Saying Goodbye to “The Bear”

In which we say goodbye to the best stress-nightmare inducing show about food pornography that's ever made it to air.

In which we say goodbye to the best stress-nightmare inducing show about food pornography that's ever made it to air.

A revised version of a piece I wrote in the Spring of 2015 when I was grappling with substantial grief and a very, very bad over-prescription.
The 2026 pass at the 2001 essay that's still not something I'd shop around, but with my worst instincts sanded off.
The original version of an essay I wrote in 2001 in some misguided attempt to be McSweeney's before McSweeney's existed.
And sometimes we find ourselves in the exact same place a full decade apart.

Misadventures in Bartlesville, Oklahoma circa 2014.