We’re back from our long TCAF-induced hiatus! In this episode, we talk about organizing get-togethers with multiple friends, the double-edged sword of “reply all,” and then Holly goes into a fugue state talking about her color-coded calendars. Enjoy!
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With adulthood comes experience; with experience comes better and more coping skills.
Thanks, adulthood!
May 31st through June 3rd is going to be the best best best ever birthday long weekend. Here’s what’s going on:
May 31: MaxFunDinner, an intimate dinner with Con presenters, MaxFun personalities and top MaxFun donors. Last year Hodgman stole food off my plate LIKE A BOSS.
Also May 31: I get to go to an art museum and see my own work in there. How lucky am I? I don’t even! I just! It’s like!
June 1-3: MaxFunCon. Doy. We all know how badass that’s going to be.
June 3: Frank has a birthday surprise for me and I think my friends are invited and he said I have to dress like a birthday princess?
June 4: actual birthday, and I’ll go to work. But honestly that’s cool, because I’m gonna have 4 solid days of literally TOO MUCH HEAVEN and a girl can only have so much fun. And work isn’t so bad, anyway.
UGH. 9 days away.
I run in a few circles, and comedy is one I’m on the fringe of. I don’t feel surprised when someone makes a joke out of a celebrity’s death, but that doesn’t mean I can’t feel annoyed or even a bit disgusted. What I’m trying to say is this:
When I’m down I turn to the BeeGees to get me back to myself. The BeeGees saw me through some rough financial/emotional times, and they helped me paint my new apartment when I came out alive on the other side. They even nursed a couple of my first broken hearts. So Robin Gibb’s recent passing makes me feel loss. Why is cracking a joke an acceptable thing to do nowadays when a human being dies?
If you’re going to joke, at least give the man the courtesy of forming something more clever than “guess he isn’t ‘Stayin’ Alive’ any longer.” Because yes, I actually read that somewhere.
doug:
Source: dougAndy Daly at MaxFunCon 2011
As Jerry O’Hearn, a parody of hack comedians.This is still one of my favorite comedy moments from last year.
In less than two weeks we meet again on the mountain, MaxFunCon 2012 begins, and we’ll make some s’mores with Maria Bamford and John Hodgman (this is a video I forgot I made).
Today I invented a new rule: if the person you’re thinking about doesn’t love comedy or making awesome things, find a better person to think about.
doug:
Source: dougThe trip up or down the mountain to MaxFunCon is filled with peril.
Thick fog, sharp turns, zero opportunity to turn back, and child-ghosts are only a few of the challenges that ensure that only the strongest and bravest of us live to return the next year.
This video from our good friend Aaron illustrates only some of the terror I wish you to endure with us next year. I promise that this isn’t even half as bad as the danger gets, but I wouldn’t even mention it if I doubted you’d survive.
Survival, in addition to becoming more powerful than ever, is our yearly reward.
I’ve been thinking about feminism and all I’ve gained from it today. And this reminded me: hey remember when it was weird for women to be educated? It’s pretty cool how I have a college education and a job and a car (which I also legally drive) and my own bank account and the right to vote and a husband I married for love instead of property. Sutematsu Oyama, you go girl!
Source: fuckyeahhistorycrushesSutematsu Oyama, the first Japanese woman to earn a college degree, a strong supporter of women’s education, a prominent social figure and also quite lovely.
