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11/14/2012: ALL THE LATEST!
08/11/2010: An Artist's Palete
07/18/2010: I'm Not Sure, But Maybe There's Something Interesting Here?
07/02/2010: Job Talk
06/18/2010: Pilot Blindness
06/07/2010: Pilots Speak Out
05/23/2010: It's Not What You Said, It's How You Said It
05/16/2010: The Dangling Kitten
05/03/2010: Not Lovin' It
04/25/2010: Feeding Your Facets
04/18/2010: Go with the Flo
04/10/2010: Novelists vs. Journalists
04/06/2010: Do I Still Remember How to do This?
12/08/2008: Taking a Break...
11/20/2008: Feverish Comic Book Thoughts
11/15/2008: Brought to you by the letter from Syndi
11/01/2008: Be a Type Writer
10/27/2008: Jhumpa! Jhumpa!
10/22/2008: Hot Cold Openings
10/18/2008: The Ultimate Puppy
10/17/2008: Pitfalls! Don't Fall in the Pit!
10/14/2008: Merging Toward Verging
10/09/2008: More On Entitlement
10/09/2008: Entitlement
10/08/2008: The Grim Brothers
09/22/2008: Speculations
09/05/2008: More Bad Jokes!
09/01/2008: How to Tell a Bad Joke
08/22/2008: Intestinal Fortitude
08/17/2008: Battle of the Bloggers!
08/14/2008: Introducing...
08/13/2008: Soapy Scenes
08/08/2008: Facing a Jury in 1956
08/04/2008: Holy Crap, I Got it Wrong
08/01/2008: Incidences. No really, I hear it all the time.
07/19/2008: A Visit to the Temple
07/16/2008: Wow
07/11/2008: Making People Fast
07/05/2008: Playing with the Prose
07/02/2008: A Quick Word
06/26/2008: We Don't All Have ESP in Our Names
06/24/2008: Dishing it Out
06/21/2008: On a Dime
06/20/2008: Breakless Breaking
06/17/2008: Exemplary Letters
06/13/2008: A Call to Comedic Action
06/12/2008: How to Vancouver
06/11/2008: The Ages of Man
06/08/2008: The Sparkle Rule
06/05/2008: A Dirty Joke
06/02/2008: Playing By the Old Rules
05/29/2008: Link Letters
05/28/2008: Two Long!
05/27/2008: Superstar
05/23/2008: Waning Moonlight
05/22/2008: Shelf Life
05/20/2008: Yoko-adjacent
05/19/2008: Why You Want It, Not What You Want
05/17/2008: Learning From The Prose
05/16/2008: Set Patterns
05/09/2008: The Singular of Apocalypse
05/03/2008: Keeping Promises
04/26/2008: What We Realize
04/25/2008: 2008 B.C. (British Columbia)
04/16/2008: Costume Customs
04/15/2008: Places, Everyone!
04/13/2008: But Go Crazy with the "Frak"s!
04/11/2008: Character Moments on the Run
04/09/2008: Addendum to Yesterday's Post:
04/08/2008: How to Give Maris Hives, Alphabetized
04/07/2008: And Maybe Looking in the Mirror Will Make Him See Himself
04/06/2008: Zoeae Doesn't Refer to Baby Clams, But it's Good For Scrabble
04/04/2008: Another Voice to Master
04/03/2008: You Don't Need to be a Secret Agent to Find Out Agents' Secrets
04/01/2008: Frenzy. An Excellent Noun.
03/31/2008: You'll Thank Yourself
03/28/2008: Protag, You're It!
03/27/2008: Bubble, Bubble...
03/26/2008: Hodgepodge
03/24/2008: I Hope Jenny Isn't a Worm
03/21/2008: Thanks!
03/21/2008: No, I said, "Pitching"
03/20/2008: Spitting on Expectations (Expectorations)
03/18/2008: A Way To Get To Write for Billie Holiday
03/17/2008: The Fourth Track
03/14/2008: A Three-Track Mind
03/13/2008: Colombo Always Showed Up Late
03/11/2008: If You Want To Do It At All, Do It All
03/09/2008: Bills, Bills, Bills
03/07/2008: Encouragement from One's Piers
03/06/2008: Fortuidipitous
03/02/2008: Leaving the Zinger Unzinged
02/28/2008: Metaphorical Stove Architecture
02/25/2008: Let's Say You Don't Like Shrimp...
02/23/2008: Another Bite of That Onion
02/22/2008: Maybe She'll Get A Free Copier, Though?
02/19/2008: English People Don't Actually Say Po-tah-to
02/16/2008: Sweet Onion
02/14/2008: Work!
02/12/2008: Archaic Anarchy
02/10/2008: Taking the Lift to the Top of your Career
02/09/2008: Pencils Up?
02/07/2008: It's Not Called Wish Factor
02/05/2008: Walkin' and Walkin'
02/04/2008: Edgification
02/03/2008: Strike Update
02/02/2008: Holding Down Your Chowder
01/30/2008: No Drumroll, Please!
01/28/2008: Petty Force
01/25/2008: Playing Your Way Into Television
01/24/2008: Go, Boss, Go!
01/23/2008: Pedagogy!
01/20/2008: Frenzy Corrected
01/19/2008: Even Worse Than Jumping the Shark
01/16/2008: Investment Pays Off
01/14/2008: FNLy Enough
01/13/2008: Kitty Was a Light-Weight
01/12/2008: Suspicious Advice
01/09/2008: Sending In All the Ninjas
01/08/2008: Onward!
01/07/2008: another update
01/07/2008: New Time!
01/06/2008: More On Vegas
01/06/2008: Refreshing News
01/05/2008: Everyone Expands Over the Holidays
01/03/2008: Go On, Hit 'Em Over the Head. It'll Be Okay.
01/01/2008: A New Page for '08!
12/19/2007: Year-End Announcement
12/19/2007: Previously In This Blog...
12/18/2007: A Feather in Your Recap
12/16/2007: Make Sure They're Not Fake
12/15/2007: The Laugh on the Cut
12/12/2007: Nothing to Sneeze At
12/11/2007: Have You Seen that SunChips Flavor "Harvest Cheddar"? What the Heck?
12/11/2007: Pencil Harvest Festival!
12/10/2007: It was Like the Enterprise Cafeteria or Something
12/07/2007: Infamy!
12/06/2007: "Write Aid" Update
12/06/2007: Strike News from A to Izzard
12/06/2007: Your Future Fellowship
12/04/2007: Come Get More Advice Than You Need!
12/03/2007: Runners in your Knits
12/02/2007: Pencil Pusher
12/01/2007: Naming Names
11/30/2007: Bread, Butter, and Mud
11/29/2007: MASH notes
11/27/2007: Lenny Gets In a Good One
11/25/2007: Pam and Clams
11/23/2007: Rimshot Removal
11/22/2007: It's Never Requited
11/19/2007: ...and have to trade places with a pencil prince
11/18/2007: On Pencils and Previouslies
11/16/2007: An Update on the Run...
11/15/2007: Ken in the Art of Writing
11/15/2007: Life and Things Like It
11/15/2007: New!
11/14/2007: Fans4Writers.com
11/14/2007: Losing the Race, Winning the Hearts and Minds of the Readers
11/12/2007: Strike News! As it Happens!
11/12/2007: Cutting Them Off at the Elipsis
11/11/2007: In Which I Talk About A Dream I Had Thirty Years Ago
11/09/2007: A Pilot Takes Off
11/08/2007: Delivery Systems
11/07/2007: Sweaty Observations
11/06/2007: Day Two and An Answer for Betsy
11/05/2007: Strike! Pizza! Chad!
11/04/2007: I Hope Someone's Working On Witty Signs
11/01/2007: You Could Call It "Time Out"
10/31/2007: On Top of Mount Percentile
10/30/2007: Hello, Good Buy
10/28/2007: Tough Talk About The Deficit
10/24/2007: Who Cans Worms, Anyway?
10/22/2007: Look Alive
10/21/2007: Damp Thoughts
10/17/2007: Back to the Drawing Board and Loving it!
10/17/2007: The Importance of Self-Promotion
10/15/2007: Waking Up Familiar
10/14/2007: Guest Speaker Conclusion
10/12/2007: Today: A Guest Speaker
10/09/2007: Get Back on the Horse, Just Not Right Now
10/08/2007: Sweaty Clumps of Talent
10/04/2007: Knight Writer
10/03/2007: Klink!
10/02/2007: Now for Some Stuff I Don't Know...
10/01/2007: The Tween Life
09/28/2007: Back to the Place with the Thing
09/25/2007: Don't Harsh my Balloon!
09/24/2007: Clamity Jane Rides Again
09/23/2007: Adding by Subtracting
09/21/2007: Unsafe Toy Alert!
09/19/2007: Room Rites and Rewrites
09/18/2007: Hire Education
09/17/2007: Another Reason to Sharpen Every Line in Your Spec
09/14/2007: Old and Grey's
09/13/2007: "Free to the Chosen" Makes a Nice Rallying Cry
09/12/2007: An Open Letter to the Media
09/10/2007: Coffee and Confidence
09/07/2007: This is Not My Beautiful Script
09/06/2007: Check out the "Sunshine Bulge" of the late 60s
09/02/2007: Literal Thinking
08/31/2007: Notables
08/30/2007: I've Said it Before...
08/29/2007: Photo Play
08/26/2007: Hot Rat-Taunting Story Documents
08/24/2007: Whispers in the Dark
08/23/2007: Deep Jots
08/17/2007: Kaput Down that Keyboard
08/16/2007: Grand Slamdance
08/13/2007: Tell Us A Little About Yourself
08/12/2007: He's President AND a Prostitute!
08/11/2007: Advanced Blasphemy
08/10/2007: Creative Blasphemy -- An Introduction
08/08/2007: The Mouse House
08/07/2007: Like Snacks For Your Eyes, Not Your Ears
08/06/2007: I Taught I Taw a Placement Program!
08/04/2007: Doin' what Doogie Did
08/03/2007: The Book of Acts
08/02/2007: Respectfully Disagreeing
08/01/2007: Good Writing = Good Lighting
07/30/2007: Taking a Look at Your Appendix
07/27/2007: Entitlement
07/26/2007: Clean Script, Clear Heart, Can't Lose
07/23/2007: ABC/Disney Debriefing
07/21/2007: In Which I Become an Area of Expertise
07/19/2007: Have Some More Clamonade
07/18/2007: Stumbling Toward Greatness
07/17/2007: Someone Put Shorts on the Internet!
07/14/2007: The Brothers, Coming Through
07/13/2007: Can You Find the Hidden Star Trek Reference in This Post?
07/11/2007: Setting the Setting on your Scene Setting
07/08/2007: Holding the Reader's Hand
07/05/2007: Why No Murphy Brown? Did I Really Not Have a Murphy Brown?
07/04/2007: Viva Bautista
07/03/2007: Then Again, It Might Mean "Summerian Frost"
07/02/2007: Listing Your House with Entry 21
07/01/2007: Wearing Tom Stoppard's Shirt
06/27/2007: Sweat, Not Letting Them See You Doing It
06/26/2007: Organized Worry
06/25/2007: So Happy Not Actually to be Getting Sued
06/23/2007: Tryin' to get there
06/22/2007:
06/22/2007: There's Nothing Prettier than Otter Harvesting Season
06/21/2007: I Guess He Really Can't Drive
06/20/2007: Sick Humor
06/19/2007: Warning: This Post Contains an Unavoidable Swear
06/18/2007: Gray Matters
06/17/2007: Overseeing Your Underpinnings
06/14/2007: Getting Sick in the Elevator in your Cabin
06/12/2007: Soon-Lee was Klinger's Wife
06/11/2007: Doing by Saying
06/08/2007: Second Thoughts
06/07/2007: Duo-ver
06/05/2007: Spring Cleaning
06/03/2007: And Then You Get Apples in Your Can of Worms
06/01/2007: Pulling Up Stakes
05/30/2007: Joke Hold
05/29/2007: The Thing on Giles' Lapel
05/28/2007: I Can't Believe I Remember This from 1994
05/26/2007: More Speculation
05/24/2007: Did you Know Cameron and Chase are Their Last Names?
05/23/2007: Although Wilson is a Best Friend, He is Not Also a Volleyball
05/21/2007: Sighs Matter
05/20/2007: Making Yourself Comfortable in the House or Office
05/18/2007: Shopping the Schedule
05/17/2007: The Spec Stands Alone
05/14/2007: The Most Wonderful Time of the Year
05/12/2007: Depriving Rob Schneider of a Comedy Premise
05/10/2007: Rockin' and Enrollin'
05/09/2007: Zach's Aspirations
05/08/2007: The Offensive Line
05/07/2007: Voiceoverused
05/04/2007: Also Good for Swimming Pools with Diving Boards
05/03/2007: Narrowly Avoiding Apostrophe
05/01/2007: The Incompetence of Others Makes You Comparatively Better!
04/29/2007: She also said, "...don't tell that to the dry foliage". Fantastic!
04/27/2007: It stands for Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow
04/25/2007: That's Right. I Said Dog-Fondling.
04/23/2007: The Wavy Green Line
04/22/2007: Getting Away From The Office
04/21/2007: Don't Just Stare. Stare AT Something.
04/19/2007: I Finally Get Why Some Joke Writers Don't Want To Talk About It
04/16/2007: Smelling like a thing and another thing!
04/15/2007: Start by Clenching Bits that No One Can See
04/12/2007: Usually it's not, in fact, a glass of water
04/11/2007: Long Tall Funny
04/09/2007: Speaking Irrelevance to Power
04/08/2007: Remember, a Clam is an Overused Joke
04/07/2007: It Wasn't Really a Family Reunion, But I Can't Remember What It Was Exactly
04/05/2007: A Betta is a Kind of Fish
04/03/2007: Putting the Car in your Career
04/02/2007: A Strong Showing
03/30/2007: Not Actually How Sophie Chose
03/28/2007: Putting the Cart Before the Horse (and Getting Rid of the Horse)
03/26/2007: Why my clothes don't match
03/25/2007: Hands are for typing, not waving
03/24/2007: That Darn Mella
03/22/2007: Golf Cartography
03/21/2007: Mail Bag Grab Bag
03/20/2007: Livin' in Minnesota?
03/19/2007: Slimming Down
03/17/2007: Comedy Concentrate -- Just Add Pie!
03/15/2007: ABPI is on the air!
03/13/2007: Moses Presupposes his Toeses Are Roses
03/12/2007: This American Blog
03/12/2007: I Think the Sheriff is Steamed
03/09/2007: Not a Theme: "Funny Things People Do"
03/08/2007: Theme-ophilia
03/07/2007: One Last Clam
03/05/2007: My Favorite Moment of the B
03/01/2007: Currently Alternating
02/28/2007: Going Back to Pick up the Heart I Left There
02/26/2007: (There's No Such Thing as Tylium)
02/25/2007: Clamity Jane
02/24/2007: When Life Gives you Clams, make Clamonade
02/23/2007: Boneless is For Chicken Strips
02/20/2007: An Atypical Route to Spexcellence
02/19/2007: Not Just a Brainshower
02/17/2007: Update on My Battlestar!
02/16/2007: Intel from the Field
02/15/2007: Shuffling the Cards
02/13/2007: Whoo followed by Hoo!
02/10/2007: Are Your Bay Leaves on the Table?
02/09/2007: Psst... It's Not Really an Old Saying
02/07/2007: After All, What's Better For Friendship Than a Pop Quiz?
02/06/2007: Meredith is the Drunk One -- You Know the One I Mean
02/04/2007: Scripting the Unspoken
02/03/2007: It's (Going To Be) On!
02/02/2007: Something That Makes Medium Rare
02/01/2007: Jokes that Play Hard to Get
01/31/2007: He Got in Trouble for Telling Menotti Jokes. Really? How Naughty Were They?
01/29/2007: Pipe Dreams
01/27/2007: Some Culpa for Mea
01/25/2007: Jane's Famous Kugel Recipe
01/24/2007: No, Tiger!
01/22/2007: Everyone Has an Office
01/21/2007: "Working Under Poodleskirts"
01/20/2007: It Finally Sinks In
01/18/2007: Friends, Romans, Countrymen...
01/16/2007: Sometimes You Don't Want to Dissolve
01/14/2007: Giving 'em Wrinkles (Cont'd)
01/13/2007: Giving 'em Wrinkles
01/12/2007: Scripting Spontaneity
01/10/2007: A Rule To Not Obey
01/09/2007: Jokes to Make You Cry
01/08/2007: Making Mistakes on Purpose
01/07/2007: That's "jack-assity," not Jack Cassidy
01/04/2007: Yes, and...
01/03/2007: "Who Invited Joe Pesci?!"
01/02/2007: A Little Bit More About the Great Divide
12/31/2006: I've Said it Before, I'll Say it Again: Pants.
12/29/2006: A Reason Never to Attempt Dignity
12/27/2006: Syntaxentuate the Positive!
12/26/2006: Davy Jones Collapses Under a Load of Pipe!
12/25/2006: Christmas Fudge
12/24/2006: Happy Christmas Eve!
12/22/2006: Overused Comedy Word: Festive. And Yet...
12/21/2006: The Mistakes of Others -- The Greatest Gift of All
12/20/2006: Deep Thoughts at the Coffee Bean
12/19/2006: Unwriting
12/17/2006: What's Wrong With Meredith Gray?
12/15/2006: Don't Look at the Mug! Don't Look!
12/13/2006: What I Learned From Stephen Colbert
12/12/2006: You Really Should Visit My Unicorn Farm
12/10/2006: Or Staple a Candy Bar to Every Page
12/08/2006: Frakkin' ay!
12/07/2006: Trying Times
12/05/2006: We Need an Arc Angel to Tell Us Where the Story's Going
12/03/2006: Surgical Strikes
12/02/2006: A Visit From Ken Levine!
12/01/2006: Czech Marx
11/30/2006: Leveling With You
11/28/2006: Why John Lennon Remains Interesting
11/27/2006: Punching People With Words
11/26/2006: Flowwwww
11/20/2006: Muddy Mouthprints
11/19/2006: Taking a Header
11/18/2006: Hot Bean Burrito Bottle!
11/18/2006: /duplicate entry deleted/
11/15/2006: Bite three = more cheesecake! Bite four = too much cheesecake!
11/14/2006: A Clean, Well-Lighted Place is Totally Overrated
11/12/2006: Fun? Really? Oh, yeah...
11/11/2006: Spoiler warning: The Office
11/09/2006: The Worst Advice So Far!
11/07/2006: Want = Pain
11/06/2006: Breakage
11/04/2006: sdrawkcaB gnitirW
11/02/2006: Giving with One Hand, Taking with the Same Hand
11/01/2006: When Zeit Met Geist
10/31/2006: There's More Than One Way to Bait a Schmuck
10/30/2006: Ungulates with Plans
10/28/2006: I Think I've Got the Right Fable. Industrious Ant, Profligate Grasshopper?
10/27/2006: "I Live in Fear of Coolio's Inevitable Comeback" and Other Funny Captions
10/25/2006: Keeping House at Home
10/24/2006: On The Premises
10/24/2006: /duplicate entry deleted/
10/23/2006: And Stephanie and George and Marcel...
10/22/2006: Not Buying the Farm
10/20/2006: More Final Draftiness
10/18/2006: And That's Our Blog Entry!
10/16/2006: How to Write Jokes That Aren't Funny
10/15/2006: Trimming the Fat and Putting it Somewhere
10/15/2006: /duplicate entry deleted/
10/14/2006: Plowing the Untouched Field
10/12/2006: And He Was Slow With the Check
10/11/2006: Making Faces
10/10/2006: Getting Some Action
10/09/2006: A Flurry of Nouns and Verbs
10/08/2006: Nothing But De Tooth
10/07/2006: Suspect Yourself
10/06/2006: Fun Fact: Sometimes Parentheticals are Called "Readers"
10/04/2006: An Open Smile on a Friendly Shore
10/03/2006: What's Wrong? Truth Got Your Tongue?
10/02/2006: Punches in Bunches
10/01/2006: The Vague and Winding Road
09/29/2006: Inner Critic Flattened by Impending Deadline
09/28/2006: Spec Skirts
09/27/2006: Free the Echidnas!
09/25/2006: Angie Baby
09/24/2006: Nothing Lasts Five-ever
09/23/2006: Spoilers -- The Office Season Premiere
09/22/2006: More About the About
09/21/2006: Prisoner of Trebekistan, Revisited
09/20/2006: When Hits are Misses
09/19/2006: More Tech Than Trek
09/16/2006: Bad News for West and North Asian Writers
09/15/2006: Success on Spec
09/14/2006: How to Do Things Without Words
09/13/2006: Habitat for Humor
09/11/2006:
09/10/2006: What color is your writers' room?
09/08/2006: Actually Not
09/07/2006: What's an analogy like?
09/05/2006: Marjorie is in Trouble
09/04/2006: The Spiner of the Story
09/03/2006: Steve and Branko, together at last
09/01/2006: Staying off the Links
08/30/2006: Zia Padora, that should be the full name. Huh? Right? Are you with me?
08/29/2006: The Sound of One Forehead Slapping
08/29/2006: A Special Day
08/28/2006: Ideas and How to Avoid Them
08/25/2006: Spec Script Superstars
08/24/2006: The Argument against Intelligence and Candor
08/23/2006: They weren't really called "pilot lights" -- I made that part up
08/21/2006: Apparently, TAG Body Spray makes you irresistible
08/20/2006: The Importance of Being (a) Prompt
08/19/2006: Trying Out the Spicy Talk
08/17/2006: Have a Nice Day, Sez I
08/16/2006: Write Like What You Like
08/15/2006: It's Advice
08/14/2006: The Inner Surface of Funny
08/11/2006: Don't Add a Second Coat
08/09/2006: "The Thunder's Always Coming"
08/08/2006: Prisoner of Trebekistan
08/07/2006: Leaving Early, Staying Late
08/06/2006: Still, most of them smell fine
08/04/2006: The Crash of the Symbols
08/02/2006: Putting the Ka- Before the Boom
08/01/2006: It's Craftastic!
07/30/2006: Totally Tonal
07/29/2006: Please Don't Pet the Peeves!
07/27/2006: Even with a face like a durian, he can still be a nice guy
07/26/2006: Didja Notice?
07/25/2006: End Titles
07/24/2006: Title-ation
07/22/2006: Titles, The Sequel
07/22/2006: An Appeal from the Writers' Room
07/21/2006: A Nose By Any Other Name Would Smell as Well
07/18/2006: A Happy Medium
07/17/2006: the downside of clarity
07/16/2006: The Heady Thrill of Obeying the Law
07/13/2006: I don't even know what they're selling
07/11/2006: I remember it like it was 34 years ago...
07/10/2006: Naming Names
07/09/2006: Like Whatever
07/08/2006: Mugging for laughs
07/07/2006: Henchpersons
07/06/2006: A Show About Anything Atoll
07/05/2006: Shedding your Flippers
07/04/2006: Thundering herds of damselfish
06/29/2006: The Storm in Your Brain
06/28/2006: Milking the Idea Cow
06/27/2006: an unprovoked slam at Carrot Top
06/26/2006: It's Vistalicious!
06/25/2006: New Romantic Comedy: Yin Loves Yang
06/23/2006: Scene and Not Heard
06/22/2006: What's a Half a Joke? Ke
06/21/2006: House Dry-Swallows a Valium
06/19/2006: That's right. It steals tongues
06/18/2006: Bobbing for Bad Apples
06/17/2006: Sometimes you don't need to use the f-word
06/16/2006: Tee Party
06/15/2006: There used to be harp music for this kind of thing
06/14/2006: No Practical Advice Today -- But a List of Ways to Get Some
06/13/2006: What do Screenwriters Call In 'N' Out Burger? Int./Ext. Burger
06/12/2006: When is a Joke like an Oven?
06/11/2006: Final Draft Tries to Keep Us From Talking Over Each Other
06/09/2006:
06/08/2006: Laugh is a Battlefield
06/07/2006: Disclaimer: A gun doesn't really make you important
06/06/2006: looking for Burbank in all the wrong places
06/05/2006: A Quickie
06/04/2006: Maybe Everyone Else Already Knows This. Is this Common Knowledge?
06/02/2006: braaaaains
06/01/2006: Castroville is the Artichoke Capital -- that's one that I got
05/31/2006: Like a Stealth Weapon for your Spec Script
05/30/2006: When Puppets Shouldn't Point Out the Hands up Their Bottoms
05/29/2006: Progess Report
05/27/2006: Taking Advantage of Your Friends
05/26/2006: The Tiny Joss in Your Head
05/25/2006: Script Dentistry
05/23/2006: Squiggy and the Sea Creatures
05/22/2006: Talking Dirty for Money the Classy Way
05/20/2006: Also check out "Must Love Jaws"
05/19/2006: Like Syndicating "Will" and "Grace"
05/18/2006: Since-less Violence
05/17/2006: Hide in Plain Sight
05/16/2006: They could look like footstools sometimes
05/15/2006: Admiral Adama and a Frilly Lampshade
05/14/2006: Tears On Your Keyboard
05/12/2006: Cheesy Jokes
05/11/2006: Sorry, JVC, but it's simply true
05/11/2006:
05/09/2006: Reading what's been written to sound written as it's spoken
05/08/2006: A Really Touching Letter
05/07/2006: Morley Safer, that's a great one
05/06/2006: the chamois joke is best read out loud
05/05/2006: Wanna Read an Entry? There's a New Entry!
05/04/2006: A Staking Without a Slayer
05/02/2006: Ambiguity
05/02/2006: Like a Fat Kid in Corduroy, They Make Sounds with Their Legs
05/02/2006:
05/01/2006: Again with the Grilled Cheese
04/30/2006: They Came with Mustard to Dip Them In
04/29/2006: Don't Throw it Out, Throw it Away
04/28/2006: The Missing-Squid Formation
04/27/2006: Home Again!
04/19/2006: Forgot to Mention
04/19/2006: "All About Evil." That's One. We Should've Used That One
04/18/2006: Ooof, urgh, errff!
04/18/2006: All that Monty Python Study Going to Waste
04/16/2006: International Hour
04/15/2006: And Sometimes Robin is Dick
04/14/2006: Hello Kitty or Hi Cat or Something Roughly Like That
04/12/2006: Cutting Bone
04/11/2006: Another Peeve to Pet. Another Peeve... to Pet.
04/10/2006: Missy Can't Even Pronounce Pneumothorax!
04/08/2006: Twist Inflation
04/07/2006: Laughing at Editing
04/06/2006: Girls Just Wanna Have Funnel
04/05/2006: Tiny Tidbit
04/04/2006: A Guest Asks About Guests
04/03/2006: A Special Guest
04/02/2006: Staffing-Season Brides
03/31/2006: One Wild Party
03/30/2006: Look Back in Nausea
03/29/2006: I Heart TV
03/26/2006: Nuns and Knishes
03/22/2006: Maybe Seven. Seven Would Be About Right.
03/21/2006: A Little Off the Top
03/20/2006: Pet Peeve Adoption Center
03/19/2006: Walking the Santino Trail
03/18/2006: Thanking the Academy
03/17/2006: A Treat!
03/16/2006: Make 'em Laugh!
03/14/2006: Lying Down for Fun and Profit!
03/12/2006: Aboutitude
03/11/2006: Pointing at What Hurts
03/10/2006: Back to Jack
03/09/2006: Something So Hard To Write, It Could Injure You
03/08/2006: I get it! It's Unheard!
03/06/2006: They Keep the Money in Fair-Banks
03/05/2006: Another Neat Trick. And Bunnies on a Peanut.
03/04/2006: Gunn For Hire?
03/03/2006: If I Wrote for House...
03/02/2006: What's On My Nose
03/01/2006: Try Angles
02/28/2006: Cactus Longhorn Beetles!
02/27/2006: Don't Order the Cricket Salad!
02/26/2006: I Googled Goggles!
02/24/2006: Funny = Sticky. Sticky = Funny
02/23/2006: A Trick
02/22/2006: Avoid Chafing! Check That Outline!
02/20/2006: Falling With Style
02/15/2006: Specs with Chewy Surprises Inside!
02/14/2006: Putting the "uck" in Starbucks
02/13/2006: When Television is Radio
02/12/2006: Mystery Man Revealed!
02/12/2006: Why Russian Novels Are So Challenging
02/11/2006: Pop Quiz!
02/10/2006: A New Angle
02/09/2006: Specs From Beyond the Grave
02/08/2006: Danger Ahead
02/07/2006: Keeping It Fresh (Why Not To)
02/06/2006: Shooting at a Moving Target. Don't Lead It!
02/04/2006: Sweatin' to the Stereotypes
02/03/2006: Ignoring Your First Impulse
02/01/2006: A Nugget
01/31/2006: Making Mice
01/30/2006: Read More Television!
01/28/2006: The Joy of Specs!
01/27/2006: Write Molehills, not Mountains
01/25/2006: CLARIFICATION
01/24/2006: All Anyone is Talking About
01/23/2006: Adding a Story to your House
01/22/2006: Quit your job and move to Hollywood!
01/21/2006: JIP RIP
01/19/2006: A Political Post!
01/18/2006: Diary of a network show
01/17/2006: Here's the latest!
01/16/2006: WELCOME!!

 

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