The Nicholist #5
I'm shaking. I'm physically shaking, Chef.
Welcome to The Nicholist! My weekly list of pop culture where I gush on everything that’s got me obsessed.
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Other Monologues
I wrote a book! Kinda. Other Monologues (out now) is a collection of over a dozen monologues from all my plays, including The Bottoming Process and the TikTok fave Young Dumb Broke High School Kids.
I started Other Monologues because I wanted to give the weirdos who love camp, abrasive comedy, bold language, and adventurous theatre monologues they could use to audition with and perform. And I worked hard to make it a reality because of young actors like Josie, who message me weekly looking for plays that represent them and make them feel seen.
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Other Monologues is published by Astringent Press—an independent qBpoc press in Kansas City—who awarded me their inaugural Astringent Award to turn this idea for a book into a reality.
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Evan Ross Katz, you are very famous to me. I’m an avid listener of Shut Up Evan and have read—and own two copies of—Into Every Generation a Slayer Is Born: How Buffy Staked Our Hearts.
If you're seeing this, thanks for being here! And in your honor, in the style of a celebrity following you on Instagram, here's a fan-girl post dedicated to you where I say:
Libby
As essential to my morning routine as coffee or watching The View is listening to an audiobook from when I wake up to when I leave my house. I imagine it's for the same reasons people listen to A.M. radio or Ryan Seacrest on their drives into their nine-to-fives. Something about an early chitter chatter just gives "start of the day" vibes.
As a book influencer (find my secret bookstagram for a prize), I mostly listen to ALCs gifted to me monthly by Libro.fm—and they're primarily books that wouldn't be my first choice. As a person with attention deficit disorder, I only listen to celebrity memoirs—because my brain isn't strong enough to listen to fiction and wash my face simultaneously. But with Libby, I listen to only first choices, baby! Libby is pretty much bootleg Audible. You connect your library card to the app, and voilà, you get audiobooks and e-books for free. This week alone, I've listened to memoirs by Alaska Thunderfuck 5000, Kelly Osbourne, and I am moving on to Joan Rivers next. Get into it, nerds!
KenTheMan — "I Love a Freak"
If you're in need of a funny freaky anthem of the week, fuck with this!
“Cause I'm a rich ho, thick ho
Bounce that ass 'til that dick 'bout to explode
If he broke, hell no
Ain't got no money, might as well fuck a dildo”