I write for Late Night With Jimmy Fallon, perform at the Upright Citizens Brigade, and make web videos.
“Call Me In The Day” by La Luz. This is great! The rest of the EP is good too and only five bucks.
I saw this comment on Reddit. It was literally about sword fighting, but it applies to everything else as well. I love it.
You know they say that the number 1 swordsmen should never fear the number 2 swordsmen. Not ever, he was brought up in the same way, taught the same way, learned the same way, but he is, and more then likely will remain the second best. What the number one swordsmen should fear the most, is the one who has learned and practiced nothing. The untrained, unrefined everyman is unpredictable, he does not know what he can and cannot do, the inns and outs. He has no concept of what it takes to be the number one swordsmen and probably hasn’t even given it much thought. He is an undefined variable, you cannot know what he will do when he will strike, how the strike will come, and that should terrify the number one swordsmen.
A year ago today I decided to signal to the universe that I was ready for a job in comedy. I had read some pretty inspirational quotes by (no joke) Will Smith about how nothing good happens unless you take risks. So I took a risk and emailed my only freelance client to let them know I was done with programming.
Less than two hours later Nate Dern emailed me and invited me to be part of a writer-performer showcase for Fallon.
I know that the universe doesn’t behave in a consistent way, and that everyone’s experiences are subjective and random, and that there’s danger in taking your own small sliver of experience and deciding that you have Figured Out How It Works. But for me, in my own life, I took what happened that day as, you know - a “sign.”
I don’t think everyone who wants X should rashly drop whatever they have going for them in the hopes that the universe will replace it with X. But some times, at very specific moments, if you get the feeling that now is the time to do something or stop doing something, maybe it’s good to go with that.
The best thing about the Dead Parrot sketch is that the shopkeeper stays calm.
“The United States of America is home to 4% of the world’s population and 25% of the world’s PRISON population.”
Highest prison population in the world, by number and by percentage, far more than China or Russia. How are we free again? How are we supposed to be the good guys again?
Oh yeah, cuz TV is on and things look free on there.
(Source: thepeoplesrecord)
Icona Pop doing “I Love It” last night. Love this song and this performance.
The very happy Joey Sahakian
This is Late Night’s Mac support guy, Joey. He’s always in a great mood and always ready to help out with stuff. He’s good.
A pair of scientists looked at the rate at which the complexity of life increases and then extrapolated back to a point of zero complexity, aka the origin of life. The answer they came up with is 9.7 ± 2.5 billion years ago. Which is much older than the Earth. This idea has some provocative…
Duuuude!
A tourist stops to get directions from a cop in Questa, New Mexico, 1926.Photograph by Luis Marden, National Geographic
Whoa, this is beautiful.
This is a wallpaper from TBS.com. I also saw a version of it as a subway ad.
But the quote is wrong.
So.
This is important.
Do you remember SOPA? The bill that would give government the right to spy on internet activity without warrant, and let them censor “unwanted” sites by blocking people’s access to them?
Meet its twin. But this time it’s all the more frightening; the House has passed it despite Obama’s threats to veto. And by an alarmingly large margin, at that. CISPA threatens the US constitution’s guarantees of due privacy and free speech, permitting any government agency to access and transfer of vast amounts of data- from internet records to even the content of personal e-mails, and all without obtaining a warrant.
What’s even more disgusting than this bill actually making through the House is some of the arguments used to help it’s passage, and comments made by one of the bill’s biggest supporters admitting the bill helps big business while insulting opposers (whose is also speculated to have personal reasons for wanting CISPA made into law).
This threatens every element of your online presence. From personal emails to general activity, any government agency will have the ability to go fishing without consequence.
Please, PLEASE, sign the following petitions. You don’t even have to be a US citizen to sign most of them or act against CISPA, and please keep in mind that if this shit flies in America, who knows what country might use its example to do it, too.
Petition: Avaaz: Save the Internet from the US
(you don’t have to be a US citizen to sign this)Petition: Sites Not Spies
(you don’t have to be a US citizen to sign this)Petition: CISPA is Back: Write Congress
Petition: Tell Mike Rogers more that 14-year-olds oppose CISPA
(you don’t have to be a US citizen to sign this)Twitter: Tweet @RepMikeRogers with your age
Twitter: Tweet @BarackObama and tell him to veto CISPA
Twitter: Tweet reps like @RepDelBene, @GovHankJohnson, @KeithEllison and @GovGaryJohnson and thanks them for acting against CISPA. Look for other reps that have spoken against it, and thank them.Call your reps: and tell them you strongly oppose the bill. You can look up your reps using the form on the lower portion of this page.
Resource: Fight for the Future
Reblog: This and other posts like it to raise awareness of this threat to internet freedom and privacy.
I will be posting more petitions and resources as I become aware of them.
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Attention universe: THIS MAY BE MY FAVORITE SKETCH EVER MADE. It makes me laugh so much. Please watch and share!
“What Happened To The Bone?” Written by Zack Poitras. Directed and edited by Tom Levin. Starring Ben Warheit and George Anagostakos.
This was made in a day for last weekend’s special “Space Cram” Sketch Cram show at UCB East.
Why are penguins non-flyers? Cause there uncle is a chicken
This is a good joke. All penguins have the same uncle? And he’s a chicken? I love it.
