Remember when I was all "Ohhh, it's Naked Cupcake Day week, and I'm bout ta blow some minds up in this junk?"
Sorry. I'm all about grabbing life, pantsless, by the warm muffin (I have no idea what that means), but I'm about spent.
It's been a roller coaster of a year so far, and my brain is too effed up with effing to think. (See?)
Anyway, I'm so tense, my shoulders feel approximately like this:
I also apparently have a problem with eyeliner and/or a really uncomfortable obsession with Clockwork Orange.
I could give you a depressing list of all the crap that's gone wrong so far in 2010, but I'm trying to focus on the positive and also not lose readers because now that I have you, I will never let you go. I will hold you forever and stroke your hair and hold your hand and empty your bedpan and never let anyone else take you from me. Forever and ever. I promise.
I just lost readers, didn't I? Blow well.
Anyway, the positives this year are awesome, so I'm trying to focus on those. If the negatives don't become positives, though, then the positives will become negatives and - twitch, twitch - ARRGGHHH!
Soooo ... Naked Cupcake Day week, not so jubilant on the blogue. Sorry.
I am offering one more giveaway, though. Previous giveaways have exhausted the $11.59 my Google ads brought me since I started this blog.
This giveaway is from the heart.
I'll send you a book. One from my bookshelf. Or from the bookstore, if I feel I don't have the perfect book for you.
Here's what I'd like you to do for it:
Tell me what humor does for you and/or why you enjoy humor and/or why you like your favorite humor writer. In this one small portion of life, size doesn't matter. (BAHAHAHA! Dick jokes are great!) If one sentence gets your point across, super. If you want to send me an essay, great. Funny, sad, meta, whatevs.
The deadline is Friday, April 2. You can leave your answer as a comment, or email me at nakedcupcakes at gmail dot com.
I'll pick the winner, and we'll discuss your taste in books and what you might or might not have read. Hopefully, I'll send you something you'll love and you'll think about how humor affects your life.
I know how it affects mine. This blog has done more for me in the last six months than I ever could have believed, and much of that is because of you lovely readers. I started this blog as an outlet to help me overcome depression.
So, this giveaway is a very personal "thank you" from me to you.
Everything's coming up Milhouse!
Aw, Sarah! You can't lose me anyway. :-) Don't sweat the occasional steam-dearth blogwise - real life has to overrule sometimes. So you know, take breathers. Write as inspiration, write for inspiration - feed what feeds you, not what drains you. Sometimes breaks are good.
ReplyDeleteI tried to do an essay on the uses of humor but MAN, it came out really really depressing! I will need to think and come up with a better "angle in" to the topic.
Laughing is how I do my ab workout...so without my favorite humor writers, I'd be really, really fat.
ReplyDeleteGood try on losing me as a reader though. I don't offend easily though.
I think that everyone first starts their blog as a sort of online journal and then it evolves into something greater than they ever imagined. You'll never lose me as a reader because the first post I laid eyes on was "Two Fingers".
ReplyDeleteHumore can lift me up out of an emotional funk, be an ice breaker, quell an awkward situation, or just extend my already good mood for another whole laugh.
I love to read Erma Bombeck because the best humor comes from life.
Take some time off to clear your head and to write in your journal again. We'll all be here when you get back.
P.S. - Happy (Official) Naked Cupcake Day!!
there's that saying we learned in J-school about the definition of obscenity..."I know it when I see it". That's how I feel about humor. I don't know what it is that makes me laugh. I mean, I know the word balls gets me every single time, but I am not sure what it is about certain blogs that keep me coming back. I think hyperbole is funny. I think self-deprecation is funny (to an extent). I love sarcasm, and I especially love when people can find humor in otherwise dull situations. I think what it comes down to is that I like funny people, because if you're witty and clever, your funniness touches almost everything you do.
ReplyDeleteSo that's that...I know funny when I see it.
Humour is helping to keep me going through my depression too. Because there are only so many choices of reaction when you find yourself berating yourself for the way in which you’re carrying cardboard.
ReplyDeleteSorry to hear that you're both facing challenges, and apparently dealing with overzealous eyeliner. With the walking around topless I imagine that must create problems for you.
There's nothing more therapeutic than laughing your ass off, I think. Except maybe a really nice roll in the hay.
ReplyDeleteAt one point, when thinking about all of my boyfriends (oh so many of them) and how different they all are, I realized that the only thing they all have in common is that they're funny. So I'm back to laughter and sex again.
Though, laughing during sex? That can be a little trickier.
That made me all squishy...in the good way.
ReplyDeleteI don't think there's anything that's totally and completely devoid of humor. NOTHING. No matter how terrifying or terrible. And when you can laugh at something, it takes it's power away - lessons the terror - makes it manageable, or at the very least - less unmanageable.
Take cancer for example - it's high-fucking-sterical. When I was diagnosed, my brothers called me chemosabe and told me I couldn't sit with them in the non-tumor section of restaurants. I told my oncologist that if I didn't recover from chemo brain, my only possible future professions would be fry cook or vice president.
Humor saves lives. I swear it's true. And, as Jules says, it's great for your abs.
I actually laugh during sex kind of often. Its not as weird as it sounds. er. Yeah.
ReplyDeleteI agree that laughter saves lives, and sanity.
For me, its either laugh or cry. (remember that weird exercise we did in one of the drama classes?) A perfect example of this is when I had a car accident last week. I wanted to cry (okay, fine, I DID cry). Until the woman I hit revealed that she was a devout Christian and that it was Jesus' plan for us to have an accident so that she could spread his word to me. She even gave me literature. The trooper gave me a ticket.
There really is humor everywhere.
You should send me a book because I introduced you to "the blog who shall not be named" and because I have been reading this blog since before it was really even a blog, and since I just finished reading The Road, which is about the least funny book. EVER.
Or you could give to someone else. Whatevs. I'll still read this insanity. As long as you keep throwing in more "Bulba" stories. That one made me laugh for DAYS.
Humor makes life much easier to deal with, because sometimes there's nothing much to do BUT laugh. Otherwise we'd just cry the freakin' days away.
ReplyDeleteThe funniest thing I've seen this in the last month was a "Family Guy" episode where Lois needs to borrow Quagmire's car. He says fine and then rummages through his pockets looking for the keys.....for about 20 seconds, with that big ass smile on his face staring at Lois.(If that doesn't make sense, he was masturbating) I almost spit up my dinner.
Ha ha ha - no loss of readers, just this one adding to your collective. Nice work.
ReplyDeleteI can't live without silliness and satire. In a world so full of horrible things and having no ability to control them - humour is the only thing that allows me to really be free to be me and relax. That and cutesy animals. Oh, and I love Dylan Moran. Funny funny Irishman.
I agree- 2010 has sucked- at the New Year's party we were all like, 'this is going to be our year!" But it's actually just sucked.
ReplyDeleteAw. I'm sorry your 2010 has been a suck-fest, but, seriously, humor is the best medicine. It's what my parents always told me. Just laugh and things will get better. I guess it's like a coping mechanism... like some people use sex and awesomness to cope, I use humor... and food.
ReplyDeleteBut I'm working on that.
By the way, there's never a problem with eyeliner. You can never have too much... only too little.
I am very dry and sarcastic when it comes to humor and that's the kind of humor I also enjoy. When I meet someone who gets my humor right away and immediately volleys back with some dry wit of their own, that's how I know we were meant to be friends. And when it's dry wit AND inappropriate? Destiny in it's purest form. It's rare, but awesome. Most of the time when I speak people just stare at me in confusion.
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