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The Death of the Author (opens the original)
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The death of the author was suicide. He left some room for interpretation. Chekhov’s gun was fired in that room.Using passive voice. He deserved to be shot just for that. Using passive voice. He left a plot hole and I slipped right through it.Look, anyone, anyone, could have walked in the room — it only had three sides. I’d never break the fourth wall. The fourth wall was never there in the first place. You can take my word for it.He used to call me names in his drafts. And all without giving me
How Standup Is Similar to Gothic Architecture (opens the original)
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My 2024 trip to Barcelona turned out to be one of the most interesting of my life.My trips usually follow a long-familiar script: stay in an Airbnb or a hotel, walk around the city, taste the local cuisine. To be thorough, I check both the tourist attractions and the bumfuck end of the town — to understand the city in both of its incarnations. None of this is bad, but repeated for the umpteenth time, this template gets old. You never run into any dog-headed people, and people everywhere satisfy
Em dashes are fucking amazing (opens the original)
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I fucking love em dashes. I spam them all the time. They make me feel free.I don’t give a shit what the “oh yeah let’s examine this piece of writing with a magnifying glass for any signs of AI” crowd thinks. I don’t give a shit that AI figured out how to produce em dashes before these online troglodytes did. Typing em dashes is not an AGI-complete problem. It’s not that difficult to produce an organic, artisanal, hand-crafted em dash — on Mac, for example, it’s simply Option + Shift + Hyphen.I f
Strip-searched at the Serbian border (opens the original)
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“What is this bottle?” asks the Serbian border control official at the border between Serbia and Montengro.I’m on a bus. Its destination is Belgrade. I intend to perform standup comedy there at an open mic in Serbian language.<source type="ima
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