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Sunday, April 11, 2004

Punchlines and Deep Subject Matter

Not long ago I was working toward finally obtaining a bachelor's degree after a lapse of 35 years. As I neared fulfillment of the requirements for a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Creative Writing, I began to seriously consider going on for a Master's. Finances, and the desire to try the waters, caused me... Sign in to see full entry.

Thursday, April 1, 2004

Ludicrous

Nice word. It pretty much covers the territory. Notapoet a male stripper? Yeah, all six-foot-one, 140 pounds of me. There's only one part of me that ain't skinny -- and I'm not about to get involved in a discussion about that. And I'm, shall we say, a little distanced from my twenties. What... Sign in to see full entry.

Sunday, March 14, 2004

Notapoet let's it all hang out!

He's thinking about it, anyway. Write4you said she would contribute to the party kitty only if notapoet joins patrolsergeant on stage. It just goes to show you how low the poor fellow has sunk. At his age struttin' around bare-assed on stage for a few dollars. It was easy to get him to agree to it.... Sign in to see full entry.

Monday, March 8, 2004

Hey, I can't afford strippers!

Kay-Ren reminded me that patrolsergeant's suggestion that I can avoid having my next to-do raided by inviting the cops only covered half the bases. There are also the local Sheriff's Department to contend with. Okay guys, you're invited too. Now I've been to many a party that's been visited by the... Sign in to see full entry.

Tuesday, March 2, 2004

Invite the Cops

That, patrolsergeant assures me, is the one sure way to keep my next wild party from being raided. Brilliant! I wonder why I never thought of it before. I guess because I'm not all that brilliant. Ouch, and I thought I was almost ready for Mensa. Anyway, the lesson has been learned. Patrolsergeant... Sign in to see full entry.

Tuesday, February 24, 2004

Sorry, Ren3

There were no formal invitations to the "B-word Love Fest" -- it was just an informal drop-by-as-you-are affair at my mansion-like mobile home. It was poorly publicized, sparsely attended over a three-day period, and not exactly the big hit of this year's social calendar. Since you missed it I was... Sign in to see full entry.

Thursday, February 12, 2004

The Blog Word, with a vote of thanks to A.S.S.P.

patrolsergeant also gets kudos for the short form: the "B" word. Yup, A.S.S.P. coined a name for the network name that sounds like a four-letter word. Gave us the following addition to the list, too: Move over, you're bloggin' the road Patrolsergeant's contribution is: I don't think it's appropriate... Sign in to see full entry.

Monday, February 9, 2004

Darn it, durn it, dammit, blogit it all to h...

Is it just me, or does the BN's soon to be new name, blogit, have the feel of another one of those euphemisms for words not considered appropriate in polite company? It has the requisite four letters in the base word of blog, and it rolls of the tongue just as easily as all of those other... Sign in to see full entry.

Friday, February 6, 2004

I like ethnic humor...

as long as its actually funny rather than cruel or demeaning. I feel the same way about nationalistic humor. And I feel I'm entitled to enjoy it since my family is the one they were talking about when the phrase "great American melting pot" was first coined. I know for a certainty that there is a... Sign in to see full entry.

Wednesday, February 4, 2004

"a prolonged discussion about nothing, at times."

This was Donna Brazile's answer to the question "What is a blog?" in a discussion on the presidential candidates on the USA Today website. For those of you with short memories and/or no interest in politics, she was Al Gore's campaign manager in 2000. I guess she should know. Brazile was discussing... Sign in to see full entry.

Saturday, January 31, 2004

Notapoet's Crystal Ball

Few of you are aware that notapoet, known in a former life as Swami Know-it-All, once had a rep as one of the foremost forecasters of the future in all of North America. With the aid of his wonderful crystal ball, passed down for generations from the Polish Gypsy branch of the family, he was... Sign in to see full entry.

Tuesday, January 27, 2004

In Praise of Older Women

Encouraged by the yesterday's sudden spike in the ranking of my corny last post (+944 spots), I'm at it again with an old, old one. This one popped back into my mind as a result of recent blogs and comments about preferences for older women in liaisons, short- or long-term. An amorous young Romeo... Sign in to see full entry.

Saturday, January 24, 2004

Hey! I'm NUMERO UNO!

In humor...amongst blogs that haven't received a post for 27 days. Oops! I just blew it. Sign in to see full entry.

Sunday, December 28, 2003

Bringing in the New Year

I don't know yet whether I'll toast the coming New Year with my son and family. They may have other plans and that's all right with me. New Year's parties are better suited for the young than old codgers who can't hold their liquor any more. The last time I partied on New Year's Eve was four years... Sign in to see full entry.

Thursday, December 25, 2003

Uncle Robert

I didn't mean to leave you hanging so long after my last post about "Tommy and Johnny and Bob." It was also, of course, about my Uncle Robert. Don't get me wrong, I thought a lot of Uncle Robert. In many ways I was closer to him than all of his brothers and sisters. They included Uncle Earl, whom... Sign in to see full entry.

Friday, December 19, 2003

Tommy and Johnny, and Bob

Tommy and Johnny were two of the cousins who had gone swimming with me on the day I nearly drowned. Johnny was the one who "saved" me on the day several years later when I learned I already knew how to swim. Bob was the eldest of the three and the namesake of his father, my Uncle Robert. Bob wasn't... Sign in to see full entry.

Monday, December 15, 2003

Was "The Void" funny?

Moderately humorous? Lame? Stupid? I'm talking about my most recent post in Everything Else. At the time I posted it, I thought it might get a chuckle or two even though it wasn't in the Humor category. To me, being outside of this category was one of the things that might have generated some... Sign in to see full entry.

Friday, December 12, 2003

This isn't funny, folks.

For the second time in an hour I've lost what I thought was a pretty good post. Damned if I'm going to let it slide this time. I'm going to keep at it until this system works like its supposed too. I've got my dander up too much to be embarrassed, which is sort of what my post was about. Life is... Sign in to see full entry.

Wednesday, December 3, 2003

Life is strange

in all of its twists and turns. Last time out I bemoaned the fact that I'm evidently not much of a humorist. I complained that I just don't seem to have the knack to tell a good funny story. I don't seem to have the ability to make people laugh. And what happens, my blog climbs from #1298 in humor... Sign in to see full entry.

Thursday, November 27, 2003

Humour is the hardest of all things to write well.

It ain't all that easy to tell jokes either. I first learned that I wasn't very funny when the other kids didn't laugh at my jokes. I thought they were hilarious, but perhaps they lost something in the translation. Then again, maybe I just can't tell a joke. Lots of people can't. I relearned the... Sign in to see full entry.

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