January 2012
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WatchThis Stephen Colbert interview with Maurice Sendak may be the best thing I have ever seen.
Come for the critique of Newt Gingrich (“Newt Gingrich is an idiot of great renown.”); stay for the ziploc bag full of illustrated penises!
(via washingtonpost.com)
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Is there anything worse than a poetry slam?
AFC on Gagosian's Hirst Spot Drawing retrospective →
There is, we recognize, a historical danger here. Someday, the record of this exhibition might be dug up by a young art historian, or perhaps a blogger like us, or perhaps some sort of future blogger who does things with brainwaves. They’ll see that there was a massive show spread across every location of the most successful gallery of the time, entirely comprised of one of the most successful...
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“Jackson Pollock pissed people off. Then Warhol pissed off all the people that...”
– John Waters (via kateoplis)
As Romney reached out for a baby today, a heckler...
(via USA Today)
Generally I like to get my laughs from USA Today in the form of pie charts, but this quote will work.
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"I will be mailing you pictures of cows having sex...
- Eugene Mirman
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Mathias Svalina, "Creation Myth"
In the beginning everyone looked like Larry Bird but everyone did not have the name Larry Bird & this was confusing. Everyone had a headache & walked around with furrowed brows. Headaches hadn’t been invented & when people described the pain they said: An angry Larry Bird stands on my neck & my head is Larry Bird after missing a layup. Even the babies were the size &...
December 2011
20 posts
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“A strange thing happened Wednesday morning on Capitol Hill. As Rep. Stenny Hoyer...”
– Boehner’s office cuts off C-SPAN cameras as GOP takes verbal beating | The Raw Story (via wreckandsalvage)
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I got kicked off the high school debate team for...
- Ron White
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Going "ooooh" after a joke is just like...
- Anthony Jeselnick
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I’m joking, but I’m serious.
- Charles Barkley
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We live inside an enormous novel. For the writer...
- J.G. Ballard
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You can't really do anything right. You can just...
- Louis C.K. in his reddit thread
Anonymous asked: um, what is cat carolling?
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The Mountain Goats — Going to Georgia (via...
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I can tell how stupid someone is by how sure they...
- Demetri Martin
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Middle-aged
He was middle-aged which means that the mixture of death and life in him was still undetermined. And all of a sudden he took an unwarranted turn—impul- sive, convulsive. As in those nineteenth-century plays where the roof gets blown off the convention- al house and the audience is left to gape at the heroine bareheaded—him. He has a gift for self- serious hyperbole and he resorts to...
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It seems our comedy dates the quickest. If you laugh out loud at Shakespeare’s jokes I hope you won’t be insulted if I say you’re trying too hard. Even sketches from the original Saturday Night Live seem slow-witted and obvious now.
- David Berman, Self-Portrait At 28
November 2011
27 posts
“I don’t even have to pretend to try to be nice to people I don’t like.”
– Rep. Barney Frank, a Massachusetts Democrat, sharing one reason he’s looking forward to leaving office after serving in the House for 30 years . (via officialssay)
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Sticks by George Saunders
Every year Thanksgiving night we flocked out behind Dad as he dragged the Santa suit to the road and draped it over a kind of crucifix he’d built out of metal pole in the yard. Super Bowl week the pole was dressed in a jersey and Rod’s helmet and Rod had to clear it with Dad if he wanted to take the helmet off. On the Fourth of July the pole was Uncle Sam, on Veteran’s Day a...