Category: Weekly Humorist - Dan Fiorella: Writer @ large

Dan Fiorella

Hashtag, You're It! - Foul Fall Coffee Drinks

9/19/2024

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.

This week was a bit of a let down for me. Goofing on fancy coffee seems right up my alley. I managed to pop out a dozen decent-to-good ones but only got 3 selected for the WH website. What are you going to do?

#FoulFallCoffeeDrinks

Hashtag, You're It! - Future Fear Football

9/12/2024

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.

A nice spring back for me. From barely getting any last week, I'm back to my average amount this week. Ironic, because I'm not a football guy. I had to look up a list of all the pro teams and still had to figure out why the NY Jets weren't listed. I had to got to the NFL site for a full list. Once there, the idea of Future Fears kinda fell into place. There were a lot of clever ones (and a few clunkers) posted. But here's the link to the ones WH picked:

#FutureFearFootball

Hashtag, You're It! - Psycho Sitcoms

9/5/2024

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.

We'll file this week's game under "ouch." I only got one item out of a dozen selected! I'm a little annoyed by this. I really liked doing this one. I'll admit, to try to stand out from the crowd, I did a search of sitcoms from the 50s and 60s. To quote a friend who decided to pipe in, "Obscure much?" Oh well. Maybe next week.

Hashtag, You're It! - Medical Metal Bands

8/29/2024

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 was around for this week's game. I'm starting to wonder about this. My favorite (AC/IV) wasn't chosen. I saw some others that were really good and didn't get selected. Not sure who's judging it these days, but I am not always happy with their choices. And the matrix pulled up metal bands again as the baseline. And, face it, most people only know a couple of metal bands, really. So, we're all bumping up against the same half-dozen names to parody. In that sense it can get a little repetitious. And WH usually grabs the obvious ones and we have to work a bit to create something unique. Anyway, that's how I see it.

#MedicalMetalBands

Hashtag, You're It! - Patriotic Pop Bands

8/28/2024

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.

All right, not that anyone's paying attention, but I've been offline for a week or so. Plus WH is playing around with links and their site, where I can't even get in to see posts they do until a few days later. Very odd. Any, the last game I actually got involved in was this. Did the usual, looking up a list of "nursey rhymes" and there's a surprising number of them. And a lot of little songs and says I've heard of actually started as nursey rhymes. So these games are educational! I only got 3 in, but there's some fun things here.

#NerdyNurseryRhymes

Hashtag, You're It! - Pitiful Pixar Movies

8/10/2024

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.

This week's game was weirdly specific. I mean they've done Disney movies before and different genres, but Pixar? I guess that means they've arrived with enough movies to mock. I pulled up the list of their movies and worked by way down, creating my usual dozen. I got 4 picked. There were a fair number of submissions, but WH is getting picky. The weekly list seems lighter and weighted down with their in-house creations. See for yourself as we list:

#PitifulPixarMovies

Hashtag, You're It! - Sinful Summer Olympics

8/5/2024

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.

Only 2 this week. What can I say, I was late and I wasn't thrilled with the topic, especially since it seem to bump up very close to an article (HOlympics) I had submitted and gotten accepted. But the game went live before my article went up, so I felt like I was dancing around my own material. Nevertheless, I participated and that's what it's all about, right?

#SinfulSummerOlympics

Leave it to the Prose: HOlympics

8/5/2024

Well, I usually shy away from topical stuff with the prose because the ideas don't come until after the event has passed. But this time, after reading about the reactions to the Olympic opening ceremony, over the weekend, something got triggered and I came up with a piece that I quickly put together the Monday after and Weekly Humorist accepted it. It's one of my silly lists with punny names, but, as I said, it got accepted! The title kind of presented itself as I was trying to save the file and made a typo. So, for people who need to get mad at the Olympics, we present:

Hashtag, You're It! - Puke A Politician

7/29/2024

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.

Regurgitating throw-up jokes two weeks in a row? Not my call. But I did manage to get nearly a dozen gags (sorry) selected. I mean, they're mostly variations on "gag" or "hurl" so getting any to stand out is kind of a miracle. Again, WH is taking it's time announcing the "winners" and I'm starting to be concern how much longer these will run. If they're not attracting traffic, what's the point, really? Well, until something happens, I'll be a part of it, especially since I truly believe that participating in the hashtags brought me enough attention for them to start running some of my article submissions.

#PukeAPolitician

Hashtag, You're It! - Barfy Board Games

7/22/2024

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.

Getting this up late. Had a computer crash (independent of the MicroSoft crash) and, well, last week's hashtag game didn't go that well for me. I mean doing puns on one word items (like board games) is tricky. And, frankly, WH grabbed most of them for themselves. I finally manage to squeeze out 12 or so, but only one got selected for their website post. Oh, well. There's always another game for another week. Until then...

#BarfyBoardGames

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