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I will die on this hill. #writing #writingcommunity #amwriting #satirist #comedy #humorist #emdash

Internet person: Stop using th em dash (--)
Me: Come and take it.

Mark Twain's humor: Wit, satire & societal insights 📚

Addressing human follies through keen observations

#MarkTwain #Humorist #Satire #AmericanLiterature

https://masonq.com/2025/02/16/ideas-%f0%9f%92%a1-learn-about-mark-twains-humor/

🥥 Eye, for one, just can't get enough Fran Lebowitz.
This article gives you many reasons why:
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/article/2024/jun/29/fran-lebowitz-i-am-very-angry-im-angry-almost-all-the-time
Here's an example:
"I had a very happy childhood – I know that’s against the law. Everybody is suited to certain times of life and I was very suited to being a child. I am very suited to having no responsibilities." 🥥
#FranLebowitz, #BonsMots, #Humorist, #Humor, #TuckersBalls

#comedian #comedy #live #humor #humorist #lachen #pelmke
Live vor ausverkauftem Haus die Menschen zum Lachen bringen. Comedian-Herz was willst Du mehr?

Liedchen

Die Zeit vergeht.

Das Gras verwelkt.

Die Milch entsteht.

Die Kuhmagd melkt.

Die Milch verdirbt.

Die Wahrheit schweigt.

Die Kuhmagd stirbt.

Ein Geiger geigt.

Joachim Ringelnatz, 7.08.1883 in Wurzen/Sachsen; gestorben am 17.11.1934 in Berlin

#joachimringelnatz #ringelnatz #gedicht #gedichte #humorist #lyrik

Where the heck do I send a hilarious story about space marines, aliens, and vampire robots which happens to be X-rated? I’ve read it at sex-positive events before where people laughed themselves silly. Does anyone print funny speculative smut? @oglaf has an appreciative audience, so where might mine be hiding? #ShortStory #SFF #smut #WritingCommunity #publishing #porn #comedy #humorist #humourist #SpaceMarines #Aliens #Vampires #Robots

From WHYY/NPR Fresh Air: Comic Aparna Nancherla spoke with Ann Marie Baldonado about imposter syndrome. Her book is 'Unreliable Narrator.'

[37-minute audio]
https://tinyurl.com/bdxbbw3a

Her new book is “Unreliable narrator: me, myself, and impostor syndrome”: https://worldcat.org/title/1354647906

#actor #acting #interview #ActorsLife #FreshAir #WHYY #NPR #ImposterSyndrome #actriz #humorist #standup #comedian #author

@briarbenz

Regarding:

"Ta-da! My first Mastodon post. I have high hopes for this social site (after becoming disillusioned with several others)."

Hi Brian!

Welcome to Mastodon and the server. I'm really happy that you joined!

I'm adding the #introduction and #introductions hashtags. Hashtags on Mastodon are super-important since there's no AI filling timelines. People follow hashtags. You can search for hashtags of interest and follow them as well (click on a hashtag and then the plus sign). I follow these 2 as well.

Also check the Federated timeline to find people to follow and also check out https://fedi.directory

In short order your timeline will only have posts that you are interested in. This is the best difference from other social media sites. It's why people love Mastodon.

So, welcome Brian in #Louisville.

#humorist #vegetarian #neurodivergent

From #DorothyParker, in a 1957 review of S. J. #Perelman’s book “The Road to Miltown”:

“It is a strange force that compels a #writer to be a #humorist. It is a strange force, if you care to go back farther, that compels anyone to be a writer at all, but this is neither the time nor the place to bring up that matter. The writer’s way is rough and lonely, and who would choose it while there are vacancies in more gracious professions, such as, say, cleaning out ferryboats?”

#February 4, 1909
#OTD Julian R. Meade, American #Author & #Humorist, is born.

He mainly wrote about his home state of #Virginia & died young at 31.

From #Bouquets & Bitters (1940):

"Today, I was plowing through a horticultural #Tome that had a chapter that began:
'If you want a successful garden, it behooves you...'
The hell it does!

My #Garden is one place in the world where I am NOT behooved."

Julian also wrote,

"The more I hear of #Horticulture, the more l like plain #Gardening."

Black & White Photo of Julian Rutherford Meade. He has fine features - a high forehead, thoughtful eyes, a straight nose, and wavey hair. He looks like a Julian to me.

A walkway curves through a verdant parkway with lush lawns & trees.

A white peony with a yellow center in early spring.

#February 2, 1931
#OTD Judith Viorst, American #Poet, #Humorist, & children's #Author, is born.

A native of #NewJersey, Judith famously wrote the Alexander series, which includes the best-selling Alexander & the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day (1972).

Regarding the loss of a friend, she wrote,

"#Flowers smell like halibut.
Velvet feels like hay.
Every handsome dog's a mutt
Since Hanna moved away."

Judith once quipped,

"Growing old: I'd rather grow #Azaleas."

She's 92 today.

Black & White Photo of Judith Viorst. She has shoulder-length dark hair & bangs.

Closeup of a pink azalea in full flower.

Closeup of a golden time piece surrounded by lilac blossoms.

#February 1, 1904
#OTD S.J. Perelman, American #Humorist, is born.

In his #Book '#Acres and Pains' (1943), Sidney wrote his transformation fr/ a city #Lazybones to #Country squire. He also shared the relatable frenzy caused by #SeedCatalogs:

"The children need a #Pumpkin for #Halloween & let's have plenty of #Beets. We can make our own lump sugar!

Then someone discovers the #Hybrids: the #Onion crossed w/ a #Pepper or a new vanilla-flavored #Turnip that plays the 'St. James Infirmary Blues.'"

S.J. PERELMAN once said,
To lock horns with
Nature, the only
equipment you really
need is the constitution
of Paul Bunyan and
the basic training
of a commando.

Image of Paul Bunyan statue in Bangor,
Maine

Date: 2006-09-04

Credit: Dennis Jarvis

License: Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0

View file on Wikipedia

The cover of Acres & Pains shows a sketch of SJ Perelman dressed as a country squire - straw hat, plaid shirt, and britches.

Closeup of Stinging Nettles.

In 1932, SJ Perelman and his
wife bought a farm in Erwinna, PA
which he called "Rising Gorge.'
He called the place "an irregular patch of nettles bounded by short-term notes [loans] containing a fool and his wife
who didn't know enough to stay
in the city."

Black & White Photo of SJ Perelman with Harry Potter Glasses, mustache, and bushy eyebrows.

Photoist♾️
@Photoist
📷 ✡️Dad of humans and dog, #Photographer, #humorist #slacker #mountain dweller, #horror film fan.
Killer of #Houseplants
Former Manhattanite & Washingtonian. #MilitaryDad.

Moderately managing my outrage over the abundance of Reich-Wing, nutbag troglodytes.

If you have zero posts, I will not accept your follow request.

#Photography is my own. All rights to images reserved.

#December 30, 1869
#OTD Stephen #Leacock, #Canadian #Writer & #Humorist, is born.

He wrote,

"All the #Books [say] #Soil is the most important part of #Gardening.

But, if a man [already has] his own #Backyard before he opens the #Book, what remedy is there?

All the books stress the need for "deep, friable loam - full of nitrogen."
This I have never seen.

My own land [contains] nothing but #Earth.

I could see no trace of #Nitrogen.

In all humility... I don't know what #Loam is."

Closeup of the grey/black ground with some pine needles and pinecones. The letters e - a - r - t - h are laid on the ground to spell earth.

November 30, 1835
#OTD Mark Twain, American #Writer & #Humorist, is born.

Regarding #Eve (of #Adam & Eve), he once wrote,

To get the #Full #Value of #Joy, you must have someone to divide it with.
After all these years, I see that I was #Mistaken about Eve...
It is better to live #Outside the #Garden WITH HER, than #Inside it... without her.