December 2009
20 posts
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“What is the most clever insult involving your name that you’ve heard?
Well I’m...”
– Marina Cockenberg being funny as hell.
“I don’t want to die on an airplane. I don’t want to die in my home...”
– “President Obama, It’s Time To Fire the TSA” by Joel Johnson
“There were a total of 674 passengers, not counting crew or the terrorists...”
– FiveThirtyEight: The Odds of Airborne Terror
“Put yourself in this jazz musician’s shoes for a minute. Your record label...”
– Seth Colter Walls in this week’s Newsweek on the commercial and creative futures of the jazz genre.
I stopped pursuing a career as a jazz musician a little over two years ago, and when I finally decided to let it go, it wasn’t just because I was having trouble keeping up with my peers....
"Lincoln's Great Depression"—The Atlantic (October... →
A really fantastically insightful article in The Atlantic about Abraham Lincoln’s lifelong “melancholy”—now understood to be clinical depression.
CollegeHumor Turns 10 →
rickyv:
streeter:
CH was registered on December 5th, 1999. We thought it’d be fun to see what the site would look like if the design was never updated.
Yep, ten years. I think we’ll do a little celebration after the holiday craziness settles down, but yeah, kinda cool we’ve been around a decade. In internet years that’s a pretty long time.
Congratulations, CollegeHumor. Ten years is a...
“You have to be patient. You have to give yourself a chance. When you’re first...”
– Former “Colbert Report” head writer/executive producer Allison Silverman, offering advice to aspiring comedy writers in And Here’s The Kicker, aka the best book ever.
Distinguishing between a funny joke and a good joke is something that I’ve been thinking about a lot lately. It’s nice...
