I’ve been a bit of a hater of Cheryl Strayed but am softening now that I know that Steve Almond has a connection to her. He started the “Sugar” advice column on Rumpus* and then passed that “Torch” to Cheryl. (Similarly, I was editor of the Gunn Oracle and passed that job on to Steve).

Here is Steve on Marc Maron.

(I also dug the Art Alexakis of Everclear cameo as tattoo artist, and the dudes singing “Ripple” and the bit from Linda Perry Four Non Blondes “What’s Up?” but I wondered who was still singing that the year the Jerry died. 1995, vs. 1993. I thought that was Hutz the musician dancing then rolling her wife a knife, probably not).

I want to read “Heroin/e”.

I lied above. The dude said it was heroin but it was actually baking powder. Also, I did not meet a dozen young ladies between 20 and 40 on a recent camping trip, they were people I merely fantasized about between January, 1983 and fall, 2002.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhQsi2LJwh4

* not that I had heard of it until ten minutes ago, but “sugar” on rumpus sounds like something I have no idea how I knew to search for it, but according to David Niven Errol Flynn would put a bit of cocaine on the tip of his CENSORED as an aphrodisiac. link

also: Hornby if that’s your real name wrote the script, saving me hours of time tearing out and burning pages of the actual Strayed (I say STRAY YED).