I just announced my lineup of short humor writing workshops for June! It includes two SINGLE-SESSION workshops--the perfect way to get in some humor writing practice if you don't have time for a longer workshop. Check out the link for more details.

And come on out to the Freelance Isn't Free Day next week to hear me yap on a panel

In this week's newsletter @jamesfolta.com and I rounded up funny writing by Luca Clark & Luke Herzog and @zhubinparang.bsky.social in @mcsweeneys.net, Johanna Gohmann in Slackjaw, and Dustin Mark in @pointsincase.com Plus my upcoming workshops and James's upcoming panel Check it out & subscribe 👇

Comics are pretty cool, you guys.

RIP to the great Clarence Carter. Here’s what William Friedkin told me at the Harvard Film Archive in 2014 when I asked him about ending KILLER JOE with “Strokin’.”

Regular Books is a cool new platform for ebooks, and they're featuring an old erasure poetry zine I made for zero dollars!

Do you have an elderly or disabled neighbor in NYC? Be a good neighbor and let them know about the free air conditioner program. if they earn $3473 or less a month, NYC will cover the costs of an A/C. Last summer we had 95 degree weather. (via @leahfrombklyn on twitter) www.ny.gov/services/app...

Plex taking cues from my @mcsweeneys.net piece

In this week's newsletter, @jamesfolta.com and I rounded up great writing by @ninasharmawriter.bsky.social in Slackjaw, Helen Laser and @tylergooch.bsky.social in @pointsincase.com, and @megannn-lynne.bsky.social in @havehashad.com. Check it out & subscribe at the link below 👇

The average American has three friends.

Oh, hey, I wrote a thing about a guy who sucks.

If you have a genius short humor piece, send it to @pointsincase.com! We’re always open for submissions and we pay! More info and guidelines are here: pnca.se/submit

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Glad to see Popeye's getting so much out of therapy

Good thread

Last call for my short humor writing workshops starting this week! Check out this thread to see the classes that have spots still available!

hello everyone. it’s time for one of those posts. i got laid off in October and my unemployment runs out next week. i have years of experience writing online long form, short form, and scripted video content and am very looking for more of a chance to do that for money again. can send samples

It's May 4th, the perfect time to check out this piece my wife and I wrote.

Last call for my short humor writing workshops starting this week! Check out this thread to see the classes that have spots still available!

Still got two spots left in this one!

In this week's newsletter @jamesfolta.com and I rounded up great writing by Devon Anderson in @mcsweeneys.net, Jay Izzo in @pointsincase.com, Robert Sietsema, and Sarah Lazarus in @newyorker.com. Plus info about my workshops that are starting next week! Check it out & subscribe 👇

If you've never taken a humor writing class from @lukevburns.bsky.social, I highly recommend it. I've workshopped ideas that were published in McSweeney's, Points In Case, Slackjaw, and other great sites. Here's a link to his upcoming classes: lukevburns.tumblr.com/UpcomingWork...

I've still got a few spots left in my classes starting next week! Click on through to check out the schedule and get more details.

ONE spot left!

In this week's newsletter, @jamesfolta.com and I rounded up great funny writing by Casey Rand, Mary Heitkamp, and Nick Hornby in @mcsweeneys.net and @dontbaketheloaf.bsky.social in @thehardtimesnews.bsky.social You can check out this issue (and our whole archive) and subscribe 👇

whispering, giggling, telling the moon we mustn't, not on earth day

This is tomorrow! Hope ya can make it!

AVATAR: THE WAY OF WATER (2022) Cinematography by Russell Carpenter Directed by James Cameron

Just FOUR spots left in my intro to short humor class starting on May 7th! Learn the basics of short humor and write a draft of your very own piece in just four weeks.

And you can check out the entire issue, our whole dang archive, and subscribe, right here: buttondown.com/humorouswrit...

link will work in just under an hour! havehashad.submittable.com/submit/35341...

We're running another bracket this week on @literaryhub.bsky.social about the best film adaptations of the last 50 years! Get in there and vote:

📽️Richard Fleischer getting the directing job on Walt Disney’s ‘20,000 Leagues Under The Sea’📽️ Richard’s dad is Max Fleischer who was rivals with Walt Disney back in the golden age of animation! #fleischerstudios #waltdisney #maxfleischer #richardfleischer

Pencils for a Godzilla vs Neo-Tokyo commission

Latest piece made the “week’s finest short form humor” roundup in The Newsletter of Humorous Writing. Thanks @lukevburns.bsky.social and @jamesfolta.com for the nod.

In this week's newsletter, @jamesfolta.com and I rounded up great writing by @kyleandjohnson.bsky.social in @pointsincase.com, Gary Suarez in BW/DR, and Jed Feiman & Nehemiah Markos and @jonjzeller.bsky.social in @newyorker.com Plus info about our upcoming hangout! Check it out and subscribe 👇

This book's got fast-paced action, surprising plot twists, and 50 grams of plastic explosives embedded in the spine. Read my full review! medium.com/slackjaw/you...

First day as the social media manager at NASA! Wish me luck!!

In last week's letter @jamesfolta.com & I rounded up great writing by Jesse Eisenberg in @newyorker.com, @lilliekoi.bsky.social and @seanmcgowan.bsky.social in @pointsincase.com, & Shea Socrates in @havehashad.com Plus a few words on the passing of the great Glen Baxter Check it out & subscribe ⬇️

You can learn a lot about a person from where they fall on the Armageddon-Deep Impact x Volcano-Dante’s Peak preference chart. Are you: 1. Armageddon-Volcano 2. Armageddon-Dante’s Peak 3. Deep Impact-Volcano 4. Deep Impact-Dante’s Peak. I feel like most people are 1s or 4s (I am personally a 4).

Back in 2019 Film at Lincoln Center programmed a double feature of They Live and The Last Temptation of Christ, and it remains one of the best moviegoing experiences I've ever had www.filmlinc.org/daily/full-l...

Take my miniature wife, please!

I'm at a black box theater in the Village seeing Wallace Shawn's new(ish) play, directed by Andre Gregory and PLOT TWIST both female leads (it's a four person play) are out with COVID, they only had one understudy for those roles available so Wally Shawn is now on book playing the other female role

If you’ve been seeing all those hilarious Glen Baxter cartoons on here and giggling at them I can’t recommend Brad Neely’s Creased Comics highly enough

the wario of w.s. merwin is m.s. wermin

Alright hive mind, do I or you know an immigration lawyer in South Texas who would be willing to explain some stuff to me? I am trying to help a family who had someone taken during the ICE Occupation here, and don't quite understand the process.

who up Mervyn their LeRoy?