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// Favorite Parody - This sort of spoilery if you're not caught up with Breaking Bad. Or Taylor Swift.





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// Favorite Music Video - warning -- very very brutal. But great.





// Favorite Advice - How to get your kids to listen to classical music.




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// Favorite Short - The Greatest Event In Television History



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// Comedy Album you Must Own -  This gem from Tig Notaro. It's a long story, but I'll let Louis CK explain:

Greetings to the people and parts of people that are reading this.   Hi.  This is Louis.   I'm a comedian and you bought a thing from me. Well, I'm writing to tell You that there is a new thing you can buy on my website louisck.com.   It's an audio standup set by not me but another comedian named Tig Notaro.  Why am I selling someone else's comedy on my website?

Well,   Tig is a friend of mine and she is very funny.  I love her voice on stage.   One night I was performing at a club in LA called Largo.  Tig was there.   She was about to go on stage.   I hadn't seen Tig in about a year and I said how are you?   She replied "well I found out today that I have cancer in both breasts and that it has likely spread to my lymph nodes.  My doctor says it looks real bad. ". She wasn't kidding.   I said "uh.  Jesus.   Tig.    Well.   Do you... Have your family... Helping?".   She said "well my mom was with me but a few weeks ago she fell down, hit her head and she died".   She still wasn't kidding.

Now, I'm pretty stupid to begin with, and I sure didn't know what to say now.  I opened my mouth and this came out.   "jeez, Tig.   I.   Really value you.  Highly.".  She said "I value you highly too, Louie.".  Then she held up a wad of note-paper in her hand and said "I'm gonna talk about all of it on stage now.  It's probably going to be a mess".  I said "wow".  And with that, she went on stage.
I stood in the wings behind a leg of curtain, about 8 feet from her, and watched her tell a stunned audience "hi.  I have cancer.  Just found out today.  I'm going to die soon".   What followed was one of the greatest standup performances I ever saw.   I can't really describe it but I was crying and laughing and listening like never in my life.  Here was this small woman standing alone against death and simply reporting where her mind had been and what had happened and employing her gorgeously acute standup voice to her own death.

The show was an amazing example of what comedy can be.  A way to visit your worst fears and laugh at them.   Tig took us to a scary place and made us laugh there.  Not by distracting us from the terror but by looking right at it and just turning to us and saying "wow. Right?".   She proved that everything is funny.  And has to be.  And she could only do this by giving us her own death as an example.  So generous.

After her set, I asked Mark Flanagan, the owner of Largo (great club, by the way) if he recorded the set.  Largo is set up for excellent recordings.  He said that he did. 

A few days later, I wrote Tig and asked her if I could release this set on my site.  I wanted people to hear what I saw.  What we all saw that night.  She agreed.  The show is on sale for the same 5 dollars I charge for my stuff.  I'm only keeping 1.  She gets the other 4.   Tig has decided to give some of that to cancer research.

Tig, by the way, has since undergone a double mastectomy.  She is doing well.  Her doctors say her chances of survival are excellent.  So she went there and came back.  Her report from the frontlines of life and death are here for you to... Enjoy. 

Please go to my site louisck.com and buy her show.  You can buy it here:
http://buy.louisck.net/purchase/tig-notaro-live
Thank you.  Have a terrific afternoon.
Louis C.K.

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// Favorite Political Craziness - This video answers the question - "What if there is a tie in the presidential election?"




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// Favorite Four Minutes of Comedy - This from the season finale of Louie. (**warning, there is a some language, if that bothers you or if you're at work**)




// Favorite Music/Music Video - The single from Grizzly Bear (their new album, Shields, by the way, is great)




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// Favorite Person - Ze Frank




// Favorite Tease - A potential new Christmas album from Sufjan Stevens (update: yeah, it's happening)





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// Favorite Website - Lostalgic (for all you Lost fans)


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// Favorite Song - "There's that Grin" by Deerhoof


// Favorite Person - Amy Poehler




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// I Love Google - Street view..... for the ocean?

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// Favorite Remix - This one from the first couple seasons of Breaking Bad




// Favorite First Look - Lincoln




// Favorite Bowling Competition - Nerdist Vs. Doctor Who





// Favorite Fan Tribute - The Journey of Walter White. DO NOT WATCH THIS if you have not seen Breaking Bad, but plan to.



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and this:

Uncle David

My Uncle David died on Friday. It was 8:20 in the morning. He was 59.

Along with Hepatits C, he had many other medical problems, and this past year or so had been especially rough for him. Aside from his physical issues, he had junkies for roommates, stealing his social security checks and pills. After being juggled between hospitals and nursing homes for the last few months, they decided to put him into hospice a couple weeks ago.

Friday was a strange day. After getting the news from my father around 10 a.m., I drove up to Toccoa, met with some of the family, and most of us went into a back room to see David before they cremated him. The fastest funeral ever.

The six of us and the funeral director convened in a small meeting room, deciding what to do from there. We all chose to not run any obituary notices in the newspaper or on the radio, as those outside of the room who wasn't family would not need to know that he had died. They didn't deserve it.

We also decided to postpone the Memorial Service -- we wanted to wait until his mother could handle it.

I don't really how I'm handling all this -- it's definitely a mix of grief and guilt. Grief because he's gone. Guilt because it's been years since I last saw him. Guilt because he never met Liam. And he could have.

I have both good and bad memories of David.


The good memories of him coming over and spending time with us kids. Teaching us poker and rummy, how you actually play it (and not the way our grandfather, his dad, taught us). How we would walk a trail through the woods to get to his mobile home, and spend time with him talking about Bruce Lee, or recalling tales from his younger days when he was a getaway driver for bank robbers.

The bad memories, the times when he was off his medication and most vulnerable. The time he came over one Sunday as we were getting ready for church. He asked if he could hide out at our place -- someone he helped put in prison was getting out that day, and David knew this ex-con's first stop would be David's trailer, to kill him. My mother explained that we needed to go to church, but he was welcome to stay as long as he liked. He said, "Well, when you get back, I'm going to be dead." I had seen this before, on smaller scales, so I knew things would be fine. But I was nine, and I wasn't able to stop thinking and worrying about him until we got back.


Uncle David was a conflicted man. His past sins defeated his future. He only spoke of himself in the negative, deeming himself irredeemable because of his lifestyle choices when he was younger. I'm not trying to reduce his life to a cautionary tale, a mere lesson for me to learn from. But there's still something that was missing -- a life that chose to live defeated. A life that was content on being discontent.

I miss him. I hope maybe at last he's at peace with himself. And maybe that's part of my grief and guilt -- that he was never able to find peace before now.

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// Favorite Return - The Flight of the Conchords!





// Favorite Song - The Very Best - "We Ok"



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// Favorite/Weirdest Commercial/Thing - This addictive (and interactive at the end) oddity from Old Spice




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// Favorite Animal - The ribbon eel.

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// Favorite Megamix - This one featuring the one and only Bill Murray (there's a little bit of language towards the end).





// Favorite Song - "Time to Run" by Lord Huron. Off their upcoming album!



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// Favorite Website - http://heyyeyaaeyaaaeyaeyaa.com/