I am less than fond of talking on the phone, in the same way Hitler was less than fond of upper lip waxing. I would 100% support a national program to round up all of our nation’s cell phones and fry them in a racist series of ovens. I’ll still spend plenty of time on [...]
I enjoyed reading the following in a book review of the new Autobiography of Mark Twain (emphasis below is mine): It is clear from this Autobiography, however, that Twain experienced the ups and downs of his life as a orator much more viscerally than he did the joys and pains of authorship. By all accounts, [...]
I should have also mentioned, in my post about bombing the other night, that “I just wasn’t funny” definitely could have been a factor. But I don’t think that was it, at least not primarily. Which isn’t to say that I’m so damn funny or awesome at stand-up or anything; I’ve certainly told my fair [...]
All good things come to an end, and last night my longest streak (to date) of solid performances was punctuated with a crater. I bombed it by forgetting a fundamental rule of building a set: you have to win the crowd over before doing potentially divisive material. One of my newer bits comes from the [...]
I don’t really understand how fashion works, but I thoroughly support the trend of women’s boots creeping up higher and higher on the leg, lately even as tall as the knees. A few of my friends and I have been calling them fuck-me boots, but I don’t think that’s the precise technical term. Whatever it’s [...]
