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The thoughts & Musings of Christopher F. Reidy*

NOTE: Apparently this webpage has some glitches. It tends to randomly switch out visual material.  Why?  Don't ask me.  So, if a pic doesn't match the text...it doesn't!  Rest assured I am trying to amend this problem.  When I get around to it.

*(may contain misuse of apostrophes, miss spellings, overabundance of semi-colons,  wrong word usage, etc.
Please pardon our appearance while we create a new blog experience for you!)

​ALSO: 
Please find a complete index of blog posts on the homepage, for your convenience!

AND YET ANOTHER NOTE:
The visual switcheroos on these blogs have reached a point where there's no way I can correct them all, so I'm just going to leave them be.  If they don't match the text, just think of them as whimsical funsies decorating the text.  I will continue to supply pictures; but I cannot guarantee their context: much like my mind.
Thank you for your patience!

A FURTHER NOTE:
I try to keep this website relatively free of anything truly morally reprehensible or obscene.  However, in the pursuit of honesty; I will be quite frank about sexuality; as I feel one should be.  To  wit: this website is not for children.  It is decidedly "adult"; although not necessarily not "childish."  I do not feel it is suitable, in some instances, for anyone below the age of 17.  Or maybe a very mature 16...or 15 even.  
THIS WEBSITE IS RATED: PG-15

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Spec Joke #2

9/27/2021

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This one is more specific.  It was penned especially for a show set in Los Angeles.  Intended for Mr. Mayor, it could be used for any show that has a moronic but loveable authority figure and at least four underlings (to make the optional spit take(s) work).  Spit takes cost extra.  There's a water cooler; so probably a workplace setting...
Picture
FADE IN ON:
The Mayor's outer office.  Mikaela, Jayden and Tommy are standing around the water cooler.

MIKAELA: The mayor is so cute!  The other day we were talking about-- 
She is interrupted by Arpi, who marches up and grabs a paper-cup.
ARPI: Oh, did I interrupt?  I'm soooo sorry; but some of us have been on the phone all morning...
She bends down to pour some water; but then she is interrupted by the Mayor who pushes her out of the way and grabs a cup.
MAYOR BREMER: (Pointing to his reddened face and speaking with a raspy voice): Poppers!
ARPI: Excuse me?
MAYOR: Poppers, jalapeno poppers for lunch! (He fills a cup with water and rushes towards his office).
JAYDEN: Someone should tell him he wants milk for that...(sips his water)
TOMMY: His honor is really starting to expand his horizons!  Mexican for lunch?  I mean a year ago, the only place he'd eat was The House of Pies.
JAYDEN: He does seem to be growing in the job.  He's definitely getting more educated about the diverse and thriving city in which we reside.
ARPI: Really?  The other day I brought up "tar pits" and he thought it was a skin condition.
MIKAELA: (Nervous laugh).  I told him that--
JAYDEN: (Does a spit take, spritzing all over Mikaela)
ARPI: Well, you might get a skin condition now.  You can call it "tar spritz."
A beat.  The mayor pops his head around the corner as the foursome sip their water.
MAYOR: Did somebody say "tits"?
Arpi, Mikaela, Jayden and Tommy do a simultaneous spit-take.  Cut to commercial.

​And scene.

Thank you.  At a hundred dollars a word and with five spit takes (at a grand per take) that'll be:
$18,700.00
You can make the check out to "Chris Reidy."
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    Christopher Reidy is from the Boston area.  He attended Boston University where he studied TV and film which eventually led him to Los Angeles.  There he did the Hollywood thing (which he wasn’t particularly good at) and eventually met his partner Joseph.  He was one of the co-founders of the short lived Off Hollywood Theatre Company which staged several of his original plays.  83 In the Shade is his first novel.  He also dabbles in screenplays, toys with short stories, and flirts with poetry.  Life brought him to bucolic Southwest Virginia where he now resides and is very active in community theatre. It may interest you to know Chris is officially an Irish citizen as well as an American. He also enjoys drawing and painting and looking after a passel of 
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