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Monday, November 21, 2016

Posted By on Mon, Nov 21, 2016 at 9:15 AM

It's Monday, which means it's time for your weekly dose of locavore levity: the Joke of the Week! This week's joke comes from South Montpelier's Sky Sandoval. Take it away, Sky …

So, my name is Sky. I have two half-sisters, and my half-sisters' names are: Star … and Jennifer.

It’s an interesting choice on my dad’s part naming us Sky, Star and Jennifer. It makes me wonder what he’d be like if he were in charge of other things using that logic. I always like to imagine what it’d be like if he booked a music festival.

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Monday, October 3, 2016

Posted By on Mon, Oct 3, 2016 at 7:55 AM

Welcome to the debut installment of the Seven Days Joke of the Week! Every Monday, this space will feature a joke submitted by a Vermont comedian. This week's joke comes from New Haven's Katie Gillespie. Take it away, Katie  …

I'm not from Vermont so it took me a long time to learn that a creemee is not a sex act. But I do think that eating one in front of old dudes at the farmers market is the Vermont equivalent of doing porn. And I'm in the industry now.
About that joke
Says Gillespie: "I moved here from Chicago last summer, so I spend a lot of time thinking about the differences between big-city and small-town life!" 

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Tuesday, September 27, 2016

Posted By on Tue, Sep 27, 2016 at 5:27 PM

click to enlarge Cards Against Humanity's Amy Schwartz Discusses Life as a 'Design Troublemaker'
Courtesy of Amy Schwartz
"Amy, I'm only stopping this car once: Do you have to go No. 1 or No. 2?"
Amy Nicole Schwartz sums up her job as "basically dick jokes and boxes." As design director for Cards Against Humanity, the  wildly successful and hilariously inappropriate party game, and its "boring business company" spinoff,  Blackbox, Schwartz  sets the creative vision for her companies' games, projects and subversive PR campaigns.

Believe it or not, there's more to her design responsibilities than laying out black-and-white game cards that read, "Toni Morrison's vagina" and "Watching an orphanage burn" in Helvetica Neue Bold.