Most of you probably don’t realize it, but Tuesday is Election Day! I know, I know - it really snuck up on me too!
My schedule for Election Day: up early to vote, go to work, come home and plant butt firmly on couch in front of TV, with laptop on lap to live Twitter as the results roll in! Be sure to watch for my tweets! Wait, that almost sounds dirty…
In seemingly unrelated matters, my third career as a semi-professional cartoonist continues on apace. Earlier today, the latest toon in my IT-centric comic, IT Underworld, was posted on ITWorld.com. Behold:
Be sure to go to the site, add a comment, give it a thumbs up, tell your geek friends to check it out, etc. etc.
Finally, on Halloween night, after taking the kiddos around to get free candy from the neighbors (heh, suckers), I posted a brand new Schwilm cartoon!
OK, I’m all out of plugs. Don’t forget to vote - unless you live in Florida, in which case it probably doesn’t matter much anyways.
I don’t know about you, but for me it was a busy week, comedy writing-wise!
On Tuesday, I posted a new Schwilm cartoon, continuing the mock vice presidential debate that started here.
I’m publishing one new Schwilm comic per week. Tell your friends! If you don’t have any friends, tell your enemies!
On Wednesday (10/1/08), David Letterman told not just one but two of my jokes on the Late Show! Here there are:
Sarah Palin is training for tomorrow night’s vice presidential debate in Arizona.
You know you’re in trouble when your debate goal is to do as well as Dan Quayle.
Sarah Palin is training for tomorrow night’s vice presidential debate in Arizona.
She says it’s really helped her on foreign policy because in Arizone she can see Mexico.
You can watch the video of the entire monologue here.
Then came Thursday, featuring the long awaited, not-to-be-duplicated vice presidential debate between Joe Biden and Sarah Palin! During the debate I was Twittering like crazy. Here are some highlights:
08:00 PM October 02, 2008 right about now joe biden is combing his hair plugs.
08:35 PM October 02, 2008 right about now, sarah palin is warming up her flute…
08:46 PM October 02, 2008 here’s the breakdown for tonight’s debate: 1/3 foreign policy, 1/3 economics and 1/3 skeet shooting.
09:04 PM October 02, 2008 i wonder if sarah palin is wearing underwear? hell, i wonder if joe biden is wearing underwear…
09:06 PM October 02, 2008 governor palin, you had me at “you betcha”.
09:22 PM October 02, 2008 i’d like to frisk sarah palin for a weapon.
09:48 PM October 02, 2008 SP said nuculer again. i think we all know that’s a bad sign…
09:58 PM October 02, 2008 palin “we’re building schools for children - no gay children, of course, though, you betcha.”
10:12 PM October 02, 2008 palin “teachers need to be paid more - well, not the gay ones.”
10:22 PM October 02, 2008 wonder if palin could humor us and actually pronounce a “g” at the end of a word. just once. either that or flash some cleavage.
10:30 PM October 02, 2008 palin “i like being able to answers these tough questions without answering these tough questions.”
10:31 PM October 02, 2008 sarah palin is scary as hell - and dreamy!
10:34 PM October 02, 2008 dang, i was hoping biden would pat palin on the ass on the way out.
If you’re on Twitter, be sure to follow me follow here. I’ll be commenting live during the last two presidential debates, so be sure to check it out!
Finally, on Friday, Dave Letterman closed out his monologue by telling another one of my jokes!
John McCain watched the debate and loved Sarah Palin’s performance.
As a matter of fact he applauded so much all of the lights in his house kept going on and off.
You can watch the video of the entire monologue here.
For those who don’t already know, I really enjoy Twitter. I’ve been using it for about a year and a half and have made some interesting new acquaintances there. Mostly, I like using it as one big comedy writing exercise. I try to see if I can write something funny in 140 or characters or less. I leave it up to my followers to decide whether I actually do that or not.
Anyway, this past Friday was Talk Like a Pirate Day, where some strange people decided decided they wanted to designate one day a year to talk like a, well, pirate, as in the swashbuckling, Johnny Depp-variety. Now, this sort of thing isn’t really my cup of tea. However, last year I decided to take some creative liberties with the idea and, using Twitter, talk like my preferred type of pirate - a Pittsburgh Pirate.
Last year I was famous Pirates reliever Kent Tekulve. This year, I went a little more mainstream and went with Barry Bonds, circa 1990 (i.e. during his Pirate days).
in honor of talk like a pirate day, i’ll talk like barry bonds circa 1990. my body is my temple.
the other day i saw bobby bonilla using jock itch cream. he’s nuts! i would never put anything artificial on or in my body.
people always ask me what’s the key to my speed in the outfield and on the basepaths? the answer: my small head! may it ever be so.
boy, that jose canseco sure can mash the ball. i wish i knew what his secret was…
sid bream has breath that could melt paint. nasty.
looks like we’ll make the playoffs this year and i’ll get to show what i can do in big games. don’t worry pittsburgh - i won’t let you down!
my testicles are WAY too big. i wish there was something i could take that would shrink them while increasing my power to all fields.
in 83 i played in alaska. bagged a beauty queen named sarah. said she was gonna be gov or vice prez some day. dumb as a post - but hot!
one thing’s for sure - the future of baseball in pittsburgh is extremely bright!
hi. i’m the 1990 barry bonds. someday, after my heads swells due to steroid use my favorite comic strip will be http://www.Schwilm.com
i’m not sure what’s scarier: facing rob dibble’s fastball or seeing jim leyland naked in the shower.
Reaction was good! Some people liked it, so I think I’ll do it again next year. I’m already thinking I’ll talk like Manny Sanguillen.
