Tag: humor monday
member name: Pat Bertram
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March 23, 2009 12:16 AM EDT --
I seem to have sidled into the book review business. Well, not business exactly, because no one is going to pay me, but a few people asked me to review their books, and I volunteered to review a few others, . . .
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May 05, 2008 09:47 AM EDT --
In March, John Philipp wrote an article about writing calendar humor, though what is funny about calendars, I sure don't know. Mine has yet to tell a single joke. It's all about numbers, and numbers, . . .
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December 29, 2008 12:35 AM EST --
I never have enough time for all the nothing I want to do, so I planned to do nothing for Christmas. I am such a procrastinator that I will do anything to keep from doing what I'd planned to . . .
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November 24, 2008 12:27 PM EST --
Tom milled around the prison yard with the other inmates, waiting for the sound of death. There would be no stay of execution for their condemned mate, who would die in a most barbaric way.
"They . . .
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February 18, 2008 12:23 PM EST --
I've been reading the novels of a bestselling author, trying to figure out the secret of her success, and for the life of me, I don't see it. Perhaps it's hidden beneath her appalling . . .
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August 25, 2008 12:43 AM EDT --
When I was out walking this morning, enjoying one of the last hot days of summer, a dusty red pickup pulled up next to me. A man with a weathered face tipped his hat and said, "Howdy, Ma'am." . . .
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September 15, 2008 12:18 AM EDT --
All bloggers are created equal. We start out with a blank template, an idea, a hope of words to come, but we do not stay equal. In my journeys around the blogosphere, I have noticed many different . . .
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March 24, 2008 12:05 AM EDT --
In my green article for St. Patrick's Day, I wrote, "Owning a dark green vehicle supposedly means that you are traditional, trusty, and well balanced, but what it really means is that . . .
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August 04, 2008 12:12 AM EDT --
Like other construction worker, we creators of word worlds own toolboxes filled with necessary implements. We have hooks to hook the reader, glue to glue their attention, a feather or two to . . .
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July 21, 2008 10:25 AM EDT --
It was a dark and stormy night.
Silas Slovotsky leaned back in his chair and studied the words he'd typed into his computer.
He grinned. Perfect. The very words he needed to set the . . .
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March 17, 2008 12:20 AM EDT --
The colors at the ROY end of the spectrum excite us, the BIV colors calm us down, but green is neutral in its effect.
Green is the largest color family discernible to the human eye. Darker . . .
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September 01, 2008 12:12 AM EDT --
When you're looking at the world, don't forget, the world is looking back at you.
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December 01, 2008 01:21 PM EST --
Originally, my first book (More Deaths Than One) was going to be released in September and the second (A Spark of Heavenly Fire) in October, then both were going to be released at the beginning . . .
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February 25, 2008 10:34 AM EST --
Last summer at Art in the Park, the realization struck me that everyone in my field of vision was wearing blue jeans. Men in basic, straight-legged jeans. Boys in baggy jeans that hung to their knees. . . .
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October 27, 2008 12:13 AM EDT --
Once upon a time,
Long ago and far away,
Lived the queen of the witches,
Griselda the Gray.
If you think all witches are tall and thin,
You are wrong about that.
Griselda the Gray was short . . .
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January 19, 2009 10:42 AM EST --
Pat Bertram interviews Chip, the hero of her work-in-pause, a whimsically ironic apocalyptic fantasy:
Bertram: Continuing our discussion from October , Chip, tonight is again about word counts, . . .
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June 09, 2008 10:28 AM EDT --
Men and women both check out the other sex, but who does it more?
Women. Recent research shows that women actually check out men slightly more than men check out women, but women are more . . .
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