Pete's Candy Store tonight
If you were vacillating about attending tonight's show, you may wish to know that the show will involve:
Monday Evening Stand-Up at Pete's
TONIGHT: Monday, April 23rd
Pete's Candy Store, 709 Lorimer St. in Williamsburg
7:30-8:45pm
Free candy, no cover!
Featuring Omar Beer (Laugh Lounge's "funniest lawyer"), Oleg Boksner, Eliza Faria-Santos, Charlie Kasov, and Ross Hyzer.
- poking gentle fun at Ohioans
- jokes about school shootings
- and at least one mention of Oliver Cromwell and the Interregnum
Monday Evening Stand-Up at Pete's
TONIGHT: Monday, April 23rd
Pete's Candy Store, 709 Lorimer St. in Williamsburg
7:30-8:45pm
Free candy, no cover!
Featuring Omar Beer (Laugh Lounge's "funniest lawyer"), Oleg Boksner, Eliza Faria-Santos, Charlie Kasov, and Ross Hyzer.
posted by JenIsFamous at 4/23/2007 11:23:00 AM
3 Comments:
Anyone making jokes about what happened at VA Tech should be. . .
If you were telling (or are condoning) jokes about school shootings a week after 33 innocents lost their lives in the worst spree massacre in our nation's history, may I suggest that you think about changing your name to Jenisimus?
For once, you disappoint me, Jen. I thought you knew better.
Perhaps publicly ridiculing the gunman is the absolute best thing we could be doing right now.
People worry that the continued publicity he and his videos receive will simply glorify him and his actions, making copy-cat crimes seem even more attractive to all those other crazy people out there. The more we all sit around in quiet circles and call his videos "disturbing" and "chilling" the more we grant him, posthumously, the power he sought when he made the damn videos. I say we make it very clear to everyone who can hear us, that no one is impressed by the guy. He was, and always will be, sad and pathetic, not an image of power or revenge. I think it is the responsibility of anyone who is capable, to make him look like the complete waste of flesh and oxygen that he really was.
I strongly believe that every change we make in our lives as a result of this gunman, is a small victory for him. I live right outside D.C. and I was here during the infamous sniper shootings. Everyone here was refusing to pump gas and if they absolutely had to, they were literally ducking behind their cars and running in zig-zagging patterns to make themselves more difficult targets to hit. To me this seemed absolutely cowardly and it simply feeds the criminals.
When I pumped gas during the sniper shootings fiasco, I leaned on the side of my car. There are literally millions of us in the area, the chances of me getting shot are extremely low. So I refused to let anyone see me yielding power to the criminals in the form of fear. If we decrease "terrorist's" holds on us by refusing to be terrified, what do they have left?
If we let this tragedy change us, we give him the power for which he was reaching. And doing that will prove to other would-be gunmen that Cho's choices got him exactly what he wanted and that we will all easily bow down to anyone willing to resort to violence. And that is a scary thought.
We should be honoring the memories of the lost, and intentionally turning Cho's memory into a pathetic joke that no one would want to emulate.
And if I am gunned down this afternoon, I hope my killer and I end up in a joke on the fuckin Daily Show and John Stewart has millions laughing at my gunman's sad little existence.
Having actually heard and seen the jokes as performed, might I just say: not only was it amusing, but it was a pretty damn good point.
Have we ever seen an incident of personal retribution where the perpetrater actually paused to consider how history might record his or her actions, worked on that, and then continued? In a f-ing multimedia slideshow?!
Bizzare, the modern mindset. Absolutely bizzare.
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