F*ck Bubble

About F*ck Bubble

A decades-long friendship is torn asunder after an encounter with a stranger in the desert. Each episode I’ll be reading a new chapter from my non-fiction manuscript, F*ck Bubble, to a close friend. F*ck Bubble is the near twenty year true story of a 1999 hookup in New York City that morphed into a deep but often turbulent friendship – one that got even more complicated after an unlikely encounter in the Utah desert in 2016. It’s a story of serendipity and how revisiting the past can sometimes set oneself free in the present. Weaving the personal with the historical, F*ck Bubble also documents certain aspects of LGBTQ+ life in America and abroad from the nineties till now. With 19 friends from Scotland to LA, Brooklyn to Brazil, I’ll discuss the reading, talk about how we met and how life can change with a blink of an eye, a twist of the head. Intended for a mature audience, listener discretion is advised.

Publisher

Brian Pearson

Category

health & fitness · society & culture · society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

Yes

First episode

3 Apr 2023

Latest episode

21 Aug 2023

Latest episodes

22 episodes in the feed.

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   21 Aug 2023

   F*ck Bubble Episode 18: Desiree in Park City, UT

   This episode, I read the final chapter, Sky Holds the Sun, from my nonfiction manuscript, F*ck Bubble, to my good friend, Desiree, in Park City, Utah. Sky Holds the Sun is about the bigger story, the one when, after everything, it all begins to make sense. It's about the magic of happenstance, of being in the right place at the right time, about forgiving oneself of bad choices; of reemerging with the natural flow, of being led home to the source. Above all, it's about how saying goodbye ca...

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   17 Aug 2023

   F*ck Bubble Episode 17: Joe in Jersey City, Part II

   Episode 17 of F*ck Bubble comes in two parts, both with my friend Joe in Jersey City. This second half of the episode begins with the reading of Chapter 18, Arrowhead. This chapter recounts some magical thinking employed on my part re: Gunner while staying at friend's mountain cabin high above Los Angeles. As snow falls at night, a miscommunication of intent leads to hard truths and a reemergence of self. You can find out more about F*ck Bubble and my other creative projects on my w...

3. 

   14 Aug 2023

   F*ck Bubble Episode 17: Joe in Jersey City, Part I

   Episode 17 of F*ck Bubble comes in two parts, both with my friend Joe in Jersey City. Joe and I met as college students in Boston during the mid-nineties. He's only ten days younger than me (although he still looks like he's twenty-two). We talk about what it was like coming out during the dawn of the internet age; the clubs (Avalon, Quest, Campus) we frequented and relied on far more than our screens for social connectivity. Our halcyon days but also an invaluable education.&nb...

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