we are the real topeka people we have been waiting for

We’re in the bay for Clus­ter­fest this week­end and I popped over to check out night one to catch the Sarah Sil­ver­man and friends set. 

There’s a great bit in Mel Brooks’ His­to­ry of the World Part I where, in Ro­man times, there’s a bazaar of dif­fer­ent prophets and heretics and goof­balls and Mel him­self takes to a soap­box as a self-de­scribed “stand-up philoso­pher.”

Now, how much of that was in­ten­tion­al­ly a tossed off joke meant to map a mod­ern role onto an an­cient one is be­yond the scope of what I’m up to here but there’s still a lot of truth in­side it. 

Stand-up comics can help us sort out and make sense of truths too un­com­fort­able to just square up on. 

And right now that’s ex­act­ly what we need. I think any­way. It cer­tain­ly helped me.

Also I’ve had a lot of drinks.

Ok bye.
 
 

—ja­son malmberg

Flom­mist Ja­son Malm­berg is a sim­ple man who be­lieves in brown liquor and small dogs. He also makes art some­times. Copy­right © 2017 Ja­son Malmberg.

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