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Mining Your Past by Noting the Present

Image by Getty Images via Daylife The safest target for humor is always yourself, and the best material reflects your personality. So it’s time to start digging. I have not had much success just sitting down and looking in my past for funny stuff. I have however, nearly always been able to come up with [...]

Tossed In Space

Image via Wikipedia I have just watched Suart Brown’s TED talk: Why Play is Vital – No Matter Your Age. Play. When did we get so serious? We’re even serious about humor. Somehow somewhere we seemed to get the idea that to be serious, we have to be solemn. Maybe it’s best to just throw [...]

Status Games

This is an incredibly simple concept, once you get it. But tough to write about. Status is our relationship to the world. Not only to people but to things and to places. For example: Why are we quiet and reserved (usually) in church?  Movie theaters are similar physical spaces, but treated completely differently. Could it [...]

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