Diana McLaren
Bio
Diana McLaren is a comedian, actress, and author based in Australia.
Stories (21/0)
Wine And Peaches
I nervously sipped my wine while my fingers rapped a discordant beat on the tablecloth. I hadn’t been this edgy about a date since I was a teenager. But then my dates for the last decade had been basically the same, meet at the restaurant, share small talk, say you’re doing to do it again sometime, and leave. There’d been a few second dates and even a couple of third dates. But mostly I’d been too busy with work to spend much time on relationships. I had great friends and a job that I loved. That was enough for me.
By Diana McLaren3 years ago in Humans
Double Date
The distinctive knock on my door spelled the end of my quiet night at home. The last time I’d tried to ignore Lizzie and pretend I wasn’t home, she’d gotten my neighbor to let her into his flat and then hoped over his balcony onto mine. I still don’t know how she’d charmed the grumpy old man but if I ever ran into him in the laundry he didn’t ask me how I was but rather if Lizzie would be stopping by again anytime soon.
By Diana McLaren3 years ago in Humans
Floor Songs
I have a playlist I call Floor Songs. Anyone who knows me knows what happens when one of these songs comes on. They’ve seen me mid-conversation lose my grip on the reality I was experiencing and lie down where I stood. The world stops, for me at least, as I place myself on the ground as an anchor, and just listen to the music and remember.
By Diana McLaren3 years ago in Beat
Dear All Women
Dear All Women, I know you have spent your whole life in a society that tells you that you are less. You are vain for being pretty, and wasting all that time yet you are disgusting for not altering your body so that it pleases their eyes. You’re stuck up for your intelligence and dumb for not thinking it through. You’re prudish for your modesty and slutty for revealing your flesh. It really doesn’t matter what you do, we are always less.
By Diana McLaren3 years ago in Viva
What did you like about 'this'?
How many times have you heard, ‘You liked that? You should check out this thing.’ Yet as you listen, watch, read or consume the thing they have suggested, it leaves you wondering, how the hell could you have thought I would enjoy this?
By Diana McLaren3 years ago in Lifehack