Handsome Devil

I think I’ve been drafted.

Sat, 18 May 2013 13:20:32 -0400

I think I’ve been drafted.

Jon Dore, May 16.

Fri, 17 May 2013 10:48:15 -0400

Jon Dore, May 16.

ourinvinciblesummer: “Go after her. Fuck, don’t sit there and...

Wed, 15 May 2013 17:31:17 -0400

ourinvinciblesummer:

“Go after her. Fuck, don’t sit there and wait for her to call, go after her because that’s what you should do if you love someone, don’t wait for them to give you a sign cause it might never come, don’t let people happen to you, don’t let me happen to you, or her, she’s not a fucking television show or tornado. There are people I might have loved had they gotten on the airplane or run down the street after me or called me up drunk at four in the morning because they need to tell me right now and because they cannot regret this and I always thought I’d be the only one doing crazy things for people who would never give enough of a fuck to do it back or to act like idiots or be entirely vulnerable and honest and making someone fall in love with you is easy and flying 3000 miles on four days notice because you can’t just sit there and do nothing and breathe into telephones is not everyone’s idea of love but it is the way I can recognize it because that is what I do. Go scream it and be with her in meaningful ways because that is beautiful and that is generous and that is what loving someone is, that is raw and that is unguarded, and that is all that is worth anything, really.”

- Harvey Milk

Eat a bag of dicks, May 15 in Indiana.

Wed, 15 May 2013 15:21:03 -0400

Eat a bag of dicks, May 15 in Indiana.

‘Georgia On My Mind’ by The Quebe Sisters Band is my new jam.

Tue, 07 May 2013 22:35:07 -0400

‘Georgia On My Mind’ by The Quebe Sisters Band is my new jam.

Surprise and Delight: Serendipity and Digital Life

Sun, 05 May 2013 13:23:49 -0400

Surprise and Delight: Serendipity and Digital Life:

redmolly:

Serendipity is a lovely word and a lovelier concept. I don’t know about you, but I don’t have nearly enough serendipity in my life, possibly (but not definitely) because I spend so much of my life online. So this post on serendipity by Eric Reiss got my brain all fired up and going in a million…

My friends are so much better at articulating what I think that I’m just going to reblog people when I agree with them.

I’m not sure what it says about me, and truth be told, I...

Sat, 04 May 2013 21:08:30 -0400

I’m not sure what it says about me, and truth be told, I don’t care that much, but sometime today in the middle of repeat-play number 7, I decided that “Powderfinger” is my favorite song of all time. It occupies the chord chart that tickles the part of my brain that releases feel-good endorphins, and I love it so much.

MARK YOUR CALENDARS. My 43rd birthday, May 5, 2018, will be a reenactment of Hunter S....

Sat, 04 May 2013 19:11:03 -0400

MARK YOUR CALENDARS. My 43rd birthday, May 5, 2018, will be a reenactment of Hunter S. Thompson’s seminal work, “The Kentucky Derby Is Decadent And Depraved”, plus a motorcycle trip down the backroads of southern Indiana, culminating in the 144th running of the Kentucky Derby. I hope you’ll join me.

Andy Kindler, May 2, Comedy Attic.

Sat, 04 May 2013 09:29:59 -0400

Andy Kindler, May 2, Comedy Attic.

What I’ve learned from this is that I need to market...

Thu, 02 May 2013 18:20:42 -0400

What I’ve learned from this is that I need to market almost exclusively to people whose names start with the letter “J”.

Bruce & Charlie Robison - “What Would Willie...

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 09:16:41 -0400

Bruce & Charlie Robison - “What Would Willie Do”

The best question. Happy 80th, Willie.

Posters for the Limestone Comedy Festival headlining shows that...

Mon, 29 Apr 2013 09:34:00 -0400

Posters for the Limestone Comedy Festival headlining shows that I made this weekend.

Bruce Robison and Kelly Willis Friday night at Off Broadway in...

Sun, 28 Apr 2013 22:39:56 -0400

Bruce Robison and Kelly Willis Friday night at Off Broadway in St. Louis. Their version of George Jones’ “Good Year For The Roses” was a standout in another breathtakingly good show, as were “9,999,999 Tears” from their new album, Cheater’s Game, and the show-closing cover of “Harper Valley PTA”. This show was heavier on Kelly’s What I Deserve (a true stunner of an album when I first heard it in 1998 that earned its top-10 desert island disc status almost immediately) than the show I saw in Ohio three weeks ago, and you’ll hear no complaint from me.

I’d be remiss if I didn’t add that Kelly apologized to me after the show because she was afraid she’d worn the same dress for both shows (she didn’t). Made me laugh.

If you don’t go see them when they’re anywhere near you, you’re missing out on some of the best country music being made and performed today.

I don’t know about this stove, guys.

Sat, 27 Apr 2013 02:20:26 -0400

I don’t know about this stove, guys.

"Sometimes I go weeks and weeks and weeks, I don’t need a boop from anybody. And then other times all..."

Fri, 26 Apr 2013 14:17:55 -0400

“Sometimes I go weeks and weeks and weeks, I don’t need a boop from anybody. And then other times all of a sudden, I send a boop out, I don’t get a boop back in five or six minutes, and then I’m literally up a tree. I have to go climb a tree, and I’m up there pulling my hair out about ‘Where’s the boop back?’”

- RotL Ep. 70: “Bad Cop, Worse Cop, Man In Bathrobe” (via roderickin)

This was my favorite episode of ROTL in a long time.

I mean, they’re all great, but this one was special.

Kyle Kinane, April 11 at the Comedy Attic.

Sat, 13 Apr 2013 07:34:34 -0400

Kyle Kinane, April 11 at the Comedy Attic.

The Internet is Eating Me: To A Fishstick Dying Young

Thu, 11 Apr 2013 15:46:14 -0400

The Internet is Eating Me: To A Fishstick Dying Young:

jimmymarks:

As we near the inevitable conclusion of You Look Nice Today, my feelings become too much to bear. And when that happens, you get poetry. What follows is my lament for one of the greatest podcasts of all time.

Where now is Tang Tang and rider, my son?
When comes the train to Dubai?
Where is…

You Look Nice Today was the first — no, second — must-listen-every-time-it-is-released podcast I ever encountered (Never Not Funny was the first), and upon its inevitable demise, I’m melancholy. I’ve spent time with all three of the fellas responsible — some more than others — and I’m glad to count at least one of them among my friends, and the other two better-than-casual-acquaintances. It’s the funniest goddamned thing I’ve ever heard in my life, but also gave me a sense of belonging, to that insidest of inside jokes that only the people with whom I wanted to be associated got.

It’s a sad day in the Baldwin house. Sad for what could have been. Happy because I’m so proud of my pals to have ever done something that meant so much to so many. I’m …

I don’t know what I am. But I’m doing the Fishstick, and I’ll be doing it for the next few days if you want to join me.

I hope he picks some up before he drops it. Otherwise it might...

Fri, 05 Apr 2013 13:34:50 -0400

I hope he picks some up before he drops it. Otherwise it might be awkward.

elizabayne: To make others less happy is a crime. To make ourselves unhappy is where all crime...

Thu, 04 Apr 2013 16:11:45 -0400

elizabayne:

To make others less happy is a crime. To make ourselves unhappy is where all crime starts. We must try to contribute joy to the world. That is true no matter what our problems, our health, our circumstances. We must try. I didn’t always know this, and am happy I lived long enough to find it out.

- Roger Ebert

Re: Walmart -- You hate them but have no money? Compromise by stealing.

Thu, 04 Apr 2013 13:48:45 -0400

Right. Because that’s a solution.