Category Archives: Chuckles

Pieces Published in the Last Two Months

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Happy Spring readers!

Thought I’d catch you up in what I’ve been able to get out in the past couple months.

“Sometimes freedom is the impoverished commitment of two lonely people who have fled.”

I had a short personal essay, “Times I Thought of Running Away,” appear in Sunlight Press. Read here.

As for the rest, it’s all satire:

READ “My Name Is Ken Follett and I Am Now Going To Writing Short Fiction” appeared in Slackjaw

READ “I, Belle, Am Tired of Living in an 18th Century Village” appeared in MuddyUm

READ “A Male White Oak Issues An Apology For Allergenic Assault” appeared in Doctor Funny

READ “Quiz: Who Said It? A MAGA Politician? Or Adolf Hitler?” appeared in The Haven

READ “This Cold Pizza is Not My Attempt To Prevent Unionization; It’s a Selfless Gesture of Thanks To My Employees” appeared in Greener Pastures

READ “Streaming Services and Their Enneagram Types” appeared in MuddyUm

READ “Letter to George Lucas From the Tunisian Ministry of Tourism, 1983” appeared in Doctor Funny

READ “Movies in the Cocaine Bear Cinematic Universe” appeared in Weekly Humorist

READ “My Name is Ishtar: Stop Confusing Me With Easter” appeared in Backyard Church

Published Reads This Month

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Hey readers! Here’s a rundown of some of this month’s publications you can read me at so far!

I Asked ChatGPT To Send a Terminator Back In Time To Circumvent Its Own Inception in McSweeney’s Internet Tendency

Please Take Ten Minutes Out of Your Day To Fill Out This Satisfaction Survey in Slackjaw

This Is A Ransom Note From Your Landlord in Greener Pastures

As a Content Creator, The Most Rewarding Part of My Job is Calling Myself a Content Creator in Weekly Humorist

To 007 From The Sardinian Farmer Whose House He Destroyed in Doctor Funny

Boy Scouts Will Teach Your Children to Prepare for Society’s Collapse in MuddyUm

How I Made $1,000 From 1 Chart-Topping Medium Post

and two new churches to try:

The Billy Peebles Church of God and The Bitter Springs Church of God in Backyard Church

Weird Al, The Christian

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With a new satirical biopic now out, Weird Al is once again in our hearts and minds with his silly novelty music.

An American treasure since the 80’s, Alfred has taken a very specific brand of music making and created something we will always need in hard times—a laugh. I fell in love with his stuff in middle school, and it wasn’t long after that I learned something else special about Al. He’s a practicing Christian. Continue reading →

Read My Latest Satire Posts

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In the past couple weeks I’ve had a few satire pieces published online. Check them out!

Lyrics From Abandoned Weird Al Songs published in The Haven

The Inconsistencies in Plot, Character Development, and Basic Rules of Grammar in My Thirteen-Part Fantasy Series Can Be Explained By a Phenomenon Known as Purple Manna published in McSweeney’s

“How To Get Limited Public Service Debt Relief in 60 Simple Steps” published in The Haven

Enjoy the Latest Satire Posts

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The past couple weeks have been prolific, particularly in satire.

Slackjaw published my piece, Jeff Bezos’s ‘Lord Of The Rings: The Rings Of Power’ Show Notes

And now that I’m a writer for Backyard Church, here’s my two latest articles there:

We’re A Church Who Loves the Idea of Racial Diversity

and

THE END TIMES ARE NEAR!

5 Funny Reads from Slackjaw This week

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If you don’t follow Slackjaw on Medium, you really ought to. Endless short humor pieces to help you get through your day.

Everyone can read 5 articles a month for free on Medium’s giant library, but if you subscribe for only 5 dollars a month (imagine paying a dollar for each one of those free ones, then the rest are free—hey, it’s cheaper than the newspaper), you get unlimited access to any article from any publication on Medium.

So to convince you, here are 5 great humor pieces from this week alone from Slackjaw, the premiere humor publication on Medium:

  1. How To Have “The Talk” With Your Child About Weinerville by Caleb Coy
    Yes, that’s me. It’s mine. But hey, I’m real proud of it. And my brother is real proud of it. Sooner or later, you might have to talk to your child about getting weinerized.
  2. Quiz: Are You At A 90 Minute Hot Power Yoga Class, Or A Medieval Public Execution? by Luke Strathmann
    “Everyone’s dehydrated, and sometimes there are goats.”
  3. Real Friends Never Say “Good-Bye.” They Say “I Should Really Let You Go” And Then Keep Talking by Lily Hirsch
    “If I said “good-bye,” you’d basically assume I’m dying. And a real friend would never make you deal with death when no one has actually died.”
  4. Introducing The Tragedy Flag: The First Ever Flag Made To Stay At Half-Staff by Adam Dietz
    “With The Tragedy Flag, you’ll never have to mournfully lower your flag again! And you’ll never have to raise it again either, not that you ever get a chance to on account of the daily gun violence.”
  5. The Philosophy Major’s Guide To Small Talk by Alex Baia
    “Need help finding anything?”
    “Not unless I have free will.”

New Personal Essay in Potomac Review

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I just received my copy of issue 70 of Potomac Review. Some great poetry, essays, and short stories are included, as well as my latest essay, “In Maggie’s Shadow,” about my visit to a haunted plantation house and subsequently being stranded on a boat.

Order a copy here!

Here’s a preview: