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Sat Sep 6

Me want join this

On a side note, I’ve been reading Aziz Ansari’s blog. I was thusly reminded of my friend Cameron from The Late Show commenting once that he had played Aziz in high school when they were on opposing tennis teams.

WHITE COLLAR OUT, SUCKERS!

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Playing tips from the pros

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IT'S ON

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One of the odd rituals I've come to incorporate into my pre-run routines

Has been putting band-aids over my nippies. It’s all part of the routine now.

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Fri Sep 5

This is a verbal attack? A little whiney, sure.

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Gaudy chairs

The other night as I was running home from the gymnasium, I got a glimpse of the inside of this house. The blinds were open and inside were a few round, older women eating some pastry or some such. The scene reminded me of many Sundays spent in Queens at the family house. Big dinner, hanging out at the table or in the cement backyard, then pastry and coffee. Man, those were damn fine times. No real point to the story other than to say the objective of getting out of bed in the morning ought to be the pursuit of that kind of place.

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How did I reply to an e-mail before I even received it?

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Gocco: Two third of Japanese households can't be wrong!

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Seriously, how do these people afford to eat in this manner? I think half of the impression and effect of such sites is the fact that normal, amateur eaters--folk like us--are able to visit these restaurants...similar to the student film that clearly went above and beyond in terms of budget that makes everyone go, "Really?"

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While reading the Tim and Eric interview intro I saw a reference to the Firesign Theater. Wotsit, I thought to myself. I looked it up, I did. I then learned that The Goon Show was a major influence not only on the Firesign Theater, but on, apparently, everyone who knows from funny.

A weekly task for the Goons

The strain of writing and performing took a heavy toll on Milligan, who was later diagnosed with bipolar disorder. He suffered a nervous breakdown during the run of the show, requiring hospitalisation,^[12] and the intense pressure also contributed to the failure of his marriage. Milligan was absent from the show for twelve episodes in the third series after an attempt to murder Peter Sellers with a potato peeler. The story was that he left his house and made for the Sellers household, but Milligan’s wife managed to telephone Sellers before Milligan arrived at the door.^[13]

Sellers could be similarly eccentric. Once, around midnight, he turned up on Milligan’s doorstep totally naked. “Can you recommend a good tailor?” he asked^[14]. On another occasion Sellers had bought a Jaguar and asked Graham Stark for his help in locating an annoying squeak coming from the rear of the vehicle. Graham got into the boot and Sellers drove the car four miles down the road before being stopped for speeding by a policeman - who said “Hello, hello, hello, who have we got here then?” upon investigating noises coming from the boot.^[15] Milligan recounted a similar version on a chat show years later, which involved him and not Stark in the boot of the car, and ended with the policeman opening it, taking one look at Milligan, and saying, “I should have known it would be you,” and closing the boot again.^[16] Yet another version was recounted by Eric Sykes. Sykes claimed that Sellers stopped off at a public house for something to eat. The Barman apparently heard knocking coming from inside the boot, but Sellers simply stated he was taking his son to school, finished his lunch and promptly drove away. This incident was recounted in the section on Sellers in Sykes’ book, Eric Sykes’ Comedy Heroes.

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