Benjamin Apple

Comedy person. Twitter | Email

[benjaminapple]

[benjaminapple]

[new-aesthetic]

‘Pics or it didn’t happen’ – the mantra of the Instagram era

Sharing itself becomes personhood, with activities taking on meaning not for their basic content but for the way they are turned into content, disseminated through the digital network, and responded to.

[cf An Elixir of Reminding: “Nostalgia is the negation of death, it proves we are still living even without an identifiable future. Instagram is a machine for producing instant nostalgia, a ward against death.”]

[benjaminapple]

Learn The Spanish NOW! is the best and ONLY method for learning Spanish. By listening to brief conversations in Spanish throughout the day, you will build grammar and vocabulary with a minimum of effort.

Subscribe on iTunes!

[benjaminapple]

[benjaminapple]

[christinefriar]

The murders of Michael Brown, Eric Garner, Sean Bell, Amadou Diallo, Sam Shepherd, and countless thousands of others at the hands of American law enforcement are not aberrations, or betrayals, or departures. The acquittals of their killers are not mistakes. There is no virtuous innermost America, sullied or besmirched or shaded by these murders. This is America. It is not broken. It is doing what it does. America is a serial brutalizer of black and brown people. Brutalizing them is what it does. It does other things, too, yes, but brutalizing black and brown people is what it has done the most, and with the most zeal, and for the longest.

The American Justice System Is Not Broken | Albert Burneko for The Concourse

Read. This. Important. Piece.

(via christinefriar)

[revolutionarykoolaid]

[benjaminapple]

Little Dog & Mister Monkey: "Where Is Your Family"

[benjaminapple]

[chamberlain]

DONATE TO THE FERGUSON PUBLIC LIBRARY AND GET AN EXCLUSIVE 3-TRACK CHAMBALAND EP

This week has been bad, no worse for anybody than the community of Ferguson, MO. Through the protests, militarized police presence, and school closures, the Ferguson Public Library has kept its doors open, offering classes, internet access, and a safe space to a community in chaos- and you can help them!

Make a donation through the library’s PayPal page, and I’ll send you a special mixtape. And I mean hey, even if you support Darren Wilson, you can still rest easy supporting a community library as you stand on the wrong side of history!

HOW TO GET THIS EP:

- Make a donation for any dollar amount to the Ferguson Public Library. (Their PayPal is in the upper right hand corner of the page; if you’ve already donated, that’s cool too.)

- Take a screenshot of your confirmation email and send it to [email protected]

- I send you an exclusive 3-track Chambaland EP with some unreleased, never-heard tracks.

As its nearly Thanksgiving, it might take me a few hours to get back to you, but you’ll get your EP within 24hrs max. ITS THAT EASY. DO IT.

[benjaminapple]

Air Travel: Flying And Grapes

[kateoplis]

Currently in NYC: Solidarity w/ Ferguson

[benjaminapple]

[chamberlain]

[benjaminapple]

THIS SATURDAY, 11/15: Last year over 100 writers, directors, producers, actors, musicians and artists got together to do the unthinkable: create and premiere a feature-length film in 24 HOURS with a cast of over 70 actors and complete with original soundtrack, promotional art, and popcorn. Now it’s happening again! And this time it will be totally different.

PRODUCED BY Whale Thief - the sketch comedy group behind UCB’s Sketch Cram, the monthly sketch show made in a day. Whale Thief is Benjamin Apple, Brandon Gulya, Matt Klinman, Matt Mayer, and Zack Poitras.

WRITTEN BY Ben Warheit / Shaun Diston / Ben Wietmarschen / Kassia Miller / Katie Simon / Madalyn Baldanzi / Patrick O’Brien / Dan Abramson / Colin Elzie / Natasha Vaynblat / Georgie Aldaco

DIRECTED BY Morgan Evans / Steve Theiss / George Kareman / John Zachary Townsend / Justin Lamb / Victor Varnado / Ed Mundy / Anna Rubanova / Matt Braunsdorf / Adam Sacks / Paul Briganti / Lou Gonzalez / Ryan Williams / Matt and Claudina Morrison / Patrick Mahoney / Alex Traynor / Justin Kiernan Byrne / Alec Cohen / Joe Burns / Ryan Hunter / Todd Bieber / Alex Charak / Colin Elzie / Patrick Robinson

STARRING 103 hilarious, talented, attractive actors from the New York comedy community.

ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK BY Dan Chamberlain / Casey Jost / Eric Gersen / Megan Maes / Morgan Phillips / Jeremy Bent / Alex L Loew

ART BY Maelle Doliveux

WITH SO, SO MUCH MORE! RESERVE TIX HERE

[benjaminapple]

[benjaminapple]

"Favorite Beatle"