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John Michael Thornton dreamed of being a bomb-throwing leftist, until he blew out his arm and required season-ending Tommy John surgery. He is now a writer living in the Bay Area, and can be reached at john.michael.thornton@aya.yale.edu.
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John Michael Thornton dreamed of being a bomb-throwing leftist, until he blew out his arm and required season-ending Tommy John surgery. He is now a writer living in the Bay Area, and can be reached at john.michael.thornton@aya.yale.edu. View all posts by jmt →
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When small talk won’t work.
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A Cinderella story.
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I bet she throws like a girl.
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Disregard the ad; I’ll hump anything that moves.
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And to think she’s doing it backwards in heels.
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10 bucks says that guy has some performance anxiety tonight. Any takers?
mikegerber
September 12, 2011 at 3:48 pm
Mike, this was tremendous! Do you know anything about it? Are there others like it?
jmt
September 12, 2011 at 3:52 pm
I think there is an essay in Man Without a Country where he plots several more stories. In the piece I am thinking of, he talks about how Hamlet can’t be plotted because one never knows if the ghost of Hamlet’s father is real or a hallucination. Glad you liked it!
Devin McKinney
September 12, 2011 at 8:33 pm
I saw Vonnegut give this talk at the University of Northern Iowa, c. 1989. It was based on the master’s thesis he wrote in anthropology at the University of Chicago. They rejected it.
Aaron Datesman
September 27, 2011 at 5:49 pm
I can’t find the book, but I’m pretty sure he writes about this in either _Palm Sunday_ or _Wampeters, Foma, and Granfalloons_. It’s better to see him speak, however. One of my favorite humans ever!