What Makes Me Laugh

Here’s how it went down. Me: At the keyboard, hands curved, ready to strike a key. Doug: Electric guitar hanging from his strap, flipping through music. Doug: “You want to play some Stevie?” Me (Thinking): Oh, Stevie Ray Vaughn. Famous blues guitarist. Died in a helicopter crash. From Austin, Texas. 36 years old. Me: “Yeah, [...]

Some stories are so good, so juicy that I can’t wait to share them. Rapper Darryl “DMC” McDaniels’ (of Run DMC fame) made it through a deep depression by listening to his “Angel” for four years. I don’t want to ruin the surprise for you, so I’ll just share what I learned (or re-learned) from [...]

Answer: Probably not! Doug and I geek out to science television whenever there’s a.) nothing good on the sports channels, and b.) nothing worth laughing at on the tube. We heart Nova. The other night we learned about the amazing brains of cephalopods: Octopi, squid, and cuttlefish. They problem solve (which is more than I [...]

My new favorite television show last aired more than ten years ago, and the laughs are classic. Doug TiVo’d the Larry Sanders Show for me over the New Year and now I’m an addict. It airs on the Independent Film Channel, which also airs the worst commercials on television. I’ve never seen so many “If [...]

A certain image comes to mind when you hear the words “Ice Ice Baby.” You know what I mean, right? I mean, you were there in the ’80′s too, right? Well, so was Brett Favre. Actually, it seems like he’s been around since the Pioneer Days, but anyway, I caught this video of Brett dancing [...]

This morning a friend texted me to say Merry Christmas and that she read David Sedaris’s essay “Six to Eight Black Men” to her younger brother today. This is my favorite holiday essay (surpassing even Santaland Diaries) and I cannot read it aloud without stopping to cry with laughter. Here’s a taste of the essay, [...]

Hey, so I’m back to blogging. Why? Because it feels good, and these days I’m trying to move with the feel good flow. And … the local radio station played my favorite Flight of the Conchords tune (It’s Business Time) on my way to work this morning and it reminded me that my favorite comedy show of [...]

After a two-week obsession with the Winter Olympics, I’m feeling tired from all that late-night television and a bit cranky with Canada. Honestly, the closing ceremonies put the hoke in the word hockey. How many different ways can you dress people up as Mounties?  Why ever would you use your national police force as Las [...]

I’m giving up watching male figure skating for Lent. It’s really not fair to make fun of them. Honestly, it’s like shooting fish in a barrel (not that I even think shooting fish in a barrel would be that easy, let alone fun to do, but you know what I mean). But before I purge, [...]

After we watched the Winter Olympic opening ceremonies last night, I could hear Doug chuckling spontaneously for a couple of hours. He wasn’t laughing about the technical failures of the torch lighting (anyone who has ever had a powerpoint presentation fail on them right before the presentation feels sorry for all involved). He wasn’t laughing [...]