In Praise of "Dinah the Christmas Whore," and "Holiday Noods."
One of the things I do is publish the online magazine, Instant Noodles Lit Mag . In fact, it just ended its fourth year of existence. And my goal for every end of year is that it go out, not with a bang, or with a whimper, but with a giggle. This, it seems, is a huge, massive, gigantic ask. Presumably, if you read this blog, you are either an author or an aspiring author, and so I ask you, why so hard to make funny? I have just ended my thirty-third geez, thirty-third? Thirty-third and final year as a college teacher. That's right! I'm officially done with all of that. In any case, in all those years I taught many things, among them reading, essay writing, critical thinking, survey of British literature, film studies, the usual things college English teachers teach. And in all of those classes, whenever remotely possible, I snuck in some humor writing for my students to read because, IMHO (in my humble opinion) there is nothing more difficult to read or write than humor. And ...