Can Falk turn over a new leaf? Are there any genres of story he hasn’t explored that would be worth trying? Why are alligators flat? Listen to find out!
Not Funny, episode 154 of This Gun in My Hand, was stripped of all humor by Rob Northrup. This episode and all others are available on Youtube with automatically-generated closed captions of dialog. Visit http://ThisGuninMyHand.blogspot.com for credits, show notes, archives, and to buy my books, such as Sisyphus, Eat Your Heart Out, available in paperback and ebook from Amazon. What keeps everyone around me from laughing? This Gun in My Hand!
Show Notes:
1. My mom told me the jokes about elephants jumping out of trees and the original Cherry Pachyderm joke probably 45 years ago.
2. Columbia Pictures released 28 Blondie films between 1938 and 1950, based on the newspaper comic strip.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blondie_(film_series)
3. According to etymonline dot com, the word “glitch” is thought to have been in circulation among radio broadcasters since the early 1940s, derived from the Yiddish glitsh, “a slip;” or German glitschen, “to slide or slip,” or gleiten, “to glide.”
4. You can find several copies of The Lester Dent Master Fiction Plot (or The Lester Dent Formula) online. First published in Writer’s Digest Yearbook 1936.
https://bruces.medium.com/the-lester-dent-master-plot-formula-by-lester-dent-6779fd822695
Credits:
Music in this episode came from these public domain films:
The Sun Sets at Dawn (1950), and Too Late for Tears (1949, aka Killer Bait). Most of the music and sound effects used in the episode are modified or incomplete versions of the originals.
Other music during the commercial comes from the film Screaming Mimi (1958), which is available on archive.org. Some blogs claim it’s public domain.
The image accompanying this episode is a modified detail of the public domain photo “Detail of storefronts, south facade, east side - Indiana Hotel, 5116 Hohman Avenue, Hammond, Lake County, IN.” Photographer and date unknown.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Detail_of_storefronts,_south_facade,_east_side_-_Indiana_Hotel,_5116_Hohman_Avenue,_Hammond,_Lake_County,_IN_HABS_IND,45-HAMM,2-17.tif
Image Alt text: Black and white photo at an angle of first floor store fronts. The letters above windows and awnings show where neon signs have been removed, but the painted backgrounds still read, “PASTEY JEWELRY” and “HAMMOND LOAN CO.” Inside the windows of Pastey Jewelry are closed curtains, no merchandise displayed. The streets are empty. Along the right edge of the photo are notes by the photographer: HABS No. IN-233-17.
