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Category Archives: The Humor Project
Hockey Players, Cowboys and Comics
Stuck at home are you? Tired of surfing the net, streaming reruns, or playing Sudoku? Maybe a good book will help cure your COVID blues. Books are those paper things you hold up to your eyes where you actually turn … Continue reading
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Tagged beating the odds, born a crime, eddie olczyk cancer survivor, john branch, masks and covid, saddle bronc riding, the last cowboys, trevor noah
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North State Writers and Blue Room Theatre Combine for LiveWord II
“The real joy is in constructing a sentence. But I see myself as an actor first because writing is what you do when you are ready and acting is what you do when someone else is ready.” Steve Martin I … Continue reading
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Tagged acting and writing, blue room theatre chico, live peformance, writing quotes
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It’s Summer. Time to Pitch.
“So God has a lava lamp. I’m cool with that.” Tom Bodett, pitchman for Motel 6 He made a career pitching hotel rooms. In the mid 1980’s Tom Bodett lived in Homer, Alaska, the southernmost town in the state’s highway … Continue reading
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Tagged advertising pitches, baseball pitches, hot dogs, motel 6
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Leigh Anne Jasheway Accidently Keeps Them Laughing
“We either laugh or we lie face down in the carpet weeping.” Leigh Anne Jasheway I first reached out to her after Labor Day. My in-box chimed when I received her message, Leigh Anne Jasheway was game to be interviewed as … Continue reading
Posted in Humor Project - Interviews, The Humor Project
Tagged american humor, baby boomer women, baby boomers, comediennes, funny ladies
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Etc. Guy Hockey Story to be Performed Live
No costume. No props. No excuses. When I re-booted my writing career six years ago my goal was to get regular gigs and earn a passive self-sustaining income from writing. My writing income isn’t even passive-aggressive.
Posted in Community, The Humor Project
Tagged arts and leisure, community theater, hockey humor, humor writing, live performance
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Words of Wisdom – Will Rogers
“A remark generally hurts in proportion to the truth.” “Chaotic action is preferable to orderly inaction.” Will Rogers Will Rogers was an icon. Born in 1879, Rogers was an American stage and motion picture actor, vaudeville performer, American cowboy, humorist, … Continue reading
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Tagged american humor, american satire, humor writers, speedos
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Paying Homage to a Great One: Humor Writer Patrick McManus
“You’ll never meet him,” a know-it-all consultant told me. “Patrick McManus is big time. He’s hard to reach. He won’t have time for you.” It pays to ignore naysayers especially when one is young, dumb, ambitious, and on a mission. … Continue reading
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Tagged american humor, humorists, mark twain, outdoor humor, Patrick McManus
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Kicking Off 2018 With a Few Quotes
Writer’s block sucks. I hopped on a government web-site to research a project and stimulate my brain… only to discover that our government is closed. The web-site is kaput. Glad it’s not April 14th. So instead I’ll welcome you to 2018 … Continue reading
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Tagged american humor, government shutdown, humor writers, Joel Stein, pj orourke, time magazine
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