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Sit-Com 101: How Trump Channels Lucy (opens the original)
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I have decided to see if I can put my knowledge about writing for television to good use by demonstrating how to create classic sit-com episodes using the one thing our current president is unquestionably good at: creating eye-popping headlines. It also has occurred to me that he is so steeped in the TV beats of his 60’s childhood that he is constantly re-enacting and referencing sit com plots intuitively.So today I am giving you, the budding writer-at-home, an assignment. <p class="cta-captio
How to Spot a Lunatic, part ONE. (opens the original)
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I think the reason it feels like we are surrounded by lunatics is that, in fact, we are surrounded by lunatics. Lunatics, lunatics, everywhere and not a drop to drink. Which I know is not how that quote goes and therefore makes no sense. But seriously who has time to correctly remember ancient literary quotes when they are surrounded by lunatics?Now that it is officially fall, what choice have we but to begin to count the days until the midterms, a lunatic fest if there ever was one. Followed by
MY EMMY SHOW STORY (opens the original)
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I always feel a little bit connected to the Emmys whenever September rolls around because they are one of the only two award shows that I ever attended. (The other was The Cable ACE Awards, which was, of course, a bigger deal when “cable” was still a thing). Of the various festive occasions that The United States usually chooses to celebrate, award shows are the most glamorous. Unless you were me in 1983. “What?” you say,” How can that be possible?” Well, as a dues paying member of
Wally VS. the Coyote. (opens the original)
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Since my last post was an assortment of dog videos, I felt a little bad leaving my present day dogs out of the mix entirely. I originally posted this a few years ago but I updated it some. It’s not a video but it is an illustrated version of the kind of day to day issues I confront living with my dog Wally.Wally is a 13 year old shepherd/chow/Pitbull/Golden Retriever mix. And I know that to be his actual geneological lineage because when I first met Wally 13 years ago, at the Westside German She
A Life Full of Dogs (opens the original)
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I just moved through another birthday (STOP! No, really: STOP! No need to wish me a Happy Birthday. It was last week. Consider yourself thanked. )And on my birthday, when I was trying to think of something to post, I had opposing thoughts.Thanks for reading Still looking for the Joke! Subscribe or don’t. I am too distracted by our awful government to care.<input clas
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