What the funny kids are posting

Joanne Casey and the kids over at Tastefully Offensive Tumblr never fall short to help me laugh.

 

Here are a few of their posts in one place to brighten your Thursday.

Sometimes you have to use a decoy

 

School test reads, “Do not write your essay  on this page.” Someone wrote beneath it, “Your essay.” 

Funny some ecard reads, “I was so drunk last night at the bar, when I walked across the dance floor to get another drink, I won the dance competition.” 

Graffiti of a sort of swastika looking thing got a smiley face head. Reads, “I like to touch-up the graffiti found in my school bathrooms.” 

The Moon pulling down his pants using a 2500mm lens. 

 

 

Dropping the kids off at the pool. The Log Lady says, “I carry a log – yes. Is it funny to you?”

 

I’m a huge fan of the old series Twin Peaks.

Here is one of my favorite quotes:

I carry a log – yes. Is it funny to you? It is not to me. Behind all things are reasons. Reasons can even explain the absurd. Do we have the time to learn the reasons behind the human being’s varied behavior? I think not. Some take the time. Are they called detectives? Watch – and see what life teaches.

I saw this over at Joanne Casey’s blog.

 

 

Wherefore art thou, Dale Cooper?

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I’m rewatching the two sessions of Twin Peaks on Netflix streaming, and it is just as good or better than when I left it 15 years ago. The show is horrifying, and razor sharp in its writing.

The show shaped a view of the world that I might not have noticed otherwise. Of course there’s a spirituality to the show that is neither here nor there.

But there’s an element of “real life” to the show. When I’m in public, I get excited when I see the same faces. I even name them or give them nicknames. And when I see them, I excitedly say, “There’s Crack Lady!” And there’s Asian hat guy!

While watching the show, you can’t help but say, “There’s log lady!” or “There’s Curtain Lady!” or “There’s the one-armed man!”

It’s a great show.

Here are a couple quotes that I noticed and wanted to write down for later:

“Harry, I’m going to let you in on a little secret. Every day, once a day, give yourself a present. Don’t plan it, don’t wait for it, just let it happen. Could be a new shirt at the men’s store, a catnap in your office chair, or two cups of good, hot, black coffee. Like this.”  -Dale Cooper

And this one:

It’s usual in cases of strangulation for the victim to void his bowels.

Let it be written, let it be said, I not only miss Dale Cooper, I miss practically every character on that old show.

Two more recommendations

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Yesterday I dropped some movie recommendations and avoid-a-mendations. Read them here.

I thought of two more recommendations.

• The Godless Girl. It’s Cecille B. DeMille’s 1929 (mostly) silent film about the atheist vs. Christian debate from a 1929 perspective. It was released right on the cusp of talkies, so there are a couple sound scenes in the movie. The perspective is pro-religion, and if you’re not religious, you should be violently persuaded to think otherwise. It’s interesting to see how they try to stuff god’s loving message into the most violent, unappetizing, highest level of scare tactics available. Not to mention, there is a blog written by “Godless Girl.” I’m pretty sure it’s the girl from the movie and Satan is keeping her alive 80 years later to further his diabolical message. Not really. I know Godless Girl. She’s a local, and really quite cool. Her blog is great. Her tweets are good too.
• Twin Peaks the TV show. The gods of netflix have answered one of my many atheist prayers, and that’s to make Twin Peaks available via their streaming service. When I was in 11th grade,  I would race home and watch “my story,” which was the demonically great David Lynch psycho soap opera about the subsequent events that happen after the death of a local school girl named Laura Palmer. On the surface it’s a parody of daytime soap operas, but the horror (and the plot) is better than most horrors available even now.  The story lines were rich with incredible characters. I remember going to bed terrified more often than necessary. And each cliffhanging episode ended with me standing their screaming at the TV. Okay, maybe I wasn’t screaming. But I would stand there tugging on my hair wishing for time travel into the next Thursday’s time slot.  Tina and I have been rewatching the series, and it’s incredible. It still holds its weight in greatness, and if it weren’t for a few bad costume decisions, some of the makeup and wardrobe are timeless and beautiful. It’s the kind of show that makes you think, “If David Lynch produced the bible, it might have given it some better street cred.”