{"id":202,"date":"2006-05-10T15:36:59","date_gmt":"2006-05-10T22:36:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hickopolis.com\/?p=202"},"modified":"2006-05-10T15:36:59","modified_gmt":"2006-05-10T22:36:59","slug":"ethnic-jokes-might-be-uncouth-but-you-laugh-because-theyre-based-on-truth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hickopolis.com\/?p=202","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Ethnic jokes might be uncouth but you laugh because they&#8217;re based on truth&#8230;&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src='\/wp-content\/aveq.jpg' alt='' \/><\/p>\n<p>Last week, I got to see one of my favorite musicals for the first time. A friend bought me the Avenue Q soundtrack for my 29th birthday and I&#8217;ve been in love with it ever since. If you haven&#8217;t heard of it, I&#8217;ll just say this: it&#8217;s got puppets that have sex and swear. Needless to say, I was jazzed to see it on stage.<\/p>\n<p>Avenue Q is kind of a parody. It&#8217;s kind of a parody of Sesame Street. It&#8217;s kind of a parody of Rent. It&#8217;s kind of a parody of anyone who&#8217;s ever been an overly angsty twentysomething. And the songs are catchy as hell. One listen to such classics as &#8220;What Do You Do with a B.A. in English?,&#8221; &#8220;It Sucks to Be Me,&#8221; and &#8220;If You Were Gay&#8221; and you&#8217;d be hooked, too. One of the greatest songs though is &#8220;Everyone&#8217;s a Little Bit Racist.&#8221; Why&#8217;s it so funny? Because it&#8217;s fucking true, dawg:<\/p>\n<p>If we all could just admit<br \/>\nThat we are racist, a little bit<br \/>\nAnd everyone stop acting so PC,<br \/>\nMaybe we could live in harmony.<\/p>\n<p>I listened to the Avenue Q soundtrack on my way to and fro Bellevue\/Portland yesterday, so it&#8217;s kind of on my mind. Ironically, GTB sent me <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/id\/2141421\/nav\/tap1\/\">this<\/a> today.<\/p>\n<p>By these standards, fuck yeah everyone&#8217;s a little bit racist. While you&#8217;re at it, if you&#8217;re going to judge my iPod\/playlist\/CD collection on this type of thing, you can go ahead and call me sexist, too. No way are slightly more than 50% of my favorite bands made up of women. And I&#8217;m a chick!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/id\/2141421\/nav\/tap1\/\">Is Stephin Merritt a racist because he doesn&#8217;t like hip-hop?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, I got to see one of my favorite musicals for the first time. A friend bought me the Avenue Q soundtrack for my 29th birthday and I&#8217;ve been in love with it ever since. If you haven&#8217;t heard of it, I&#8217;ll just say this: it&#8217;s got puppets that have sex and swear. Needless [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hickopolis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hickopolis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hickopolis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hickopolis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hickopolis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hickopolis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hickopolis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hickopolis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hickopolis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}