McQuade read one of his teenage musings, saying it was from his Jack Kerouac “On the Road” phase: You couldn’t write this stuff as authentically as it was written back then.” “This is brilliant satire,” he said, “but it’s not satirical. When McQuade first read at Cringe two years ago, he said it was like releasing the pent-up torment of his teenage years. Publicly reciting old songs, letters and journal entries “is cathartic in a way,” said Aaron McQuade, 30, a news anchor, who said he was the pudgy kid who didn’t talk to anybody in school. The crowd that gathers at Freddy’s Bar & Backroom in Brooklyn calls it “Cringe Night.” Once a month, people mostly in their 20s and 30s read their teenage writings. Please help me to be more mature and help me to fill out my bra.Ĭall it comedy. I don’t know why, because I’ve seen him all week except for today. We didn’t have school because of the snow today. She wrote the first entry in 1980, when she was 12. On a recent April night, the 39-year-old magazine writer read the mostly embarrassing excerpts – food-fighting, French kissing, babe-loving – to nearly 100 strangers. The diary’s cursive-scrawled pages hold Becky Ciletti’s most intimate pubescent thoughts and secrets. A Donna Summer picture is glued to its cover next to a scratch-and-sniff pizza sticker that – after 27 years – still smells like pepperoni. New York ? The diary is a spiral notebook with candy wrappers and used chopsticks taped inside.
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