1. It takes forever to cook a baked potato in a conventional oven, sometimes I just throw one in there, even if I don’t want one. And by the time it’s done… who knows.
    2. If you had a friend who was a tightrope walker and you were walking down the sidewalk with him, and he fell, that would be completely unacceptable.
    3. I haven’t slept for ten days, because that would be too long.
    4. “A severed foot is the ultimate stocking stuffer.”
    5. “An escalator can never break: it can only become stairs. You should never see an Escalator Temporarily Out Of Order sign, just Escalator Temporarily Stairs. Sorry for the convenience.”
    6. “Rice is great if you’re really hungry and want to eat two thousand of something.”
    7. “My fake plants died because I did not pretend to water them.”
    8. “I’m sick of following my dreams. I’m just going to ask them where they’re goin’, and hook up with them later.”
    9. “I wanted to buy a candle holder, but the store didn’t have one. So I got a cake.”
    10. “Dogs are forever in the push up postion.”
    11. “I wish my name was Brian because maybe sometimes people would misspell my name and call me Brain. That’s like a free compliment and you don’t even gotta be smart to notice it.”
    12. I order a club sandwhich all the time, but I’m not even a member man, I don’t know how I get away with it.
    13. “I like to play blackjack. I’m not addicted to gambling. I’m addicted to sitting in a semi-circle.”
    14. “Every time I go and shave, I assume there’s someone else on the planet shaving. So I say, ‘I’m gonna go shave, too.’”
    15. “I don’t have a girlfriend. But I do know a woman who’d be mad at me for saying that.”
    16. “Is a hippopotamus a hippopotamus, or just a really cool Opotamus?”
    17. “I like refried beans. That’s why I wanna try fried beans, because maybe they’re just as good and we’re just wasting time. You don’t have to fry them again after all.”
    18. “My belt holds my pants up, but the belt loops hold my belt up. I don’t really know what’s happening down there. Who is the real hero?”
    19. “Wearing a turtleneck is like being strangled by a really weak guy, all day. Wearing a backpack and a turtleneck is like a weak midget trying to bring you down.”
    20. I was at a bar, I was minding my own business, no one was talking to me cause I had just did a show. This guy bumped into me which is cool, but he didn’t apologize, he said “Move”, and I thought that was rude so I said “Go to hell”, and then I started to run. He caught up with me. He had a mustache, a goatee, a pair of earings, a pair of sunglasses, his hair was in a ponytail, and he was wearing a hat. Hey said “Hey, you got a lot of nerve.” I said “Hey, you got a lot of… cranium accessories.” *crowd laughs* This is a smart crowd here, when I play the dumb crowd, I gotta say “You got a lot of shit on your head.”
    21. “This shirt is dry clean only. Which means… it’s dirty.”
    22. “I was at this casino minding my own business, and this guy came up to me and said, ‘You’re gonna have to move, you’re blocking a fire exit.’ As though if there was a fire, I wasn’t gonna run. If you’re flammible and have legs, you are never blocking a fire exit.”
    23. “Y’know, you can’t please all the people all the time… and last night, all those people were at my show.”
    24. “You know when they have a fishing show on TV? They catch the fish and then let it go. They don’t want to eat the fish, they just want to make it late for something.”
    25. “When someone hands you a flyer, it’s like they’re saying here you throw this away.”
    26. “I wish I could play little league now. I’d be way better than before.”
    27. “A waffle is like a pancake with a syrup trap.”
    28. “The depressing thing about tennis is that no matter how good I get, I’ll never be as good as a wall.”
    29. “It’s very dangerous to wave to people you don’t know because what if they don’t have hands? They’ll think you’re cocky.”
    30. “I had a stick of CareFree gum, but it didn’t work. I felt pretty good while I was blowing that bubble, but as soon as the gum lost its flavor, I was back to pondering my mortality.”
    31. “I wear a necklace, cause I wanna know when I’m upside down.”
    32. “I want to get a vending machine, with fun sized candy bars, and the glass in front is a magnifying glass. You’ll be mad, but it will be too late.”
    33. “I once saw a forklift lift a crate of forks. And it was way to literal for me.”
    34. Whenever I walk, people try to hand me out flyers, and when someone tries to hand me out a flyer, it’s kind’ve like they’re saying “Here… you throw this away.”
    35. I like to hold the microphone cord like this, I pinch it together, then I let it go, then you hear a whole bunch of jokes at once.
    36. “If my kid couldn’t draw I’d make sure that my kitchen magnets didn’t work.”
    37. “I saw a human pyramid once. It was very unnecessary.”
    38. “Spaghetti… I can’t eat spaghetti, there’s too many of them. No matter how hungry I am, 1,000 of something is too many. I’ll have 1,000 pieces of noodles.”
    39. “I’m gonna fix that last joke by taking out all the words and adding new ones.”
    40. “I remixed a remix, it was back to normal.”
    41. “I know a lot about cars, man. I can look at any car’s headlights and tell you exactly which way it’s coming.”
    42. I rent a lot of cars because I go on the road, and when I drive a rental car I don’t know what’s going on with it right… so a lot of times I drive for like 10 miles with the emergency brake on. That doesn’t say a lot for me, but it really doesn’t say a lot for the *emergency* *brake*.
    43. “I drank some boiling water because I wanted to whistle.”
    44. “I think foosball is a combination of soccer and shish kabobs.”
    45. “My sister wanted to be an actress, but she never made it. She does live in a trailer. She got halfway. She’s an actress, she just never gets called to the set.”
    46. “All these jokes have been pre-approved as funny by me.”
    47. Acid was my favorite drug, acid expanded my mind. Because of acid, I now know that butter is way better than margerine. I saw through the bullshit.
    48. “Why is Cloud 9 so amazing? What is wrong with Cloud 8? That joke came off the top of my head, and the top of my head ain’t funny!”
    49. “I can whistle with my fingers, especially if I have a whistle.”
    50. I hate turkeys. If you go to the grocery store and stand in the lunchmeat section for too long you start to get pissed off at turkeys. You see like Turkey-Ham, Turkey-Pastromi, Turkey-Balogna… somebody needs to tell the turkeys “Man… just be yourself.”

    — Mitch Hedberg

  • Thinking about writing and self publishing a book about coaching high school tennis coaching.

    How hard can it be? Plus I might make like $34.

    The books that are out there currently are dogshit. I have read or researched several of the top rated ones.

    What can I add to this typology?

    • How to relate to and keep team under control
    • The job of coaching tennis and relationships with the school, other coaches, parents
    • Not be 300 years old
    • Good graphics
    • Relatable anecdotes
    • There is nothing new in actual technical tennis, but I have a focused look at what is most important

    How will I go about this?

    • Collect nuggets of wisdom
    • Collect technical concepts and illustrations
    • The organization will become clear
    • Develop style for material and graphics
  • Such as it is, I would prefer the logo be more wack.

    In 1969 Opec held a competition in Vienna, Austria, where its headquarters had been located since 1965. An Austrian graphic designer, Gertrude Svoboda, entered the competition at the request of someone at Opec.

    Mrs Svoboda said, “I don’t have much to do with oil, particularly because I don’t own a car,” misunderstanding the role that petroleum plays in our whole world.

  • I made this audio sketch this morning instead of doing work. All the percussion and noises are sampled from ravens. The rest is detritus sampled from internet.

  • Had to do a family requested living room rewind of DJ Marky – LK, which is rare because they do not even know what that is. I used to prefer the version without the MC. Now I enjoy both equally.

    Back in the day I had an MP3 ripped from Grooverider’s show with him talking over the start. (If you know you know). I miss that cultural artifact.

    #jungle #drum&bass

  • File under: Wellness

    Do you guys remember the internet own that was “touch grass” a couple years ago or Rick Rubin saying to do the very same thing every morning in his boring book that I was forced to read for book club? I have one-upped this concept.

    For your health you should feed plants every day before you do anything else.

  • I have been reading 80s sci-fi novels. When I say reading I mean listening to them on audio book while working or at the gym.

    The kind of books where they identify the following in the first chapter:

    • how the ships are propelled
    • what sort of portals they use to transport around the universe
    • what their relationship to old earth is
    • what the government is

    Interestingly the books include ai as a big part of decision making in government and obviously planet earth is trashed or blown up.

    Hyperion Series: Pretty decent 4 book series with good enough plot and character development. Not a spoiler: In the end one of the main characters fulfills her goal to travel way back in time a to Taliesin to study Architecture under Frank Lloyd Wright.

    Iain M Banks Culture Novels: These are good. I have been reading the physical books. Each is a separate story within the culture framework. There is nothing too deep here, but as far as being an entertaining read these are some of the best of the genre.

    Peter F. Hamilton’s Commonwealth Saga: Boring and I will probably bail on this one.

  • Let’s put the straps and part that touches your back on the bottom that you set down in goose shit at the park. I got this one for free so I thought I’d give it a go. There has to be a better deign. I prefer a backpack, but I don’t want to look like little Timmy’s first day at school.

    #teamhead

    Update: I am going to fix this bag and move the straps to the correct side. After that I will create my own bag.

  • Star Trek The Next Generation

    In 2026 I will rewatch the prominent leftist Star Trek The Next Generation television show.

    ¿How did you consume the show originally?
    I remember it was on one of the few TV channels we had in England and it was current. I didn’t have strong feelings about it at the time, but I did watch it while doing other things, which is more than I can say of most TV.

    Update: It was definitely on after Yo MTV Raps.