"I’m worried about dry humping" (Vancouver)

Grownups Read Things They Wrote as Kids

Dan Misener

Kids, Grown Up, Society & Culture, Grown Ups Read Things They Wrote, Grown Ups, Journals, Juvenilia, Performing Arts, Children, Young, K-12, Society & Culture/personal Journals, Cbc Radio, Education/k-12, Education, Diary, Adults Read Things They Wrote As Kids, Things, Grownups, Cbc, Stuff, Read, Kids & Family, Gurttwak, Grttwak, Grown-ups, Comedy, Personal Journals, Adults, Diaries, Arts, Arts/performing Arts

4.7 • 653 Ratings

🗓️ 30 July 2018

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Debra gets her period, Chris writes a crime novel, Jayda falls in love at first sight, and much more. Recorded live at the York Theatre in Vancouver. Show notesSupport GRTTWaK. Become a patron.Photos from our Vancouver eventRate or review GRTTWaK in iTunesJoin the email newsletterUpcoming live eventsMusic by Podington Bear and LullatoneClosing theme is “Oh Dear Diary” by SloanTwitterInstagramFacebook

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0:00.0	When Alicia was in grade two, she wasn't the world's greatest athlete, but she wasn't the worst either.
0:07.0	October 5th, 1996. I ran in a grape race on Saturday, and I finished in 698th place out of 700. And I liked it.
0:25.9	That's Alicia, documenting her status at the back of the pack.
0:30.0	I'm Dan Meisner, and this?
0:32.3	This is grown-ups read things they wrote as kids.
0:35.4	How are you doing?
0:37.8	It is very, very nice to see you all.
0:42.4	This is a show where we go back in time
0:44.4	to remember the good, the bad,
0:46.4	and the awkward parts of growing up.
0:49.0	This time, recorded live in Vancouver,
0:51.1	we have rites of passage,
0:53.1	a bloody cop drama, love at first sight at an
0:56.7	Our Lady Peace concert, and much, much more. This stuff is weird, it is wonderful, and, like coming
1:03.7	in 698th in a 700-person race, it's all about heart. So think about who you were when you were a kid.
1:11.7	And stick around.
1:20.2	So much of what we hear on stage is about what social scientists call liminality,
1:25.5	these moments of transition in life where things are especially
1:28.9	confusing because we're changing. We're not who we used to be, but we're not yet who we're
1:34.8	going to become. That's liminality, the awkwardness of being in between. Our next reader, Deborah,
1:41.4	shared a few selections from the diary she kept in 1971,
1:46.3	written over the course of about two weeks,
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