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I’m reading at Cobb’s Comedy Club in SF on Monday June 1st with @ayeletw and allstar amazing lineup. http://afterbirthstories.com/shows

RT Grottoite Andy Raskin’s @araskin “The Ramen King and I” made the SF Chron bestseller list

Readers, I will occasionally be offering links to articles or stories that I think are worth your time. And this essay definitely falls into that category.

Writer Joshua Wolf Shenk has done a first-rate job telling the story of an amazing study into the nature of happiness, and the complexity of the human soul, in the latest issue of the Atlantic Monthly.

“Is there a formula—some mix of love, work, and psychological adaptation—for a good life? For 72 years, researchers at Harvard have been examining this question, following 268 men who entered college in the late 1930s through war, career, marriage and divorce, parenthood and grandparenthood, and old age. Here, for the first time, a journalist gains access to the archive of one of the most comprehensive longitudinal studies in history. Its contents, as much literature as science, offer profound insight into the human condition—and into the brilliant, complex mind of the study’s longtime director, George Vaillant.

It takes 20 minutes to read this essay, but what it has to say about living a good life will stay with you far longer. Well worth your time.

Ok, I soooo did not need to know this. From an interview about the crowning of the Miss California beauty pagent.

RODRIGUEZ: But don’t the judges look at proportion when they’re judging the swimsuits? Wouldn’t she have a better chance of winning if she were more proportioned?

LEWIS: Well, of course she does. But there’s plenty of ways of getting to more proportion without doing breast implants.

RODRIGUEZ: Well, but if…

LEWIS: Many of the girls use chicken cutlets.

RODRIGUEZ: … if you have a flat chest, what are you supposed to do?

LEWIS: You use chicken cutlets. You use tape. You use anything that you can to enhance the line. There’s lots of tricks of the trade. It’s just a matter of whether or not you want to go to that next level.

I suspect “going to the next level” involves Ostrich cutlets.

Can you imagine standing in front of an audience, in a skimpy bikini, trying to look super sexy, while the smell of raw chicken wafts up?

What the cluck?