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14 Jul A CLOSED LETTER TO MYSELF ABOUT THIEVERY, HECKLING AND RAPE JOKES

Posted at 13:47h in Spew

1. Thievery “Develop a little self-righteousness. A lot of that is an ugly thing, God knows, but a little spread over all your scruples is an absolute necessity!” -- Glen Bateman, in Stephen King’s The Stand It’s not the thievery. It’s the goddamned theorizing. When I started doing comedy...

08 Jan SWEEP THE LEG AND WAKE THE GIMP

Posted at 13:57h in Spew

The Johnny Lawrence Story Johnny Lawrence owned the universe in 1984. The universe was, to him, the wealthier part of the San Fernando Valley (and not that shithole Reseda) but it was his first and, he hoped, last horizon. High school was a non-stop carnival of...