A continuation of my hit blog series, Front’s Too Tired to Actually Write so He Writes Blogs About Comedy Instead >.>

I’ve been trying to write but it’s just not working :/ So instead I shall talk more about comedy, this time about a well-used joke format and why it works. In the meantime, I will do my best to try writing, but I can’t make any guarantees on any projects at this point. Anyway, on to the blog:

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I just found out that Alan Rickman has died. Cancer. Again. Fucking REALLY?? If there is a god, they sure as hell better make Rickman the Metatron...

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WARNING: Dissecting live jokes is really not as fun as hearing them.

In comedy they have this wonderful little thing they always like to tell you that sounds like its totally full of shit and 1000% arbitrary. Comedy comes in threes. Its a tried and true method that some people believe with their heart and soul, and while it doesn't always work, it can be a really effective method for some.

Why is that? Is three just a funny number?

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Couple of things for those who care about such things.

-Fecundity 24 will be a bit late. Had to flesh out a few things I wasn't planning on but realized after the fact they were more or less needed. Should be out in a week or so.
-I'm going to be moving to another house over Labor Day weekend, and thus a good chunk of my time is going to be devoted towards packing and whatnot. Because of this, I'm not going to start Fecundity 25 until September.

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just throwing this out there because I think a lot of people might have fun with it.

I'm trying to come up with kids for Twilight Velvet and Night Light for my story 'The Best Possible Outcome', but the problem is that I'm pretty slow at coming up with that stuff, and I need a LOT of kids. If anyone wants to come up with a kid (or more than one), I'll include it in the upcoming chapter. All I need is the following:

Name
Nickname (optional)
Sex

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Lemmy from Motörhead, David Bowie, and as of this morning, Alan Rickman. All of them within a month, all of them age 69/70, all of them to cancer.

Shit's fucked up, yo.

Welcome back, writers! It’s Monday again, and Emancipation Day atop that! Which is a new enough holiday that I think I’ll just forgo any break and work like normal. Especially since I really want to be writing Axtara – Magic and Mayhem right now.

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Welcome back, writers! It’s the first Being a Better Writer article post LTUE! So, in fact, maybe that should also be “Welcome, new writers,” because there may be a number of you checking out Unusual Things for the first time post-convention.

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