August 2011
1 post
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June 2011
1 post
A Random Selection of Books That I've Read...
Eating the Dinosaur by Chuck Klosterman
Started on April 21st. Finished on April 21st.
I love Chuck Klosterman. I’ve had many different writers that I wanted to “be like” when I grew up. Dave Eggers was number one for a while, as was Chuck Pahlanuik. Klosterman is top of the charts right now, because he writes the type of smart, funny and incisive essays that I adore. The...
May 2011
7 posts
What I Think About When I Think About Glasgow
[This is a continuation of a particular format of blog posts. There are five previous essays, which you might enjoy reading. One is about comedy, one is about my home city of Toronto, and the third is about, um, cats. There’s a fourth, but it’s terrible and I don’t want you to read it. The fifth was about books.]
1. I don’t want Scotland to get mad at me, so I thought I’d bring...
What I Think About When I Think About Books
[This is a continuation of a particular format of blog posts. The first three essays are here, here and here . One is about comedy, one is about my home city of Toronto, and the third is about, um, cats. There’s a fourth, but it’s terrible and I don’t want you to read it.]
1. Books, huh? You’d think this would be fertile ground, given that books are made up of words, but...
What I Think About When I Think About Facebook
[This is a continuation of a particular format of blog posts. The first three essays are here, here and here . One is about comedy, one is about my home city of Toronto, and the third is about, um, cats.]
1. These topics are completely random. I have no idea how I’m going to get 1000+ words out of this.
1a. I feel like this won’t be particularly entertaining. I apologise in...
What I Think About When I Think About Cats
[This is a continuation of a particular format of blog posts. The first two essays are here and here. One is about comedy, the other is about my home city of Toronto.]
1. I live with two cats. One is called Marty, the other called Luda. They have very different personalities. One is difficult to live with, the other is a wonderful pet. I wonder if you can guess which one is the nightmare when the...
What I Think About When I Think About Toronto
I kinda liked the format of the last post, so I’m going to try it again.
1. I think I like the last post because I didn’t have to worry about structure or trying to say anything meaningful, I just wrote down what was in my head.
2. Toronto is an awesome place to live. I love it dearly. Most of you knew that already.
3. When I first moved here in 2003, it wasn’t with the...
April 2011
2 posts
What I Think About When I Think About Standup...
I’m going to do this as a numbered list, just to see how many numbers I can write. It’s also a scientific fact that human beings love stuff being written down in a list.
1. I’m unsure as to what is the correct grammatical arrangement for the words stand up comedy. Stand-up comedy? Standup comedy? I’m going to go with standup comedy. This may require more research.
2. Most...
Writer's Block
I started my first blog when I was 20. I think. It was a while ago, but I’d been writing for a few years before that. It strikes me as strangely apt that it was called Writersbloc.co.uk. It was only when I started the blog that I really started being disciplined and actually writing something (almost) every day. That was nearly ten years ago. Today, I’m as blocked as it’s...
March 2011
2 posts
February 2011
4 posts
Fear and Comedy Part 2 - PPT Guest Post by Jon... →
Read part 2 of the article I wrote for the awesome comedy blog Premise Punch Tag!
Fear and Comedy - A Guest Post on PPT by Jon Kane →
An excerpt:
“when Joel gave me the opportunity to write a guest post for him, I jumped at the chance. He was all, “What do you want to write about?” and I was like, “I haven’t been doing this for long, so I don’t know what I’m talking about most of the time. But there’s one thing I can talk about with experience, and that’s standing on stage and being terrified.”
So let us talk about...
January 2011
11 posts
Jon Kane Standup Comedy @ Spirits →
Check out me doing some standup comedy at Spirits last night!
Also: I somehow got it into my head that St Andrews day was this weekend, when in reality it’s at the end of November (near my birthday). I’m not sure how that happened, but at least people still laughed at the joke, right? RIGHT? I’m such an idiot.
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Snow: It falls from the sky, yet is not rain
Every morning I get up and make coffee. Holly and I sit in the living room, browsing the internet, and every now and again my gaze shifts from my monitor to the window next to my desk. Somehow, every day I manage to time my aimless staring outside to the same dog taking a dump on our driveway. It’s like a morning ritual. Make coffee, check email, watch a dog pooping. The dog...
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Things that are fun don't usually involve the word...
There are things in life that are fun. Crosswords are fun. Watching movies can be fun. Playing football is fun. Drinking with friends is fun. There are other things in life that should be fun, but aren’t. Shopping for underwear with my wife should be fun. Society tells me that it should be an enjoyable experience. It’s not.
It’s probably my fault, as most of these things...
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My First Kostecki Christmas
I recently got married. This holiday season was the first time I’ve had the opportunity to experience a Christmas with the new in-laws. I’m well liked by Holly’s family (mostly because of my awesomeness) so I wasn’t really nervous. That said, it was certainly very different from my usual Christmas, and that brings a certain degree of apprehensiveness.
Last year I sat in...
December 2010
2 posts
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Rule One.
Here’s a supposedly interesting thing I’m sure you don’t really want to know: I slept until 1pm today. I’ve been awake for 90 minutes. It’s Monday.
Working in the service industry for so long, I’ve met many young grasshoppers in my time and tried to give them the benefit of my experience. I started out 10 years ago (sigh) and I’ve made pretty much...
November 2010
18 posts
“1. Start
2. Keep going.
3. You think you’re starting to get the hang of...”
– The 30 Steps to Mastery from Ben Casnocha’s Blog.
WatchThe awesomeness that is Jon Dore on Conan.
“I was in a bear suit, trying to do comedy. I was thinking, This is lame, this is...”
– Mr. Sunshine: Jimmy Fallon (via somuchfunithurts)
This is a really good article, and worth reading.
tourists in new york: There is one language I... →
fartwithheadphoneson:
detoxfive:
There is one language I can’t understand, because it’s from another planet, another dimension - that is the language of dentists. They speak in some kind of code, it’s quite disturbing and sinister. They’ll talk to you perfectly normally. You’ll be sitting there like that *simulates sitting on a…
File under: srsly made me lol
Worth clicking through and...
October 2010
40 posts
“So, uh, what exactly was this? I can’t control what people think this was: I...”
– JON STEWART, closing out the Rally to Restore Sanity. (via inothernews)
Watchchriskelly:
purns:
Amy Rhodes writes for Ellen now, and was sent by the show to Universal Studios to go through their halloween haunted maze. So funny.
Oh my god, this is just such pure, wonderful hilarity. I laughed so, so hard at this.