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Anthony Jeselnik

This is the best young comedian I’ve heard in a long time. His album Shakespeare is fantastic. He’s basically the anti-Mitch Hedberg. Every off beat thought of Hedberg’s was goofy and endearing, Jesenik’s mind

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2001 a dating history

2001 was a weird year for me. I moved there to do bankruptcy arbitrage for a friend of mine. Unfortunately, his main holding was a company that went bankrupt about a week after I

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How ancient I feel

We didn’t have shuffle in my day. When you wanted to shuffle a vinyl LP, you’d have to drop a really heavy book on the floor.

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Apple owns me

I’m pretty sure I have accepted thousands and thousands of pages of Apple documents without reading a single word. Something tells me that soon we will all be Steve Jobs’ slaves. He’ll say, “Look

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Me used to write smart

I just found something I wrote in 1994 about my profession as a trader. I don’t even remember writing it, but can tell that it is mine. Wow, I used to be way smarter

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Monkee Drumming!

I was reading a top ten list of the greatest drummers of all time, and I saw in the comment section someone joke that Mickey Dolenz of the Monkees was the worst drummer ever.

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This Year Sucks So Far

“Good morning, Pooh Bear,” said Eeyore gloomily. “If it is a good morning,” he said. “Which I doubt,” said he. “Why, what’s the matter?” “Nothing, Pooh Bear, nothing. We can’t all, and some of

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Please let this not be true

If you asked me about the two issues I care most about politically, my answer would be censorship and teen pregnancy. I thought MTV’s show “16 and Pregnant” was actually a decent public service

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The Law of Corporate Christmas Parties

I’ve actually been to some really good company Christmas parties, but there hasn’t ever been one where at least half of the employees there weren’t saying “Couldn’t they have just paid us the amount

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