Date: 21 April 2012
Venue: The Spot Cafe.
An experiment.
hypothesis: if I read this unintentionally disturbing kids book, it will be funny.
methods: reading the book in front of this audience
results: not a lot of laughter
analysis and conclusion:
I really wanted to see what would happen. And in my defense, the first two things I said (which weren't related to the book at all) killed. Explosive amounts of laughter. Could I have just went with that energy and saw where it went? Maybe. And that, too would have been an experiment of just straight up winging it.
But there's a method to my madness. And I realize that I could re-conceptualize it, and make it work. And I have reconceptualized it. But I'm not going to debut the revamp of this for another month. Give it time to percolate.
But those first two lines, man. God damn I can be a funny man.
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