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RIP Martin Mull. I loved him except for the fact that his line “Show business is high school with money” truly has haunted me over the years.

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CNN ran a 90 minute infomercial for nihilism tonight.

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The 'Don't Knock the Rock" film fest, curated by Allison Anders and Tiffany Anders is back and now streaming. You can see all the movies for 10 bucks until the end of July, including my doc "Michael Des Barres: Who Do You Want Me To Be?" starting tonight! www.dktrfest.com

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Yeah, so in love. I give it 5 years tops.
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It's always bugged me how in "Late in the Evening" Paul Simon does a whole verse about playing guitar and plugging in and blowing the room away....then it goes into a horn break.

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This new adaptation of Shogun is way better than the Mickey Rooney one.

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A passenger died aboard a 9 month Royal Caribbean cruise. Cause of death: preference.

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Maybe instead of a debate, Trump and Biden just play a game of Husker Du for the cameras.

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RIP Norman Jewison, who was a Methodist (also a darn good director.)

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Merry Christmas to that guy who isn't Huey Lewis in Die Hard but should be.

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It makes me mad that Chewbacca didn't get a medal every time since 1977.

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They say we're all the hero in our own story but I'm actually the fat, funny friend in mine.

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RIP to the great comedy nutritionist Norman Lear.

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Denny Laine was in my ears, was in my eyes. RIP.

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It was me, just because it was a voice I did.

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To put it in his terms, it's an acceptable loss.

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I made my fortune in lady and tiger supply.

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This guy's company was called Mary Poppins, he headed all that off at the pass.

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Apparently Duraflame logs make your chimney dirtier than real wood but if you can handle being scolded by a chimney sweep every couple of years, they're quite handy.

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I've always been anti dog clothing, but now we have a little guy and I gotta say he pulls this off well.

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I hope they kept enough DNA to clone the pandas before sending them back to China. That would be a funny war.

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BUY MY BOOK! BUY MY BOOK! BUY MY BOOK! (Is my subliminal messaging maybe a little too subtle?) Anyway, signed copies of my new all-ages novel, JACK & JILL: FURY HILL, are available at dumb-industries.com. As are my 9 other books. So BUY MY BOOKS!

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Heard the new Beatles song. Ringo should have replaced his bass drum with a dead horse.

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OK, I'm all stocked up. No matter how many trick or treaters we get, we are not going to run out of oysters this year.

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The 1970s called and it wants an apology for calling it the Me Decade.

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I rarely stop by Braindrain, formerly known as Twitter, anymore.

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No and no. the 7 day week was pretty much God's first invention. Sundown is just a device to mark the days.

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That sounds great. Could you please write me at thoughtspiralshow at gmail dot com and I'll give you an address?

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Just saw it now, sorry. And thanks! Do you have them as files per chance? I'm kind of overloaded with physical media.

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I believe everything happens for a reason, I just tend to think the reason happened before the thing.

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Mazel tov, my friend. Can't help but be glad that your raging disease brought you to Minnesota though.

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I don't have all of my eps and I never got a Servo.

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Jim Mallon lost it alright, oh you mean episode 3.

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Everyone in show business is being told today what I've been hearing for years: "You can write, but you can't act."

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I feel way better not being invited to write rather than not being allowed to.

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Well, well, well, aren't you a little pill with a big story to tell.

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Since I've curtailed much of my heavy social media use I've come to a surprising revelation: that wasn't what was making me feel hopeless.

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I was doing no screwing, but my future wife was somewhere on screen in the Stop Making Sense audience in L.A.

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Stop Making Sense is one of my favorite things that exist.

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It doesn't take a flood for me to be glad I'm not at Burning Man but I'm the kind of guy who would have been on my way to Woodstock and said "Oh there's traffic? Wanna go see a movie instead?"

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Jimmy Buffet was greater than the sum of his parts. RIP

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I'm still angry at my Jr. High School for acting like French, German, and Spanish would be of equal value to us when we had to choose. J'ai fait un mauvais choix.

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