2 posts tagged “wit”
Show us who you would want as a guest if you were a talk show host.
I'm sure this isn't an original choice, and I should probably be choosing someone of much greater gravitas, but ... I've always wanted to meet Dorothy Parker. I reckon she'd be a real hoot - full of acerbic quick-wittedness and spicy anecdote.
"For her epitaph she suggested, 'Excuse my dust'."
If we're talking about people who are still alive, I think Aaron Sorkin, the writer of so much (if not all) of The West Wing series, would make a fascinating guest. Love or hate the series, you have to admire the coherence of the artistic vision behind it. I normally steer clear of 'Hollywooditis', but Mr Sorkin seems more about craft than celebrity.
PS I couldn't figure out how to put their images in this post and, besides, it felt like stealing to take the images off the Net. There are photos of them behind the links of their names, though.
Well, I'm crap at this blogging thing. It nags at me like an annoying voice - you know, the kind of nasal whine that one heard in the schoolyard - and I keep meaning to add to it, but then life intervenes.
I also feel that every time I sit down to write something, I'm producing a nasal whine of my own - complaining and carping.
And then there's the voice that says "why would anyone be interested in what you have to say?" I tell you ... it's a real struggle, this blogging thing.
But I'm nothing if not persistent and I'm going to try again. I'm promising nothing. No regularity. No pearls of wisdom. No great wit or fabulous insights.
I'm going to try the alphabet method. Every time I feel prompted to blog, I'm going to select a word from the dictionary or thesaurus, using the "open and point method", and find something to say about it. It's a bit randomised yet somewhat methodical, and should keep me - if not the blog - fresh and challenged!
