short moves: execute

imdeadanditsallmyfault:

Nights like this are just made for popping some Moody Blues in the old Discman and taking a walk on the tracks, Doug. It’s called introspection.

this site is by a dude name kyle kinane, who i saw open up for patton oswalt a little bit ago. funny stuff

awkward

i , according to the tenants of racial and geographic stereotypes, subscribe to several npr podcasts on itunes. one of my more sporadic listens is fresh air with the lovely terry gross (or occasionally ‘big voice guy’ if she’s not in that week) who delivers interviews with people of societal/scientific/entertainment/etc note with all the intensity of warm stone-ground wheat bread - comforting if a little bland (thanks henry).

however, a few days ago, she had on tracy morgan who was out hawking his new memoir. now i like 30 rock and all, but truthfully, i didnt really give a shit about tracy morgan the person too much before this. i do now. i have never heard someone more uncomfortable in my entire life than poor terry gross trying to simultaneously sympathize with morgan’s crazy non-sequiter responses and wonder how many times she can throw it to the ‘reintroduction of the guest’ break so she has time to recover. i was physically squirming on the bus while she was nervously laughing off her complete confusion at whether or not morgan’s tears/shouts/noises/declaration that the ‘funny bus was downstairs’ were all real, feigned, mocking, or somewhere in between. you really need to listen to this interview if you can.

it finally hit me after watching a few more interviews with morgan on youtube, though (a few good examples). tracy morgan just enjoys making white people feel very uncomfortable. and what better forum than ‘fresh air’ to get it done in so efficient a manner.

street scrap

like sane peope often do, while lindsay and i were sitting on the bus yesterday we were planning how we would handle ourselves in a streetfight (maybe it had something to do with this video of two ladies getting in a fight on the very bus system we were riding).  of course, a broken bottle is kind of a go-to in a street fight scenario, and i happened to have a bottle with at the time. unfortunately, it was an orangina bottle and it was mutually decided that was maybe the least intimidating and worst possible selection for street-scrap-bottle. can anyone think of a less appropriate choice?