Lynda Barry & Ira Glass
“For a time, Ira Glass dated cartoonist Lynda Barry and moved to Chicago in 1989 to be with her. He called Barry his “little ghetto girl” and she does not remember the relationship fondly. Barry is quoted in a 1998 Chicago Reader article as saying of Glass, “I went out with him. It was the worst thing I ever did. When we broke up he gave me a watch and said I was boring and shallow, and I wasn’t enough in the moment for him, and it was over.” In the same article, Glass is quoted on his feelings about their breakup: “I was an idiot. I was in the wrong. About the breakup… About so many things with her. Anything bad she says about me I can confirm.” (.)
Barry has written a comic story about the relationship, entitled “Head Lice and My Worst Boyfriend,” in her book One! Hundred! Demons!.”
Ira Glass was a shockingly bad boyfriend and used to look a bit like Weird Al Yankovic. I’ll be thinking about this for the remainder of the year.
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jerk. And he had really ugly hair.
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oh my god. MONICA!
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MIND OFFICIALLY BLOWN.
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Minus the weird bullshit hair, I’d still tap that. Just saying. As long as he didn’t fucking say anything to me except,...
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OH, YOUNG IRA GLASS.
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Oh my god. I knew they had dated but I did not realize that chapter was about him. Now I’m re-evaluating everything.
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