Clowns to the Left of Me, Jokers to the Right: American Life in Columns

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Dave from Cardiff, WalesIt isn't a Leiber/Stoller song, this was written by band members Joe Egan & Gerry Rafferty

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/gerry-raffertys-baker-street-blues-rolling-stones-1978-feature-20110104 Peter, why don’t you make us some sandwiches,” Charles says hastily. “The normal way, if you please. No need to break any records today.” You can’t see the resemblance?” Erik says, so seriously that he has to be joking, and gestures between Peter and himself.Raven presses a hand to her forehead. “Sorry. I just cannot see Erik married. Or young. Like, what?” The commercial’s a small example of why self-proclaimed progressives fall short of the feminist mark, too. If you’re all hipster and edgy and outré, then that means pushing the envelope relentlessly and hyper-sexualizing everything and being casual and mordant about things like consent or jokes about rape. Come on, women, just laugh along with it! You’d only be a killjoy, a prude, or, in one of the more bizarre lexicographic political twists of the last two decades, judged “sex-negative” if you don’t. And heaven forbid you get called that!

Gerard Huet. The Zipper. Journal of Functional Programming, 7 (5): 549--554, 1997. Google Scholar Digital Library Duh,” says Peter. “Old, retired grandmas garden, Hank. Not strapping hot dudes like us. It’s shit like this that keeps you from getting laid, you know.” So here’s the core idea of CJ: we can “dissect” a traversal into work we’ve already done, and work we haven’t yet done. The work we’ve already done can have a different type than the stuff left to do. These dissections are a rather natural way of representing a suspended computation. Along with the dissection itself is the ability to make progress. A dissection is spiritually a zipper with different types on either side, so we can make progress by transforming the focused element from “to-do” to “done”, and then focusing on the next element left undone. Ugh. He would rather jump out of his third story window than face Erik right now and actually, if he timed it right and rolled the way Raven taught him too, he probably wouldn’t break anything – Charles claps his hands and says loudly, “Okay! Has anyone had lunch? I don’t think anyone has had lunch. Let’s all gather in the kitchen and have lunch!”It’s like the time he got shit-faced on Raven’s tequila, but a billion times worse. He was wrong, before. The world is not slow – Peter is slow. He feels like he’s underwater, batting uselessly against an endless barrage of hands and needles, while everyone else moves in fast forward, circling around him like sharks.

Still, it’s an informed commentary from within the Westminster village. Where else would you get impressions of Leeds East MP Richard Burgon? And Forde is an excellent mimic - not for nothing has he voiced Boris and others in the revived Spitting Image –which he exploits well when called for. Raven sends Erik a death glare that could rival his own, and shoves his shoulder. “You promised me we would never talk about that again!”

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Everyone files out of the room, including Erik, though he leaves last and reluctantly, still throwing glances at Magda over his shoulder. Mom watches them leave, wiping the running mascara from under her eyes. Then she sits on the couch but doesn’t say anything for a long, long moment. Peter tries to hide how antsy this makes him, focusing on the concept of patience that Charles constantly advises. It’s much harder than it looks. For a long, tense moment Charles and Raven watch each other. Then Charles sets the trowel down and slowly opens his arms. Raven takes off down the lawn in a dead sprint like a goddamn velociraptor and Peter blurs to safety behind a tree without even thinking about it because something about her just screams dangerous, like those super poisonous rainforest frogs. He figures Charles can take care of himself. Finally, someone in a suit shows up, drags over a metal chair that screams against the concrete and sits down beside Peter like they’re old friends. He doesn’t look much older than thirty, and even if he didn’t kidnap mutants he would still have the face of an asshole.

But tellingly, the funniest segments are away from politics: a straight-up observational routine about intrusive train announcements (admittedly inspired by Grant Shapps’ vow to stamp them out) and the over-excitable hype of sports commentators. Simon Evans and David Mitchell may have performed the gold standard routines on these topics, but Forde makes his takes fresh and funny. This paper introduces a small but useful generalisation to the 'derivative' operation on datatypes underlying Huet's notion of 'zipper', giving a concrete representation to one-hole contexts in data which is undergoing transformation. This operator, 'dissection', turns a container-like functor into a bifunctor representing a one-hole context in which elements to the left of the hole are distinguished in type from elements to its right. Since I don't shoot people or self portraits, and we live in a no stairs community, I am a bit more limited.

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He jerks his gaze around the room for something to stall them with and ends up shoving all the remaining furniture against the door. No!” The word bursts out of Hank. “She survived ten years without anyone; she’s the only one out of Erik’s Brotherhood to evade capture from Trask and live. Something else has gone wrong, Charles, but she’s not dead.” You never asked,” says Peter. How does it feel to be in the dark about people’s familial relationships, bitch?