A GHOST appears.
GHOST: have you ever listened to Sublime
HAMLET: [makes j/o motion]
Dirtbag Jason and the Argonauts
Dirtbag Tess of the D’Urbervilles
A Wrinkle in Time: Dirtbag Mrs Whatsit
The Toast Looks Back: The Best of The Dirtbags
A GHOST appears.
GHOST: have you ever listened to Sublime
HAMLET: [makes j/o motion]
Dirtbag Jason and the Argonauts
Dirtbag Tess of the D’Urbervilles
A Wrinkle in Time: Dirtbag Mrs Whatsit
I first came to the-toast because of The Dirtbags. I’m all misty eyed.
This just brings it all back to:
Have any of us ever really LISTENED to Sublime? (Excuse me while I skateboard into the sunset).
Oh, Dirtbag Wars of the Roses, possibly my Peak Toast moment.
Oh, I missed the early installations! I’m dying at Dirtbag Little Women. My mom read every single Little Women book to me and this is precisely how I remember them. Buncha dirtbags.
Stringy the Helping Girl gets referenced all the time in my house!
Dirtbag Anne of Green Gables was peak Toast, and my favorite thing to ever come out of this site.
Thank God Dirtbag Aslan is on this list. It made me laugh until I cried and I reread it when I am sad.
One of the main things that drew me to Mallory’s writing and therefore the Toast was the humor behind so many literary favourites from my childhood — things that are hard to explain to my husband who didn’t grow up reading Little Women, Anne of Green Gables, etc. (His loss.) He’d just smile and pat my shoulder as I cackled with glee.
LET ME SAY AGAIN, WHY TOAST CLOSING WHY TOO SOON NO WHY.
Also, I think the Best of Nicole referenced the If You Knew Anne of Green Gables IRl, which then inspired me to start rereading the Anne series. I just finished of Green Gables and am starting of Avonlea, and rereading that Dirtbag Anne of Green Gables is just icing on the cake. The liniment oil-flavored cake.
Dirtbag Jo forever.
Aaaah! These were my favorites. Mallory, I keep saying this, but these look-back posts keep popping up and reminding me: you are fucking fabulous and I love your work. Thank you so much.
My internal monologue of sullen dismissal has forever replaced “whatever” with “hwætever” and it brings me much joy.
I can’t remember the last time a single word made me laugh so hard—I also pull out “hwætever” on a regular basis. All of these are peak Toast, but that might be the peakiest and Toastiest of all.
Dirtbag Teddy Roosevelt, hands down, best.
How did I not know dirtbag anne of green gables existed! This has been A WEEK and, well, now it is a bit less of one.
The Dirtbag series brought “Hwætever” into my otherwise ordinary existence, and for that I am eternally grateful.
Those Dirtbags, bless their little hearts!
ETA: “Dirtbag stories where Dirtbag is Replaced with Sociopath.”
I’m hoping for a Best of Deleted Comments before July 1.
OH YEAHH a Best of Deleted Comments would fill me with unmitigated joy. Nastiness thwarted, all hail Nicole!
I only ever came across one “deleted comments” post ever… are there more? If do, where are they? I need them in my life.
They show up on Link Roundup, sporadically. I hope there will be a retrospective!
Is the omission of highlights a meta-dirtbag move? I approve. (I mean, I approve either way, this series is the greatest.)
I only ever came across one "deleted comments" post ever… are there more? If do, where are they? I need them in my life.