Well, it is considerably less satisfying to laugh at life's fortunes, because frankly, such is just too damn obvious. And makes one come off as pretentious...
oh, Huck, go ahead and laugh at that too! Maybe double-laugh - one for the joy of it (I mean, what expressed greater gratitude than laughter, really?), and one for the nod to the fleeting...
And I think pretentious laughter is really only ever a snigger, and not really laughter at all.
I think I've said too much already. A girl can't lay down all her cards at once. Good thing my deck goes higher than 52. I wish I were a guy so I could pee anywhere I wanted while standing up. That's real power. I'd like to meet the following: My great-great grandparents, the N. Oklahoma ones, not the Swiss gentry. My woebegone friendship with Adam G. The man who's going to be with me till we're retired to the porch swing sucking on glycerine tablets, and who still reads to me at night, while I rub his feet. My ambitions with commitment and discipline. The characters from old David Lee Roth videos. Hot carb on carb action. That fucker who keeps trying to take the bbq, in a dark alley, satan's minions, lilliputians, nigglers, pifflers, piddlers, snake-oil peddlers, cripples, do-gooders, truth-seekers, sweethearts, wandering minstrels, interlopers, robber barons, saints, sinners, people who snort and guffaw, holler and whoop, tender tender people with good hearts, and all my fat little babies. I like BUTTER! And Vitamin Z!
Me, laughing at life's misfortunes. Like Grant Miller does.
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Well, it is considerably less satisfying to laugh at life's fortunes, because frankly, such is just too damn obvious.
And makes one come off as pretentious...
oh, Huck, go ahead and laugh at that too! Maybe double-laugh - one for the joy of it (I mean, what expressed greater gratitude than laughter, really?), and one for the nod to the fleeting...
And I think pretentious laughter is really only ever a snigger, and not really laughter at all.
You're a doll.
"(S)he who laughs in the face of adversity is probably hammered."
I often laugh at my misfortune and my fortune. Balance....
Came here via...Grizzbabe because of your Toni Morrison quote, then noticed that we enjoy a lot of the same books. Quite telling.
If we couldn't laugh we'd all be crying.
Although I cry a lot still.
" LAUGHTER IS THE BEST ANSWER TO ALL THAT IS STRANGE IN THIS WORLD"
STUBBS
Laughter is the best medicine provided you can't get your hands on any vicodin.
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