Wednesday, January 25, 2012

Random Shameful* Thoughts...

So I've been thinking recently about how to bring my various talents into a moneymaking arena. I've see recently a number of funny cartoon type strips on Failblog and its subsidiary sites. Then the notion occurred to me, with regards to my Shame stories. Sometimes the events that occur are not meaty enough for a short story, but a comic strip along the same lines called Shame Shorts might be just the ticket. For instance, just the other day Jen came home from a long day at school and a quick trip to the grocery store with a headache. One of the items I had requested was a chocolate bar to help ease the long day's tension with the little one. I mean, let's face it chocolate is good for everyone, right?
I digress, so we talked a bit about her day and she told be about her headache. I asked if she wanted a bit of my chocolate bar and she said no. Then I asked if she wanted something else that is said to be good for headaches and she playfully tossed the balled up, empty plastic grocery bag in my face. To which I responded by bopping her on the forehead with the rather weighty bar. The impact was hard enough to crack the bar and make a loud thunk that brought T running to see "what happened?" I couldn't help it, I laughed so hard while simultaneously trying to soothe her. Insensitive bastard win!
See, that isn't long enough for a written Shame, but a comic Shame Short? Perfect. I'll have to get a start on the style of the comic drawing and see about cross promoting them with the short stories.

Like I said, random thought...