My sides are sore after seeing Sarah Silverman’s stand-up routine/musical, Jesus is Magic, in the movie theatre. She is so outraegously funny. No one is spared. She makes jokes about gays, women, Jews (“my grandmother survived the Holocaust–excuse me, the so-called Holocaust”), rape (“I was raped by my doctor when I was little–which is so bittersweet for a Jewish girl”), AIDS (“When life gives you AIDS, make lemonAIDS”), blacks (“Christians say that Jews killed Jesus. And then the Jews try to pass it off on the Romans. I’m one of the few people that believe it was the blacks.”), Asians, senior citizens, midgets, Jesus (“I hope we DID kill Jesus, I’d do it again! Hearing those fucking Birkenstocks coming up behind me…”). It is absolutely side-splitting.

So many people hate her because they say her comedy is purely shock value and there’s nothing to it, but the knowing delivery she puts on her jokes is a statement to exploring racism/prejudice/sexism/etc. and tearing it apart.

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I had a very cathartic public tantrum today. It was night and I didn’t know if the L train was running between the two boroughs again–I heard that service was resuming early instead of being suspended all weekend. If it was running, I wanted to take it from the F, and if not, I would have to take the M train. So I ask the MTA agent if he could check if the L line was running again because of what I heard, and he said “If you know it’s running, take it.”

I say, “I don’t know if it is, that’s why I’m asking you. I just heard that it is maybe.”

“Take it and take the shuttle if it’s not running.”

“There’s no shuttle, the train is suspended between Manhattan and Brooklyn. Can’t you check really quick for me?”

“If it’s not working, take the M.”

“I don’t KNOW if it’s working. It’s 12:30 in the morning. It would be a LOT faster for me to take the L if it’s running. I don’t want to take the M and the J and the L if I don’t have to.”

“Take the M if you know the L isn’t running.”

As he replies each time, he gets more agitated, as if he’s not being an idiot and an asshole and what I’m saying isn’t making sense. His tone was one of complete condescension, like I was a total moron. So, finally, I snap and in front of 10 other people I go, “HOW ABOUT YOU DO YOUR FUCKING JOB AND HELP SOMEONE WHO NEEDS IT? WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU HERE FOR IF YOU CAN’T ANSWER A SIMPLE FUCKING QUESTION, YOU STUPID PIECE OF SHIT? THANKS FOR NOTHING, I’M GLAD MY TAX DOLLARS ARE GOING TO PEOPLE LIKE YOU.”

He sat stunned as I swiped my car and climbed the steps to the M.