2008.02.10
Being Emo Phillips
Sounds like a movie title, but really that’s how it feels as an audience member when Emo Phillips speaks. You get a feeling, watching and listening, of what a strange world he occupies, hilarious and twisted and yet innocent in the way little kids sometimes say something inadvertently dirty.
I went to see Emo last night with Mookee and his girlfriend at Punchline. In a certain sense Mookee and I have Emo to thank for our long friendship. When we first met I though Mookee was the biggest jerk in the world. Then one summer there was no one else to hang out with. Mookee would just stand there reciting Emo Phillips jokes he’d memorized and somehow it made him just tolerable enough that I could stand him for more than a minute at a time.
So thank you, Emo! You were awesome last night.
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- Mookee says (February 10th, 2008 at 18:00:24 )
Life is like a bowl of cole slaw. The atmosphere is the bowl, the cabbage is the necessities, air, food, etc.. The mayo is the energy that binds things together, and you’re the mouse head at the bottom.
- Mookee says (February 10th, 2008 at 18:04:33 )
By the way … I find it interesting that some of the advertisements that have made it on the site are for “Emo love,” or “emo this” … soooo not the same thing!
If they only knew.
- douglas says (February 10th, 2008 at 22:13:32 )
I wonder if Emo ever made jokes about emo. I can see where he would have had a field day with it.
- Kevin says (February 11th, 2008 at 09:24:13 )
Emo is da bomb!
