When I am bored waiting for the train in the morning, I like making up dialogue for the pigeons that walk around on the platform across from mine. It usually goes something like this:

Pigeon, who we will call Merv, walks along the platform, bobbing his head.

Merv: Waiting for the train, waiting for the train, waiting for the train.

Merv walks to edge of platform, looks at tracks.

Merv: Train coming?

There is no train. Merv returns to walking.

Merv: Nope, nope, nope, not yet. Waiting for the train, waiting for the train, waiting for the train.

Merv runs into another pigeon, who will call "Lightning Bill."

Lightning Bill: Hey Merv, waiting for the train?

Merv: Waiting for the train, yup yup, waiting for the train.

Merv and Lightning Bill, walk together while bobbing their heads.

Both: Waiting for the train, waiting for the train, waiting for the train.

The train starts to rumble in the distance. The metal of the tracks screams in advance of its arrival. And just as the train starts to pull in, Merv and Lightning Bill take flight!

Merv: Fuck!

Lightning Bill: B-Train!

1) 7/19, 10:00 p.m.: Near the Beach, Lewes, DE

2) 7/31, 8:30 p.m.: Puma Birthday Cake
See: Tiny Little Oven Cakes.

3) 8/18, 3:00 p.m.: Beautiful Yarn Received in Trade
See: Infinknitty.

4) 8/19, 1:00 p.m.: Casting My Ear

Oh man. I got to see Superbad tonight. I went into it thinking that I'd probably like it, but not love it (which is how I felt about 40 Year Old Virgin). But oh my god. It was like, an amazing, two-hour long dick joke. I was laughing constantly, and this comes from someone who often gets kind of grossed out by dick jokes. And Michael Cera is brilliant. He brings the same sort of fantastic, totally cute awkwardness that he brought to George Michael on Arrested Development. I'll spare you the spoilers, but please. Go see this movie.

Here's a video Eugene Mirman made on getting to know Massachusetts:

You know the movie at the movies when, if someone is talking behind you, you give the half turn of your head to let you know you can hear them? And you hope that they will recognize by that slight turn in your neck that they are being SHAMED for having the GALL to talk in the movie theater, while good citizens like yourself are remaining quiet? Someone did that to me last night at a COMEDY SHOW. Because I was LAUGHING. Loudly. Er, I'm sorry. "LOLing."

I think that reviews of shows can be boring, so I'll keep this brief: definitely check out Eugene Mirman and Larry Murphy, leave Leo Allen behind. Well, I mean, if there's like, a flood or a zombie plague, don't leave him behind. He seems like an upstanding individual. I just didn't like his comedy all that much. The show breakdown was like this: where Eugene Mirman created marketing slogans for shapes (Triangle: Hot three-way action), and Larry Murphy did the best fake-first-time stand up I've ever seen, Leo Allen was doing normal observation stuff. Not bad, but not as amazing.

Yup.