After I read the news of Yahoo!’s massive Tumblr acquisition, I had trouble wrapping my head around what a massive amount of money a billion dollars is, so I came up with this:
Picture an area the size of Rhode Island. Now picture, inside that, a football field full of Statues of Liberty. Stretching to the moon and back. A blue whale. Now picture a billion dollars.
Note: “Could someone please clean these dishes?”
Passive-aggressive note: “Could SOMEONE please clean these dishes?!”
Aggressive note: “JESUS CHRIST SOMEONE CLEAN THESE MOTHERFUCKING DISHES”
IN THE END: tell the jokes you want to tell. But know that it makes you a better comic to have to either ignore criticism or defend yourself. This is the rest of all of our careers: success balanced with ignoring criticism or self-defense.
Cameron gets it. You can say/do whatever the hell you want onstage – but if you can’t handle what people are going to say/do in turn, you probably shouldn’t be saying/doing those things in the first place.
This is true of life in general.
(Source: msyellowcup)
(Source: iraffiruse)
I don’t like any of these things.
“Report” is a weird name for a baby.
a friend came round to help me revise and forgot to log out of her facebook on my laptop so I’ve spent the last 20 minutes devoting her facebook to trains.
I’ve also got the middle name “ILikeTrains” pending and have joined 50 “I love trains” groups.
