Benjamin Dreyer

"Hey, you want to know how I can make your joke funnier?"

No.

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And that’s just his immediate family.

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Or over 2,977 of them.

It is yours for the use!

Found it!

I think it was yesterday that @atrupar.com posted a clip of him attempting a joke and absolutely flopping, and it was wonderfully mortifying.

...when all you need is a spoon.

The little face he makes when he thinks he's about to say something funny drives me round the g.d. bend.

(I still can't ever remember that if you take a picture of something on your phone and stretch it out with your fingers it makes it easier to see tiny things.)

I get that he's evil and stupid and alcohol-sodden and all that, but he's also kind of flat-out nuts.

I used to have a whole sheet of various Random House logos-over-the-years, including a haunted house version and one with palm trees, but I seem to have hidden it from myself.

(Keep expanding.)

(It ain't *that* hidden.)

I don't know if Rockwell Kent himself drew this illustration, but it's a charming spin on RK's original.

The title page of the original Random House publication of Sally Benson's novel Meet Me in St. Louis. I don't want to give away the treasure in the alt text, but someone will surely shout it out in the replies soon enough!

Only on my fourth or fifth read of this novel did I see the little easter egg hidden on the title page, and I had to pull out my magnifying glass to be sure it was really there.

Or at least quickly.

South Dakota's "Meth. We're on it" campaign

I'll always remember Kristi Noem for the "Meth. We're on it." campaign.

Oh, this is gonna work out well.

"Well, he's wooooooooorrrrrrrse."

Jesus, shut up.

not especially in the mood today for the sort of stale penny-ante gumball machine cynicism that sludges through this place whenever anything even vaguely good happens, but maybe that's just me

Turns out lawlessness is not a winning strategy. See you at Nuremberg 2.0

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Democrats may not be able to prevent Mullin's confirmation, but they can certainly turn his track record of offense and stupidity into two days of televised humiliation so spectacular that he is wounded in Trump's eyes from day 1. That is the job.

Yikes!

Indeed.

Be Yourself [a plea for authenticity]

fake and misattributed quotes, no, no reason, just on my mind

A picture of a stopwatch that shows 8 minutes and 7 seconds

One fun thing to do at AWP is to start a timer at the beginning of the Q&A section and stop it the first time someone has “more of a comment than a question”

ya do