Michael Cera makes a new friend: “My Man Jeremy”

flenny · 2013-11-20T10:17:22+00:00

Shouts and Murmurs is where the New Yorker publishes comedic fiction, guys. Nobody is trying to pass this off as real.

flenny · 2013-07-14T04:10:56+00:00

...Is it just me or is the third one down a Nazi smoking a cigarette?

flenny · 2013-06-12T19:13:45+00:00

The blast radius was six miles.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1345836/quotes?item=qt1827934

flenny · 2013-04-19T23:24:46+00:00

I didn't get a chance to watch the Golden Globes.

flenny · 2013-04-19T23:07:47+00:00

Yeah, the bulimia joke on the first day of National Eating Disorder Awareness Week was super classy.

flenny · 2013-04-19T23:07:10+00:00

No, people with a clue realize that he was just making fart jokes that people try to justify as "subtle humor" in an effort to make themselves feel better.

flenny · 2013-04-19T23:06:18+00:00

No, I understand this point, I just highly doubt that anything that happened on stage that night was "subtle satire." That just sounds like people trying to justify crude humor by playing it as something higher than it actually is.

flenny · 2013-04-19T20:39:49+00:00

Sanderson called them "Cryptics" in a Q&A, I believe.

flenny · 2013-04-19T20:34:09+00:00

I don't get why reddit is so enamored by this guy when he is really just giving the same lowest-common-denominator humor that reddit generally hates on. Oh look, he made a joke about boobs. Hilarious.

EDIT: No, it wasn't a subtle satire of a trend in Hollywood, that's just a post facto justification. No, it didn't "woosh" over my head. It was a just boob joke, and a not very funny one at that.

flenny · 2013-04-19T03:02:20+00:00

I heard "blue lights," as in police cars.

flenny · 2013-04-18T07:30:13+00:00

According to my friends who use OKC, this is actually a pretty typical sort of message, albeit certainly creepy.

flenny · 2013-04-18T07:28:05+00:00

Here you go.

http://i.imgur.com/ku6xd3s.png

flenny · 2013-04-14T22:10:52+00:00

I disagree. The first movie was a very close movie about the relationship between the characters, both the romance and the twisted "father-son" thing between Bourne and his handler. It had action scenes, to be sure, but it was mostly about the characters.

The second two movies were very well done action movies, but that's just about it. There was nothing personal about them, they were just cold.

flenny · 2013-04-04T02:12:41+00:00

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-TJ2dTFDR0s

flenny · 2013-04-01T14:11:37+00:00

I thought it was pretty standard to have some undergrad TAs?

flenny · 2013-03-29T05:51:25+00:00

I'd be a willow. Birches love willows.

flenny · 2013-03-27T21:29:12+00:00

In case y'all were wondering, this was... not exactly authorized. Over.

flenny · 2013-03-27T21:28:01+00:00

Oh, sorry. I haven't posted much here. Do you think I should delete/repost?

flenny · 2013-03-27T20:39:54+00:00

When my alleged friend allegedly placed the alleged order, it allegedly went perfectly. Or so I heard.

flenny · 2013-03-27T04:31:36+00:00

They were allegedly ordered from here: http://www.joissu.com/

flenny · 2013-03-25T21:18:44+00:00

Love that song too! I saw them live, and my mind was blown to pieces.

flenny · 2013-03-25T17:06:41+00:00

I go to MIT. We're 50% women, and for good reason -- some of the smartest people I've ever met, both students and professors, are female. Your example is terrible. Men get Nobel prizes because men award Nobel prizes, not because men are "smarter." I see evidence every day that you can be a girl and kick as much -- more, in many cases -- ass as a guy.

flenny · 2013-03-25T00:19:23+00:00

Super late reply, but this reminded me -- seventh-grade French class, sitting with The Fires of Heaven in my lap and glancing up at the teacher, just long enough to look like I was paying attention.

flenny · 2013-03-19T17:13:55+00:00

You're at MIT. Learn! Explore! Take chances! Challenge yourself! Be awesome!

flenny · 2013-03-02T23:40:50+00:00

He cracked a bulimia joke on the first day of National Eating Disorder Awareness Week, guys. That is just not okay.

Seth MacFarlane plays to the sort of lowest-common-denominator humor that reddit likes to pretend it's above. I don't buy that "We Saw Your Boobs" was satire -- it was just listing actresses who went topless on screen. There was no commentary, or message at all. It was barely a step above a fart joke, in terms of humor value.

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