short moves: execute

why hello there. my name's alec. i'm a ~~prospective~~ recent graduate of oregon state university, an even more recent resident of san francisco, and i do alot of other things too. some of those things might well appear here at some point. it's my steadfast opinion that haribo gummy bears are, by far, the best kind of gummy bears.

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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.