December 2008
62 posts
Dock Ellis: My name is Dock Phillip Ellis Jr., better known as the first militant of professional baseball.
We flew into San Diego and I asked the manager could I go home, because we had an off day. And he said, “Yeah.”
So I took some LSD at the airport because I knew where it would hit me — I’d be in my own little area and I’d know where to go. That’s how I...
Download Analog Africa Vol. 1 →
It’s a bit older, but great.
Wikipedia: Russian Jokes →
Rabinovich
Sholem Aleichem, the most famous Rabinovich
Rabinovich, is an archetypal Russian Jew. He is a crafty type, hates the Soviet government, often too smart for his own good and is sometimes portrayed as an otkaznik (refusenik): someone who is refused permission to emigrate to Israel.
Rabinovich fills out a job application form. The official is skeptical: “You stated that you...
Blk Jks - Summertime
"It’s laissez-faire until you get in deep shit" →
claytoncubitt:
“I’d never taken an accounting course, never run a business, never even had savings of my own to manage. I stumbled into a job at Salomon Brothers in 1985 and stumbled out much richer three years later, and even though I wrote a book about the experience, the whole thing still strikes me as preposterous—which is one of the reasons the money was so easy to walk away from. I figured...
Wendy and Lucy” is rated R (Under 17 requires accompanying parent or adult...
– from the A.O. Scott review of Wendy and Lucy.