One really fun thing as we leave the impossible-to-pronounce 10s behind and head into the roaring 20s (again) is how it's a thing to complain that things change. Dumping politically incorrect or sexist jokes does not ruin stand-up any more than it ruined movies or tv, and Men's Magazines evolving into Something We Still Want to Read is not ruining them.
Merry Christmas Viewing
A few Christmas songs and stories while we wait for 2017 to finish burning down around us.
A few Christmas songs and stories while we wait for the year to finish burning down around us.
And if you'd like see a few more Christmassy posts, here they are.
Happy Holidays, everyone. Stay safe.
Ventriloquism
From the classics to the new, ventriloquism continues to disappoint, though not as much as mistaken identity stories that turn out to only work if you believe everyone needed a pair of glasses.
Halloween: Quakers Throw People in the Dark to Repent-titentiary
"Urban Legisode: Eastern State Penitentiary" explains Eastern State Penitentiary, a reform idea that is now best known in Philadelphia for being a great landmark for telling your friends how to find the local restaurants and for the annual Halloween Terror Behind the Walls.
(There also used to be a Bastille Day party that involved throwing Tastykakes at onlookers but that's at least temporarily gone.)
Urban Legisode: Eastern State Penitentiary