February 2012
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A PORTRAIT OF THE GARBAGE AS A TRASHCAN:... →
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[…] In fact, the kind of thing I would most likely put together already exists, and it is called ASSASINS and Sondheim wrote it. I have never actually seen this play, but […]
Just, re: Assassins, I saw Assassins in 2004 in the old Studio 54 space (I think..?), and after it was over, my wife Megan asked me what I thought, and I said, “I guess it didn’t...
If I haven't updated this in a while
just assume I’m protesting SOPA.
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Meg and I went to see Jeff Mangum a couple nights...
And it was good? It was a strange experience since it was for the most part just him (plus four guitars, arranged so it was kind of like he and four guitars were sitting around a campfire), so it was subdued in that sense, but also Jesus Christ his voice.
All of the times on Aeroplane and Avery Island where it sounds like he’s pushing his voice past its limit, I guess I always imagined that he...
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January 2012
19 posts
Paul and Storm's The 25 Days of Newman →
I was just thinking about how these were the funniest things in the world when they came out and I just listened to them again and they’re still like the ninth or tenth funniest things in the world.
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Willard Asylum Suitcase Documentation →
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Inside the Almost 100% Successful 1985 Late Night... →
The only thing I’ve ever written that contains an interview with Merrill Markoe AND a Voyagers! Joke
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The Year's Best Humor Writing and also something...
If it sometimes feels like you spent all of last year reading the year’s worst humor writing, then Splitsider has something that is the opposite of that.
All of our old friends are here! Woody Allen! Tina Fey! Me for some reason.
I’m sorry to say if you don’t stop what you’re doing and read all of these stories everyone in the world will get measles.