— Scott Adams, from How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big: Kind of the Story of My Life
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You can’t stage an epiphany.
Zombie Spaceship Wasteland by Patton Oswalt
It’s Vasectomy Day!
As such, I am relying on humor to help cope with the fear of my plumbing getting shut off.
The more personal it is, the more universal it is.
— Judd Apatow, interviewed in Esquire, about the greatest showbiz lesson he’s learned
Five Weird Things About Me
1. I have a Pavlovian response to the word “lemonade.” If I hear the word, read it, or even think it, my mouth starts watering. This is awesome when I’m hungover and have horrible cottom-mouth. Just think “lemonade!” and woosh!–problem solved! 2. Since the age of eight, I have had this weird tendency to look … Read more
Five Reasons I’m Looking Forward to a Super-Flu Pandemic
1. 99.9% fewer drivers on the road and interfering with my cycling. 2. Finally! Time to catch up on all my reading! 3. Danarchy! 4. Super-Flu can only mean the development of Super NyQuil. The Q will actually be bigger than the bottle. 5. Never going to have to be disappointed by them remaking the … Read more
It was hard to feel weird in a place where everybody was weird.
— from The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers
Basically they were just assholes, though, and took it as the measure of God’s satisfaction with them that everybody else thought they were assholes.
from The Peripheral by William Gibson