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Me and Big Awkward on Commonwealth Avenue

And sometimes you have to pack up both of your roommates – Danny the gay singer-songwriter from a Mormon Army family in Utah who looked and sounded like Elton John; and Jay, the CrackerBaller, the white Tupac / King Diamond expert in the mail-order KOOL baseball jersey who said he was from Detroit but was really from Sterling Heights – and go to the 99 Joints album release party in some gutterflat in Allston. Here you proceed to meet some new people, you see that cellist you think is really hot, and then, somehow, you end up dancing on a kitchen island to “The Big Payback” by James Brown at 3 in the morning, all the hours since midnight a black blur.

9 April, 2009 – 10:17 am | By Josh Berthume | Posted in Boston, Music, Short Stories, Long Odds | Comments (2)

10. Something’s Happened

Written in 2001. This is not strictly non-fiction, but almost everything is true? The geography may also be a little skewed. I stopped in New London on my way from Boston to New Haven once. If I remember correctly, I could see the whole town from the top of the hill, looking down into the …

31 July, 2008 – 8:01 pm | By Josh Berthume | Posted in Boston, Short Stories, Long Odds | Comments (1)