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. Okay, weird week. Frankly, this was the fewest "entries" I've seen to one of these hashtag games. It was very light. I did around 10. And WH did the usual weekly "winners," but it was short and mostly their own staff-driven items. It started as combining vermin and baked goods, but ended up where they all do, just making puns about yucky food. Oh, well...
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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. After getting scoring goose eggs last week, I tried again. One popped into my head and I decided to go from there. A lot of repetition for the category (hey, they actually included two different people posting the same joke), but I pulled up the search for soft drinks and built out from there. I got 8 in out of 14, so that's pretty darn good. And to think, I do this all for free.
Watching the History Channel and its quirky historical documentary series certainly opens you eyes. You learn so much, like were the Slinky came from, how M&Ms were invented and who made Cheetos famous? Usually the answer is WW II. They did a whole episode on the creation of mass produced bread and how to make it more available to the public and easier to consume. It was all about the race to sell sliced bread. Seeing it got me top thinking about how they might have approached such an endeavor. I wrote my take on the event several months ago and sent it around. Then it sat on my hard drive until today. Because today, July 7, back in 1928 was the date slice bread was first sold to the world! So let's take a look at the diary of the man who made sliced bread his quest: The Slice is Right 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... This was for the 20065-2006 season finale, and I don't know where my head was at. This sketch was from the files. I had written it as a one act for a theater group Pen to Stage. An actress there saw it and really liked it. She was part of a group in NJ called Style Without Substance and wanted to know if she could use it for that. I agreed. She got to do it in one of Style's shows and because of that, I got to submit other material to the group and become a writer member of the group. But I must have really felt drained that I would pull it this off the hard drive. I played with it to make it audio. I've kind of forgotten about it because I should certainly pull it out to submit to all the mini-play festivals I'm submitting to now. I'll have to keep this one in mind. It's not like anyone heard it on the radio, because PHC passed... LADIES OF THE HOUSEDoctor Who has been in the news a lot lately, what with the firing of the 15th Doctor and the sneak peek at the 16th, if there is in fact a 16th Doctor. So, I pulled out this sketch from the hard drive that I had written back during the 50th anniversary rigmarole. Growing up as a solid Abbott and Costello fan and being a recent Doctor Who convert, this seemed like the most logical sketch to write. It's not like I hadn't worked withing the "Who's on First" premise before. Or constantly. I was submitting material to Hollywood: TMI at this time, so it was very hit and miss. They weren't much into nostalgia (like PHC). They weren't really Doctor Who fans. And it was a shorter sketch with only a few actors. The troupe had a good-size stage and a large cast, so the more characters you had in a sketch, the better off you were. As I said, this was from the time of the 50th anniversary of the series, so there was a lot of retrospectives and look-backs, so it was a good time to get involved with the show. I knew it existed, PBS ran episodes of it back in the 70s. I knew there was a guy with a long scarf. And some nasty roombas that were a lot of trouble. I did get into the show and still enjoy it. But that doesn't mean I can't parody it. So join us now as... Abbott & Costello Meet Doctor Who |
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