I clip articles or facts that catch my eye and often base columns on them, though the connection may end up rather obtuse or tenuous. Other than that it s just gunk that percolates up from the lower depths of my brain. Sort of, but not big time. I was definitely a kid who made comments that got the girl sitting next to me in trouble when she laughed at them, but I wasn t really disruptive to the class. The guy who was is now doing time.
Some people are just wrong.
I think it has to be very much natural. If you re not naturally funny then I don t see how it s going to come out funny it would only be forced. You know, satire. Or the person who was upset because I poked fun at people from Eugene, Oregon when I wrote about their coronation of the Slug Queen when the new Slug Queen herself, Madame Bagonda, dropped me an email thanking me for the piece. Luckily, most of the comments are good.