Can’t stop thinking about how beautiful Wichita Lineman is. it’s awesome that Jimmy Webb wrote a song about an electrician that ends up taking on a kind of mythic power. I really feel the aching and loneliness he describes here. Incredible stuff
(the monarch has just died)
lets raise prayer most Ardent that the next Soverig'n will be a right godly one
(my catholic wife glares at me)
ande thatte they return to the faith catholick
(i see the constable passing by my window)
*sweating*
which is alfo in Truth reformede,
i like to sometimes sneak shakespeare quotes into conversations to sound more smart and sophisticated than i really am but it begins to unravel when you realize they’re all from Hamlet and more specifically all said by Claudius, who i played in tenth grade
stand-up comedy is a form of sadistic abuse. as an audience you are held hostage by the expectation of laughter—you can’t step out of line. they’re watching you.