Cashing In with T.J. Miller is a podcast by comedians Cash Levy and T.J. Miller started in 2012. The premise is that it’s Cash Levy’s talk show, but he can’t find any guests to come on except for T.J. Miller. Each episode is structured in segments, starting with the Triple Banger Lightning Round (a series…
Tag: absurdism
Trailer Park Boys: Ricky as absurd hero
Trailer Park Boys is a long-running TV show in a mockumentary style that follows three characters, Ricky, Julian, and Bubbles, who live in a trailer park in Nova Scotia, Canada. The action follows the trio’s misadventures as they create illegal money-making schemes. Each season of the show typically begins with Ricky and Julian being released…
I like nonsense the best
I have often said that my favorite way to sort objects is alphabetically by color name. For example, if your objects are colored red, yellow, green, blue, and purple, then you would put the blue one first, followed by green, then purple, red, and finally yellow. But why? Partly for humor. I think it’s funny…
Existential nihilism and despair in three songs and three philosophers
What is moving will be still What is gathered will disperse What has been built up will collapse These lyrics are an adapted quote from Lama Sogyal Rinpoche’s Tibetan Book of Living and Dying. Impermanence (aniccā in Pali) is an important idea in many forms of Buddhism. It is one of the three marks of…
thoughts on mind 