Oct
26
Vacation!
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Yup, I’m heading out. To the open road, the long winding trail, the incessant requests to stop at every McDonalds we pass, all that good stuff. I’m referring to the family summer vacation, although this year it’s been delayed to fall.
We’re trekking down to Orlando this evening for a week of fun and [...]
Oct
25
But first, this:
Love that song, but because of its title it only seems to receive ample airplay during the Halloween season.
Oh speaking of Halloween, this week’s offering of the Dimmer Switch is up for your reading pleasure:
Generic or not, “Hatchet Wound Zombie Clown” sounds pretty scary.
This column is about my yearly trip to [...]
Oct
24
Old Proverbs Explained #18
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(The complete archive of redefined old proverbs can be found here.)
His bark is worse than his bite
Recognized Meaning: This person makes a great many threats but doesn’t follow through on them.
Alternate Meaning: The poodle’s been eating Funyuns again.
Don’t judge a book by its cover
Recognized Meaning: Don’t judge the value of a thing simply by [...]
Oct
23
Meerkat Manor Season 3, Episode 11 - Three Degrees of Separation
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Yeah, yeah, I know. I’m a couple days late on this. In my defense I was out traveling all last week, so after spending 6 hours driving in a car on Friday afternoon/evening, the last thing I wanted to do was sit for another hour in front of the television and computer doing [...]
Oct
23
Contest Updates!
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I entered a couple of writing contests over the past few months, and some of the results are in.
I was a finalist in the Humor Press’s Humor Writing Contest for Aug/Sept for my entry Becoming One of “Those People”. I’m credited as Chris H. from Ohio - no pennames since real cash [...]
Oct
22
Site Decline
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And still, my website continues its slump. Lack of posts, lack of interest, lack of attention… this place is starting to look like my car. I’d apologize and say I was going to do better, but that ship has long sailed. The blogging doomsday clock has probably ticked another minute closer to [...]
Oct
15
In the previous lesson, we learned how a lowly caveman made history with the first ever written depiction of humor. Today, we learn how humor may have spurned the intellectual development of primitive man.
Pt 2: Humor’s vital role in the evolution of humankind
Humor writing progressed very little for the next 30,000-ish thousand years. [...]
Oct
14
Me and the Pwny
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Here’s a video of me exercising the new pwny in the ring. She’s gotten to the point that all need to do is hold the whip up and she goes, but we had some extra spectators on this day so she required some nudging on my point to keep her going.
As you can [...]
Oct
12
Meerkat Manor Season 3, Episode 10 - Farewell, My Lovely
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Shorter intro this week. No screeds or rants on fan reactions to Flower’s death this week, just a quick recap.
When we last saw the Whiskers, Rocket Dog had once again assumed the mantle of dominant female of the Whiskers, only this time it was of the full mob and not just a splinter group. [...]
Oct
11
Looking for the Dimmer Switch?
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Today’s offering of the Dimmer Switch isn’t here. I entered a writing contest over at Gather (where I also moderate a humor writer’s group and serve as member editor of the Writing group every Monday. I’m there more now than I’m here.), so to be elegible to win it had to be “exclusive” to [...]