And If You Couldnt Be Loved, The Next Best Thing Was To Be Let Alone

“And if you couldn’t be loved, the next best thing was to be let alone…”

Paul Reubens, aka Pee-Wee Herman, was a guest on CCB’s ‘Live from SXSW’ episode #96 back in 2011.  While digging through some podcast archives, I re-discovered Pee-Wee’s 60-second ‘thank you’ speech to his fans in the audience...so sincere and soulful it made me cry.  

I’m not doing awfully well but I’m trying very, very, very hard,

Anne Sexton, from a letter to Florence Ehrhardt, c. February 1974 (via violentwavesofemotion)

Caffeine-based fetish pic?  Unfortunately not - found a copy of this outrageously misogynistic print ad for Chase & Sanborn Coffee via a 'Cape Cod History' facebook page. 

Harwich, MA native and wife-beating enthusiast Caleb Chase introduced canned coffee in 1878.  And it sucks.

1952:  Buy canned coffee and save yourself from a beating.

2016:  Buy canned coffee and you deserve a beating.  From me. 

Stunning.