Jessica Weisberg

“The internet is like a garrulous friend—entertaining and inattentive, carrying on regardless of who’s around.”
― Jessica Weisberg, Asking for a Friend: Three Centuries of Advice on Life, Love, Money, and Other Burning Questions from a Nation Obsessed

“Onstage, Hendrix was trying to get a young couple to engage in a dialogue sequence. The pair sat in armchairs facing each other, and Hendrix old the man, Michael, to pay his wife of three months, Tara, a compliment.

'What I appreciate most about you is that you're a good cook,' Michael said.

'So what I'm hearing you saying is that you appreciate that I'm a good cook,' Tara said, She seemed bored.

To prompt Michael, Hendrix began, 'When I think about you as a good cook, I feel--'

'When I think about you as a good cook,' Michael said, 'I feel full, sleepy, and-- sexy.'

'Really?' asked Tara, a little annoyed. The woman sitting next to me groaned.

Hendrix jumped in, 'When I think about you as a good cook, it reminds me of... try to find something from your childhood.'

'When I think about you as a good cook, I--' Michael stopped, then started over. 'When the house smells good, it reminds me of home and when my mom cooked and I feel loved.'

Tara repeated him, her eyes now glassy with affection. Unprompted, she spoke the next line in the sequence: 'Is there anything more to that?' There wasn't. They hugged for sixty seconds as the rest of us watched. Hendrix told the crowd that the length of the average hug is three to nine seconds, but that a good hug, one that 'pushes the boundaries of relationship,' takes a whole minute.”
― Jessica Weisberg, Asking for a Friend: Three Centuries of Advice on Life, Love, Money, and Other Burning Questions from a Nation Obsessed