01.31.09
Posted in Humor~General at 8:01 pm by Dr. Trina Hess
I was watching the SMArts student arts TV show that Cleveland Comedy Kitchen and I created a few years ago. We comics helped the students to create their own individual comedy bits for a show. One the students asked where he could find ideas for his act. Kitchen member JD Sidley told him to not use joke books. “Just take things from your own life. Talk about school, your favorite teacher, your least favorite teacher, your friends, your family.”
What’s so bad about joke books? Joke books are impersonal. Anyone can read a joke book, but few people can read it aloud. What’s more funny is what is real for you.
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01.30.09
Posted in Humor~General at 8:47 am by Dr. Trina Hess
As we head into Super Bowl weekend, here is some news about the opposing team…
CLARION’S WELLS HEADED TO SUPER BOWL
(Glendale, Arizona): Congratulations Reggie Wells!!!
Former Clarion University os Pennsylvania All-America offensive lineman Reggie Wells, the starting left guard and offensive captain of the Arizona Cardinals, is headed to the Super Bowl XLIII after his Cardinals defeated the Philadelphia Eagles 32-25 on Sunday in the NFC Championship Game. We hope Reggie has a terrific game in the Super Bowl!
(P.S. from Trina Hess: But we are hoping that the Steelers will win, of course). Visit my page at http://cupfanews.ning.com/profile/TrinaHess
Here is another world-famous fellow alumni of mine, from Indiana University of Pennsylvania: Chad Hurley. You may know him as the cofounder and CEO of YouTube.
Check out my channel on YouTube, and please subscribe!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPXuo5siu_U OR:
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01.29.09
Posted in Humor~General at 8:13 pm by Dr. Trina Hess
Three of the keystones of health are flexibility, strength, and endurance. If any of these is over-done, it weakens the others, and we are out of balance. We are unhealthy.
Too much flexibility makes our joints unstable. We need to have muscle strength to hold ourselves together. But strength without flexibility limits our mobility. And we need endurance in order to continue living, breathing, moving.
It’s the same with clean comedy. Too much flexibility means we say everything that comes to our minds–whether it’s offensive, vulgar, or off-color. We need some self-control: the strength of our appropriateness-muscles lets us know our boundaries in certain situations.
But too much strength and control means we limit our creativity to only those things that are politically correct–and hence, not so funny.
Finally, we need endurance to continue to use our sense of humor–in a balanced way–in situations throughout our day. When we can combine these three aspects into our comedy, we will always be healthy. And funny–very, very funny!
“Get Your SHINE Together!” and get balanced!
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01.28.09
Posted in Humor~General at 6:50 pm by Dr. Trina Hess
Junior Achievement Football Pool
SuperBowl Edition
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Now that the Steelers are on their way to picking up a “6 pack” in the Superbowl, Junior Achievement is hosting their JA FOOTBALL POOL - SUPERBOWL EDITION!
 Get Your Square Today! Click HERE To reserve your square(s) for the football pool. The cost is $25/per square. A portion of the proceeds collected will directly benefit Junior Achievement programs in Western PA!
Send in your money by no later than Noon on Friday, January 30th!
Squares will be given out on a first-come, first-serve basis, and any left over squares will go to JA. All participants will receive an email with the completed pool by 3pm on Friday, January 30th, so you will have it in plenty of time for the game! The winners will be notified by email on Monday, February 2nd!
Winners will recieve $250 for the 1st quarter, $250 for the 2nd quarter, $250 for the 3rd quarter, and $500 for the Final Score. That’s a chance to win $1,250!
Checks can be made payable to Junior Achievement and mailed to:
JA Football Pool - Superbowl Edition
One Allegheny Center, Suite 430
Pittsburgh, PA 15212
Credit Cards can also be accepted (Visa, Master Card, American Express) over the phone.
Contact Sara Caldwell with any questions at 724-772-5900, ext. 110.
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01.27.09
Posted in Humor~General at 7:10 pm by Dr. Trina Hess
Just read an article by Dr. David Clippinger about Chinese philosophy and healing. Seems that there is a universal principle that the “forms of all things are in a state of perpetual motion and change.” Everything is subject to this “always turning round of yin and yang.”
How different this mindset is from our usual, Western thought. We fight change, we resist it, we try to overcome it, we try to conquer it.
Rarely do we attempt to go with it. To accept it, and let it take us where we need to go.
Comedy lets us into this flowing sea of change. How?
Comedy disrupts our usual way of seeing things.
Comedy surprises us with new insights.
Comedy lets us have fun.
When we approach change with this mindset, change seems less threatening. It might even be so fun that it heals us.
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01.26.09
Posted in Humor~General at 7:24 pm by Dr. Trina Hess
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Michael McGlone Live Performance Music Videos from his Session at JSM Studios Now Online
On November 14th, 2008, with a Full Band, Michael McGlone gave a Live In Studio Performance at JSM Music, in NYC. As part of Woozyfly’s Famed series The Set, the session was recorded for the production of Videos to be released webwide…
Of the total 10 videos produced, 8 are of songs from Michael’s as yet unreleased Third Record, SPEED…and 2 surprise selections…
To view the first three videos, Up Bombay, And so this hill… and Rock ‘n’ Roll click here
To visit MichaelMcGlone.com click here
To listen to and/or purchase Michael McGlone’s Music on the web, there are links below to all the e-tailers where it is available.
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01.25.09
Posted in Humor~General at 6:07 pm by Dr. Trina Hess
While watching Planet of the Apes marathon today, I thought of something for today’s Comedy Around the World. The humans were climbing over the rocks and into crevices, trying to hide from the gorillas. The humans kept running away, and eventually found a surprise: They had stumbled onto (or into) Queensboro Plaza subway station, thousands of years into the future.
That scene reminded me (partly) of a trip to Eilat in Israel. A twist of fate caused me to become a chaperon to a high school field trip to that mountainous region. We spent all day climbing through, around, onto, and off of high rock formations. Like those other humans, we also didn’t know what was around the next bend. We just trusted our leader, trusted the people who went before us, and trusted ourselves to place our foot securely on whatever rock we needed.
Comedy is a lot like that. It is a tradition whose leaders blazed a trail. Whether it was breaking the rules of conformity like Andy Kaufman did, or bending the laws of vocabulary like George Carlin did. Maybe your comedy leaders were like mine. They were women who made being funny a women’s job, too: Carol Burnett, Goldie Hawn, Lucille Ball, and Mae West (yes I know, that’s old school).
And just as we trust their track record, we trust the current comics who are not only performers, but commentators on our life-and-times. They are the sounding board for dissent, for creative thought, and for unpopular (but clever) opinions. We can learn from them–we can learn to listen to our own voice, too.
Finally, once we know our own story, our truth, we can create our own brand of humor from that. It’s a story we believe in. It’s a story that may be painful, but we can cull humor from it. And that will always be funny, no matter how fast the gorillas are running.
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01.24.09
Posted in Humor~General at 10:43 pm by Dr. Trina Hess
Thanks to a great crowd, great food and fun at the Cascade Center in New Castle. Here I am with Lance the comic, Brad Lowery and the always-lovely-and-talented Bill Boronkay.
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01.23.09
Posted in Humor~General at 9:11 pm by Dr. Trina Hess
Join us on February 3, 2009 at the Radisson Greentree Pittsburgh from 3pm-7:30pm. The International Networking Dayâ„¢ is part of International Networking Week which is a large initiative dedicated to featuring various networking events both nationally and internationally.
BNI of Western Pennsylvania is hosting the event attracting over 500 entrepreneurs, business owners, sales professionals, students, government representatives, not-for profit administrators all in the same place, at the same time, with the same goal, on the same day. [Look for an event in your area!]
Featured speaker, Bob Burg, (www.burg.com) will show you how to maximize your daily contacts, utilize your tools both online and off, leverage your relationships, and generate ongoing sales opportunities. You will learn that by adding value to the lives of those around you ultimately leads to unexpected returns.
To learn more about International Networking Day go to www.indpittsburgh.com.
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01.22.09
Posted in Humor~General at 4:35 pm by Dr. Trina Hess
I went running with the dogs today. We (okay, I) had planned on running a certain path. But, because of the knee-deep snow, we couldn’t even see “our” path. We had to instead follow whatever snowmobile tracks there were in the vicinity.
This reminded me of how our sense of humor operates:
–Our sense of humor lets us enjoy our surroundings in a way that otherwise we couldn’t do. Most people wouldn’t think of going outside to run in 30 degree weather. They know that treadmills have been invented. But for my dogs and me, today was a veritable heatwave. (I only had to wear two layers of socks, and no toe warmers.) I not only appreciated the warm weather, but I had fun watching the dogs as they played in the snow and fought over deer carcasses they found along the way.
–When we can laugh and take our situation lightly, we suffer less pain. Our planned route became surprising a few miles into the run. When the snowmobile tracks stopped, we had to resort to running through ankle-deep snow for about another mile. But I was able to smile: the lead dog turned around every few hundred yards to make sure the other dog and I were okay.
–If we utilize our innate sense of humor, we can have the agility necessary to bypass the obstacles that get in our way. We may have the best plans in the world, but ultimately we are not in control of everything that could happen. If we focus too much on doing things exactly as we had planned, we lose our flexibility and our agility.
So today, get your shoes (or in my case, hiking boots) on and, “Get Your SHINE Together!”, no matter where your trail leads you!
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