Reader’s Note: Up-and-coming Los Angeles-based comedian Sasha King ran an ad on Craigslist calling for a comedy writer to supply him with material for a standup routine. I answered the call and submitted the (abridged) material below. As happens a lot on Craigslist job ads, King was emailed the material...

(Reader’s note): I’m seriously contemplating syndicating nationally a comic strip about two mischievous boys, and here is a preview for readers of 11 possible set-ups (scenes) for the strip. The boys’ names are Sam and Googie. Sam is the older of the two boys. 1. Grandpa is sleeping in a hammock,...

Spontaneous human combustion is the inexplicable catching fire or blowing up of a living human being for mysterious reasons. There are reportedly 200 cases of people who for no apparent reason, caught fire. Think of it, you’re walking down the street and suddenly….BLAM! It gives a whole new meaning...

I would like to see in 2011 the right-wing racists in the country including those at FOX News stop using the usual racist epithets under their breath and in the secret corporate boardrooms where they hatch their plots. You know, they want to call Obama the “N” word, but they don’t dare...

Ebenezer Scrooge was just ahead of his time. He gets a bad rap in some English fairy tale for being a stingy bastard who has money and doesn’t want to part with it. What’s wrong with that? That’s just the American way. He walks along the snowy street on his way home alone from his work minding...

Visit the websites of my creative film-making friends at Creative Lesbian and Dykeplights. Below are the links: http://dykeplights.com/ http://creativelesbianvideo.com/a-sampling-of-film-festivals-that-welcome-short-films/

I think 1981 was the year both Elizabeth Taylor and myself appeared on the daytime soap opera General Hospital, not on the same day, but in different episodes. She of course had a meatier role than I. I was used as set dressing, playing a menacing bad guy, and a portion of that scene I include here. You...

The following is an unauthorized, impermissible interview with Lindsay Lohan’s subconscious, done without her knowledge. Me – Miss Lohan. Nice to meet you. I heard that you took a small walk-on part as a gun-wielding nude nun in the film “Machete.” Is this a breakout role for you? Lohan – No....

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Here is a short compilation of the outstanding features of world religions and how they have been interpreted. Catholicism – It only makes sense that the founder of this faith, a humble, obscure first century Galilean carpenter who preached humility, otherworldliness, non-accumulation of possessions,...