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    Image of Rooo sez BISH PLZ Rooo sez BISH PLZ
    11/06/09

    In reply to "When Even Sex Is Like A Song I've Heard Too Often…"
    Oh.
    Oh, dear.

    Not that I can afford to be vain about my "early poems", but I'm not sure who decided this was a good idea. #kristenwiigreadssuzannesomers
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    Image of Eriu Eriu
    11/06/09

    In reply to "When Even Sex Is Like A Song I've Heard Too Often…"
    :-/ I love Kristen Wiig, but I'm pretty sure she stole this from Garfunkel & Oates (the "Pregnant Women Are Smug" ladies). [www.youtube.com]
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    thecameralovesyou promoted this comment Edited by Eriu at 11/06/09 10:46 AM Eriu was starred Eriu was unstarred
    Image of thecameralovesyou thecameralovesyou
    11/06/09

    @Eriu: But the celebrity autobiography readings have been going on for a while, i believe. I remember sherri sheppard talking about it on the view last year. and here's an article about them from last september
    [theater.nytimes.com]
    But maybe she did. I have no idea! #kristenwiigreadssuzannesomers
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    11/06/09

    @thecameralovesyou: It's not suspect because it's just a celebrity autobiography reading, though. It's suspect because it's specifically Suzanne Somers' poetry, which they performed quite some time ago. They've been gaining attention in LA and elsewhere (they were in BUST a few weeks ago) and this kind of thing happens way too often in comedy. [en.wikipedia.org]
    (I wanted to link to an article from now-defunct Radar magazine but can't find it.) Yes, it could be an honest coincidence, but I tend to doubt it, especially since their version is on YouTube. #kristenwiigreadssuzannesomers
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    Image of thecameralovesyou thecameralovesyou
    11/06/09

    @Eriu: Ahhh yes, I see your point.

    I just try and think Kristen Wiig wouldn't steal ideas, but I tend to be naive and stay in my happy bubble. #kristenwiigreadssuzannesomers
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    11/06/09

    @thecameralovesyou: Me too. That's why I was so disappointed. It's possible someone else saw the video and was like, "Oh hey Kristen, Suzanne Somers wrote some ridiculous poetry." Still not really right, though, in my opinion. But less her fault. #kristenwiigreadssuzannesomers
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    Image of thecameralovesyou thecameralovesyou
    11/06/09

    @Eriu: True. I don't know if the individual comedians in these routines go out and find their own hilarious celebrity books but it could very well have not been her doing. I'm gonna hold on to that possibility. #kristenwiigreadssuzannesomers
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    Image of andBegorrah andBegorrah
    11/06/09

    In reply to "When Even Sex Is Like A Song I've Heard Too Often…"
    The Vaginosis Monologues.
    The Cant, ohs.
    The Chode Not Take.
    Where the Side-eye Ends.
    Man, Fred.
    Peeves of Ass.     #kristenwiigreadssuzannesomers
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    Image of mariamariamaria mariamariamaria
    09/14/09

    In reply to Poet Jim Carroll Dies At 60
    Summer of death just end already.

    R.I.P. Jim.
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    Image of hussein persepolis hussein hussein persepolis hussein
    09/13/09

    In reply to Poet Jim Carroll Dies At 60
    Damn. My heart just keeps on breaking.
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    Image of Blank-Blank Blank-Blank
    09/13/09

    In reply to Poet Jim Carroll Dies At 60
    Norman Borlaug also died today - he was responsible for engineering wheat crops that helped curb global hunger, especially in Mexico and India:

    "By Mr. Toenniessen’s calculation, about half the world’s population goes to bed every night after consuming grain descended from one of the high-yield varieties developed by Dr. Borlaug and his colleagues of the Green Revolution. "

    [www.nytimes.com]

    His work has also been criticized for negative environmental impact.
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    Image of curiousgeorgiana curiousgeorgiana
    09/13/09

    @Blank-Blank: West Wing taught me this.
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    Image of VirginiaDentata VirginiaDentata
    09/14/09

    @curiousgeorgiana: Penn & Teller's Bullshit! taught me this.
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    Image of ritualtheory ritualtheory
    09/13/09

    In reply to Poet Jim Carroll Dies At 60
    I was utterly shocked by this, somehow. Despite almost killing himself over and over as a kid he had such a tremendous life-force ~ it hardly seems possible for him to succumb to a heart attack.
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    Image of AjaxNangerini AjaxNangerini
    09/13/09

    In reply to Poet Jim Carroll Dies At 60
    Jim Carroll... RIP ... A voice of a generation and a legend. He portrayed New York in one if it's grittiest eras with a beauty in his depiction. He "was one of my friends and he died."
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    Image of angelheadedhipster angelheadedhipster
    09/13/09

    In reply to Poet Jim Carroll Dies At 60
    "That, I realized, is the great beauty of dreams: the devil may inevitably find a way to jerk you off, but you can always wake up before he makes you cum."

    RIP, Jim.
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    Image of bluebears bluebears
    09/13/09

    In reply to Poet Jim Carroll Dies At 60
    Sad. He was unique.
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    Image of boobookitteh boobookitteh
    09/13/09

    In reply to Poet Jim Carroll Dies At 60
    The gravity here is just sick for revenge
    It's like my lungs are filled with chains . . .
    The sky seems so low,
    It hasn't moved this slow
    Since the virgins, since the virgins went dancing for the rain
    You know the stars in the night
    They're like the holes in the cave
    Like the ceiling of a bombed-out church
    But gravity blocks my screams
    It's like an enemy's dreams
    My guardians quit
    They quit before they started their search
    I want a world without gravity
    It could be just what I need
    I'd watch the stars move close
    I'd watch the earth recede
    I wanna drift above the borders against my will
    I wanna sleep where the angels don't pass
    But now my lips are blue
    Gravity does it to you
    It's like they're pressed against a mirrored glass
    I want my will and capability to meet inside the region
    Where this gravity don't mean a thing
    It's where the angels break through . . .
    It's where they bring it to you
    It's where silence, silence can teach me to sing
    I wanna lay beneath these sheets and never turn blue
    I wanna hold you, hold you tight but never touch
    I want some pure, pure white; hey, we can nod all night
    We can do it without thinking too much
    I want the dilettantes and parvenues to choke on my wrists
    They think the pearls I wear are pills
    I want their gravity to shatter . . . but it really doesn't matter
    I got something in my eye that kills!

    Wicked, wicked, wicked, wicked gravity . . .
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    Image of ritualtheory ritualtheory
    09/13/09

    @boobookitteh: Hearted.
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    Image of LucilleMcGillicuddy LucilleMcGillicuddy
    09/13/09

    In reply to Poet Jim Carroll Dies At 60
    Couldn't help myself.
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    Image of meritxell: an erotic life meritxell: an erotic life
    09/13/09

    @LucilleMcGillicuddy: They just announced his death on KEXP and played this song... a fitting tribute.
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    Image of Julie Parker Julie Parker
    09/14/09

    @LucilleMcGillicuddy:
    I heard the news on 88.1 KdHX here in St. Louis and they played this as well.
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    Image of R_Claw R_Claw
    07/28/09

    In reply to William Shatner Turns Sarah Palin Into Poetry
    Oh noes! Video no longer available!!! :-(
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    Image of chocopina chocopina
    07/28/09

    In reply to William Shatner Turns Sarah Palin Into Poetry
    **finger snaps** @ willie shatner
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    Image of funnyface funnyface
    07/28/09

    In reply to William Shatner Turns Sarah Palin Into Poetry
    I was just saying yesterday that that particular bit about the Cheechakos and Sourdoughs was like bad Romantic poetry. And then Shatner went and did THIS. AMAZING.

    Though I must say, I think Palin IS crazy. Such a level of self-delusion.
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    Edited by funnyface at 07/28/09 12:38 PM funnyface was starred funnyface was unstarred
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