started fiddling with a “What’s New with Alexa?” email and accidentally wrote some short horror fiction
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i used a sound computer to digitize my voice and sing Mr. Sandman
Finally, Disney’s famous cup boy is available for purchase on Amazon
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A couple nights ago I was out drinking with a couple of friends, and on our way to get late night hotdogs, one friend bashfully confessed he didn't know what to get his mom for Mother's Day. (Which is admittedly a flippin adorable thing to think about out loud during a Boys Night Out, btw.)
We didn't have any great ideas as we walked, but when we got to the hotdog place, we noticed they had a sign advertising that they sold shrimp by the pound - “No tails! Eat the whole shrimp!" - so we suggested he get his mom a pound of shrimp. "Happy Mother's Day from your Good Shrimp Boy," we said. “Be a Good Shrimp Boy and get your mom a pound of shrimp. She deserves all the shrimp.”
And then the next morning, kind of hung over, I made some shrimp-boy-themed Mother's Day cards for my friend, and now I’m sharing them here. Feel free to print them out and give them to your mother, but only if you are also giving her a lot of shrimp for Mother's Day, or if you are her Shrimp Boy for other reasons.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: making goofs is so much more satisfying when you think of them as gifts instead of work.
A friend told me she was going to LA, but not to see comedy or go hiking or anything particularly fun. She’s helping a friend move.
Which led to us joking about how LA is the city of moving, and how she hopes LA lives up to all the moving hype. So then I opened up Photoshop and made a bunch of quick, shitty fake promotional images for Los Angeles as a city where people are always moving.
Making hyper-specific goofs for one person feels great, because when you send something like this, I’m sure part of them is thinking, “No way he actually put effort into this throwaway joke.”
But that very process has led to some of my favorite goofs! I rewrote a Duolingo email because I overheard two friends talking about how they woke up to that guilt-trippy email from Duolingo. I made that joke thinking about how I wanted those two specific people to laugh and not much else, and I think that one tweet has been passed around on the internet enough to where it’s been seen over a million times now.
I think my point is, making something is more fun if you think of it as a gift more than a piece of work.