Reality is Just a Social Construct
Occupy Wall Street scores again: “A crowd of more than 2,000 people marched up Broadway, past a closed City Hall Park, under the arch of the Municipal Building and massed outside what some mistakenly thought was NYPD headquarters. But most of the chanting horde plopped down in front of One St. Andrew’s Plaza, which houses the U.S. Attorney’s Office, not the NYPD.” [Daily News]
Ira Glass tells the Philip Glass knock-knock joke:
Knock-knock!
Who’s there?
Knock-knock!
Who’s there?
Knock-knock!
Who’s there…
Punchline: Ira and Philip are cousins.
@nojo: I think I heard that on Maron’s podcast … that’s six kinds of meta.
@blogenfreude: Which I’m listening to right now. Thus…
/boobs/
Hey I finally found one for the str8 men and lez-bee-ins of Stinque. She is a Bri-tish woman eating the National Meal (fish & french fries?) on a day in which it is apparently 1,001 degrees. Yowza!
@nojo: Maron is such a gift … I would not make it through the week without his podcast.
@blogenfreude: Sikent Creative Partner recommended him, but it took me a while to develop a taste — I can even suffer the self-obsessive openings now.
But what I really like is that he engages his guests in conversation — which is not an easy thing to do. Maron asks good questions, but he doesn’t come off as an interviewer.
Listen to him w/ Jonathan Winters if you can find it. Pretty amazing what he gets people to talk about.
@¡Andrew!: That’s a ‘heritage’ meal. The English national dish is actually curry and chips.
@Benedick: Have pretzels hit England yet? And have you ever tried to describe pretzels to somebody who’s never heard of them?
@nojo: We English scoff at pretzels. Real men eat crisps.
I’m trying to think of what circumstances could possibly apply that would make me want to do that. Might have to improv it out.
BURR DEMING • Tom Lehrer, 1928-2025 Thank you for this, nojo. He was a wonderful talent and, by all accounts, a wonderful human…
NOJO • Tom Lehrer, 1928-2025 Oh, and there’s a Catholic church across the street. Maybe I can do a little dance for them!
NOJO • Tom Lehrer, 1928-2025 Now that I’m in NYC, plenty of pigeons to poison in his honor.
NOJO • All the Vice President's Men 2025 update: Nothing happened. And here we are!
MANCHUCANDIDATE • Weeping Angel Imagine going from hope to Fascism in less than two decades enabled by greedy ass (millionaire)…
NOJO • Nightmare at the Museum From the last time he threatened to bomb Iran, 2020. Remember that one? All a misty blur now.
NOJO • TRUMP TARIFFS UNLEASHING FURY OF CANADIANS - AND THEIR LEGENDARY SNIPERS! @ManchuCandidate: I have birthright citizenship in Cascadia, so I think I’m good.
MANCHUCANDIDATE • TRUMP TARIFFS UNLEASHING FURY OF CANADIANS - AND THEIR LEGENDARY SNIPERS! @nojo: Only the sane parts... like the West coast, New England (minus the Bruins and…
NOJO • TRUMP TARIFFS UNLEASHING FURY OF CANADIANS - AND THEIR LEGENDARY SNIPERS! @ManchuCandidate: So, can you guys annex us now?
MANCHUCANDIDATE • TRUMP TARIFFS UNLEASHING FURY OF CANADIANS - AND THEIR LEGENDARY SNIPERS! PP is done. 51st state, my ass.