I finally paid my library fines last week - I couldn't let that $18.60 stunt my growth a second longer - and it felt soooo goooood to walk home with aching shoulders from a bag full of book, cds, dvds and magazines.
At my trip last week I was issued with:
20th Century Eightball by Daniel Clowse
The Quitter by Harvey Pekar
Revolution by Margaret Cho
That Mitchell and Webb Sound
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency by Douglas Adams
Essentially a coupla big comic books, a coupla comedy cds, and a, well, Douglas Adams book. That I haven't started yet.
Margaret Cho is fucking awesome. it's true that my appreciation of the word "pussy" has increased over the last couple of years, but that my appreciation for the short form of "puss" could exist at all is near on a miracle. witness the greatness.
Went to the lib again yesty, and came away with A History of God, that my rad friend Phil recommended to me. It's by a lady that was gonna be a nun until she realised she wasn't really that big of a Christian... Haven't started it yet, I'll let you know.
And then TODAY I went back AGAIN! Addict, sis. Got a bunch of musics and poetries, but also got an issue of the feminist pop culture magazine Bitch. There's an article in this issue that is a response to that pompous arse Christopher Hitchens mouthing off in Vanity Fair about how women aren't funny. What? Women aren't funny? I know! Sisters are hilarious! But Hitch got a bee in his bonnet/carrot up his ass/whores to pay, and decided to derive the spurious assertion that a woman's ultimate destiny to procreate prevents her from being funny. Yeah. Whatevs, hitch. You have too much money for being a nob.
I should probably articulate some kind of response, but instead... Well... Loads of people posit the view that women aren't funny, or rather, "aren't as funny as men". Balls. Women have less of a powerful presence in the comedy world, but it's the same story in all creative fields. It's true! But unlike, say, playwrights, girls who do comedy have a much smaller chance to prove themselves funny than a dramatis-personae-wielding dame has to prove herself able to construct a theme, form a plot, write dialogue.
I'd say give a funny sister a break, but instead I reckon y'all give a funny sister a listen. In fact, give a bunch of them a watch
I feel like a glass of wine. That's what three nights without a drop will do to you.
2 comments:
you might want to see a doctor about that... I think it isn't normal to feel like a glass of wine instead of feeling like a human or a woman... but then again fuck what's normal... can you tell I'm in a sassy mood today?
Oooh Dirk Gently, did you finish it? It's really slow on the uptake. Much like me and this comment.
The first half of the book took me six weeks, and the second half a couple of days :-)
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