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(Not That You Asked) : Rants, Exploits, and Obsessions by Steve Almond; OverDrive, Inc is a humor available to read on EtoBox.

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How does Steve Almond get himself into so much trouble? Could it be his incessant moralizing? His generally poor posture? The fact that he was raised by a pack of wolves? Frankly, we haven’t got a clue. What we do know is that Almond has a knack for converting his dustups into essays that are both funny and furious. In (Not that You Asked), he squares off against Sean Hannity on national TV, nearly gets arrested for stealing “Sta-Hard” gel from his local pharmacy, and winds up in Boston, where he quickly enrages the entire population of the Red Sox Nation. Almond is, as they say in Yiddish, a tummler. Almond on personal grooming: “Why, exactly, did I feel it would be ‘sexy’ and ‘hot’ to have my girlfriend wax my chest? I can offer no good answer to this question today. I could offer no good answer at the time.” On sports: “To be a fan is to live in a condition of willed helplessness. We are (for the most part) men who sit around and watch other men run and leap and sweat and grapple each other. It is a deeply homoerotic pattern of conduct, often interracial in nature, and essentially humiliating.” On popular culture: “I have never actually owned a TV, a fact I mention whenever poss

Who reads (Not That You Asked) : Rants, Exploits, and Obsessions?

Author

Steve Almond; OverDrive, Inc

Publisher

Random House Publishing Group

Published

2007

Language

EN

ISBN

9781588366542

Category

humor

Subjects

Humor, Science, Memoir

Rating

3.59 / 5 (905 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14