Tease.

All of this week’s stories are great, but honorable mention to Jake’s manager on that last one, that took some stones and quick thinking. I don’t even care if it’s true or not.

I wonder how comfortable Jerry Seinfeld would be with an evening of good old fashioned Jew-baiting comedy? People complained pretty vociferously when they couldn’t make ethnic jokes anymore too and comedy survived just fine. Topics change, humor changes, somehow the world keeps spinning.

Reddit is dumb but people who believe rumors on the internet are even dumber.

Internet fandoms are the fucking worst.

Nazis did it too. It’s also what Czechs and Slovaks and Poles did to collaborators as well, which gives me some horrible HORRIBLE associations with this.

But it won’t because of the Reddit/Gawker bullshit AND that people steadfastly want to be fooled by rumors.

Depends on the part of Point Breeze. Parts of it border Shadyside/Squirrel Hill, parts of it border Larimer/Wilkinsburg so housing prices had some variation last time I checked. I’ve got family still there and it’s a pretty nice, quiet neighborhood, but it used to be pretty rough in the 90s, I remember. My sister…

Oh, I don’t know. Northwestern PA has its own sort of infuriating bigoted charm. Good lord, if my folks didn’t still live there and it wasn’t so pretty without the people, I’d never go back there.

Lemme guess— Shadyside? Point Breeze?

Even though I now teach in one of the most beautiful cities in the world, I always have a strange nostalgia about the Burgh.

To be fair, that is a pretty good description of a nasty hangover.

Apropos.

There’s been a lot more than just two blind items about Louis CK.

Pittsburgh drivers terrify people who grew up in PITTSBURGH. Driving in Pittsburgh is like playing Crazy Taxi on acid, with all the weird one way streets, blind alleys, random rickety bridges, and cars full of yinzers.

Do you have any with deerstalkers? I’m more partial to anything an irate mustachio’d British garage rocker would wear.

Good call. Also a solid gold idol would really drive it home.

Really, it’s all about justice in haberdashery.

All I want is for them to bring back Dogmeat.

Well, except that eventually Aurelius realizes what a cock he’s been and rescinds his courtship and apologizes. (I think. I haven’t read The Franklin’s Tale in about 15 years.)

No, sure.

My larger point was, why complain about something being NSFW when you shouldn’t be on it at work in the first place? I wouldn’t look at Robert Mapplethorpe pictures or watch Nymphomaniac during a faculty meeting, but that doesn’t lessen the artistic value of either of those two things.