open mic night at the comedy club
where future comedians begin
everyone gets five minutes
(a tough gig, very brave souls, all)
to try out their material
win over the audience
including this guy
who sat off to the side
looking like he really enjoyed the set.
—
‘as soon as I did my first five minutes of stand-up
i knew that i would rather be a failure at comedy
than a success in marketing.’
-jimmy carr
not me, but the same look i get when i realize i’ve forgotten a part of my only joke, yet again.
—
i love to tell stories, laugh, talk, improv, and share amusing tid-bits
but for the life of me
i absolutely cannot tell a joke
forgetting a line
mixing up the order
messing up the punchline delivery
all that
and
i only have one joke
and that’s no joke.
—
“i don’t know how to tell a joke. i never tell jokes.
i can tell stories that happened to me… anecdotes.
but never a joke.”
-lucille ball
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image credit: pinterest
memoirists, novelists, songwriters, television writers, screenwriters, comedy writers, social media writers, cookbook authors, newspaper writers, bloggers, it writers, comicstrip writers, standup comedians, human interest writers, 92 year old and 17 year old writers, actors, playwrights, short story writers, cartoonists…
so much creative energy all in one place
learning, listening, talking, writing, improv, playing, crying, laughing my face off with stomach hurting fun.
not your usual conference
not your usual hotel drawer reading material
—
“you can’t deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.”
-stephen king
it’s world cup time and team oz is ready.
these guys seem pretty unruffled.
and who needs shorts down under?
best of luck to team u.s.a.
let the games begin!
—
I say if you’re going to take a chance on something, you just go full balls to the wall.
Toby Keith
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image credit: the kangaroo sanctuary Alice Springs
and i couldn’t be happier.
part of my family lives down under.
and soon
they will be up top with us for a while.
and i will have my dream
of all of the daughters
and all of the sons in law
and all of the grand babies
in one place at one time.
and it is sure to be an adventure.
—
Family faces are magic mirrors. Looking at people who belong to us, we see the past, present, and future.
Gail Lumet Buckley
happy new year to everyone who spends their life trying to somehow make the world a better place, including those engaged in the mysterious and exciting world of genetics.
one may assume that these bright souls are born with the gift of extraordinary brilliance and purpose, all at the expense of some other area of their humanity, such as a sense of humor. in reality, this could not be further from the truth. while their comedic approach to life may not be easily apparent, all it takes is a glance at the mark they leave on their work to see their strong sense of whimsy.
after listening to a recent npr interview with one such geneticist/scientist/self-proclaimed ‘nerd’ and hearing him discuss names assigned to individual genes and their mutations, it’s clear this group has found a way to do their research, stretch their intelligent ironic imaginations, and leave their legacies – all while embracing a sense of play in its truest form.
A RANDOM SAMPLING OF SOME OF MY FAVORITES:
radical fringe
lunatic
cheap date
maniac
one-eyed pinhead
INDY – I’m Not Dead Yet (makes mutant flies live twice as long – inspired by Monty Python’s ‘Holy Grail’
i thank you for this on so many levels.
I didn't have my glasses on.... 