The Stand-up Comedian Thread
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Please help make Trag's dream of finally meeting an RMer come true
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Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.
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You should go to all of them!tragabigzanda wrote:Well should we go to one?durdencommatyler wrote:I am so totally out of the loop. I haven't been to any of those places.tragabigzanda wrote:Any opinion on this, Durds? The only one I'm really committed to for our trip in October is breakfast at Pondicherri:
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You should totally check out Agern depending on what your budget is. Holy fuck!
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Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.
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Oh shi-tragabigzanda wrote:Ouch. Brutal decline of my offer for a nice meal together.durdencommatyler wrote:You should go to all of them!tragabigzanda wrote:Well should we go to one?durdencommatyler wrote:I am so totally out of the loop. I haven't been to any of those places.tragabigzanda wrote:Any opinion on this, Durds? The only one I'm really committed to for our trip in October is breakfast at Pondicherri:
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Damn, man. I'm sorry. I thought you were asking where you and your wife should go. I'm an ass.
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Why doesn't anyone want to hang out with Trag?!?
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I'll totally hang out with him.
Actually, we should go to the Comedy Cellar!
Actually, we should go to the Comedy Cellar!
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I'm super bummed that I'm not going to get to see Lament. AGAIN. 
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Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.
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Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.
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Watching Tom Segura's Mostly Stories. So good.
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Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.
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I want to be Norm MacDonald when I grow up.
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