CHOCOLATE FOR YOUR BRAIN!: Hemingway Moment

Tuesday, April 6, 2010

Hemingway Moment

All English majors know the six word short story of Ernest Hemingway. "For Sale: baby shoes, never worn."
Likewise, it is drilled into a humorist's head that brevity is the soul of wit. Not being as witty or as brief as Hemmingway, I added a word to my own challenge. As such, I present the following:

Seven words or less stories

Genre: Disaster
Found: the cap of a sharpie.

Genre: Tragedy
11:00 pm. Why is the hose on?

Genre: Romance
15 Forever stamps on the car window.

Genre: Mystery
Three left shoes for the same person.

Genre: Western
They're boots.

Genre: Sci-Fi
Marshmellow Peeps in the Microwave

Genre: Fantasy
Kids clean up Marshmellow Peeps in Microwave.

Genre: Historical
Everything you just read.

Genre: Fiction
My calm serene reaction to everything.

Genre: Autobiography
Highly fictionalized for public consumption

2 comments:

Mary Ellen said...: Genre: Tragedy

11:00 pm. Why is the hose on?

Shit.Flooded basement.; April 6, 2010 at 10:23 PM
MightyMom said...: Genre: Adventure
4am trips to ER.

Genre: Mommie Fear
I didn't do it!

Genre: blogger fear
the muse is constipated.

oh hey, thanks, that just gave me an idea for a funny post! haven't had a good idea in MONTHS. what our next writing assignment?? :-)

that was a great rant at pot luck....but the comments made me dizzy.they ran on so many rabbit trails!; April 7, 2010 at 12:39 AM

FAQ'S about this blog, a fabricated interview with footnotes.

Hi! Welcome to my blog. You can read my stuff here and at new.catholicmom.com. I publish there on Thursdays, with Small Successes!

FAQ's about this blog, a fabricated interview*

Q. Why CHOCOLATE FOR YOUR BRAIN?

A. You've heard of Chicken Soup for your Soul...well this is a similar principle. Chocolate, like laughter, produces endorphins in the brain, pleasant feelings, and that's what this blog is supposed to do.

Also, I have a pet theory about Comedy, that Good Humor is like a Chocolate Bar. It contains bits of nuts and a nougat of truth. The chocolate coating makes it go down easier, because no one wants to eat a bar of pure nougat.

Q. Why didn't you name your blog Chocolate for Your Brain in the URL?

A. Because I was new to the blogiverse and did not comprehend at that point how to make a blog much less market it, and therefore, I've just stayed with that URL which promotes my name but unfortunately tells the reader nothing about my blog or its clever title.

Q. It's your blog, why not change?

A. I'm a conservative Catholic, according to the news media, I fear change.

Q. That was funny! How do I leave a comment?

A. Scroll down to the bottom of the posted blog piece. It should look like this:

Posted by SherryTex at 4:32 AM 0 comments

1) click on comments

2) leave comments

3) comments won't post until I've clicked on them.

Q. Why isn't my comment showing?

A. This blog is moderated by me.

Q. Who made you boss of the blog?

A.....I'll get back to you.

Q. How can I know if there's new stuff other than when you say you'll post?

A. At the bottom of the page, you'll see Subscribe to: Posts (Atom) Click on it and you can receive automatic email updates that the blog has been updated. I do promise to update it on Sunday, Tuesday and Friday otherwise, so you can just check those times if you'ld rather.

Q. Why do you write a blog, it's not like you don't have other things to tend to, other things to do?

A. I like writing. I like writing to make people laugh. It's good practice for my brain. Consider these stories mental gymnastics, less time consuming than soduku and more fun.

Q. Why aren't all of your articles from the Beaumont Enterprise or Catholic Standard linked?

A. What a thoughtful and observant question! Most of the pieces I've written for both of these publications were not posted on their websites, so I have no links to post. But I've also been at this for now 7 years, so if I linked everything, there would be nothing but links and that gets tedious.

Thanks for letting me clear that up.

Q. Aren't I you?

A. Well, yes. But this format made it so much easier to explain everything. Thank you for your time, that's all the questions for today folks.

Sherry, you're doing a heck of a job!

Editor's note from the *. Despite similarities --monitoring communications and fabricating interviews, this blog is NOT affiliated with FEMA in any way.

Despite being satirical on occasion against the current congress and administraiton, this site HAS not been fact checked by CNN.

This blog is not a construct of FOX news, talk radio or a limb of the Republican party or any vast right wing conspiracy.

Thoughts expressed here are my own and not underwritten by the insurance agencies or any other soul free corporations. (Believe me, I'd know if I was being paid).

WAXY CHEAP CHOCOLATE SOLD AT HOLIDAY TIMES IN THE PHARMACY

That's right. (Sniff). I blog because I care.
Personally.
About you.

I work and I write and I suffer but don't feel any guilt about it because You are worth it.

No.No. You don't have to get me anything for Christmas either.

Why?

Because I love you. Not just you but the whole Blogosphere and the whole Blogging world. That's right, I'm just a sentimental ball of mush, sort of like a melted whopper you find underneath the car seat because some kid in the Halloween Candy screening process found and rejected a piece without first offering the offending Chocolate to his mother.

I feel so used.

NOTE: CHOCOLATE FOR YOUR BRAIN UPDATES on Sunday, Tuesday and Friday! Updates are guaranteed by 5:00 pm that day or your money back. What's that? You didn't pay? Wait.... How does this thing work?

Let me know how I'm doing folks! You can email me at sherryantonettiwrites@yahoo.com

Quotables from Sherry's Brain

On pain...

"I don't need anesthesia if I can still crack a joke."

On the absurdity of everyday minutia...

"What Would Flannery O'Connor do?"

On Excellence where ever it is pronounced by an official, movies, politics, books, policies, people...

"If this is the best there is, then man are we in trouble."

On viewing my own karotype after a DNA screening test...

"My geneotype came back normal so all my faults are of my own doing."

On humor:

"Laughter is priceless but don't worry, all of this blog is free."

On what God will say to me one day...

"I gave you all these people, all these gifts. What were you doing blogging away time on the internet?"

CHOCOLATE FOR YOUR BRAIN!

Tuesday, April 6, 2010

Hemingway Moment

2 comments:

Leaving a comment is a form of free tipping. But this lets me purchase diet coke and chocolate.

If you sneak my work, No Chocolate for You!