Me and My Family and Me - Dickson, Andrew
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Acclaimed performance artist and longtime host of The Moth Andrew Dickson will have you laughing, tearing up and nodding along with recognition with his latest collection of personal essays. Part memoir, part family history, and part advice for his own children, Me and My Family and Me weaves together stories from across different generations in chapters like Monopoly, Ice Cream, eBay, Baseball and Game Shows. From sharing how his daughter invented a real flavor of Salt & Straw ice cream, why his father narrowly missed winning $64,000 on the game show of the same name, or his own attempts to…mehr

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Acclaimed performance artist and longtime host of The Moth Andrew Dickson will have you laughing, tearing up and nodding along with recognition with his latest collection of personal essays. Part memoir, part family history, and part advice for his own children, Me and My Family and Me weaves together stories from across different generations in chapters like Monopoly, Ice Cream, eBay, Baseball and Game Shows. From sharing how his daughter invented a real flavor of Salt & Straw ice cream, why his father narrowly missed winning $64,000 on the game show of the same name, or his own attempts to entice and then evade the hungry producers of reality TV shows like Real World and Fear Factor this intimate, hilarious and heartwarming collection will inspire you to share your own stories with family and friends. Andrew Dickson is a storyteller, performer, advertising copywriter and auctioneer. He lives with family in Portland, Oregon. This is his third book, or his eleventh counting zines.
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Andrew Dickson is an acclaimed performer, longtime host of The Moth, and an advertising copywriter. After growing up in Garrett Park, Maryland and graduating from Wesleyan University with a film degree Andrew moved to Portland, Oregon in 1995 and quickly become part of the DIY art and music scene. He wrote directed several films including Good Grief, Hunter Dawson and Autographhss dot com before becoming a performance artist and creating full-length shows like Life Coach, Sell Out and AC Dickson: eBay PowerSeller which toured internationally. Andrew has also had a long career as an advertising copywriter, and has written ads for clients like Old Spice and Apple, created the 7 Wonders of Oregon for Travel Oregon and for serval years ran the experimental advertising school WK12,For the last decade he's been a professional storyteller, hosting shows for The Moth, continued to perform his own work and has helped non-profits and arts organizations raise millions of dollars as an emcee and auctioneer.