That being said, people still like him. Which is kind of how I feel about the Deadspin Funbag. This one is about dogshit. Literally. And I have probably ten friends--none of whom even attempt to write anything--who could have written it better. You will still read it and like it. I'm embarrassed for you. I really am.
Showing posts with label shit. Show all posts
Showing posts with label shit. Show all posts
Tuesday, July 26, 2011
"Deadspin Funbag" by Drew Magary - Deadspin.com
I got into a big debate today with my boy T-Dubs about Drake. I think he sucks. Flat voice, painful metaphors, ugly, and oh yeah, he's a Canadian former child actor posing as the biggest pimp in the world and I'm not buying it. I legitimately can't stand the guy. I popped champagne, then every girl in the room wanted to bang me, something something chuckle at my own awful joke, then I felt bad about what I did that night but not that bad, now cue Lil Wayne. That's every single Drake song you've ever heard. Puketrocity.
Tuesday, July 19, 2011
"Chicken Toenails Anyone" by David Sedaris - TheGuardian.com
David Sedaris wrote one of the funniest things I ever read. It was the last page in an issue of Esquire, must have been in about 2006, and it was about--fittingly--a poop. He walked into a bathroom at a house party and there was a turd the size of Puerto Rico stuck in the toilet that someone had failed to flush and now the responsibility (and the shame if he failed, upon exit) fell to him. Anyway I was on some godawful NJTransit bus coming out of the city and pinned up against the window by some fat Irish chick who must have been pushing 3 bills, and I laughed so hard I went silent. One of those where your mouth's open and the tears are coming and there's nothing you can do about it. And I literally couldn't do anything about it because I was pinned in my seat like a mouse in a trap. I'm sure Bertha would have appreciated the article too cuz Lord knows she's dropped some bombs in her day, but I don't approve of the fat so I didn't share. Fuck 'er.
This is all to say that David Sedaris is funny and while I didn't read this article because I happen to like Chinese food and would like to enjoy it again at some point in the near future, he went to China and had a somewhat different take on the cuisine than me.
Monday, April 18, 2011
"Shitfaced: A Brief History" by Paul Collins - Slate.com
This might be the best article I've ever read from Slate.com. It traces the etymology of the word "shit" and in particular, "shitfaced." I really can't write a better description than the author already did in this thing. Suffice to say, "shittenly" used to be a word. So was "shiteth."
"Shit's rich history reaches back to Old Norse skita, and by Chaucer's time a romance like Kyng Alisaunder could speak of wondrous snakes in the exotic East, where "the addres shiteth preciouse stones." A 1641 treatise addresses a braggart as "thou cracking shit-fire," and one 1766 dictionary entertainingly lists everything from shit-abed and shit-breech to shittenly and shittle-come-shites."
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