This is not the promised post on David Pace Wigransky.
This is merely a promise that the promised post will some day be revealed.
I’m just making you all wait and speculate endlessly on it. Like my authorial hero.
Seriously, Tom Batiuk has put out more material lately. I got a lovely little newsletter from him last week in my email inbox.
Continue reading “FALLING DOWN”Hello again! I’ve commented in the past about something I call the Comedy Disconnect. The concept is from The Comedy Bible by Judy Carter. I want to promote this to a TBTrope. The book defines this as “trying to be funny rather than communicate ideas. Reality is sacrificed in a desperate attempt to get laughs at all costs… never sacrifice a character’s reality for the sake of a laugh.”
Continue reading “If You Make Sure You’re Connected, The Writing’s On The Wall”
I was 70% done with a very long and thought provoking post, when my brain suddenly shut down.
An hour later…this happened.
I won’t explain. I don’t even think I could.
It’s time for another installment in the TBTropes series, where we come up with TVTropes-style descriptions of the writing techniques used in the Funkyverse and nowhere else. So far we’ve seen:
Story Asserting: The tendency of Tom Batiuk to advance every story where he wants it to go, with no regard to logic, realistic human behavior, the characters having motivations of their own, or making any sense.
Schrodinger’s Continuity: Continuity exists in a perpetually unknown state, its outcome influenced by events we cannot comprehend. Like Schrodinger’s Cat, Tony Montoni can be both dead and alive, until the story reveals which he is.
Tonelessness: The tendency of a work to convey no exposition at all, or any information about the author’s intent.
Today we’ll talk about a particular type of Tonelessness. Continue reading “Pseudo Echo”
Son of Stuck Funky 