I just discovered Jason Robert Brown’s weblog, and the news that he’s writing the music for a Kennedy Center symphonic adaptation of E.B. White’s TRUMPET OF THE SWAN, with playwright Marsha Norman. These are all such good things, and remind me that there’s a world beyond Sarah Palin.
As I discovered when I was elected one of the 3 writers for the Stanford Band’s halftime shows, in 2001, I’m not really a comedy writer. I’m a punnist, whether or not they’re funny. It’s all about how words sound. To this end, here’s the Palin Pun that I think of every time I hear her name:
Sarah Palin:
Parasailing.
(a moment of silence for the pun)
T minus ninety minutes to the debate. Biden my time. I’ll be watching it with Robert and Caitlin in their Ravenswood apartment, the same place where I saw Obama’s acceptance speech. I think we’ll all remember where we saw these events for a long time.
Yours in trepidation.
October 3, 2008 at 1:53 am
posted at 6:44pm PDT 10/2/08
I’m not watching any debates. They only reinforce my feelings that it really IS sausage making and I want NOTHING to do with the process! I am informed and I shall vote, nuff said. I had no idea you even knew of JRB’s existence. Thanks for the link.
My dear friend, Tierney Sutton, twice Grammy nominated jazz vocalist, gave me his CD, “Wearing Someone Else’s Clothes” after she met him at a gig they both were doing in OC. CSUF also did a so-so production of “The Last Five Years” while I was teaching there. I think I listen to “Someone Else’s Clothes” at least twice a week.
I do not know, Mr. White’s story but I soon shall. your pun/s are wonderful, dear Dara. I stand in awe of your punning. My efforts, well, you know…
Le Grande Fromage
October 3, 2008 at 5:36 pm
Given the way she’s always droppin’ the g’s, it could be Sarah Palin, Parasailin’.