Pounding The Keyboard

       Last week, I was looking at these bookshelf ornaments at Lazada, you know, those cute, DIY, ornamental thingies (some with lights) that you could insert between your books in your bookshelf or as bookends. That was the first time I saw those things, and I was thinking it would be a good gift to people who loved books and had bookshelves. The ornaments I was looking at resemble miniature old bookstores, or offices, or shops.      I looked at the details and it said recommended for 14 year olds. A bit downer. It was made from China. I could accept that. The shop hadn’t sold anything so there were no reviews yet. I looked at other shops selling the same products and saw some positive reviews. And then I looked at the details. Yep, it’d come from Mainland China. And yep, recommended for 13-14 yrs old.      I looked at the photos of the products again, and though they were labeled unisex, they looked like doll hous...

  Thirteen days before Christmas He's already dressed in his red suit He’s got his white beard and his bag of gifts on his back But the door is still locked And all the windows remain barred Even the chimney’s been blocked And all the reindeer know he loves to slide down it To give her a gift And a kiss under her mistletoe But he doesn’t want to barge in Maybe there’s a fire in the fireplace So he starts to leave, unable to breathe out a single “Ho!” And as the sleigh glides against the light of the desert moon, he thought, “This Christmas, like the past Christmases, isn’t white but blue…”

       Last night, while looking for a movie to watch on Netflix, I discovered this American stand-up comedian, Anthony Jeselnik. He had a new show on Netflix entitled Bones and All. I watched it, it was 51 minutes long… and I didn’t find it funny. Some jokes were funny but not the type that would make you really laugh. Still, I watched his other show on Netflix, Thoughts and Prayers , and this time, he was funny.      Anthony Jeselnik, who rarely smiles and who appears arrogant while performing, is a dark comic, meaning, he spews out dark and morbid jokes. And people are saying that he’s the darkest comic out there. He jokes about Hitler, the Holocaust, about deaths in his family, about him being a child molester. He cracks dead baby jokes (his revulsion for kids is a recurring theme in his shows; he is unmarried), he jokes about him killing babies and women, he even jokes about Eric Clapton’s son’s death (*gasp!) and the Space Shuttle C...