked out.
I know I could dig a little deeper and change your settings and everything, but I really think flooding my inbox was uncalled for. We just met. Plus, in certain [...]

Tell me I’m wrong:
Seth MacFarlane sits in front of a committee one day with a pitch.
“It’s a show like the Simpsons.” he says. “I’m stealing 2 ideas from it. But don’t worry, I’m throwing in a Machiavellian baby and a talking, drunken dog to paint over the fact that I’ve plagiarized.”
The committee is immediately impressed.
Seth [...]

“If only I had the money.” he confides in his platonic friend Jenny, who secretly likes him. “Boy look at that, will you?”
“No thank you.” Jenny says.
“Come on. Look at those curves.”
Jenny gets mad. “Why don’t you just go get her then?”
The man shoulders slump. “You know a guy like me could never get a [...]

It took him three months to save the money he needed. Three months of scraping by on two cans of beans a day; three months of suppressing his cravings for alcohol and drugs; three months of begging for overtime; three months of social seclusion; three months of fighting with his girlfriend until she finally left [...]

“We can’t possibly put this guy on.” says the first man in a suit. “He’s irresponsible. He’s crazy. He’s out of his mind.”
“He’s dangerous.” the second suit agrees.
“Of course he is. The whole system could crumble. Who does he think he is, coming in like that, like a conscientious, concerned man speaking the truth? Doesn’t [...]