Thanks to the grandkids, I've been turned onto a Disney show, an Austrialian import called "Bluey" (you don't just say it, you have to shout it). They started off a new season with a longer than usual episode that involved, love, marriage, leaving home, moving away and other things to tear your heart out. Naturally, I felt the urge to mock it. And Weekly Humorist was willing to print it!
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The Florida Radio Project has posted their latest production of "The Nick Files," this week's file, "The Greek Squad." It's the story of love gone missing and Nick Flebber, PI, has to get it back! They did a great job with my story. And it's also being posted on the Nick Files Page, where it joins all other Flebber projects. Check them all out!
Weekly Humorist, a humor magazine I often submit to and occasionally get in, runs these Hashtag Games on Twitter (X), where they name a topic and we submit humorous responses. These games play right into my gag reflex, so I always throw up something. I've taken to setting my calendar to get online every Wednesday to "play" (and by "play" I mean submit content to their website for free--I like to think of it as pun bono work). I always submit a bunch of them on X (Twitter) and some of them get selected for inclusion to their online site. Well, they went all in on scatological humor this week...mostly. It's weird, you say crappy cop show and you get the crap synonyms but you also get bad, punny cop show titles, on the assumption you're pitching a cop show that would be a crappy idea. I pretty much went to the turd bowl on this. Submitted a bunch and got 7 on the website.
From 1999 to 2004-ish, I was one of the contributing writers for Garrison Keillor's renowned radio show "A Prairie Home Companion." I learned a lot of things there, mostly how to spell 'prairie." It was a solid gig and I'm proud of my work there. But, like any other job, there were...things... There used to be time you couldn't legally bet on sporting events; just ask Pete Rose. Frankly, I totally forgot about this sketch, but my goodness, how foretelling is this? 2005! The entertainment business was having issues with online fans thinking they were part of the business because they were the audience. So, what would happen if sports people wanted to get "more involved?" They don't have the skills, but they have cash! Pity it didn't get picked. It would have nice to have this up somewhere proving I did it first. Bettors League of AmericanWeekly Humorist, a humor magazine I often submit to and occasionally get in, runs these Hashtag Games on Twitter (X), where they name a topic and we submit humorous responses. These games play right into my gag reflex, so I always throw up something. I've taken to setting my calendar to get online every Wednesday to "play" (and by "play" I mean submit content to their website for free--I like to think of it as pun bono work). I always submit a bunch of them on X (Twitter) and some of them get selected for inclusion to their online site. A strong week this week, after last week's lackluster results. Dogs? Candy? What's not to like. It's one of those deals where WH seems to have snapped up all the ideas, but then bouncing around dog breed sites and candy lists, ideas started to assemble. They even used one of mine in their introduction paragraph. I'm happy with the results. You can be too:
Weekly Humorist, a humor magazine I often submit to and occasionally get in, runs these Hashtag Games on Twitter (X), where they name a topic and we submit humorous responses. These games play right into my gag reflex, so I always throw up something. I've taken to setting my calendar to get online every Wednesday to "play" (and by "play" I mean submit content to their website for free--I like to think of it as pun bono work). I always submit a bunch of them on X (Twitter) and some of them get selected for inclusion to their online site. I'll be honest, I had a rough week. We had multiple root canals (the same tooth, done multiple times) and other at-home duties, so I didn't get into the game until late, and managed to get a couple posted, but only a couple made the cut. Plus, the WH site has me on some sort of restricted access to the article, so I didn't get to see the whole list. I hope you can! Enjoy:
From 1999 to 2004-ish, I was one of the contributing writers for Garrison Keillor's renowned radio show "A Prairie Home Companion." I learned a lot of things there, mostly how to spell 'prairie." It was a solid gig and I'm proud of my work there. But, like any other job, there were...things... Vladimir Putin, what ever happened to him? Back in 2005, he was the leader of Russia and its young democracy. It was a tough time for Russia, so Putin came up with a novel idea; stay president for life by holding bogus elections. Sure, he paid lip service to the concept helping spread freedom, but his heart wasn't in it. I decided to write up something, then this title popped into my head. It became a song parody, which is a risky thing to submit. Sure, I got "The 12 Days of Christmas" up, but nothing else. They did the song parodies occasionally, so it wasn't an unheard of concept, but in my waning days, I was throwing everything I had, whenever an idea presented itself, at PHC. This one didn't stick either. Putin's on the FritzSo we stumbled across an entertaining show on streaming, The Artful Dodger. I had heard nothing about this series from 2023. Not a peep. It was very good. But it triggered a memory from 1987. It was one of the first times I got involved with a aspiring producer who was looking to break into the business. I forget how I came upon him, probably an ad in one of the trade papers or the Village Voice. He had people coming up for interviews to a rehearsal hall. He said he had been working on Broadway and touring shows. One of the shows was Oliver! It was during this time he thought of the idea of a sequel. It would be about Fagin and his life after the events of Oliver Twist. And it would be a television series. Weekly Humorist, a humor magazine I often submit to and occasionally get in, runs these Hashtag Games on Twitter (X), where they name a topic and we submit humorous responses. These games play right into my gag reflex, so I always throw up something. I've taken to setting my calendar to get online every Wednesday to "play" (and by "play" I mean submit content to their website for free--I like to think of it as pun bono work). I always submit a bunch of them on X (Twitter) and some of them get selected for inclusion to their online site. Almost missed the boat on this one. I got very tied up with some things and before you knew it, it was 2 hours into the hashtag game. I had to hustle to get up a dozen or so. I tried looking up a list of common drugs, then I just pulled up a list of famous robots. It was kinda easier to go in from that direction. Despite my late start, I got some good ones in. Although I don't know if my computer screen keeps resetting or if they posted a couple of duped entries. I mean, all medicines sound alike, so I guess that was unavoidable...
From 1999 to 2004-ish, I was one of the contributing writers for Garrison Keillor's renowned radio show "A Prairie Home Companion." I learned a lot of things there, mostly how to spell 'prairie." It was a solid gig and I'm proud of my work there. But, like any other job, there were...things... Here I'm stealing from myself. I had written a script about a less-than-stellar trip we to Wisconsin. It was a natural for a script; a bunch of native New Yorkers go to Wisconsin for a wedding. A real fish-out-of-water story. Most of the script was based on actual events, including a trip to the cheese shop. We had time to kill, the hotel was connected, physically connected, to the mall, so we decided to check it out. And there we came upon a cheese shop. There was a culture gap between that way we in New York talk about cheese and the rest of the world. New Yorkers use Italian words that Italy doesn't even use. It was a brief stop, but enough occurred that it inspired this scene in my screenplay. As I often did, when I was low on ideas, I'd pull something out of the files and dust it off and make it pretty. It remains a short bit, but with my habit of writing odd store sketches, it seemed to be a natural. And like the many shop sketches before, it was rejected. Hedda's Cheese Shoppe |
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