From the June 2012 issue of Men’s Journal: Richard Ford is driving around Memphis looking for barbecue, with his wife, Kristina, a leggy, blond PhD. Ford just drove in from Oxford, Mississippi, where he’s teaching a writing class at Ole Miss—filling in for his friend, novelist Barry Hannah, who died in 2010. [. . .] [...]

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When you’ve got an American in Germany, say, or just like a person speaking German with a bad/American accent, the funniest thing for him or her (well: a man doing it is innately funnier) to say in said accent is Ich bin nicht daran interessiert.

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Recent Facebook and Twitter (respectively) complaints about holiday car “antlers” from a friend and then a standup comic (click to enlarge as needed). Maybe comedy evolved as a way to get people to listen to one’s complaints. Or no wait, that’s what Facebook was invented for. My point here is not anything about quality of [...]

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These days I like premature pronouncements. Steelers win the Super Bowl. The Trip came to Tuscaloosa tonight (and only tonight, is how art-house flicks work down here). An improvised drama about Steve Coogan going through the north of England touring nice restaurants and taking Rob Brydon with him. I’d never heard of him either, but [...]

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I’ve been doing a lot of research (well…”research”; it’s mostly watching TV) on stand-up comedy. Today I popped in Seinfeld’s Comedian documentary. I thought it might be interesting to share with you all what my process, so far, is when I start working on a nonfiction book. I tend to have a very loose, MS-Word-based [...]

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