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if you’re a silly goon that likes watching cartoons all the time but needs a screen break, but still in need of a laugh. you should pick up a book and read John Swartzwelder - he wrote 59 episodes of The Simpsons and is a 100% surreal and absurd…
Oct 29, 2023
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John Swartzwelder is the funniest writer in the world. I don’t know that I could write about him and do him justice, but he was a longtime Simpsons writer and then started self-publishing books that are so incredibly joke dense it will blow your mind. Here’s a quote from The Time Machine Did It, one of his many books following a strange detective named Frank Burly: “When I first became a detective I had tried solving crimes the way mystery writers do: coming up with the solution to the crime first, then working back to the point where you don't know what the hell is going on. But for some reason every time I tried that I ended up locked in a closet.”
Feb 24, 2022
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saunders, burroughs, sedaris, why not laugh? it’s nice to laugh
Mar 4, 2024
He wrote for the Marx Brothers (and looked like one). His short comedy prose was jaw droppingly verbose but also laugh-out-loud funny, even to someone reading them a good seven or eight decades past their sell-by date.
The Library of America is reprinting a couple of his classics. Crazy Like A Fox is the place to start.
Feb 9, 2024
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promotes positivity
pro tip, dreams don’t always make sense - so when weird/bad stuff happens, you can shrug it off and be like wow what a weird dream bro 🤷
Feb 6, 2024
or don’t, i’m not like your manager telling you do some ”sidework”
for real though service jobs are so crazy
Feb 25, 2024