Sitting or Standing – oh, what the *&^%!
We’re writers. We end up sitting a lot.
We’re no doubt aware of the fact that sitting a lot isn’t really good for us. There are studies that claim to show how very, very bad it is by informing us all that it increases the risk of type 2 diabetes and of course cardiovascular disease. It also leads to obesity and back pain. In fact it could be killing us (duh – look at what sitting all day causes).
NOTE FROM LB:
The Navajo Dog is back today, and while I don’t think anyone could be as happy about that as I am, she definitely is worth keeping company with. Oh, and yes, this is a true story, every word. To let it be otherwise would betray everything she has lived for.
The Navajo dog walks her talk, has been for at least
Time for TVWriter™’s Monday look at our 5 most popular blog posts of the week ending yesterday. They are, in order:
Know how all the writing books (including LB’s own) tell you to create autobiographies for your characters so you know them inside and out before you start writing?
It’s a bitch, right? But here’s something that’ll help you. Writer Rebecca Sinclair has created a brilliant template that homes in on exactly what character aspects you need to know, and the good peeps at Eclectics have published it on their site.
We aren’t publishing it here out of consideration for Ms. Sinclair’s wishes, but we guarantee you that it’s worth a click. So, hey, you know what to do, CLICK HERE!
Our hats are off to the good folks at Vulture for putting together this most informative – and funny as hell – look into the humor of today!
The oldest joke on record, a Sumerian proverb, was first told all the way back in 1900 B.C. Yes, it was a fart joke: “Something which has never occurred since time immemorial; a young woman did not fart in her husband’s lap.” Don’t feel bad if you don’t get it — something was definitely lost in time and translation (you have to imagine it was the Mesopotamian equivalent of “Women be shopping”), but not before the joke helped pave the way for almost 4,000 years of toilet humor. It’s just a shame we’ll never know the name of the Sumerian genius to whom we owe Blazing Saddles. But with the rise of comedy as a commercial art form in the 20th century, and with advances in modern bookkeeping, it’s now much easier to assign credit for innovations in joke-telling, which is exactly what Vulture set out to do with this list of the 100 Jokes That Shaped Modern Comedy.
A few notes on our methodology: We’ve defined “joke” pretty broadly here. Yes, a joke can be a one-liner built from a setup and a punch line, but it can also be an act of physical comedy. Pretending to stick a needle in your eye, or pooping in the street while wearing a wedding dress: both jokes. A joke, as defined by this list, is a discrete moment of comedy, whether from stand-up, a sketch, an album, a movie, or a TV show.