TOPIC: Say something funny.

This week, Dan and Merlin talk about entertainment as a career and how difficult it can be to know whether you're suited for it.

Plus, discussions of X-Men, San Francisco's collapse, and the best way to get vomit out of the bathroom sink.

Links for this episode:

• Zentangle |
  
• Amazon.com: Design Originals, Joy Of Zentangle (0023863053983): Marie Browning CZT, Suzanne McNeill CZT, Sandy Bartholomew: Books
  
• Studio Series Artist's Tiles: White (75 pack): Peter Pauper Press: 9781441316318: Amazon.com: Books
  
• Amazon.com: Sakura 50011 11-Piece Zentangle Clamshell Pencil Set
  
• Watch David Bowie: Five Years | Hulu
  
• Stewart Lee's Comedy Vehicle - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  
• Stewart Lee - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  
• You Look Nice Today - “Parlor Parlor” (XOXO 2015) on Vimeo
  
• You Look Nice Today - Layers 2015 on Vimeo
  
• Jim Lee - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  
• 5by5 | Pipeline Classic #14: Jesse Thorn
  
• Paul Smith (comics) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  
• Ungainly X-Mann Meetup #12 — Merlin Mann
  MERLIN MANN (Back to Work, Roderick on the Line, Reconcilable Differences, You Look Nice Today, et al.) invites you to drop by Two Cats Comics on the evening of Thursday, February 4th to hang out, talk about comics, and just say, “Hi.”
  
• Brass Eye: Drugs (Episode 2) - YouTube
  
• Does the Dog Die?
  
• Henry V - Band of Brothers - YouTube
  
• Lost Weekend Video, 1-2-3-4 Go! Planning to Relocate to New Spaces | Art Wire | KQED Arts
  
• Longtime Market Street art supply store Flax moving to Oakland - SFGate
  
• your monkey called
  
• Alison Agosti - IMDb
  
• Tim Siedell (@badbanana) | Twitter
  
• Scott Simpson (@scottsimpson) | Twitter
  
• Food Safety Talk 85: I'm the jerky police — Food Safety Talk
  
• Amazon.com: Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life (Audible Audio Edition): Steve Martin, Simon & Schuster Audio: Books
  
• Reconcilable Differences #17: Don’t Touch the Banana - Relay FM
  Finally, the boys tackle the topic of jobs. First jobs, early jobs, what they did or didn't learn from them, and how their younger work lives shaped their later future employment choices.
  
• PBS: Public Broadcasting System | 500
  
• Watchmen [2009] [R] - 9.9.6
  

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