Search results

I could be wrong, but I thought the whole point of the joke was that it isn't funny, so it becomes a challenge for comedians to make it funny. A similar sort of idea would be involve giving writers a boring story, "I woke up this morning. I went to work," and asking them to retell it in an...

Since you're such a fan, I thought you'd enjoy this;) The story has made the rounds a few times and goes something like this: little Darcy Tucker is playing minor hockey one day and lies on the ice faking an injury after getting hit. On the way home, his father starts giving it to him and...

That would be a lot more funny if Tucker didn't have 20 stitches in his face.

You didn't see the Atlanta game? I forgot the guys name, but he got a four game suspension for it.

Hey, did you see Tucker faking 20 stitches?

A school for Wizards doesn't exist. It's still interesting to find out what its like.

I always want to know what the fuss is about. Probably because I understand how difficult it is to get people excited, and talking about, a book. Especially in this multimedia age of TV, video games, DVDs, ipods etc. And I must say, there always is a reason.

How can anyone not be interested? So evil and yet so common. Plus, I like my bad guys bad. Realistic, three dimensional, complicated, yes, but a villian whose biggest crime is only tipping 10% doesn't appeal to me.

Don't you want to know what you don't believe in is like.

With most people "suspension of disbelief" means they stop believing it's fiction. Almost magically, the story becomes real. They feel like Hogwarts really exists. They wonder if Jesus really was married. (Sorry Stewart.) Do you not like books that give you that feeling? To me, the...

Or it could illustrate the problems two people have communicating when one doesn't accept the dictionary definition of certain words.;) Or it could illustrate the way the same word effects different people differently.

Dave Barry also performed a song about Tupperware, in a band whose only instruments were Tupperware. Reportedly, the audience gave him a standing ovation.

My dictionary says they are the same thing: Plot: the story or sequence of events in a narrated or presented work such as a novel, play, or movie Story: the plot of a novel, play, motion picture, or other fictional narrative work

I heard it's a pretty crappy band.

Chili Palmer takes the same approach. “I wait for characters to show up, ones I can use.” Then, wait to see what they do. “You have to be patient. You have to let it happen. Not making anybody do anything they don't want to." I think what Dave Barry found out, is that you eventually need...

Shakespeare killed off many characters, some violently. (And lots of people seem to think that Shakespeare was pretty good. ;)) I can't imagine a more gruesome death than cruxification and the Bible has sold a few copies. Why do you find murder so troubling?

Has Stephen King ever written a book that had no plot?

Everyone feels sorry for the terminally ill, but everyone loves a prodigy too. http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/0725/p12s01-bogn.html Mary Shelley was only 19 when she wrote Frankenstein. She did OK.

Maybe. Maybe not. Being so young could be part of his "platform." Anything that generates publicity helps to sell books and there are journalists who might be interested in a writer simply because he is so young. Oprah and Larry King used to frequently have a young poet on their shows. I...

Springsteen is a big John Steinbeck fan. He's written several songs, over several decades, inspired by Steinbeck.