Cleaning House
*Whew!* Doing some house cleaning here on the website. I had cause to look closely at the “Tags,” and found several redundancies and misspellings, e...
Category: Ramblings
My running commentary about the site, my process, and my day-to-day.
Gearing up and changing gears
Hey all, Long time, no talk. I know, it’s on me. I got into the semester and lost momentum and never picked it back up. However, I’m back now, and I...
101 Posts (Oops! 102!)
Today’s posts make over 100 that I’ve put up in my blog, The Critical Comic, and all in less that 2 months! It’s been frantic, frustrating, cr...
Update to Persona
Added the following bit from an interview with John Sheehan. John Sheehan expresses the idea that who he is onstage is a heightened or more extreme version of h...
Quotable Quotes
In Jokes and Their Relation to the Unconscious, Sigmund Freud quotes Georg Christoph Lichtenberg as quipping, It is a pity that one cannot see the learned entra...
More Problems with Satire
Brian Raftery of Wired.com (11/11/2016) points to the problems with satire as it is commonly understood: In fact, my dependence on satire was so severe this yea...
1 Month in the Tank
Hey everyone (all 1-3 of you who occasionally check in!), Today marks 1 month of posts! Ok, I actually missed two days, but have made them up and there’s ...
Update to Traditional Verbal Irony
Just to keep everyone abreast of the updates I make to the site, I decided I should announce them in separate posts, under Ramblings. This update is to Traditio...
Update to Political, Social and Entertainment Comedians
Just to keep everyone abreast of the updates I make to the site, I decided I should announce them in separate posts, under Ramblings. This update is to the post...