October 2011
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“Well, I’ve changed the course of music five or six times. What have you done...”
– Miles Davis to Nancy Reagan at a White House dinner in 1987 after she’d inquired as to what he’d done with his life to merit an invitation. source (via marxisforbros)
September 2011
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“Censorship is telling a man he can’t have a steak just because a baby can’t chew...”
– Mark Twain (via libraryland)
(via housingworksbookstore)
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Why don't you take a shower near a pokemon?
It may Pikachu. (peek at you)
Joking about Banana Peels →
heyitsnoah:
I started reading Banana: The Fate of the Fruit That Changed the World and have been really enjoying it so far. Thought this little tidbit about banana peel jokes was too good not to share:
A decade or so later, Charles MacArthur, writer of a film adaptation of Wuthering Heights, asked Chaplin how to make something so tired seem new: “How, for example, could I make a fat lady,...
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Nina Simone - Please Don’t Let Me Be...
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You want 10% of the world to love you, not 90% to...
— Sam Kinison as quoted by Lisa Lampanelli
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“You start out by rewriting your hero’s catalog.”
– Nick Lowe (via austinkleon)
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Some Pitches for Thought Catalog
tylercoates:
How To Act Like A 24-Year-Old
What Five Ex-Boyfriends Wrote On My Facebook Page On My Birthday
How To Get Dumped (So You Don’t Have To Dump Him)
In Defense of Radiohead
In Defense of Alanis Morissette
In Defense of Elton John
In Defense of Pavement
In Defense of T.A.T.U.
Why Flying First-Class Is Awesome
The Five Types Of Guys Who Will Rape You
Why Joan Didion Only Writes...
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“Some people have a way with words. Other people… not have way.”
– Steve Martin (via reb-ellious)
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“If there were a late-night comedy show completely run by comedy writers, without...”
– Conan writer Todd Levin on how jokes die, for GOOD Magazine “Just Like That but Funny” (via lonelysandwich)
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Go ahead, dumb people, be offended by a joke that...
Daniel Tosh
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Your questions answered: Toddlers in Tiaras
I am a 36-year-old man, but I would like to compete against the toddlers for the tiaras — how do I go about doing this? You will need to compete against people your own age.
As a 36-year-old man, will the toddler tiaras fit appropriately on my head or will I need to buy a special wig to wear them? To our knowledge there is not a special wig to make tiaras fit heads.
I have a tense...
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