[One of many responses to the How To Issue] How To Guide: World Domination Some people use the holidays to give gifts, bond with families and eat too much. These people will never control the globe. Lots of people have a good string of days off this time of year when they are free of…
Category: comedy
Nora Ephron Made Movies
To some it may seem like a small thing, but it’s not: Nora Ephron made movies. In an industry where M. Night Shamalamadingdong can continue to get movies financed despite making some of the worst movies ever, women continue to be seen as “too much of a risk” to gamble on. It boggles the mind….
TOA/V: Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid
Tuesday’s Overlook Audio/Visuals: Over at A Knife & A Quill I take a look at Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid. Be sure to drop by Todd’s for the round up of overlooked A/V.
Six Sentence Sunday: Con-Eire
Thanks, Linda Parsons. It’s Six Sentence Sunday again: they’re going to be wrapping things up come January. It’s a lot of work to coordinate something that keeps growing in leaps and bounds. I’m grateful for the new readers it brought me. This week I offer a few sentences from my play Con-Eire which gives a…
Tuesday’s Overlooked A/V: Beckett’s Film
Beckett is funny: people seem to often overlook that fact. Productions of Waiting for Godot that get that fact tend to be much better than those with dour seriousness. You put his craggy mug up there and suddenly it’s art with a capital Arrrr! Slapstick is a fundamental element of his work however, so no…
Flash Fiction Challenge: Zoo Story
Patti Abbott has challenged folks again on the topic of the zoo: here’s mine with apologies to Edward Albee and William Shakespeare and Bruce Robinson as well. So there. Zoo Story “So, this is the place.” “This? Why?” “I thought it would be dramatic.” “Dramatic? Why? Wolf howls make it dramatic?” “Not exactly. That scene…
Tuesday’s Overlooked A/V: The Royle Family
I know some of you will immediately say, “Overlooked, my arse!” since it’s on UK Gold regularly. But as the majority of my readers here are Americans, I feel justified in the choice — besides, when do I pass by a chance to share this terrific show? The Royle Family was created by writer/director Caroline…
Tuesday’s Overlooked A/V: The Bedsitter
I have featured Tony Hancock before on a Tuesday (though I don’t seem to have done The Rebel yet which amazes me; and this reminds me too that I haven’t yet done the apocalyptic comedy The Bedsitting Room). This is an episode of the half hour shows, but an unusual one as it’s the first…
Six Sentence Sunday: The Mangrove Legacy
I nearly forgot about the Six Sentence Sunday meme: perish the thought. I have since discovered that there is also a Tuesday Serial meme, so I have to also remember to add Airships & Alchemy to that. As usual, be sure to drop by and see all the other six sentences — it’s a great…