Storytime with Paul Dore

Part Four of the last essay in the book about a terrible car accident I was in a few years ago. This is about how I hit the ground, collapsed really, and there was nowhere to go but up. This last part of the essay is half redemption and half heist movie.

Part Two of the last essay in the book about a terrible car accident I was in a few years ago. This is about my arch-enemy, someone so critical that I went all the way to Russia to get rid of. Oh, and that arch-enemy is me.

This is a story about my most prominent feature: my nose. Listen to the epic journey of how I went from feeling ashamed of my nose to being proud of it.

This is a story about the time I travelled through China. An intense first day in Beijing, a long train ride, and a Bad Buddha seared the experiences I had directly on to my brain.

This is a story about stuff - having it, wanting it, wondering what to do with it, and trying to get rid of it.

Don’t worry, despite what the title says, I am not a murderer of people. It’s far less serious, but no less drama. This story is all about what it means to need to get somewhere and how far you are willing to push yourself.

Here’s a double-header: a combination live performance AND in-studio production. This is about the plight of the single person and the strange assumptions that people make about us. And of course, because it’s me, I only make the situation worse.

You might’ve heard some of these stories before, but now they are all together in one omnibus episode. These are a series of very short stories that explore what I believe to be my place in the world - and how I often feel out of place. From swimming pool mishaps to bathroom mixups to getting locked in a bike cage. This episode has it all!

This episode is about a very unique and special friendship I had with a nun. After becoming interested in my family’s history, my mother told me to contact The Nun, a distant cousin of my father. So, every few months, I would visit the convent and we would talk about the past, which helped me understand the present.

I decided to share some experiences from a ten-year friendship that was important to my evolution as a writer and as a person.

Sometimes when you walk down a quiet street, you never know what could happen. This is a story about where someone asked me to do something I don’t know how to do, and I just rolled with it.

I didn’t realize just how influential Anthony Bourdain was to my life and writing. This story reflects on my own interactions with his work - both his television shows and his books.

I woke up one day and there was a pain in my eye so severe that I had to start wearing an eyepatch. And from here, of course, the natural progression was to acquire a parrot, eventually spending the rest of my life sailing the seven seas as a pirate.