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» How to Talk to Town-Hall Crazy

(via TPF)

I had a dream last night where instead of playing Fantasy Baseball, I was playing Fantasy Visiting Family for the Holidays. Points were accrued every time someone asked me when I was going to get married, or finish school, or get a real job, or how many glasses of wine I had, or if I really wanted to eat that second slice of cake.

I might be onto something here.

Grumble grumble stupid hot and muggy Maryland weather.

On our way to the beach we stopped at the Cowtown Rodeo flea market. We got kicked out because dogs weren’t allowed, but not before I snapped this gem!

“ Dominoes has all these new pizza bowls now. I just can’t keep up with them.

— Joe

wintercheck:

azizisbored:

Funny People Opens Today!

I have a small role as Randy in the film and I’m very excited to be even a tiny part of it. Thanks to everyone for their support on Jason Woliner and I’s Randy documentary series. The series is done, but we’re editing together a longer version of the documentary for the Funny People DVD that will have a good chunk of unreleased stuff in it. Enjoy Funny People!

YAY!

Already got my tickets for tonight, which makes “Funny People” the SECOND movie of the summer featuring Aziz that I saw on opening night (“I Love You, Man”)!! Weird.

» Best of Craigslist: A Few Things from the Bike Shop

I don’t know how I missed this one from back in May, but it’s hilarious.

“ Did you know that now, thanks to iPhone, you can use location services to tell your friends where are you are at any given moment, and if they’re on iPhone and have that same app they can find you, and then you can then ask iPhone to tell you if there are any Tex-Mex restaurants within a five-block radius, and what movies are playing at the nearest cinema? Then you can use Twitter (or, rather, one of the 14,000 Twitter apps) to tell your followers what you’re up to, and automatically feed that into your Facebook page so that your Facebook friends can comment on your movie plans, and advertisers can scour your personal messages and use keyword searches to send target messages to each of you, and deep thinkers like Robert Scoble and Chris Anderson will reassure you that you are not just getting sucked into the maw of the brain-killing machine, and this is not just mindless time-wasting twattle but is in fact extremely profound and revolutionary and important and intellectually challenging. Because in the old days you just read books and that was so passive, but now you’re so engaged and interactive, you’re not just a media consumer but you’re also a media creator — why, in fact, you’re a public intellectual — and if you don’t fully immerse yourself in every last bit of this shit then you will no longer be participating in your culture which means you will lose your job and everyone will laugh at you because you just don’t get it and you might as well be some 90-year-old dude sitting in a pee-stained bathrobe drooling.

— The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs: Food for thought (via hellofriend) (via wintercheck)

Summer Doldroms

THIS JUST IN:

“Hello All,
A casualty of the move: we have a missing lamp! It is a roughly 4-foot-tall black-and-chrome floor lamp with a 2-foot-wide horizontal circular metal shade on a swing arm. Can you let me know if this was accidentally placed in your office?
Thanks.”

The English Department upgraded to a fancy new building this summer, so we can expect many more “Hello All I’m Missing [blank] Piece of Ikea Furniture” emails in the near future.

In related news, summer is boring in a college town.

Seriously, fortune cookie? Did my parents put you up to this?