how does the song go? there’s a time for blah and a time for blay, a time to blub and a time to bluuh? something like that. well the way i see it there’s a time to knit your brow and a time to smirk and i’m almost positive 7:43 on this particular evening in october is a time to smirk. thing is i’ve got nothing smirk-worthy to say. so i turn to mr. steve martin. didja know that long before he was writing pieces for big snooty magazines and having his “droll and oh-so-witty” novels adapted to film he wrote an extremely silly book called cruel shoes? yup. this is back in the 70’s when he was still a drug addled standup laying down routines on vinyl. 77 to be exact. the sleeve describes it as “wild and zany.” haha. zany! that ought to be worth a smirk all by itself. anyway what follows are some short pieces from cruel shoes. enjoy.
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