RYAN SIMMONS: ALMOST HANDSOME

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January 2012

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Sometimes when groups of young Bangladeshi men are hanging on the sidewalk outside my apartment and speaking loudly in a foreign language (usually when harassing passers-by), I fantasize about flinging eggs down on them from my window.

I have it all thought out. It would be covert. I would open the top part of my window just slightly, and turn off my light. I’d get the eggs out of the fridge, and just sort of pop them out of the crack in the window, because I wouldn’t have to throw them hard as they are just below.

And then they’d be all, “Where’d that egg come from?!” and look up but the lights would be off and they wouldn’t notice the crack in the window and they’d be all confused and say, “Well, that we weird, we should definitely be quiet and go home.”

All of that because I am a passive-aggressive asshole that can’t pop his head out the window and just fucking shush somebody.

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Jan 23, 201236 notes

Hang on, I just want to take a moment to figure out when it is and is not okay to make fun of dead people on Twitter.

Last July, Amy Winehouse died. Within minutes of the announcement of her death, jokes appeared on Twitter at her expense, followed by an overwhelming reaction that those jokes were not okay, that they were in bad taste.

Amy Winehouse was a drug-addicted pop star, who contributed nothing to society, consistently flaunted her wealth and addiction on national television, destroyed her family, and ultimately killed herself with alcohol poisoning. She seemed to have no remorse for her actions. She had a song written about her. 

Joe Paterno was a family man who contributed 60+ years to a single university, donated millions to that institution, helped countless young men and women, and helped make Penn State one of the most treasured public schools in our nation, but made a huge mistake involving an inhuman former colleague. He publicly apologized numerous times, but the stress of knowing the consequences of his lack of action likely contributed to his deteriorating condition and ultimately his death.

So it is okay to mock Joe Paterno on Twitter, but not okay to mock Amy Winehouse.

Got it. Thanks, Internet!

Jan 22, 20123 notes
Cloisonne´ They Might Be Giants

williebhines:

“Cloisonne” by TMBG off of Join Us.

When you’re trying to win people over to TMBG, you’d usually pick one of the catchier songs by John Linnel like Don’t Let’s Start or Doctor Worm or Ana Ng. But let me just come clean and tell you that it’s the weird Flansburgh songs that are true TMBG songs to me. This song with its abrasive saxophone and it’s what-the-fuck-is-that percussion thump in the left speaker? And the strange line “What’s a Sleestack” which vaguely makes me think of an older guy who feels out of it, but not quite, because the words just don’t ultimately make sense.

This is the band, warts and inaccessible weirdness and all.

YOU HAVE A FRIEND IN LAW ENFORCEMENT / MIND YOUR BUSINESS / TELL ‘EM A STORY, RAINDROP (I DON’T WANT TO TELL ‘EM, MISTER)

Listen to this song and join the club.

I am not the only person who thinks this way! Ryan: VALIDATED

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