just checking in
I wanna make sure
you aren't reading anything as negative
ya know
I feel like
that's something I should do
I'm feeling
pretty good
I'm having some coffee
with califia pumpkin creamer
it's made with almonds and coconut
it's very fall
and the weather is cooler
I love fall
I mean
that's pretty common
but I don't care
I love it
good morning sweetheart
I'm going to narrate this because I'm getting ready for work and if I sit down and start writing then what's going to happen is I'm going to end up being late to work
I was going through female comedians last night and I was finding that like I couldn't find anybody I thought was funny except for Ali Wong who I've already mentioned I thought was hysterically funny so but I had some theories about why I thought she was so funny to me
and so I examine some earlier videos before she did her special and she wasn't nearly as funny so my theories for me for what I thought was funny bore out is that it had more to do with her expressions and her modulation of her voice and her eye contact with the audience but it had to do with what she was actually saying because a lot of what she was talking about of the kind of things that I normally do not find funny since it's about bodily functions which I generally do not find funny
and in the earlier videos that I saw that were like appearances on shows talk show late night stuff sorry she didn't do that stuff she just talked about you know marriage and getting married and entrapment and that kind of stuff and I normally I don't find that stuff funny either and I didn't on her late night shows like I would never have said oh that Ali Wong she's hysterical from the late night shows
but I mean and I could have liked all those things and write you a big long note about that but that just didn't seem worthwhile. I didn't think you would particularly enjoy that and if I didn't explain it all then it might have made you very confused thinking that that was somehow a message to you right
So then I found Margaret Cho and I guess she worked on that show fresh off the boat with Ali Wong because I'm pretty sure that's Ali Wong show to. And I have watch Margaret Cho since I don't know about 21 years ago or whatever it was that she was popular before and I always liked her I don't know if I would have said oh my God she's the funniest person ever but I saw I've seen some of her stand-up that I thought was pretty funny strangely some of that was about bodily humor too. So maybe I like bottled humor if it's done the right way she had this thing where she was in traffic in LA and she had a coffee in a bran muffin and she ended up shooting herself in the car and it was pretty funny. 2 really it just said too and I said so.
To the Margaret Cho video apparently I don't say so that sounds like so it's not so much that it was hysterically funny as that it did two things it was a female comedian that was not about sex or indeed guys at all well she does mention that thing about Asian women and Jewish men and I wish that wasn't in there cuz I don't really approve of that but it was the only I think it was the only thing she did in there that was about guys so I let it slide. but I mean some of the stuff I was watching I really did not like at all did not think it was funny and it was just kind of gross it in some of the Amy Schumer stuff was kind of making me feel really uncomfortable and anyway I didn't have all night but I had watched a bunch of videos and that was one that I was like okay well that's funny enough and doesn't offend me too much.
I thought it was really interesting because she does use facial expression a little bit but mostly she's got this completely deadpan expressionless face. And she does use her body when she shows the tattoos and stuff but that's more for some sort of shock value then it is actually funny I think.
So that's my explanation of why I like that video and it's not any kind of like secret coded message about Asian women and Jews that you're supposed to pick up definitely not if I could have edited that part out I would have edited it out but the problem with Mike and things is sometimes you have to like things that you don't completely like anyway I love you and I hope that was not confusing to you and did not make you think that I want you to go get an Asian woman so you can get through the desert quicker.
I love you sweetheart good morning
Okay I just had a dream and I'm dictating it I have one of those dreams where I'm in a final and I'm not prepared for but instead of freaking out I did something about it
So it was an anthropology final and I knew enough that I maybe could have bullshitted my way through it but I didn't want to do that because I love anthropology
so I was on like a time thing for the test and rather than sitting down and bullshiting my way through the test I drove back to where the professor was thereby ensuring that I was not going to get any grade on the test because I wasn't spending any time working on it and I went to the professor and I said look I have not done a good job on this studying preparing for the test because I have let my life and the things I had to do and the things I didn't have to do but good anyway interfere with my focus on this subject
And I used to be really good but I've been out of college for a while and what I would very much like to do just get an incomplete on this course and take it again and dedicate the focus that I need to make this work because I'm good at this and I think I want to be an anthropologist
And the omniscient narrator of the dream had the professor talking to other professors and they were saying while she used to be really awesome before and the professor was saying I don't see it now and they were like well I don't know
So I don't know what the professors going to say but I cared enough about it to risk total failure to try to do a good job and that was different than I've ever had one of those dreams be cuz they were always just about freaking out
So I don't know what that means I don't think it means I should go back to school and become an anthropologist
I don't really see how it has anything to do with us although maybe I'm just not seeing it yet
but I guess it definitely has to do with my attitude and maybe the most important thing is to have that dream go differently you know what I mean rather than it being a stress dream it was about changing it up I'm saying it's never too late to take ownership and fix something you really care about
Maybe
Anyway that was a dream that was pretty intense and this test was amazing it was it was like this hide that was rolled up and it had all these little sculptures you would have like six sculptures and say which was which of these would you rather find and why or you know something like that it was it was intense it was awesome just looking at the test made me want to study anthropology harder and better and usually those tests are math and I would look at him and just be like I don't know what any of this is but this was like well you know I kind of could bulshit my way through this I know a little bit but I want to know it all who is amazing
and the thing that was counting down the test I mean it was like something in my car was plugged into something and that was I don't know but it was this represented by the circle of like raffia and the circle was counting down from the white raffia to read and so as I'm driving I'm watching this raffia like turn red like it was you no account down kind of thing it was amazing he was amazing and such an amazing dream
goodnight sweetheart
I love you very much
I've been sleeping during the day
yesterday and today
like
napping
I never do that
not unless I'm sick
so
idk I might be depressed
I had a cool dream though
I drove all around this like grid
and
I like ran my hands through this music
and there were two emails
people wanted me
and I was trying to explain to this woman
with a stack of blankets
and the nay-sayer man hanging around
how I was magic
and God said yes
I was still on assignment
but
some stuff was changing
and things were gonna lighten up for me
I'm not clear what that means
but
it made me feel better
she looked at the apparent stranger
not meeting her eyes
not even briefly
though surely he knew she was there
and she thought
there's something really wrong with the thoughts I'm having right now
he'd lost weight
so she looked him up and down
checking for signs of illness
but
there didn't seem to be any
so
she relaxed
and really looked at him
he was lanky
and she felt like every time she saw him
she was visually feeling his thighs
estimating the volume
once he'd seemed thinner
he'd seemed a crazy frenchman then
she hadn't been sure she was comfortable with that
that kind of wild-eyed lean-ness
but
now
this here
this was more a hank-williams-alter-ego inspired lanky-ness
she looked him up and down again
this
here
now
she decided
was the perfect lanky-ness
this was attracting her
she sighed inwardly
she didn't actually believe he found her all that attractive
and she didn't feel all that pretty
not that pretty was something she really aspired to, but she thought that's what he liked
hard to say, really
it seemed wrong
for her to like him lanky
when she was fat
but
attraction doesn't work like that
it's not all equal opportunity
besides, it's not like she wouldn't still
be attracted to him if he ballooned up
like the Michelin tire man
she was attracted to him
she'd been a little bit smaller when he met her
which she wasn't sure he remembered
but not much
but
she thought he was intrigued by her, personally
which should be better
and it was
kinda
but also
she kinda wanted the full apple
wait
is that a fucking suspender
she was momentarily
spinning
not like yo granpa suspender
hipster?!
no
actually
it seemed to be practically holding up pants
and
might not even have been
intended as a suspender
by it's creator
ok
so now
it was taking on a little
like
Leatherman edge
I wish he would just look at me
I'd much rather drown in his eyes
I had in pleasant dreams though
I dreamed that instead of driving a car I had some sort of a motorcycle type thing but with giant like 18 wheeler type wheels
And I kept having problems with people stealing bits off of it
So I was parking at like inside convenience stores and things like that
But then I would go into the convenience store to get my vehicle and the tire should be like all blown out or the engine would be stripped
And it would be like really dude to whoever was behind the counter and they be like
I don't know
It was very strange I don't know what that means
and that was the older dream then there was another dream that I just had
But strangely I can't remember that one
So I'm not sure what to think
Still have that headache too
It's worse though it's almost like my migraine level
not quite
Okay I've overslept and I'm running really late so I'm going to record this so it's going to be all wonky I dreamed
There was something about a contest that was weird no phrase completion
And I was sure I was going to win but then somehow I didn't get it interred in time
But then maybe the first contest was something else and I was sure I was going to win I don't know it's not a hundred percent clear now
So that was the one
And then there was the sentence completion 1 and I was looking at a billboard that was next to the railroad track and it went on for a really long time and it was like it had already been completed because I missed it somehow either I didn't know what it was or I didn't get it in in time or something
But it was something like 17 bottles
Of beer on the wall I don't know but 17 bottles was something to do with the sentence completion and then
Maybe you and your family were there and we were talking about it I'm not sure
