H-hi there. Happy 2014.
It's been a while since I've updated the blog so it should be fair to let you guys know exactly what's going on. First of all, the blog is going through some massive changes. As you can tell on the tabs, some things have been changed. For one, "short films" has its own tab now since the blog will become a focus on video-related projects from now on. What this also means is that there will be more periodic posts detailing the process of film-making (that I know at this point in my career). This means behind-the-scenes photos of short films I'm working on, and maybe even some commentaries if I can figure out how to do that. This is because I've realized that in my three years of maintaining the blog that I enjoy writing anything if it's related to film. If I ever do write a short story/poem, I will post it on the blog but expect more film-related posts from now on. I feel like I've said the same thing three times so I will move on. The "Other Things" tab includes both Presenters posts and Now What? posts. I think this will make the blog more interesting to read and for me, at least, it'll make the blog worth investing in. I look forward to update you all on progress on The College Student: Nutrition and any other projects I'll work on in the near future. I will also try to diversify the blog with occasional reviews, recommendations, academic papers, and unearthing certain..."works of art" from my past. You've been warned.
And with that, what the hell is the Comedy Journal? Well, my dear reader, I will tell you. I took a class last semester on comedy films. One of the assignments we had was to keep a journal of moments that we personally found very humorous. The catch was that we could only write down humorous observances, not situations that happened to us. We could also write about comical things that we found on the internet. So this is the comedy journal I turned in for the class. Iz purty gud. (groans)
Wednesday, Aug. 28, 2013
I was walking by Adelbert, walking to my next class, and watched the many other "faceless" students also walking hastily to their next objective. A van waited to turn right on Euclid. Across the street, a student stood very still as he called someone.
I thought about a white van full of pranksters that see the student. Their friend, Emily, has been talking with them and the van door is open. The driver says, "We're gonna get him good! Grab her!"
Emily says, "What?!" The guys grab and pull her into the van, leaving the student shocked by what he's just seen. The driver laughs heartily until he looks in his side mirror and sees the panicked student struggling to dial his phone. The van swerves into traffic and stops in front of the student, with the guilty driver trying to explain himself. The student does not think that the prank was very funny and it doesn't help that Emily continues to play the role of the captured woman to further incriminate her boyfriend, the van driver.
Friday, August 30, 2013
A student grimaced when he sees a wet floor sign used as a doorstop right at the entrance of a bathroom, not wanting to think about why the floor is wet. It didn't help that he walked toward the urinal and made squeaking noises at every step.
A student gets a hot dog from the dining room. He gets the brilliant idea to put a slice of cheese in his hot dog. He waits until he gets back to his seat. He wraps the cheese around the sausage and is puzzled when the cheese unwraps itself. He keeps trying to wrap it again and again but the cheese will not bend to his will.
Wednesday, September 5, 2013
I was eating in the dining hall and noticed that younger students tend to go sit with people they already know. As they sit in their chairs, satisfied that they have found their common group of friends, I reminded myself that I have my own group of friends, the table and chairs at the corner of the dining halls. They are always in the same place and every time, they look forward to seeing me as I assure them that I will never abandon them. Never, ever.
Wednesday, September 12, 2013
On the left side of the bridge, there’s a serviceably sized parking structure for students, faculty, and the sort. The building isn’t completely rectangular; in fact, the roof slants downward but the rest of the building is perfectly rectangular. It looks like there’s a large, invisible weight sitting on top of the building, literally bending the roof into a curve.
Thursday, September 19, 2013
I have a fairly good view of downtown Cleveland from my building/residential house/dorm. Directly across from my window, there is a tall building with bright, clear lights blaring out from the window. The window looks like an adorable, confused, round ghost straight out of Pac-Man and at night, its eyes light up in the midst of the somewhat dreary Cleveland skyline.
Tuesday, September 24, 2013
A long yet beautiful day was approaching its end. The bright, yellowy glow from the sun's dying rays crossed paths with the tall, glass windows until landing on some exhausted student's face. The young student was reading a complicated book on Philosophy with an even more complicated title. Suddenly, President Obama awoke the young student and told him that he was taking his seat. The student jumped up and landed on his bum. His glasses falling to the floor, he quickly looked around hastily to see if the president was still there. Alas, upon seeing the potted plants placed on the opposite ends of the windows, he remembered he was not at the White House, but at the marshmallow-y chairs found at Kelvin Smith Library.
Friday, September 27, 2013
The windmill: a proof of Case's commitment to the future to renewed energy and flying cars. The old medical building with a single smokestack sticking from the top: the image Case Photoshops out of every pamphlet when they mention their progressive environmentally friendly agenda. Practically standing across the street from each other, these two titans are ready to wage war against each other, a battle no one will pay attention to due to the urgent examinations that must be taken care of first.
Tuesday, October 1, 2013
An old house right behind my dorm building was torn down recently. It had been boarded up and it was a matter of time before the bulldozers finally brought it down. The walls and debris were swept away, leaving behind the trails that look suspiciously like crop circles. It's only a matter of time before the UFO's are redirected from Roswell and land instead in University Circle.
Tuesday, October 8, 2013
Brawl In the Family comic strip: Sonic's Eyes
Sonic is a video game character with a rather unusual design. His eyes aren't separated like other characters/humans but are instead placed together. It doesn't make sense without some kind of image. Anyway, this humorous and cute comic strip makes three jokes at Sonic's expense about his unusual design, one where his pupils intersect at the center, one where he loses his contact lenses which look like goggles, and the last one where Sonic looks cross-eyed much to his friend's dismay who runs away frightened by what he's just seen. Sonic removes his sleep mask and prompts two bugs to fly away.
Thursday, October 16, 2013
I'm talking with a friend and the topic of humor comes up. She talks about how she is not completely sure why she laughs or chuckles at certain things. Knowing how sensitive she is about certain things, I try to explain my sense of humor. I have difficulty explaining my morbid and cynical sense of humor to her until I try to make an example of it. In a single breath, I explain to her how, in a few billion years, the human race as we know it will be extinct. Shortly after, in astronomy scale, Earth will be swallowed up by the Sun with the rest of the Solar System to follow. The Sun will blow up and then the universe will continue to spin around until it expands forever and eventually freeze into place forever and ever. We're laughing as hard as we ever had at the sheer absurdity of this reality that we will never see.
Tuesday, October 29, 2013
We watch the film Borat in my Jewish Image in Popular Film class. Despite the film's offensive nature, it's one of my favorite satirical comedies of the past few years. Curiously, I looked up the Wikipedia article about the film and read the "Controversy" section. The amount of lawsuits levied against the film was astounding. In connection with the Carnivalesque, it was understandable that most people who made fools of themselves on camera would find it difficult to laugh at themselves. But the fact people's first reaction was to sue and try to win some money for the misuse of their public image shows how little they learned from the film in the first place, a film made to expose hypocrisy in the US in the most daring way possible.
Saturday, November 9, 2013
My suite-mate and I talk for a very long time about nonsense. At some point, he stumbles over and almost falls down as I reach out to catch him. He plants his feet on the ground and says, "I decided to fall down but then I decided not to." It took me a while to compose myself after laughing really hard at his comment. It took a while longer to explain why the moment was hysterical in the first place.
Tuesday, November 15, 2013
Nature reared its ugly head again and blew away every single leaf on the tree in front of my building. Every branch looked a thin and crooked line that would have been drawn by a kindergartener. I also couldn't stop but think about how each branch also looked laundry being wrung clean especially by how much it flickered and waved around in the wind.
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