comedy

  • Dandadan: Allegory or just immature fun

    Dandadan by Yukinobu Tatsu can be read as an allegory about male pubescent ascendance and anxiety. Or it can just be fun. It can be a silly immature schoolyard joke that the author has imagined into an exciting fast-paced supernatural horror comedy. According to Anime Hunch, Yukinobu Tatsu wrote Dandadan as a desperate final effort

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  • Rodney Dangerfield’s “It’s Not Easy”

    Reading Rodney Dangerfield’s autobiography, It’s Not Easy Bein’ Me, was like listening to him do a long monologue on the Tonight Show couch. He starts off just like anyone else. He speaks casually, makes small talk. He seems sincere. He’s not angling for a punchline and then — Pow! Pow! Pow! He fires off a

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  • Tuesday Tickler: Not Here

    I’ve decided it’s too easy to get caught up in the muck and mire of daily bread and butter. I’ve decided there’s too many bogey men around and I don’t have the luxury of being scared. I’ve also decided that it is not OK for my children to see me mad at life. They have

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Vincent Young