This is my topmost personal pet peeve. Evolution fucked us with perishable teeth. That was OK with my ancestors who were old geezers looking for a place to die by 33 years of age, but we’re getting to suffer well into our eighties with these imperfect, stupid biting and chewing bones. So, ok, past some age/stage our…

...counterclockwise?

why are we trashing scar jo? i mean, i get the need to be snarky, but i watched her give an impassioned speech at the women’s march in dc last month and she seemed pretty cool and ready to step up for reproductive rights and access to health care. seems real up jez’s alley. just saying.

I love Father John Misty. Y’all are pretentious.

People still care about Lorde?

This article is what happens when Trump doesn’t tweet for 24 hours. Sad!

i didnt come here to be host-shamed.

My personal criterion (i.e. the one I care most about) for comedy is simple: is it funny? If it is, the comedian will get a response. If not, they’ll get crickets or boos. That’s how it’s supposed to fucking work, IMO. “Oh, I didn’t get much of a positive reaction, and people seemed more pissed than engaged - might…

Good humor NEEDS intelligence AND wisdom. I don’t think you can become a great comedian or satirist if you are not capable of relativation and introspection aswell as logical thought and empathy. Jokes can be coarse or offending, but the intention and the way it is presented are waaaay more important then the text of…

I had to do a bit of casting the Google spell, but I found this old Jezebel piece about sort of this same topic I think might be some good, extra supplemental reading for commenters. It was from several years ago during that whole Daniel Tosh rape “joke” incident and it really tried to help point out that it’s not…

Legendary French comedian Pierre Desproges once said that there are two questions that must be asked. The first is: Can you joke about anything? His answer was that yes, you can, and you should. The second is: Can you joke with everyone? That is much harder.

I generally consider WHO is the joking making fun of. If it’s making fun of racists or that sort, than it is generally acceptable in my book. I generally don’t think whole topics are off limits, and playing with those limits is part of the fun (see: most comedy by Louie CK). It’s usually better to take down those in…

“For what it’s worth,” Whalen said, “it seems his subscriber count hasn’t gone down by much.”

They’re free to say whatever they want, which is great. In turn, we are free to ignore them or criticize them or not give them money. Seems like a good system to me.

As I said yesterday, you can get away with a lot of controversial jokes through how you tell the joke and with the right context. Look at It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, they’ve made jokes far worse then what Pewdiepie made and get away with it because the jokes are prefaced with the understanding that the…

I disagree, and I’m a licensed therapist (and so pretty invested in people attending face to face therapy). There are some great apps that use evidenced-based interventions in a quick and easily-digestible way (eCBT, DBT Diary Card, TF-CBT Triangle of Life, etc.). With escalating costs of healthcare (mental health…

Are you shitting me? In what universe will anyone pay $40. for an undershirt?

Are you shitting me? In what universe will anyone pay $40. for an undershirt?