It recently dawned on me that, as a fledgling auteur, now is the perfect time to cast Kevin Spacey in my film. In college, I created a series of hyperpersonal dramatic short films that acted as portrayals of love and what it means to be human with young nobodies I pulled off the street. This process was taxing, as I would stalk people to see if their hand movements when chatting appeared natural to me. And then I’d run up to them all bug-eyed with mouth-frothing desperation and force them against their will to be in a film. It’s the…
Author: Reese Morgenstern
Reese Morgenstern
Reese hails from Southern California, where he attempts to write funny things and make short films that no one will ever see. Reese also hates when people reference that they wrote their bios in the third person and now I'm doing it myself please stop me. Twitter: @RJMorgenstern.
As someone who constantly has to justify their decision to not have children to their friends and family, I’m fully comfortable with being judged at this point. Of course, when I know I’m going to meet up with my pregnant girlfriends, I prepare a kindly worded statement in my head about ten minutes prior to my arrival, but that’s because I’m done being berated with questions like, “Don’t you want to contribute to the biological well-being of our species?” or “If you’re having problems, why don’t you pay the $10,000 you obviously have lying around to freeze your eggs?” Most…