Take comfort in the fact that every time someone types out the phrases "should of (sic) complied" or "play stupid games win stupid prizes" a spirit appears like in A Christmas Carol and shows them the future where they die alone without ever having known the love of another living being.
We hear you, we see you, and we know - as you do - that you're a miserable sorta-excuse for a human being who will never know a moment's happiness let alone be tolerable to any other person. Your existence is a cancer on the world and everyone forced to encounter you, even for a moment, is worse off for it. And unlike this woman shot down in cold blood, the moment you die will pass entirely unnoticed and unremaked upon. It will be like you never existed, and you know every word I said here is true. That's why you act the way you do and talk the way you do - because at night, when you're alone, you know all of this. The only thing that never occurs to you is that everyone around you knows it about you, too. You think your act fools anyone, and that's the scariest thing to you: the possibility that people see you for the coward you are.
They do. We do. Sleep tight. ...
It takes an enormous amount of courage to stand there, keep filming, and scream "What the fuck, you asshole" at someone wearing a badge who just shot and killed one of your neighbors in cold blood.
If you're grasping for anything to feel good about right now - and that's a very difficult thing to find - feel good about the fact that not everyone is as much of a spineless, collaborating coward as our elites. Total strangers will risk their lives to stand next to you. ...
HoosierPoli says:
Stand-up comedy and teaching are actually very similar disciplines. In fact, in Germany they have a long tradition of what is called Kabarett, which is stand-up infused with incisive political satire that informs and entertains.
If you have 50 minutes, you owe it to yourself to watch Herr Pispers tear shit up:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4H_E8b-qmo
Matthew says:
When are we going to get some video of your stand-up, you jerk?
Mark says:
Volker Pispers is pretty unpopular here in conservative Bavaria – mainly because Germany's North-South dynamic is similar to the U.S.'s. But Bavaria is the Texas of Germany, just with better schools, economy, and standard of living. Of course, Bavarian conservatism would still be pretty far left of the Democrats in the U.S.
That being said, Pispers has a pretty commanding knowledge of history and I agree with him on much of what he says in that program from 2004.
Peggy says:
I'm with Matthew on this one.
Also, not to be creepy, but I dreamed last night that you and I were playing in a rock band together. You were mad at me because I had no idea wtf I was doing (apparently I was trying to string a guitar upside-down). You yelled at me a lot.
It felt like old times. :)
Hazy Davy says:
Tell me where you do go and I´ll meet you there.
Da Moose says:
Nice. Keep it up. You'll find your stand-up to be much more enlightening for your audience than any bully pulpit you might own on the professor circuit and a whole lot more financially rewarding potentially. Academia is for egotists and people who want to sleep with undergrads….hold on, maybe academia is for me after all.
BTW, I have a suggestion for some material for you. I am currently in this running argument with this buffoon who goes on and on about how we need to strictly adhere to the Constitution and that the government should only exist to secure our liberty. My response is: so according to your thinking on this, we need the government for two things, to secure our liberty and to secure our mail delivery? That's not that funny but you could extrapolate for hours on stage just on the notion of what exactly liberty means to certain people. For instance, the definition of liberty to me is allowing me to work naked in my cube and to randomly accuse my boss, during meetings he chairs, of barbaric acts of cruelty and infidelity. That would be true freedom to me. Should I try to lobby my senator to make this happen? And, if such legislative enactment can't come to pass, is this an infringement upon my liberty? Discuss.
leon says:
Nice to be on the west coast, where noon for you is still morning for me!
Shane says:
Did you open with an earthquake joke? I would have gone with a "well if anyone is equipped to handle a nuclear emergency" type joke!