The glamour of servitude in today's gilded age of privilege and celebrity worship.  

Fallible, stupid, and yet joyful, comedy is a very human magic lately much on our minds. 

A dark fable of global cultural circulation...

The day after April Fool's day seems appropriate for pondering how to recognize a joke. I've been reading the Old English poem Andreas, and came across this passage:

The difference between comedians & musicians is a matter of self-esteem. I'm not sure who has more, and who has less.