An excellent collection by Elissa Bassist, who says ““Why are men, taken on average and as a whole, funnier than women?” inquired Christopher Hitchens in “Why Women Aren’t Funny,” Vanity Fair, January 2007. That’s a good question. And by that I mean, fuck you.”
I’m especially fond of “Conversations My Parents Must Have Had While Planning to Raise a Child,” by Jen Statsky:
MOM: I think the most important thing is that we will criticize her, no matter what she does or who she becomes.
DAD: And that she knows we criticize her just as much as we criticize each other.
Grizzly Bear and Feist - “Service Bell” (from Dark Was The Night)
This afternoon at the bookstore, I was attempting to soothe the savage browsers with a calming playlist entitled “Xannie-do.” As this song was finishing up, a pair of impossibly unsweaty middle-aged women brought their Fern Michaels masterpieces to the register and one of them fluttered her hand across her pearl necklace, turned to the other, and said, in a sugary Southern bitch drawl, “My my, doesn’t this sound just like people chanting around campfires and worshipping Satan?”
