I am a DJ at WZBC 90.3 FM, Boston College’s public radio station. I host a two-hour show titled “Laughter,” which is recorded and made available for download through the WZBC Streaming Archives. I write for Brainwashed.com, study philosophy and theology at Boston College, work as a part-time beer nerd, and hope to elevate my consciousness through a concentrated effort of the will and spirit. I enjoy playing many diverse kinds of music according to my diverse moods, but the show is held together by a mysterious, unifying force and the fact that I take great pleasure in strange noises.

Lucas Caldwell Schleicher
laughter.blog@gmail.com
Brainwashed: writer
WZBC 90.3 FM: DJ
Boston College: student of philosophy

laugh·ter /ˈlæftər, ˈlɑf-/ 1. an inner quality, mood, disposition, suggestive of laughter; mirthfulness 2. subject or matter for amusement 3. the manifestation of joy or mirth or scorn 4. “Laughter casts a glance, charged with the mortal violence of being, into the void of life.” -Georges Bataille

“This multitude see the comic side of a thousand low- grade and trivial things—broad incongruities, mainly; grotesqueries, absurdities, evokers of the horse-laugh. The ten thousand high-grade comicalities which exist in the world are sealed from their dull vision. Will a day come when the race will detect the funniness of these juvenilities and laugh at them—and by laughing at them destroy them? For your race, in its poverty, has unquestionably one really effective weapon — laughter. Power, money, persuasion, supplication, persecution — these can lift at a colossal humbug—push it a little—weaken it a little, century by century; but only laughter can blow it to rags and atoms at a blast. Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand. You are always fussing and fighting with your other weapons. Do you ever use that one? No; you leave it lying rusting. As a race, do you ever use it at all? No; you lack sense and the courage,” – from Mark Twain’s The Mysterious Stranger