My Happiness Project: Laugh Some More

My Happiness Project is a personal quest to bring more happiness into my everyday life. As I continue to explore, experiment and write about My Happiness Project, I hope that you would share your happy experiences and thoughts with me.

In my last Happiness Project blog post I talked about how watching a favorite sitcom can make me laugh; reading humorous material is an even better happiness boost. For instance, Lisa Kogan always makes me laugh while reading her monthly article in O, The Oprah Magazine. I actually keep a file folder called “Funny Things” that holds all the clippings that I find so funny that I want to read them again. As part of my Happiness Project to “laugh some more”, I pulled out that folder and re-read some favorites.

The essay “Woof: A Plea of Sorts” by George Saunders is part of his book, The Braindead Megaphone and while I didn’t enjoy the whole book, this essay is brilliant.

Written from the perspective of the dog, the essay is quirky and most definitely strange. And I admit, not funny to everyone. My husband does not think this essay is funny. As I told you, we don’t share the same sense of humor. He read it and said, “cute” with a faint smile on his face. On the other hand, I was laughing so hard that I was shaking, crying and dripping snot. I cut it out the September 2007 issue of O Magazine, but I couldn’t find the essay online anywhere to share with you, just an except on Google Books. Click on the Google Books link and see if it makes you laugh too. If so, we can most definitely be friends.

Another article that made it into my “Funny Things” folder, but also (more disturbing) my “hmm…that’s really not a bad idea” file in my brain is “My Last Party” by Linda S. Amstutz.

I find it funny because I would so do this! I cut it out from Skirt, but Linda also has it on her blog, under the title “Over My Dead Body.” Read it and tell me, do you find this morbid or funny? Your answer will probably alter the course of our friendship.

What do you read to make you laugh? Please share; I can always use a good laugh!

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3 Comments so far

Just discovered your lovely compliment on MY LAST PARTY. Thanks for laughing at it and for mentioning my blog. Glad I could make you laugh!! Nice to meet another SKIRT! reader.

Although I do find some humor in this essay. It is not completely funny to me. In my opinion the dog is trying to be TOO funny and that effort takes away from the humor. Some of the dog’s comments do make me laugh, but there are other ones that annoy me to the point of making ME want to bite the dog myself. Besides, there is something more about his personality that does not strike me as funny but rather as prepotent and show off. I agree with Jason Robert’s review of this essay “they’re certainly entertaining, only merely so.” http://articles.sfgate.com/2007-09-23/books/17263525_1_megaphone-guy-braindead-megaphone-george-saunders/2

He considers George Saunter’s writing something to admire for it’s literary aspect rather than for the criticism. Furthermore, a talking dog is not so impressive like Rebecca Brinson states “(a dog that can write!… isn’t that surprising.” http://www.hugohouse.org/content/marginalia-let-no-one-say-our-revolution-without-humor

Like you said, not everyone has the same sense of humor and if there is someone capable of showing me some insightful analysis of this essay I will be very interested in it.

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