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After the cops told him they needed to check his BAC, he was promptly cited for public indecency.

While filming Empire, four thousand seventy eight years ago, one of my co-stars-(by co-stars I don’t mean Harrison or Mark, but someone slightly lower on the costar pole)- approached me saying “you know the girl that’s your stand in, Liz Coke? Well, she’s not called Liz Coke for nothing!

Seeing as how we were on a planet resembling the substance on offer, this information struck a truant chord with me. So I admit it- yes- I availed myself of Liz’s stash.

Our favorite bit?

A hipster incorrectly employing the concept of irony: “’It was a tiny parade, and they shut down Graham Avenue?’ said Mr. Tocco, 26, an actor. ‘There was one float and a horrible marching band. It was very ironic. The Latino parades are more festive.’

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Hi Foster.

• Is Paul Muldoon “serious”?
• Is this just irony or satire or is this really meta-enabling?
• Does meta-enabling require a certain seriousness? Are you allow to “crack up”?
• Is the outtake at the end tantamount to Peter Sellers’ outtake at the end of Being There?
• Is posing a question about breaking a tone ‘meta’ because they praise Ke$ha for maintaining her ‘trashy’ ‘voice’?

(New Yorker)

“Furthering” our “study” of what “quotes” “mean.”

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