The Most Important Part of Comedy
June 29th, 2025I’m sure you all knTIMING!
Just now a friend pinged me to ask if I might like to play a game, and I was amidst typing my affirmative reply when my Internet immediately gave out. I am trying to appreciate the humor of this event as I might if saw it happen to some hapless schmo in a movie, and not get too hung up on the fact that I am the hapless* schmo.
This I find is a generally useful strategy for life, although obviously it’s much easier to implement with something small like missed messages, and somewhat harder to implement when the pipe in your second-floor bathroom has burst while you’re away on vacation and has flooded your entire house.
Somewhere between those two extremes lies my difficulty with insomnia, which I am laughing off as best as I can** in my latest column.
Also a general political statement: This blog believes*** people are people, so if you have persuadable governmental representatives (or are one), I encourage you to advocate for laws which treat people as people and support public goods which all people can enjoy. Relevant here and now, but also everywhere and always.
It’s like that old joke:
How many interrupting comedians does it take to scrTIMING!
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* Does anywhere sell discount haps? Maybe in Hapsburg?
** My old basement was filled with dangerous material, which I laughed off asbestos I can.
*** If corporations are people, my blog can have beliefs.