Shouts & Murmurs by Cora Frazier: Your would-be sperm-provider and I don’t make the decision not to conceive you lightly: we’re living in a time of melting permafrost. Also, what if, as a teen-ager, you fill the bathroom with Axe body spray?
Happy Birthday, Bob Dylan, Our Most Underappreciated Comic
As he turns 80, don’t be fooled by his serious music. From the start, his work has been filled with a cockeyed humor that can range from corny jokes to dark wit.
Dylan in 1965, the year he released “On the Road Again,” a masterpiece of giddy nonsense.Credit. H. Thompson/Evening Standard/Hulton Archive; via Getty Images
May 24, 2021, 6:00 a.m. ET
At the end of “Inside Llewyn Davis,” the Coen brothers movie set in the Greenwich Village music scene of 1961, the title character, a gifted but struggling folk singer on the verge of giving up, leaves the stage of the fabled Gaslight Café as a newcomer fills his spot. What’s clear after the first note is that it’s Bob Dylan at the start of one of the greatest careers in pop music
Once per week. 4 lines. 17 characters per line. Ladies and gents, please meet the internet s beloved Wallingford Sign at one Seattle propane gas station. Every week, it puts up a whole new joke, pun, or one-liner that brings smiles to people’s faces and entertains its fans around the world.
The humorous Wallingford Sign rose to popularity in 2005 when the owners converted the auto repair shop into an ExtraMile convenience store and petrol station. “It had always been easy to think of useful messages to put on the sign for things like service promotions and store specials and the like,” says the sign s official Facebook page.
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Welcome back to the subway! It’s been a while. “But I’m scared!” you say. “What if I get eaten by a train?” In reality, you have a greater chance of being struck by lightning than of being eaten by a train, so rest easy. I’m sure you have lots of questions, though. Lucky for you, this handy guide will help you remember how to be a subway pro!
Hey, it’s dark in here, and kinda creepy. What’s that smell?
While promotional images of the city’s subway system often depict picturesque panoramas, the reality is a bit different. These are large underground tunnels used by millions of people every day, and they require a lot of upkeep! As much as we wish today’s subways were like the versions we see in Renaissance paintings, we have to live with the subways we have.
In a set of four images, Karishma is dressed in a tie-dye T-shirt paired with blue denims. In one of the photos, she sits on the edge of a sofa, playing with her hair.