Inappropriate Laughter

Currently reading. About halfway through, and so far this is the...

Sun, 05 May 2013 21:26:37 -0400

Currently reading. About halfway through, and so far this is the LEAST SUITABLE cover design for a book I’ve ever seen.

Which I am considering a positive thing.

BTW, told jokes at Subterranean in Wicker park tonight before a...

Sun, 21 Apr 2013 03:39:14 -0400

BTW, told jokes at Subterranean in Wicker park tonight before a 17+ music show started, which was fun in a “what little audience there is is talking by the bar, so you won’t be able to see them, and they’re not paying attention, and even if they did laugh, it would be so quiet compared to everything else in the room you would never hear it ever in a million years, so just tell your jokes expecting absolutely no discernible response in return” kinda way.

Then I spent all of my money on falafel sandwiches and coffee that didn’t make me feel better about myself, but were distracting enough I guess

This is good too. They’re playing in Chicago next week....

Sun, 21 Apr 2013 03:08:47 -0400

This is good too. They’re playing in Chicago next week. Not sure if I’ll be there… but song metaphorically blows up the moon of my brain’s music lobe in any case

BLEACHED - Searching Through The Past (by molly schiot)

Haven’t posted on tumblr much lately. This is good. I...

Sun, 21 Apr 2013 03:06:23 -0400

Haven’t posted on tumblr much lately. This is good. I haven’t stopped listening to music, I just have been keeping it a secret.

Adrian Younge Presents The Delfonics - Stop and Look (And You Have Found Love) (by AdrianYoungeVEVO)

This is another good one. “Papa’s Roses”...

Sun, 21 Apr 2013 02:50:37 -0400

This is another good one. “Papa’s Roses” by… uh… “Jandruff,” which I’m guessing is one of those fake internet names people like so goddamn much these days

Hi tumblr, I’m up late, and I’ve been reading Geek...

Sun, 21 Apr 2013 02:46:05 -0400

Hi tumblr, I’m up late, and I’ve been reading Geek Love and it’s pretty awesome, and a lot of cool internet people have done cool art for the internet based on the book. Here is some.

I enjoy this enough for it to be my first post in months.

Fri, 01 Mar 2013 21:56:13 -0500

I enjoy this enough for it to be my first post in months.

So I did this recently Tumblr: I wrote out a standup set that...

Sat, 05 Jan 2013 21:11:47 -0500

So I did this recently Tumblr: I wrote out a standup set that was the same, word-for-word backwards and forwards. Sort of like a palindrome, but with words instead of letters. Then I performed this standup set in the basement of a bar in Chicago. And people seemed to dig it! My introduction got a bit cut off, but here is almost all of it, if you’re interested in listening. Thanks!

Palindrome Standup Set at Underground Wonder Bar (by tjaxkson)

Love the crazy costumes old Plague Doctors wore back in the...

Sun, 23 Dec 2012 15:56:26 -0500

Love the crazy costumes old Plague Doctors wore back in the middle ages.

“some doctors wore a beak-like mask which was filled with aromatic items. The masks were designed to protect them from putrid air, which (according to the miasmatic theory of disease) was seen as the cause of infection”

If I could pinpoint one thing in all of ever that has influence...

Mon, 12 Nov 2012 04:52:26 -0500

If I could pinpoint one thing in all of ever that has influence my sense of humor and overall temperament, it would be achewood. The perfect blend of deadpan humor and absolute soul-numbing depression.

just like life.

So we live in Chicago now, and got jobs a few weeks ago. I...

Sat, 03 Nov 2012 00:41:53 -0400

So we live in Chicago now, and got jobs a few weeks ago. I actually have two jobs, but have not been paid anything for either one yet.

It’s frustrating maaaan, here we are in this cool city, but I’m flat broke and don’t know anyone, so I don’t have much to do apart from wander around Belmont Harbor and try to throw rocks at yachts.

Comedy open mics are okay fun if you don’t have money- but especially if you like hanging around in bars for three hours drinking ice water.

I could see my apartment building in this photo, maybe, if you took some of the buildings out of the way, or maybe leaned out of a helicopter.

“You’re not robots! How dare you lie in front of...

Wed, 31 Oct 2012 16:45:16 -0400

“You’re not robots! How dare you lie in front of Jesus!”

Reading

Tue, 30 Oct 2012 15:23:26 -0400

Reading

Reading “I Shall Destroy All The Civilized Planets!”...

Sat, 27 Oct 2012 16:50:27 -0400

Reading “I Shall Destroy All The Civilized Planets!” by Fletcher Hanks. Man, this stuff is RIDICULOUS.

YAHOO NEWS, WHAT ARE YOU EVEN DOING

Sat, 27 Oct 2012 00:35:19 -0400

YAHOO NEWS, WHAT ARE YOU EVEN DOING

This older lawyer guy riding my bus today saw that I was reading...

Sat, 27 Oct 2012 00:17:58 -0400

This older lawyer guy riding my bus today saw that I was reading Raymond Chandler and started talking to me about mystery novels, which naturally led into him talking to me about the job market, the importance of having marketable skills, classic film, Hollywood scandal coverups in the 30s and 40s, and Bobby Hull, “the greatest player the Chicago Blackhawks ever had,” and how the guy had another lawyer pal involved in covering up or lawsuits or something relating to Hull’s drinking and violent spousal abuse that wasn’t public knowledge for a long time, but now that kind of thing is going away thanks to the information age, and the guy’s a class A dingus anyway, and after Chandler you should move on to Dashiell Hammett. Good luck with the comedy kid, have a good weekend.

This is the kind of thing I’m thinking of- PETA made a...

Fri, 26 Oct 2012 19:05:38 -0400

This is the kind of thing I’m thinking of- PETA made a parody of Super Meat Boy called “Super Tofu Boy.”

…but if you anthropomorphize tofu, doesn’t that, at least on some weird rhetorical level, take away the exact reason vegans eat tofu- because it’s NOT an animal product?

That is to say LOL, I can eat if it has an imaginary cartoon face guys geeez

I thought this would be kinda funny. I was wondering where all...

Fri, 26 Oct 2012 18:56:42 -0400

I thought this would be kinda funny. I was wondering where all of the different meat analogues came from, and how weird it would be if someone bred an animal made out of tofu, so then vegans had to stop eating tofu.

ROCK N’ ROLL ROCK N’ ROLL ROCK N’ ROLL La Sera...

Wed, 24 Oct 2012 15:37:08 -0400

ROCK N’ ROLL ROCK N’ ROLL ROCK N’ ROLL

La Sera - Please Be My Third Eye (by hardlyartrecords)

Sweet cover art too. I like this kinda, sparse typography-based...

Tue, 23 Oct 2012 19:46:47 -0400

Sweet cover art too. I like this kinda, sparse typography-based art, using the word placement to evoke the rhythm of the song. feels like an ee cummings poem.