David Sedaris
π€ SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
I just made them.
I guess you could call it brotherly love, but that's amazing.
But I had said in that piece that they were, you know, I thought of them as spinsters, you know, my sisters.
And did they like that term?
Well, they didn't mind it because they have good senses of humor, but then I found out you're only a spinster up until the age of 25.
After that, you're called a thornback.
Well, that's just not right.
And a thornback is a bottom-feeding, skate-like fish.
And, you know, I read something about that on stage, and a woman came, a British woman, and said, I'm actually the one who...
She repopularized that term.
She was like a historian and she found that this was the term and she wrote an essay about it.
And then I don't know if I read that essay or if I read something that referred to it.
But yeah, they're thornbacks.
But genuinely, you know, I think you got married almost 10 years ago.
Was any part of that hard to keep a secret?
Not at all.
And it didn't bother Hugh?