I like this blending. Adding humor to some very serious ideas will allow more people to read the entire article and may even increase the likelihood of their remembering what you wrote. The philosopher-mathematician Gian-Carlo Rota gave a lecture at MIT, "Tem Lessons I Wish I had been Taught." One of his ten points was to give people something to take home and humor can help. I like the way you use humor - it's subtle and can sneak up and make the reader say "What?" Example - TUCKER. This is in no way to denigrate the use of 'in your face humor' as you did with Trump's library and museum.
Maybe I am being a bit presumptuous, but I think one of your unstated goals is to get people to think. I know it is one of my goals. One of the most powerful pieces of philosophy that I have ever read is a commencement speech made by David Foster Wallace - 'This Is Water.' It amazes me the way he slipped his ideas into my thought processes.
I have no problem with Ritz lemon crackers, and I would be happy to try some. Please send me a box to do an impartial test, and I will send back the results. (MY address will follow.) What's wrong with chocolate coke? It sounds like a combination of two of my favorite flavors. I agree with your feelings about your conservative friends - the few I know also have little to no care for their fellow primates. (Attractive women not included, but I suspect an ulterior motive?) As a confessed liberal, I find very few things disgusting - I did a lot of plumbing when I was younger, and I can tell you some great stories about unplugging blocked toilets and cockroaches. I don't mind rats in the open unless they are members of my government, and those always try to hide in the dark. I believe a study was done concerning "spit" or saliva to be polite. How it is disgusting when expelled from the body, but ok as long it's concealed in the mouth - kids love to gross out adults with expelled saliva. Here, in the less civilized lower 48, we have a garbage disposal called an Insinkerator. As a child, I ate everything, and I think my parents would have made my middle "Insinkerator" if they had known about this product. I like how you slip little bits of humor into your stories - maybe to see if we are paying attention? TUCKER
Interesting idea about the spit being external or internal, I'll have to read about that some time. As for the humor, I think its the only consistent thing about my writing these past couple years, so I figured I might as well fully lean into it instead of reserving it for pure-humor pieces. What do you think?
I like this blending. Adding humor to some very serious ideas will allow more people to read the entire article and may even increase the likelihood of their remembering what you wrote. The philosopher-mathematician Gian-Carlo Rota gave a lecture at MIT, "Tem Lessons I Wish I had been Taught." One of his ten points was to give people something to take home and humor can help. I like the way you use humor - it's subtle and can sneak up and make the reader say "What?" Example - TUCKER. This is in no way to denigrate the use of 'in your face humor' as you did with Trump's library and museum.
Maybe I am being a bit presumptuous, but I think one of your unstated goals is to get people to think. I know it is one of my goals. One of the most powerful pieces of philosophy that I have ever read is a commencement speech made by David Foster Wallace - 'This Is Water.' It amazes me the way he slipped his ideas into my thought processes.
Please let me know how your other readers feel.
Thanks for your thoughts Edward, gonna go watch that video
I have no problem with Ritz lemon crackers, and I would be happy to try some. Please send me a box to do an impartial test, and I will send back the results. (MY address will follow.) What's wrong with chocolate coke? It sounds like a combination of two of my favorite flavors. I agree with your feelings about your conservative friends - the few I know also have little to no care for their fellow primates. (Attractive women not included, but I suspect an ulterior motive?) As a confessed liberal, I find very few things disgusting - I did a lot of plumbing when I was younger, and I can tell you some great stories about unplugging blocked toilets and cockroaches. I don't mind rats in the open unless they are members of my government, and those always try to hide in the dark. I believe a study was done concerning "spit" or saliva to be polite. How it is disgusting when expelled from the body, but ok as long it's concealed in the mouth - kids love to gross out adults with expelled saliva. Here, in the less civilized lower 48, we have a garbage disposal called an Insinkerator. As a child, I ate everything, and I think my parents would have made my middle "Insinkerator" if they had known about this product. I like how you slip little bits of humor into your stories - maybe to see if we are paying attention? TUCKER
Interesting idea about the spit being external or internal, I'll have to read about that some time. As for the humor, I think its the only consistent thing about my writing these past couple years, so I figured I might as well fully lean into it instead of reserving it for pure-humor pieces. What do you think?