May 2013
17 posts
Published on Postmodernize! →
Hey guys! Postmostmodernize released a piece of mine today that I’m excited about! Not really a funny one but more crisis-ey. Either way, enjoy it!
Some Folks You Should Know
I just finished working for the New Zealand Int’l Comedy Festival and it was a blast and I miss it so freaking much already. Nearly all of the comedians were ones I had never heard of.
Boy, was I uneducated. So, so many wonderful talents. American comedy is amazing as we are all aware but….you guys…there is so much more. I never knew. Look up NZ comedians Joseph Moore,...
It is not that I do not love you, it’s just that I hate everyone.
– Titus Andronicus, ”Tried To Quit Smoking”
Archaeologists have not yet discovered any stage of human existence without art....
– Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Beauty Will Save the World (via delicateswans)
On Tuesday, April 13, 2004, NASA used “Where is My Mind?” to wake up...
– Wikipedia
How cool is that?
April 2013
18 posts
If there is one thing we need to take care to pass on to the women of the next generation it is to NOT RUIN DISNEY MOVIES FOR YOURSELVES AND EVERYONE AROUND YOU WITH YOUR SMART COLLEGE ANALYSIS just watch it and ENJOY it GODDAMMIT.
We get personal trainers/post Facebook updates/do most things because we can’t successfully carry out tasks without the light of the promise of approval from other human beings shining at the end of the tunnel.
So I’ve done the whole “meeting people” and “talking to people” and “creating relationships with people” thing. It was hard and crushing and rewarding but I made it out alive.
Ready for Level 2!
Wait. There’s no Level 2? This whole “life” thing literally just stays in the horrendous meeting/talking to/creating relationships with...
Yikes, good luck getting THAT through customs!
– My catch-all fail-safe comedy line
I have something on McSweeney's today! →
Enjoy!
March 2013
8 posts
“If one train is going east at 40 miles per hour and another is going south from the same point at 25 miles per hour…,” but then the Houghton Mifflin copywriter leaned back in his chair, brushed his hands through his hair, and thought to himself, “I need to be more original.”
I tell people I’m going on a trip and they’re all, “Who are you going with?” and I’m like EXCUSE ME but FUCK YOU FOREVER can’t you see this is some SERIOUS Eat, Pray, Love shit I’m trying to do right now?!?!?
February 2013
15 posts
Essay Featured on Splitsider! →
I hope you like it!
More writing here: http://lizarcury.wordpress.com
Listen to the cry of a woman in labor at the hour of giving birth—look at the...
– Soren Kierkegaard (via fuckyeahexistentialism)
Piece Featured on CollegeHumor! →
New Writing Up! →