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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.

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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.
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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.  
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Spec Jokes

4/5/2021

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The concept of the "spec script" is a futile one.  Writing an unsanctioned script for a television show already on the air is a losing proposition.  The show already has a writing staff.  Why waste your time sending them a script?  Okay, maybe if you're that invested in a show; but it amounts to little more than fan-fiction.  So, I've come up with the concept (Registered, TM, Pat. Pend.) of the "Spec Joke."  You see, you don't write the entire script.  You just write a scene, out of any sort of context, with just the funny bit!  Pop it in the mail and get your check ($100.00 per word sounds reasonable...).  Here's my first Spec Joke for The Goldbergs (although it could work for most any sitcom that has a grand-parent or maid living with the family):

FADE IN ON:
The Goldberg's kitchen.  Murray and Pops are sitting at the kitchen table as Beverly tosses a salad at the counter.
The front door flies open and Adam comes rushing in, excited and out of breath.

ADAM:  Hey everybody, guess what?
BEVERLY: What schmoopy?
ADAM: I've got a new girlfriend! And she just won the school's award for Most Accomplished Philatelist!
MURRAY: They give awards for that now?
BEVERLY: No son of mine is going to date a girl who does that!
MURRAY: Collect stamps?
BEVERLY: Oh.  Right.
Adam turns to Pops and shakes his head.
POPS: Is she a cunning linguist too?
Everyone but Adam laughs.  Freeze frame.  Cut to commercial.

And that'll be $5000.00 please.
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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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