| One phrase that has been bothering me for a while is when people say, usually via status updates on Facebook or away messages, that they are "with the boyfriend/husband/(term for significant other)."
No, you are with your boyfriend. Actually, the grammar isn't even what bothers me, nor is the objective quality that the boyfriend in question takes by changing the possessive pronoun "my" into a definite article "the." What bothers me about this annoying phrase is that only annoying people use it. Much like how only annoying people use the word "random" to describe a quality of humor.
My best guess as to why this applies to these two examples are as follows:
1) A person who says "the boyfriend" rather than "my boyfriend" is just as likely to say "the dog," although the latter phrase is more understandably impersonal. One who likens their boyfriend to a dog is a shallow, annoying person.
2) A person who uses "random" to describe why something is funny is likely to be uncreative and shallow and will laugh at anything for any reason. One who laughs at anything is an annoying person.
Sorry, it just had to be said.
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| I work at a comedy club.
Guy calls around noon.
"Hello?"
He tells me he wants to be a comedian. Great. We get calls like this all the time. In a recession, everyone wants to be a comic. They either have an abundance of pent up rage or they think it's an easy path to riches. It's not. This guy fell under the latter category.
He asks if we had "auditions" for comics.
"Well, no but we do have an Open mic program that we can sign you up for. Our next Open Mic is on November 24th..."
He said he needed something sooner. This is how we wants to make money, and if he waits until November he won't have any income.
"You need to understand that it takes years and years for comics to make any money, let alone a living. You have to do Open Mics from club to club, city to city for years and if maybe you're good enough you can work as an emcee from night to night, week to week and maybe if you're good at that you can be a feature act and so forth."
Keep in mind that the above description almost never happens. In the two years I've been working here I've seen maybe two people go from doing Open Mic to feature work--"feature" here refers to an opening act--and even those people are still mostly working locally. You will not make money doing this.
He asked to sign up for the November 24th show.
He said his act was around 12 minutes.
"You'll need to cut that in half."
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| It bears mentioning how incredible television has been for the past few years. Yes, there is a lot of insufferable garbage out there (The Hills, Tyra, etc.) but as I make my way through season 2 of The Sopranos--arguably the show that started it all--and having just finished the amazing pilot for Breaking Bad, I can't help but consider that TV has surpassed movies as the premier visual storytelling medium of the 21st century.
After a preliminary compilation of my favorite films of the last decade, I have come to the conclusion that there was not a single film that has enthralled and inspired me in the same way as did The Wire or Mad Men, nor has any made me laugh as much as the countless brilliant comedy programs such as The Office, 30 Rock, It's Always Sunny..., Curb Your Enthusiasm, Tim & Eric, Wonder Showzen, and about a dozen more.
I used to get annoyed by those smug assholes who would declare that they "don't watch" TV. Now I feel bad for them. You're missing out, man.
What are your favorite shows?
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| Hard as it is to believe, this decade--known to some as the aughts--is nearing its close. Despite astonishing advancements in technology and historical events that will echo through the next few centuries, I have devoted much of the past decade discussing movies and music on this very "blog." In preparation to the end of the 2000s and into the Tens(?), I began compiling my best-of lists for movies and music* which will ultimately be reduced into a Top 10 for the decade by the end of this year. In doing this, I have discovered that I am not nearly as outside the mainstream as I believed myself to be, and that I have very few selections that step outside my typical aesthetic. Regardless, I am posting my current selections as a means to help determine what, if anything, I am missing and to hopefully get some selections to check out before the end of 2009.
What am I missing? What did I overlook? What would you include on your lists? I based most, if not all, of my selections on what I could or would watch/listen to again over and over if I had to.
*TV is too broad and I haven't read enough new books to justify categorizing them.
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| | Whenever I find out that someone my age or younger is getting married I feel bad for them. | | comments: 3 comments or Leave a comment |
| | I visited the USF campus after work today to see the new Marshall Center, and as I walked through some of the old places I used to visit every day, I quietly hoped that my life would be as different in two years as it is now from then. | | comments: Leave a comment |
| | Over the years I've mellowed out a bit and have become much more open to going out and enjoying myself, but, philosophically speaking, I still don't see the point to doing anything. I doubt that will ever change. | | comments: Leave a comment |
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