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Really, No Big Deal
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The one piece in this collection Steve did not write — a 2005 guest post on his Drunken Blog Rants site by his father. It's a comic hospital set piece: a routine ER visit over what the narrator is sure is nothing gets him ushered to the front of the queue and wired up — an EKG, an IV, and talk of an angiogram, while every nurse and doctor on the floor keeps delivering the same flat reassurance — "really, no big deal" — that gets harder to believe each time it lands.
It sits here for completeness and isn't part of Steve's essay corpus. The family's gift for understated deadpan clearly runs in the blood.
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2009
Story Time
Steve's own storytelling night, four years later — nine true stories in one sitting. Where his father's piece is a single hospital-room set piece, Story Time strings nine together, same deadpan, same comic timing.
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2006
Psh. Whatever!
Steve's own turn toward personal storytelling, a year later — a memorial for his brother Dave, the family's natural joke-teller. Between this and his father's piece, the comic deadpan clearly runs in the Yegge family.
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2010
Blogger Finger
Five years on, Steve writes about why he stopped writing. A fitting neighbour for this Drunken-era guest post — the storyteller talking about the cost of being a storyteller.