feeling perky?

After I finish pulling my hair out and screaming, videos like this make me wax Parodic.

The video is pretty long, but there is a quick recap by country starting at 12mins.

To quote Vonnegut:

Laughs are exactly as honorable as tears. Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion, to the futility of thinking and striving anymore. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward – and since I can start thinking and striving again that much sooner.

from Palm Sunday

Laughter is a response to frustration, just as tears are, and it solves nothing, just as tears solve nothing. Laughing or crying is what a human being does when there's nothing else he can do.

from an interview with Playboy

Writers from the past

Let us aim for humorous: Mark Twain on comedy

Aphorisms are like proto-poetry

Mud sometimes gives the illusion of depth.
     - Stanislaw J. Lec (Unkempt Thoughts)

pathways

"Becoming a writer is not a 'career decision' like becoming a doctor or a policeman. You don't choose it so much as get chosen, and once you accept the fact that you're not fit for anything else, you have to be prepared to walk a long, hard road for the rest of your days."

Paul Auster

The world needs more red ink

Some things defy parodization...

"You need to have the guts to have balls to have the brains to think about doing something as revolutionary as writing without punctuations the way eecumins did. He was a man alright."

http://shitmystudentswrite.tumblr.com