How Much Fun It Was Just Knowing Her – Rob Penty
"That is the world and that’s how it works,Every heart’s broken so everyone’s jerks,And money don’t change it,drugs can’t erase it,you can’t blog it away&qu…| Rob Penty
FORCEPS, BLEACH, TOOTHPICK, BEDAZZLERThings one might use for a purpose IN, AY, AN, NYThe last two letters of Countries that have won the Women’s World Cup JOURNEY, BEAVER, SINGLE, KNEEWords found in “Sigourney Weaver” if you add the letters B, L, J and K ASPHYXIATION, KETCHUP, TURF, GERIATRICJapanese words (when translated from English to Japanese)| Rob Penty
"That is the world and that’s how it works,Every heart’s broken so everyone’s jerks,And money don’t change it,drugs can’t erase it,you can’t blog it away&qu…| Rob Penty
My sobriety journey would make a boring ass memoir but I’m sharing it anyway.| Rob Penty
When I got laid off in June, it sent me into a tailspin of anxiety, not just because I had lost my job, but because I would need to embark on something that a truly hate: looking for a new job. It didn’t help that the voice in my head was saying, “this is your […]| Rob Penty
“So, I get a pit bull named Keith and everybody told me Keith’s gonna be your best friend. And I gotta say, maybe my ninth best friend.” – Neal Brennan I have only one question for my dog Sapphire. It’s a simple question, a question she has been asked many many times. I ask it […]| Rob Penty
Last week I had between two and three days of internal rage, primarily because of the things I saw on social media. But one post got me really angry. Want to know what it was? It was a video of people filming their neighbor as they confronted her about stealing their cat. That was it. […]| Rob Penty
It’s the beginning of November, right after Halloween, so I think it’s safe to say that it’s officially Christmas season. Bring on the red Starbucks cups! I voted early today at a school two blocks from my apartment – a different school than the one on actual election day. No idea how that stuff works […]| Rob Penty
Yeah, you read that right. I recently got a tattoo. And I know what you’re thinking. What did you get? I’ll tell you by the end. Saying what your tattoo idea is often sounds kind of dum…| Rob Penty
For the past three years I’ve been playing pickup soccer most Sundays and Thursdays at the park a block away from my apartment in Park Slope. I met the guys who run it at the corner bar The G…| Rob Penty
If the Dave Rubin I knew from stand-up decades ago saw that Patton Oswalt was retweeting him, he would have been pretty psyched. A famous comedian was paying attention to him and his content! It would be like he had arrived as a stand up. The only problem is Patton wasn’t retweeting a joke or […]| Rob Penty
I’ve been unable to leave my house a few times in my life. In the eighth grade there was an ice storm in Rochester, NY. The weight of the ice caused trees to fall into some houses and tree br…| Rob Penty
About a week and a half ago I told my therapist that I was surprised that I wasn’t freaking out about the coronavirus. That was March 5th. On Saturday March 7th, I had a birthday party. It wa…| Rob Penty
Once again we are confronted with New York City’s crumbling infrastructure. That’s the kind of sentence I would write if I were more passionate about local politics and I knew what I wa…| Rob Penty
Unfortunately for my friends – not to mention co-workers, acquaintances, and particularly unlucky members of the service industry – I’m the kind of person that if you ask me how I am, I…| Rob Penty
It’s time to admit that the pandemic fucked me up.| Rob Penty
I got up at 4:00AM and took the R train to Whitehall to get to the Staten Island Ferry. Last time I slept over at a friend’s who lives on Staten Island right next to the start village. I was …| Rob Penty
The New York City Marathon is less than a week away and people have been asking me, “Are you getting excited?” No, I am not. In fact, I’m pretty scared. First things first, let…| Rob Penty
