- Kelly O
- In a good way. Well, most of them. Including Kelly O’s Uncle Ken, above.
As Dan Savage wrote in 2005: “Today’s male siblings—brothers, they’re called—are tomorrow’s uncles. But Americans are having ever-smaller families. Most couples aspire to have one child, maybe two. So the uncle—that non-authority figure, that often drunk, childish, pseudo adult—is going extinct. Growing up I had a dozen uncles by blood and marriage. My kid only has three uncles. When my son is an adult, he will likely marry someone who is also an only child, and their children—or their only child—won’t have any uncles at all. So it is only fitting that we pause on Thanksgiving to remember our uncles—good, bad, drunk, sober, morose, helpful, molestful, homicidal—because it was the one day a year when you could count on seeing your uncles. But soon we will live in a world without uncles, so it’s important that we write down our uncle stories now, while we still can, while uncles still walk the earth.”
For uncle stories by Paul Constant, Anthony Hecht, Bill Savage, Trisha Ready, Ira Glass, Brian J. Barr, Kaley Davis, Tracy Bryan, Mairead Case, Ian Corton, Sarah D. Fischer, Maya Kroth, Nate Lippens, Noel Black, Anna Maria Hong, Brian Francis, Ross Lambert, Bradley Steinbacher, Matthew Simons, Sean Nelson, Adrian Ryan, Stacey Levine, Josh Feit, Jessica Kowal, Dave Segal, Kelly O, Stan Laughner, Charles Mudede, and Brendan Kiley… KEEP READING >>
