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Calling a Phone Sex Line Once Led Writer Jonathan Ames to Box a Stranger in a Hotel

In the latest installment of Above Average's "Storytime" series, writer Jonathan Ames (novelist, essayist, creator of HBO's Bored to Death) tells of the time he called a phone sex line and ended up accepting an invitation to box a strange man in an East Village hotel room.

Everything about this video is superlative.

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