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Everyone is always arguing about whether or not Die Hard is a Christmas movie. Well, now it absolutely is, since the role of Hans Gruber is now played by the Grinch. Check out my Suessian heist tale over at Weekly Humorist, home of weekly humor, to read "How the Grinch Robbed Nakotomi Plaza." 
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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. 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.
 There used to be a time when TV shows would go on hiatus in December to be replaced by Christmas specials. That doesn’t happen much now, and people lament it because they only remember the good specials. Hey, they all can't be Mr. Magoo's Christmas Carol! So check out Lesser Known Holiday Specials, now up at Weekly Humorist.
The Florida Radio Project began its new season just in time for the World Series. And as part of the line-up, they produced my Nick Files script; Spell Check. It's the prefect blend of autumn, baseball and witchcraft! After performing it live before a studio audience, they posted the audio at Soundcloud, so I hope you can take some time out to give it a listen. It's a home run!
 Weekly Humorist, a humor magazine I often submit to but rarely 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 pun zone, so always jump in. 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 entries and they many times get selection.
Actually, this one was tricky. Rotten Robots. Here's the thing, the number of well-know robots is pretty low. I went online to find a list of "Top 100 Robots in Movies" and there were two issues; 1) I hadn't heard of most of these robots. 2) Most of the robots' names were "Robot" which makes coming up with puns really tricky. Naturally, Weekly Humorist posts the most logical ones, so the rest of us have to scramble. Nonetheless, I managed to get four out of 12 on their website. Not even my favorites. They even picked one I messed up (Gigant-bore, it should have been. Autocorrect made it Gigantic-bore. Luckily I found a gif which explained it) and one I barely liked (Johnny-5-0? What does that even mean? How is it rotten?). You can see all the entries on X (Twitter) and the WK link is below:  A humor magazine I often submit to but rarely get in runs these Hashtag Games on Twitter, where they name a topic and we submit humorous responses. These games play right into my pun zone, so I often play. The trouble is, the way my Twitter timeline flows these days, I don't always see the game in action and I always forget that it's on Wednesdays. Every single Wednesday. But when I do stumble into the game, I always submit a bunch of entries and they many times get selection. Here's the link to this week's game:
One of my steadiest gigs was writing for Cracked Magazine. I talked about it here. After Cracked was sold by Dick Kulpa to a confusion of people, we were all out of work. The new owners wanted little or nothing to do with the former crowd. A lot of us wound up on a Facebook group page. Some stories are told, old pieces reposted and vague memories shared. And then, the administrator of the page, author and comic nerd, Chet Jasper Reams decided to try something new. Which was create new content. Back in 2020, there was a presidential election. Maybe you read about it. Reams dropped me a DM and asked if I might consider writing up a short piece about the mascot, Sylvester, running for president. I'm sure I don't know if he contacted anyone else, but I said, "Sure." I tend to to that. I wrote up a bit and sent it in. Then something amazing happened. He got it to artist Bruce Bolinger to draw it! That was in late July, 2020. By the end of August it was posted on the group page. Something new is bubbling now, but it got me to thinking about that article and I figured I should include it on the blog. So, this is Sylvester on the Stump 2020 A humor magazine I often submit to but rarely get in runs these Hashtag Games on Twitter, where they name a topic and we submit humorous responses. These games play right into my pun zone, so I often play. The trouble is, the way my Twitter timeline flows these days, I don't always see the game in action and I always forget that it's on Wednesdays. Every single Wednesday. But when I do stumble into the game, I always submit a bunch of entries and they many times get selection. Take last week's game: (that's the link above)
 Play ball! Just in time for opening day, the Weekly Humorist website published my latest piece, "Take Me Out to the New & Improved Ballgame." Check it...OUT!
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