Real philosophy is like trying to read an alarm system installation manual in Korean.
Growing up in the 70s and 80s, it took effort to be a nerd. You had to seek out the nerd stuff.
It changed my whole outlook. I lost a decade to self-pity, and the next thing I knew I was turning 40.
I’ve always had a fondness for that satirical, Terry Gilliam – esque evil corporate megastructure, the kind of business that hangs banners that say making your life better as it throws kittens into the gears.
Every year on my birthday, I start a new playlist titled after my current age so I can keep track of my favorite songs of the year as a sort of musical diary because I am a teenage girl.
When comedians get successful, the fans that they have aren’t the fans they would hang out with. I don’t have that problem.
There’s a lot of laughing on a horror movie set. They’re magical in that way.
I do podcasts for the same reasons I do stand-up comedy. I love it, and I don’t care if anybody else gets it.
It’s so much easier to give advice than to take it.
The goal of almost every comic is to find a comedy voice – a specific point of view that an audience can latch onto.
I love the South. Although I grew up primarily in Memphis, my family moved around a ton when I was a kid. I guess I never stayed in one place long enough to pick up the accent, but I definitely identify as a Southerner.
What’s more unnerving than magnetism, ghosts, and unpurified water? Gadgetmongers who purport to protect us from metaphysical monsters that go bump in the New Age night.
Fleetwood Mac is just one of my all-time favorite bands.
I’m fascinated by people’s process. Everyone’s process is a little bit different, and just to see the different paths that people take to get where they are is really interesting to me.
There’s no ironic appreciation of things we love, even of things that are in fact ridiculous, which a hipster might take and own and show the world the humor in it.
There are certain parts of a classic nerd’s brain that can destroy that person – obsessing about things to the detriment of everything else in your life. But those are the same tools that you can use to turn everything around.
When you first start working, you take whatever job is offered, because you have to build your resume. But you don’t think about what you’re building.
I dated around some, but I’ve always been a serial monogamist. I don’t know how people date around a lot, and not want to stab themselves in the face with a sharp object.
Rats are just Ziploc bags full of disease.
Do you think Patrick Swayze now goes up behind people in pottery classes and hugs them just to crack up other ghosts?