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Disquieting Levels of Egg
125 pages, Paperback
Published August 9, 2025
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August 18, 2025
It’s a tale as old as time. You start watching a comedian. You think they’re kind of weird and move on. They keep popping up year after year and the next thing you know they are your favorite comedian, you’re invested in them owning a boat, and you buy a couple of books for them to sign when you see them live next month. There is a pressure to give the book 5 stars but you want to maintain your objective standards and sense of honesty to yourself. Then you see you’re the first rating for the book and the pressure mounts so you start asking yourself some esoteric, obfuscating questions like “what is the value of one star in a 5 star rating system?” Or “how does anyone determine the value of anything outside of a free market economic system, so in buying the book I've effectively already given it 5 stars.” And that muddles the waters enough to let you give into the pressure for at least long enough for some other ratings to come in.
August 24, 2025
The Aussie Shakespeare, the Adelaide Keats, has once again blessed my eyes and senses
January 18, 2026
surprisingly low level of egg, but a fun read
August 24, 2025
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April 25, 2026
So when I came across the dude's standup, loved it. Bought the Marlon Brando book, loved it. Told a friend about him and he was like "...yea, he's in the Roganverse though". Maybe to spare my feelings was like "He got jammed up over immigration during COVID and Rogan helped him out could just be loyalty."
The book is good the poems are good its just seeing references to transgender stuff that come out of left field (not in the good comedy non sequitur way but in the bad subterranean monomania Guy Who Needs To Talk About Boss Baby Way) and a whole poem about muslim immigrants can't assimilate into Britain without violence - WTF?!**
Jim Jeffries was a great comedian who made a great show and had bits gutting the US right. I dunno how he turned into a sour old reactionary prick dancing for Saudi money, but I'm sure if I wanted to go back and rewatch his specials I could find a line or two (like burning cutoff tits in an incinerator) that doesn't mesh with the rest of the material and marks him out as having spent time drinking from the conspiracy nazi sewer pipe. (Like freaking out about the fall of christendom due to non white immigrants in a country you don't even ans never have lived in. If I was a betting man there'll be a poem about Hungary in the next one).
I'm talking about one poem and two weird detours in two others. The rest of it is quality stuff, funny and incisive.
But it's there, and it didn't used to be, and I doubt there will be less in future installments. Id you like the guy the book is fine but heads up, you're probably not gonna like the guy much longer.
Anyway, its like having an amazing meal, taking away the leftovers, and at a certain point you come back and there's a note that you could almost pretend isn't there, but you know you're gonna have to toss any remaining leftovers. Gonna be fully rotten by the next meal.
I get people need to eat and all the patrons of the arts are currently all politically motivated nazis, I just don't get like, is there a set number of weird culture war signifiers you have to put in every piece of art or you don't get invited to the mothership green room? Can these dudes, professional comedians all, literally not enjoy really good comedy unless it has qanon shit in it somewhere? Its not like the guy was even left wing! When I first found him I was like "He just tells jokes about being a fat schlubby dumb guy, like 90% of comedy used to be!" This is me giving him credit for not wholeheartedly believing the Rogan shit, and putting it in under duress to stay in his goodngraces. Ah well.
**Islam is unlike Christianity, which has been genocidal and homophobic in all its manifestations, but is currently, in some places, in some denominations, for at most the last 30 or so years out of 2030, kind of tolerant (Tolerance toward LGBTQ people being the main thing the Rogan crew hates, and are all trying to roll back). Not like the Brits have an ugly history around gay people, just ask Oscar Wilde or Alan Turing or Edward II.
The book is good the poems are good its just seeing references to transgender stuff that come out of left field (not in the good comedy non sequitur way but in the bad subterranean monomania Guy Who Needs To Talk About Boss Baby Way) and a whole poem about muslim immigrants can't assimilate into Britain without violence - WTF?!**
Jim Jeffries was a great comedian who made a great show and had bits gutting the US right. I dunno how he turned into a sour old reactionary prick dancing for Saudi money, but I'm sure if I wanted to go back and rewatch his specials I could find a line or two (like burning cutoff tits in an incinerator) that doesn't mesh with the rest of the material and marks him out as having spent time drinking from the conspiracy nazi sewer pipe. (Like freaking out about the fall of christendom due to non white immigrants in a country you don't even ans never have lived in. If I was a betting man there'll be a poem about Hungary in the next one).
I'm talking about one poem and two weird detours in two others. The rest of it is quality stuff, funny and incisive.
But it's there, and it didn't used to be, and I doubt there will be less in future installments. Id you like the guy the book is fine but heads up, you're probably not gonna like the guy much longer.
Anyway, its like having an amazing meal, taking away the leftovers, and at a certain point you come back and there's a note that you could almost pretend isn't there, but you know you're gonna have to toss any remaining leftovers. Gonna be fully rotten by the next meal.
I get people need to eat and all the patrons of the arts are currently all politically motivated nazis, I just don't get like, is there a set number of weird culture war signifiers you have to put in every piece of art or you don't get invited to the mothership green room? Can these dudes, professional comedians all, literally not enjoy really good comedy unless it has qanon shit in it somewhere? Its not like the guy was even left wing! When I first found him I was like "He just tells jokes about being a fat schlubby dumb guy, like 90% of comedy used to be!" This is me giving him credit for not wholeheartedly believing the Rogan shit, and putting it in under duress to stay in his goodngraces. Ah well.
**Islam is unlike Christianity, which has been genocidal and homophobic in all its manifestations, but is currently, in some places, in some denominations, for at most the last 30 or so years out of 2030, kind of tolerant (Tolerance toward LGBTQ people being the main thing the Rogan crew hates, and are all trying to roll back). Not like the Brits have an ugly history around gay people, just ask Oscar Wilde or Alan Turing or Edward II.
September 23, 2025
my dad almost died reading the non beatles man
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