2009
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Cones on ice.
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Monday on the Today Show
MEREDITH VIERA: Good morning. Citing the equal-time provision, network lawyers have advised us to interview the 6,790,926,010 other people around the world who were not trapped in a runaway balloon last Thursday. So, let’s get started with…um….Curtis Lisspenard of Spotsylvania, Virginia. I hope I’m pronouncing that right?CURTIS LISSPENARD: Lisspenard or Spotsylvania? MV: Oh. Ho-ho. That’s […]
apologies
Can’t post pictures for some technical reason. Irritating. Working on it.Cheers
Bard of the Turnpike
My friend said he was attending a production of Hamlet at the Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey. Sometimes the jokes write themselves. TAYLOR HAMLET by Billy Shakes • Dis ting, ovuh awl udduh tings: Be true t’ yuh’self. Capiche? • Lenduh? Borrowuh? F-ck dat, chief. • Frail? Wutt uh you, a woman? • Sumpin’ is […]
A Day With Rep. Joe Wilson
7:42 a.m., Richland County Public Library 11:17 a.m., Greenlawn Memorial Park 3:28 p.m., Amtrak “Quiet Car” 10:04 p.m., Klan Rally
Two More for the Road
Really, I’ve never had a good one out here in California (I ordered one once and stopped trying. Meat is bad anyway). Behold the cheese steak! Do you know what this is? The dollop of cream is a definite curve ball. This is shoo fly pie, a molasses concoction of the Pennsylvania Dutch (Southern people […]
Salt on Pretzel: Foods I miss from PA part one
My brother came home with a bag of these, they were still warm, and not buttery like Mall pretzels. Heck, these pretzels taste good rock-hard, in the dead of winter bought from a street vendor outside of Veterans stadium after a Phillies game (but those days are over, and I really hate the corporate stadium […]
Dashed-Off Comedy in Response to Actual News Item
Disney has acquired pic rights to a new rendition of ‘The Diary of Anne Frank,’ to be written and helmed by David Mamet. ANNE: The fuck.MARGOT: This thing we got here, this—ANNE: Fucking fuck.MARGOT: It’s not like we—we couldn’t.MUMMY: Shut it. Enough.ANNE: You miserable piece of—PETER: Who knows what might be. Life is—MUMMY: Goddamn enough.ANNE: […]
Musikfest offerings
After screaming at Arlen Specter at a ‘town hall’ meeting about healthcare reform, Pennsylvanians can head on over to Bethlehem and attend Musikfest, and grab a few of these:
Jack Silbert, curator