The Shrine

PostPosted:**Thu Dec 01, 2005 12:21 am**

This is awesome for me, because I was once totally not good at making jokes or being whimsical or lighthearted, but I have always really really loved to laugh.

I was talking to a friend today online who was kind of bummed, and so I decided to try to lighten the mood a bit.

For those who don't speak Spanish, "sonrias" is the imperative form of "smile" - i.e, "you smile now!" and "no quiero" means "i don't want to".

[20:29] sxyctangel: lol*
[20:30] aseidman914: sonrias
[20:30] sxyctangel: no
[20:30] sxyctangel: no quiero
[20:30] aseidman914: i will spread cheer
[20:30] sxyctangel: :-\
[20:30] sxyctangel: can you really
[20:30] sxyctangel: im just kidding
[20:30] sxyctangel: im sure you can
[20:30] aseidman914: of course!
[20:31] aseidman914: here, let me get my bag
[20:31] sxyctangel: hahaha
[20:31] sxyctangel: that made me laugh
[20:31] aseidman914: (reaches inside, grabs a handful of something, spreads it around)
[20:31] sxyctangel: what have i said before taht makes you think i am not happy
[20:31] aseidman914: whoops
[20:31] aseidman914: this isn't my bag of cheer
[20:31] aseidman914: (looks down at bag marked "anthrax")
[20:31] sxyctangel: hahahaha
[20:32] sxyctangel: omg.. i let out a giggle and i am in class
[20:32] sxyctangel: stop
[20:32] sxyctangel: dude you are so not normal

I was really tickled by this. I always wanted to be funny and I feel like more often than before I finally get those surprised spontaneous kinds of laughs out of people that I'd always wanted to be able to spark. I have just awesome spontaneous comedy jams with a friend of mine about three times a week.

As a brief aside, rearrangements or alternate contexts for "Mental is funny" are strictly prohibited in all responses...you lot of sneaky bastiches.

PostPosted:**Thu Dec 01, 2005 12:33 am**

On sort of the same track, in March of this past year I started taking classes at the Improv Asylum in Boston. I'd been itching to get back into some form of performance art ever since I stopped singing, and since I'm such a big fan of "Whose Line" it just seemed like it would be a fun thing to do.

Not to mention that I've always thought that my sense of humor wasn't original enough - usually, I get my laughs through well-timed quoting - and figured there was no better way to work on that than to take up an art where everybody on stage is constanly making up everything.

The Shrine

I think I'm getting better at amusing people over IM

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