Category: Creative Writing
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The Minimalist
Being a minimalist means looking at every single item in your life and asking yourself honestly if it brings you value. If the answer is no, then you have to be willing to cut ties with it. The difficult part is that the only person you have to be honest with is yourself. You need…
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Come On Down To Matthew’s
The hottest new restaurant in Manhattan is called Matthew’s. It’s this really cool concept eatery where you eat scalding hot soup off of a plate with a knife. It’s exorbitantly expensive and they don’t take reservations. To get there you need to jump off the L Train while its moving between 3rd Avenue and Union…
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Bike Dads
I always wanted to be a dad who rode a bike. Every morning I would watch with envy as the fathers in my neighborhood tore down the street on their Trek’s and Schwinn’s. They wore skin-tight thermal onesies and aerodynamic helmets. One of them would always have a large boombox equipped to the back of…
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Where are they now: The interviewees from Bill Maher’s 2008 documentary “Religulous”
Religulous is on Netflix. So I watched it. It was only the second time I had seen it. The first time I saw it was New Year’s Day, 2009. I don’t know why I know that, but I do. I liked Religulous a lot more this time. Despite being nearly 10 years old, the documentary…
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Swimmer’s Ear
For some weird reason, there is no room 512 in Jon’s building. There is a 501, 502, 503 and so on. There is a 516, 515, 514 and 513, which is his room. But then it goes 513b, and on to 511. What this means is whenever his neighbor in 513b orders a pizza, the…
Matthew Speiser 