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How many times can a waiter sing ?Happy, Happy Birthday? in one night? How many bruises can you get at a Wheel of Fortune audition? Can faking a migraine help you escape an office party? The answers are in this collection of columns from Matt Wixon, the newspaper humorist who once was told ?Stay sweet! Don?t ever change!? in his high school yearbook. Against that advice, Wixon has changed over the years, turning away from writing sports stories and columns to address more meaningful topics, such as battling car salesmen for hot dogs, using the wrong fork at dinner parties and accidentally telling the pizza-delivery guy ?I love you.? Other topics in this book include teacher trading cards, vending-machine fitness programs, the historical importance of Hee Haw ... even the keys to a good marriage (including not laughing when figure skaters fall down). Read just a few of this book?s columns and you?ll understand why they make so many people laugh and so many serious journalists say, ?Too bad. He had potential.?
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Eric Zink
reviewed We're Laughing with You, Not at You... and Other Frightening Tales of Life on January 31, 2013
We're Laughing with You
This is my second Rooney collection and find them largely whimsical, nostalgic yearning for a Norman Rockwell world. Curmudgeon that he might be, it is not exactly like reading the rantings of Archie Bunker. When he bemoans the urine-stained Grand Central Station overrun with homeless, he reflects on the difficulty of the situation and lacking in severe judgment hopes for a solution with homes for the homeless and GCS back to travellers of his ilk. Then, sometimes he makes me cringe. From his column "Some Don't Like It Hot", published in The Eunice News from Eunice, Tuesday, May 27, 1986 and elsewhere:
There is no question that the whole human race gets less done where the temperature is regularly above 80 degrees. Look at the world and see where most good things have been accomplished. In Pago Pago? In Tahiti? In Calcutta or the Philippines? They may be nice places to visit but for the men and women who have advanced our civilization, look toward countries with temperate climates. Heat saps ambition.
Seems rather dismissive of everything from the rapa nui of Easter Island to Polynesians populating the vast South Pacific with outrigger canoes...
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