For a future actress/comedian, befriending a bunch of drama geeks seems like a fairly credible turning point--it's the sort of circumstance that helps a kid realize that there's something she can actually do with all that hilariousness, that people value. Maybe otherwise she would be a talented and hardworking writer, or teacher, or something.
It's more credible than the hot soup story, anyway.
Adam Carolla comes off as pretty funny in that story. Normally he bugs me.
1: I dunno. It just rang to me like "This is how a hilarious, awkward person survives high school" and not so cause-and-effect as she paints it.
I think, in her case, it's a modesty move. She's over-the-top humble, although I didn't find it annoying.
I haven't read the book, but I did enjoy her Prayer for a Daughter.
In Tina Fey's case, it might be hard work and talent, but you don't get to be Ton Loc famous without that plus some kind of extra special luck.
you don't get to be Ton Loc famous without that plus some kind of extra special luck funky cold Medina.
And I've been hearing that in my head since I read the post. Stupid long term memory without a "delete."
Apparently Ton Loc went on to be a well-used voice over guy. He was the shark in those Trident commercials around the time he was on Lovelines, and had done a bunch of other stuff.
His rap career did seem lucky, though.
Speaking of voice over guys, I would not have guessed that Mark Hamill was the voice of Fire Lord Ozai in The Last Airbender.
Hmm. Lots of people befriend drama geeks. Not everyone siezes the opportunities and lessons that affords and runs with 'em.
Women who dont take credit for stuff really annoy me. You're not helping! Goddamn fundamental attribution error gender disparity.
Normally I wouldn't bother with this, but it's starting to make me twitch. It's Tone Loc (technically Lōc, but that's kind of a pain).
It did look off to me, now that you point that out.
Ton Loc is his morbidly obese cousin.
Zip Loc is his cousin who suffocated.
Hem Loc is his cousin who corrupted the youth by introducing the worship of strange gods.
His sister Ness Loc has been putting up with stupid jokes at doctors' offices for years.
It just rang to me like "This is how a hilarious, awkward person survives high school" and not so cause-and-effect as she paints it.
I didn't read it as so clearly cause-and-effect. It struck me more like "these are some funny stories about funny nerd people I hung out with, stories that happen to fit into my whole drama geek narrative quite nicely."
While the book has the structure of an autobiography, the things she writes about are clearly chosen for their humor value at least as much as their revelation about Tina Fey's life.
19 is true. It wasn't a huge thing. It may have just been an editor's framing that reminded me of the Tone Loc Trap in a few spots.
Matt Loc was his cousin who spent most of the 90s grifting the poor-sighted elderly.
Pop and Loc is his cousin back up dancer.
I'm in the middle of the book, and while I'm enjoying it, and laughing out loud at it fairly regularly, I am wishing it didn't have the structure it does. It's not satisfying as an autobiography - I don't feel like I'm learning that much about Tina Fey - and it seems like a lot of the themes ("gays I knew in high school" or "absurd things I did to achieve a modicum of make-out time") could be funnier as stand-alone essays.
Why is "hilarious person hangs out with hilarious and awesome people" supposed to be a story of "surviving" high school?
Women who dont take credit for stuff really annoy me.
This seems reasonable. At the same time, men who take sole credit for their life outcomes are really, really annoying.
What about men who take credit for women's life outcomes?
I wonder if she wanted to do it as an autobiography, or if the publisher was like, "no, no, let me tell you what sells." Tina Fey has always struck me as justifiably guarded about her personal life. I mean, as long as she's been TINA FEY.
Also, things I'd like to see: a movie written by and starring Tina Fey, Amy Poehler, Kristen Wiig, and Anna Faris. Bonus points for Rose Byrne (really completely unexpectedly funny in first 5 minutes of Get Him To The Greek) and, now, bc of whoever reminded me of her existence the other day, Rosamund Pike. And Lizzie Caplan.
Get on that, hollywood.
Throw Aisha Tyler in there, too, while we're at it. Chop chop!
Isn't there a movie coming out that seems very close to 29, but with the uncomfortably girly premise of "Bridesmaids"?
Ugh, Kristen Wiig. I am so tired of her, and I don't even watch SNL that much. She's in like every other sketch playing the same character. That's much more the writers' fault than hers, but I've yet to be impressed with her.
Bonus points for Rose Byrne
You can almost see her bonus points here.
I've been here too long when I look at the link in 33 and think "That's Apo's type."
I suppose it would be asking too much if some of the people in 29 could also make out with each other.
35: You'd think it wouldn't hurt, but our HR department has issues with that kind of thing.
I enjoyed this fairly recent interview of Fey on Freshhhhhhhhhhhh AIIIIIIIR. And she's a Wahoo, though it seems her post-U.Va. time at Second City was more influential at bringing out Teh Funny than was her time studying theater at Mr. Jefferson's U.
34: Do I have a type? I've generally considered myself an equal-opportunity dirty old man.
Do I have a type? I've generally considered myself an equal-opportunity dirty old man.
The type is "revealingly dressed".
39: Rose Byrne is very Mary-Louise Parker in that photo, who you've swooned over before.
I suppose it would be asking too much if some of the people in 29 could also make out with each other.
Again, when I run a studio, this will be a major plot point. Making out is not a plot, you say? Ha. Ha! I'll show you plot. And it will involve making out.
And I think Kristen Wiig often rises above the material she's given, which is why I'm kinda interested to see what she does with her own stuff. I think she may have had a hand in writing Bridesmaids? I mean. I'll be going to see it, girlyness or no. Even if it looked terrible (which it doesn't), I'd kind of feel obligated to go on the "advancing women in comedy" front.
Also, Apo: well done.
Um. Who doesn't swoon over Mary Louise Parker?
I seem to have assimilated "Mary Louise Parker" to Julia Louis-Dreyfus.
I always confuse the names of Mary Louise Parker and Mary Stuart Masterson.
Rose Byrne is very Mary-Louise Parker in that photo
Hmm, I suppose she is. Also in that type: Mia Sara.
Yes, Sloane Peterson was definitely crush worthy. Also notable? She has a kid with the son of Sean Connery, and another kid with the son of Jim Henson. She gave birth to a buddy comedy as envisioned by Terry Gilliam.
I used to play in a two-piece band called The Make-Out Twins. We weren't actually twins, and we never made out. What I'm saying is, we probably would have been a great disappointment do donaq, so it's for the best that we broke up.
If you have Jim Henson's child, does it come out half made of felt?
And what do you have to do to make it talk?
Hmm, so is Rose Byrne related in any way to John Byrne?
If you mean John Byrne the comics guy, probably distantly at most, as they were born in different countries.
12, 26: Today's xkcd seems a propos.
58 - Emmy Noether is the radness, but she had tons of men (including David Hilbert, the most important mathematician in Germany, and her father, whose classes she was teaching for a while there) going to bat for her; her struggles more a statement on the hidebound nature of the German university at her time. Where's the love for Rosalind Franklin? (I'm sure I'm just saying this because I love Noether and hate XKCD.)
48: I always confuse the names of Mary Louise Parker and Mary Stuart Masterson.
I have the same problem with Bloody Mary and Mary, Queen of Scots.
Goddammit does the patriarchy suck balls.
Goddammit does the patriarchy suck balls.
The Oppressor Defeating Himself, [School of] Peter Paul Rubens, oil on canvas, 1612-14. Gift of the Unfogged Foundation.
Emmy Noether is the radness
How much would it cost to have a bunch of billboards all over the place say this?
I have the same problem with Bloody Mary and Mary, Queen of Scots.
When I was a kid some people I knew attempted to introduce a drink called Mary Queen of Scots, which was whisky and tomato juice. The attempt lasted less than 24 hours, for reasons which will be apparent.
59: I'm actually pretty proud of the math community vis-a-vis Noether (ICM lecture in 1932!). But the discrimination against her by non-mathematicians at universities was not just a German thing. When she left Germany the only positions she was offered were at women's colleges.
63: I find the craquelure suspect. "School of" my ass, Berenson!
I always confuse the names of Mary Louise Parker and Mary Stuart Masterson.
What about Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio?
I always liked this Meegeren anecdote:
Göring was apocryphally told that his painting was a forgery while awaiting execution, with a contemporary remarking that he "looked as if for the first time he had discovered there was evil in the world".
For that matter, Mary Elizabeth Winstead (from North Carolina and shares my birthday!).
No, her I get confused with Mary Elizabeth "The Waitress" Ellis.
60: I have the same problem with Mary, Queen of Scots, and Mary Scott, of Queens.
What about Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio?
Confused with Marcello Mastroianni.
What about Rembrandt's wife, Saskia?
http://www.codart.nl/exhibitions/details/911/
I confuse Mantonio from Achewood and Antonio Tony from Dino Comix, too.
Emmy Noether Marie Curie is the radness
77: that comment was more correct before your edit. However, "Marie Curie absorbed the radness" would have been grand.
60: Wow, apparently they're different people.
I have the same problem with Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin/Shelley
I've got a fever for the flavor of a Pringle! But I often get them confused with Funyuns. Hey, is there any snack food that's more fun to say than Funyuns? I guess maybe Doodads!
You know if you turn the box upside down, it says spap oop! That's even MORE fun to say! But close the box first, or you'll make a big mess!
Hey! Know where Tina Fey went to college? UVa. Take that, UVa bashers.
I don't know who's responsible for Pauly, but I'd like to offer them a hug.
And Apo is batting 1000 with the crush worthy mentions.
Unrelated: can someone who knows the artist formerly known as Di IRL to come back, please?
It's totally me, doña. I'm responsible for Pauly. Give me your hugs.
nosflow sits on a throne of lies.
OT: I heard a snippet of a stupid sounding report that discovered evil anti-American groups have blogs where people gain prestige by posting comments. Some obviously intelligent group issued a report on their new discovery. Very dangerous stuff
It's not nice to sockpuppet, you know.
91: You mean they found out about us? Oh, no!
Lying, on the other hand, is looked on with favor.
Peep that is exactly what I thought. "holy smokes! Unfogged is a terrorist org"
98: They're after our weapons of crass punstruction.
99: We should surrender those weapons immediately! If that leaves us without any way to deploy puns, well, sometimes you have to sacrifice for peace and security.
It is a little suspicious how he went underground when antiterrorism heated up.
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104: That is so awesome. "Look, it's rocking its head!"
104: It was freshly killed, so it's not all maggoty and stuff. There's nothing on that squirrel she couldn't get from the dog that killed it. Plus he made her take a bath afterward. I'm on the side of the dad here. The blogger is being silly.
My mother likes to tell the story of ~6-year-old me emerging at high-speed from the woods teetering on the edge of a seizure with excitement over the treasure I was carrying. "Mommommommom, I found a dinosaur skeleton! And it still has fur on this side!"
My brother was so excited the time he found an anchor in the woods below where our neighbor parks his boat, because it proved that where we lived had indeed been an ocean once, as he'd been told! He's also the one who was banned from bringing skeletons into the house until they'd bleached significantly.
And now he works for American Apparel, so take that as a warning, parents!
