HeyJaredFrom the Desk of Andre Margatini
Author, teacher, good dude, makes lots of wacky art, bad drawings, social commentateur, capitalism critic. An eccentric, erratic, and downright bizarre newsletter from the desk of Andre Margatini.
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Burn it all down (opens the original)
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I do not use AI. I do use emdashes. AI stole that from me.I’m struggling with this phrase, “The Cornell 7.” It’s not Cornell. It’s not 7. It is most, if not all, colleges and most, if not all, men. It is not an aberration on college campuses, it is a design of them.Thanks for reading From the Desk of Andre Margatini! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.<input class="email-input"
Stand up comedy rewards the wrong truth tellers (opens the original)
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The first time I did stand up comedy I was 17. I was a senior in high school and I wanted to be like Ellen (oops). I had a fundamental misunderstanding of the craft and that’s how I ended up performing a full ten on my first show. It didn’t matter, because the audience were my classmates, and I made them laugh. A lot. In college I tried to keep working at stand up. But I didn’t know how to make strangers laugh. How do you make people laugh if you don’t know them? How do you make people laugh if
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