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Fooling Around

from Lou @ Moving and Shaking

“Psychologists have studied pranks for years, often in the context of harassment, bullying and all manner of malicious exclusion and prejudice. Yet practical jokes are far more commonly an effort to bring a person into a group, anthropologists have fou…

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April 1, 2008 | Filed Under , Laughs, Psychology | Comments Off 


Laughter as Privilege

from Lou @ Moving and Shaking

“Dissecting the nature of women’s humor, or supposed lack thereof, is a joyless and increasingly moot subject, but it boils down to the point Virginia Woolf argued in her essay about Shakespeare’s sister in A Room of One’s Own, and it’s analogo…

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March 5, 2008 | Filed Under , Commentary, Isms, Laughs, Women | Comments Off 

The Rejection Letter

from Lou @ Moving and Shaking

Category: PublisherSubmitted by: Rejected once, but not twice. The Letter: Sorry, but you submission does not meet our standards and therefore not accepted. How did this letter make you feel? Being that this was my first book, I knew that I would be …

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January 11, 2008 | Filed Under Alternative, Laughs, Literature, Oddities | Comments Off 

EMAPcipation

from Lou @ Moving and Shaking

Miss West Caroline Speaks OutYouTube: Paperlilies: Miss West Carolina Speaks OutSee also: DailyMail: Two Million YouTube hits for girl who pokes fun at Amy Winehouse and Britney Spears,December 21, 2007Art: Crossection Skull Map, not dated, Marilyn Gre…

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December 21, 2007 | Filed Under Laughs, Oddities | Comments Off 

Ross Laughs

from Lou @ Moving and Shaking

The inimitable Diana Ross (September 15, 1973)Wikipedia: Diana RossYouTube: It’s My Turn (January 17, 2007, live)YouTube: Home (the Wiz)YouTube: Theme From Mahogany (1979 live)YouTube: Touch Me In the Morning (live)YouTube: Upside Down (with Michael J…

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December 19, 2007 | Filed Under Laughs, Music, Style | Comments Off 

Dietrich laughs

from Lou @ Moving and Shaking

If there is a supreme being, he’s crazy.Darling, the legs aren’t so beautiful, I just know what to do with them.I am at heart a gentleman.Brainyquotes: Marlene DietrichWikipedia: Marlene DietrichPicture: Dietrich and Noel Coward, not dated

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November 18, 2007 | Filed Under Laughs, Quotes | Comments Off 

Monroe Laughs

from Lou @ Moving and Shaking

Marilyn Monroe, 1961, Jacques Lowe

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November 8, 2007 | Filed Under Laughs | Comments Off 

How To Make Mistakes On Purpose

from Lou @ Moving and Shaking

Trying to be creative works about as well as trying to be charming’That Workshop’ by Laurie RosenwaldWhere Babies Really Come From The sexual act is best demonstrated by putting your finger into an electrical outlet. First you must wet your finger. …

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October 30, 2007 | Filed Under Art, Laughs, Oddities, Style | Comments Off 

Encore: No Kidding

from Lou @ Moving and Shaking

U Par Par Lay goes to India to have his toothache treated. The Indian dentist wonders why the Burmese man has come all the way to India.“Don’t you have dentists in Myanmar?” he asks. “Oh, yes, we do, doctor,” Mr. Par Par Lay says. “But in …

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October 30, 2007 | Filed Under Laughs, Society | Comments Off 

Birkin & Bulldog Laugh

from Lou @ Moving and Shaking

“I never saw him take a bath. He was the cleanest man I ever knew, he knew how to wash all the bits, but in 13 years I never saw him take a bath, I never saw him go to the loo, I never saw him completely naked, the children never saw him naked—and th…

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October 28, 2007 | Filed Under Laughs, Quotes | Comments Off 

Holiday Laughs

from Lou @ Moving and Shaking

“Terror runs for king I said. It is better to explore within. We were apes before we spoke of sin. The cosmos sits on the tip of a pin.”Thinkexist: Billie HolidayWikipedia: Billie HolidayPicture by Gottlieb

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October 23, 2007 | Filed Under Laughs, Quotes | Comments Off 

It Gets Late Early Out Here

from Lou @ Moving and Shaking

“You’ve got to be very careful if you don’t know where you’re going, because you might not get there.”"Baseball is 90% mental — the other half is physical.”Once, Yogi’s wife Carmen asked, “Yogi, you are from St. Louis, we live in New Jersey, and you…

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October 16, 2007 | Filed Under Isms, Laughs, Quotes | Comments Off 


The Cow Laughs

from Lou @ Moving and Shaking
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October 15, 2007 | Filed Under Laughs | Comments Off 

Siouxsie Won’t Laugh

from Lou @ Moving and Shaking

Not on camera, anyhow…

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October 12, 2007 | Filed Under Laughs | Comments Off 

Lennon & Ono Laugh

from Lou @ Moving and Shaking

I still believe in love. I still believe in peace.- John Lennon, 8 December 1980John was really against war. We both were. It’s crazy how a situation like that repeats itself. Peace is so very important. More than ever, we shouldn’t be afraid of saying…

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October 11, 2007 | Filed Under Laughs, Quotes | Comments Off 

Hepburn Laughs

from Lou @ Moving and Shaking

“People, even more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed, and redeemed; never throw out anyone.”“I love people who make me laugh. I honestly think it’s the thing I like most, to laugh. It cures a multitude of ills. It’s pr…

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October 5, 2007 | Filed Under Laughs, Quotes | Comments Off 

Birkin Laughs

from Lou @ Moving and Shaking

My mother was right: When you’ve got nothing left, all you can do is get into silk underwear and start reading Proust.I never saw Serge in anything but a dressing gown, and none of the children ever saw him naked. He thought being naked was the most vu…

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October 3, 2007 | Filed Under Laughs, Quotes | Comments Off 


Slick Laughs

from Lou @ Moving and Shaking

Now & Then”I’d always been with some boyfriend or married. I should have noticed then that I like living alone. I kept trying to make relationships work. Some people are good at it and I’m just not. My deal is that I pay more attention to whatever …

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October 1, 2007 | Filed Under Laughs, Quotes | Comments Off 

Samberg Laughs

from Lou @ Moving and Shaking

Crazy Delicious”Though much of his schtick screams “dork alert” (it should be noted that he is a major abbreviator — competition becomes “competish,” appropriate: “approps”) there is something very un-awk-weird about Samberg. And while he’s ever humbl…

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September 29, 2007 | Filed Under Film, Laughs, Oddities | Comments Off 


Banhart Laughs

from Lou @ Moving and Shaking

I’d like to fly… I think my biggest hope is to have a dog and a desk. I always dream about having a desk and not having to move. I see dogs around, I kidnapped a dog once but I felt bad about it and I returned it.source: Perfect Sound Foreverpicture:…

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September 26, 2007 | Filed Under Laughs, Music, Quotes | Comments Off 

Minjun Laughs

from Lou @ Moving and Shaking

Yue Minjun’s first museum show in the U.S. will open at the Queens Museum of Art on October 14th, 2007. One of the leading figures in the Beijing-based movement of “Cynical Realism” that emerged following the 1989 student demonstrations in Tiananmen…

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September 25, 2007 | Filed Under Art, Laughs | Comments Off 


Taro Laughs

from Lou @ Moving and Shaking

Gerda Taro and Robert Capa in Paris, 1936, by Fred Stein

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September 22, 2007 | Filed Under Laughs | Comments Off 

Baker Laughs

from Lou @ Moving and Shaking

I like Frenchmen very much, because even when they insult you they do it so nicely.source: brainyquotes.com“It [the Eiffel Tower] looked very different from the Statue of Liberty, but what did that matter? What was the good of having the statue witho…

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September 20, 2007 | Filed Under Laughs, Music, Quotes | Comments Off 

Harry Laughs

from Lou @ Moving and Shaking

And New Year’s Eve is very, very important to me.I always work on New Year’s Eve, no matter what.I get myself a gig somewhere, whether it’s in a club, whether it’s in a bar, it doesn’t matter, and I just work on New Year’s Eve because I always feel it’…

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September 16, 2007 | Filed Under Laughs, Quotes | Comments Off 

Foster Laughs

from Lou @ Moving and Shaking

Andy Warhol: So, when are you going to get married? Jodie Foster: Never. I hope. It’s got to be boring — having to share a bathroom with someone.Andy Warhol: Gee, we believe the same things.NYTimes Profile: Forever Jodie, Forever a Pro by Manohla …

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September 10, 2007 | Filed Under Film, Laughs, Quotes | Comments Off 

Jagger Laughs

from Lou @ Moving and Shaking

Jagger remembers, 1995, Peter LindberghMiss You, Rolling Stones, 1978Posted at YouTube by Moledmc, April 8, 2006

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September 9, 2007 | Filed Under Laughs, Music | Comments Off 


Gabor Laughs

from Lou @ Moving and Shaking

Macho does not prove muchoZsa Zsa Gabor

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September 4, 2007 | Filed Under Laughs | Comments Off 

Sherman Laughs

from Lou @ Moving and Shaking

B: Do you think your work has more humour than it gets credit for? C: I think it’s more funny than scary.Tate Magazine, Issue 5, Interview with Cindy Sherman by Betsy BerneMetro Online exhibit: Cindy Sherman (clowns)

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September 4, 2007 | Filed Under Art, Laughs, Photography | Comments Off 

Am I Bovvered?

from Lou @ Moving and Shaking

One famous feminist dictum goes something like: women fear to be raped and murdered by men, men fear to be laughed at by women. That is the whole matter in a nutshell, really. It only forgets the part where a man may murder a woman because she scoffs a…

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September 4, 2007 | Filed Under Commentary, Isms, Laughs, Society | Comments Off 

Purdey Laughs

from Lou @ Moving and Shaking

Joanna Lumley on Purdey’s fighting style:”If you want a demonstration of my fighting kicks, I’ll oblige - but I don’t encourage it. You’ll never know what hit you! The high-kicking technique is inspired loosely by the French fig…

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August 31, 2007 | Filed Under Laughs, Quotes | Comments Off 

Simone Laughs

from Lou @ Moving and Shaking

“I had a very intensive love affair from 1994 to 1995. It was like a volcano, so I don’t want that anymore for a while.”Nina Simonepicture from the Hulton Archive

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August 28, 2007 | Filed Under Laughs, Music, Quotes | Comments Off 

Delpy Laughs

from Lou @ Moving and Shaking

“I don’t know why, but I have such bad luck. The only way I get good things to happen is that I work so hard that the bad luck gets tired, looks away for a split second, and then I get a brief chance to do something. And then? It’s bad luck time …

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August 24, 2007 | Filed Under Laughs, Quotes | Comments Off