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... Man, I thought doing TV parodies was too modern for PHC, I don't know why I would submit a bit about blogging. Blogging was turning into a thing, giving everyone a voice, each those who had nothing to say. It was ridiculous. Telling people you had a blog back then was like telling someone today you have a podcast. And that's why I still blog.
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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...
Back in the fall of '06, there was an outbreak of E-coli in fresh spinach. So, naturally, I had to rush out and write up a quick song parody to submit to the song that week, as a second submission. That also was rejected.
Popeye's New Spinach Song 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. Feeling like I'm getting in a rut...or rather they are. They keep sliding into the sex stuff. Hey, I can dish out double entendres with the best of them, but at some point it becomes repetitious. I submitted the usual dozen or so and got 5 picked, so I guess I did okay. Now if only they'd pick the article I submitted last week...
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...
We got to see the big Broadway musical "The Producers" and I really enjoyed it a lot. It was fun and wacky and broke the 4th wall. And the songs were really good, simple with hooks that pulled you in. I didn't get to see it with the original stars, Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick, but what are you gonna do? This one tune hit me. It's the "Want Song," where a character realizes what he wants to get from the story. Here, it's literally called "I Wanna Be a Producer." Also at the time, the big movie for the period was "Pirates of the Caribbean." Naturally, I decided to combine them for this wacky musical parody. And try to turn it into a useable PHC sketch for the start of the 2006-2007 season. It didn't get picked, but it's a cute little ditty, even though I can no longer recall the tune. And now? Pirate musicals are all the rage.
I Wanna be a Pirate 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 dunno, the topics haven't been my favorites lately, and I've been distracted, but somehow I managed to score 11 posts onto the WH leaderboard. I was shaky getting started, but then I suddenly realized the "Pop Star" just doesn't been "todays hitmakers!" So, I pulled out some older names and played around with them and checked out some synonyms for pot and played around with them. That one account who posts but has it set up where you can't comment or even like that post, even that account got a couple up. Frankly, most of that account's contributions are pretty lame, so many that's why I got so many in. Anyway, check out...
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