May 2008
“I think one sign of amateur humor writing is when you see people trying too...”
– David Sedaris in Newsweek.com
“[A phone rings. He picks up a banana from fruit bowl next to the phone and holds...”
– Harvey Korman, as young aristocratic amnesiac in a Carol Burnett movie parody (I forget which one, but at the time this gag had me helpless with laughter)
Watchbutterflyeffect: pica: It’s pretty amazing (ok, pitiful) that I can be almost 35 years old and have an excellent chef for a father & I still suck at dicing onions. “How to dice an onion” video from The Kitchn Well, I’ve been doing everything right, except I always cut off the root end, which is where all the fumes are, and duh, it holds it together! Nice. I haven’t bothered to watch...
When Tumblr Reblogging Gets Awkward
markcoatney: I looked at this and immediately thought A was talking about his own, um, life, which was a little more than I was after in my tmblr feed. Then I found out he was reposting. Could we maybe have a better graphic design on reposts? REBLOGGED BY INADVISABLE I am a post-coital idiot ...
I am a post-coital idiot
frangry: hugehuge: Recumbent 3 a.m. conversation a few days ago: She [sincerely and without warning]: I’m attracted to everything about you. Even the Darth Vader sword hanging on your wall. Me [thinking]: Oh my god, that’s the sweetest thing anyone has said to me in a very long time. Me [out loud]: Correction: it’s a lightsaber. I wish I could be a smart aleck and point out that it should...
WatchSatan’s Sales Force: This a video of an adorable kitten being batted around and responding adorably. Why do people let these things into their homes? Yes, cute now, but soon the teeth get bigger and the claws gets sharper and the homicidal resentmen grows ever stronger. I speak from experience here. My own home is a viper’s nest for one of these evil-eyed minions of darkness. (A...
Jersey City: The Future Begins Here (or at least... →
“Worst of all from this point of view are those more uncivilized forms of eating,...”
– Leon Kass, President Bush’s former chief adviser on bioethics, in his 1994 book “The Hungry Soul.” Steven Pinker’s full takedown of Kass is here.
Impressive
I marvel at David Brooks’s ability to say nothing and still get it wrong.
