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O, madam, my old heart is crack’d

An old friend of mine works for Cracked.com(click), and as I wanted to start writing comedy in a more professional context, I talked to him about writing something for the website. He liked Wrestling Team, and then got me in touch with one of the editors. I pitched a few ideas, and out of the misshapen manifold of shitty thoughts, my editor chiseled out an idea about fictional terrorists and how their plans are always so ridiculously complex. So, I wrote it up and waited.

My first attempt to write for a more general audience, and especially in a different voice was…not such a success. Wrestling Team’s shitty nonsense works mostly because Mark’s and my brains actually work like that, making weird connections between homophones and strange conceptual jumps. That’s fine when it’s for our own creations, but more mainstream things that call for a linear writing technique, well, I should probably apologize to my editor. Anyway, the article (click) ran today, heavily re-written because I got the voice of the publication so incredibly wrong. Anyway, as a counterpoint, I wanted to put up my original version (click) here because I thought the comparison between the two was interesting. All of the political stuff is taken out, as well as a thread I had written in where the character writing the piece just broke up with his girlfriend for cuckolding him. Anyway, I wrote this last summer, so my non-Wrestling Team skills are much improvened. But my grammar ain’tly.

Filed by wrestlingteam at May 9th, 2008 under news