Category: Misc.

Ken Levine on ‘The reprehensible presidential debate’

The best thing to come out of last night’s fiasco “debate” is this look at it from comedy (and now political) master Ken Levine.

CLEVELAND, OHIO – SEPTEMBER 28: Workers prepare the stage for the first presidential debate between U.S. President Donald Trump and Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden

by Ken Levine

After last night’s utter Shit Show (as “Fake News” journalist, Dana Bash so succinctly put it), if you are still for Trump, please stop reading my blog.  Please do not listen to my podcast.  Please do not follow me on social media.   Unfriend me.  Unsubscribe. Block me. I don’t care.  Please just GO AWAY.    Of course I’m disabling comments, libtard that I am.

And before I get into the debate, let me say this to Trump supporters —  I care more about your welfare and safety than you do.  I don’t want you to lose your health insurance.  I don’t want you to contract COVID-19 and needlessly die.  I don’t want your house to be swept away in a flood.  I don’t want to see you out of work for two years because of how mishandled this pandemic was.    A vote for Trump is shooting YOURSELF in the foot. read article

How to trick people into thinking you’re good looking

Regular TVWriter™ visitors may recall a certain editor who variously called himself Muncher or muncher or Munchman or munchman or even Tim Muncher in his earliest days here.

Tim is still a great TVWriter™ friend and total bud to our Beloved Leader LB. He’s just too busy being amazingly cool, rich, talented, and successful to mess around with this site anymore.

Recently, this TVWriter™ minion (who, for whatever it may be worth to y’all, is female) got to talking with the munchy one and asked a question that I may regret to the end of my days. The convo went like this: read article

Sheila Kuehl (Zelda on “Dobie Gillis”) remembers: I Was A Kid Star

We’re feeling nostalgic today. Maybe it’s the influence of our buddy Herbie J Pilato, whom we’re also featuring on TVWriter™ today. Or maybe it’s the tenor of the current times, which often seem to be blowing this TVWriter™ minion away…and not in the positive sense of the expression.

Be that as it may, we’re delighted to have discovered this video memoir from one of our favorite characters back in the day. Alas, poor Zeldie, and of course Dobie Gillis too, where are you when we need you?

Thanks to Pop Goes The Culture TV for putting this, and so many other fun interviews, up on YouTube for all of us to see.

Virtual YouTubers could change the way we interact – forever

William Gibson’s cyber future continues to grow in our real present. For example, did you know you now can create almost perfect video AI replicas of yourself to serve as your interweb stand-ins? No expertise needed? Read on.

A young Japanese woman sporting a giant pink bow and white opera gloves looks into the camera and gleefully greets her YouTube audience. She’s about to try and solve a puzzle.

Before diving into the game, she boasts with a smile: “Well, compared to all you humans, I can clear it much faster. No doubt about it!” read article

14 Tips and Tricks to Make Your Writing Stronger

Grammarcheck.Net and Jennifer Frost continue to delight us with helpful tips for writers of all media. Here’s the latest example.

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