First stuart Davis concert. Man, what a performer.

He deserves it, and it was a relevant part of a look at Adult Swim history.

I had a similar experience with its early seasons but I think it went on to hit an enjoyable stride.

I'd say you wouldn't be the first, but… you would.

Call it a limitation of mine — maybe it is — but I doubt I will ever put any effort into getting into this guy. Have heard a few tracks here and there, of course, but nothing about them, or him, has caught my interest.

Graveyard is the best example ever. I'll have to break out locust abortion technician now

That's from the 70s.

This article's reference to an albatross as something like a convenient excuse doesn't make sense to me.

At a university in Zhongshan city. It was fun. I loved my students. In retrospect, now that I have a far more stressful teaching job in America, it's unbelievable how few my teaching responsibilities were in china.

As a cultural observation, there's not much wrong with Noah's quoted statement. But as a suggestion for where to take the daily show, it reminds me of a Chris rock interview where he talked about shoehorning in trendy topical references to make sure no one thinks he's too old.

His appearances as a correspondent were some seriously imperfect comedy, no doubt about that. "Look at this picture of poor people. It's NOT from Africa—just like the last one! That's the whole bit!"

I can freely admit that that is exactly how I relate and will continue to relate to most of internet culture: I'm just not interested enough to do otherwise.

People make that comparison? I've never seen South Park fall off anywhere near as much as the Simpsons did ages ago.

I used to live and teach in Guangdong Province. Actually one of the first jobs I looked at in China was in Dalian, but I never wound up going there.

I hadn't heard that he'd picked John Zorn…

That is interesting.

But so's most of my feces.

I remember it more as mostly the party/boasting style of the time, with a touch of something revelatory here and there.

I'll never understand why they ever let Flava Flav on the mic.

It's already a form that exists, it's not something somebody is trying to make happen. The quality just depends on how interesting the interviewees are and how well the whole thing is curated.