Enjoying What You Write is Good for You and the Rest of Us
Taking a break from my usual and exploring humor writing was a good decision
I’ve been exploring different writing themes and styles and a few weeks ago, I got together with my husband Inky and best friend Rob as they sketched and I wrote in a cafe. As always, they had a lot of fun drawing and chatting together. After I wrote a paragragh about a difficult experience, I put my head down on the table.
“What are you doing?” They both wondered.
I raised my head. “My writing can be emotional and draining,” I said. Why do I do this to myself?
Then I turned to my husband. “Hey, you said my latest piece, The Holiday Party, was the best I’ve done so far. Why did you say that?”
Inky glanced up from his sketch pad, smiled, and said, “Because you were having fun.”
I looked over at Rob, and he looked at me like what Inky just said was the most obvious thing on earth. “What do you think?”
His eyebrows were raised and eyes widened. “BECAUSE YOU WERE HAVING FUN,” and then he went into a rant about how you should enjoy what you do art-wise.
So in that spirit, I’m sharing the following silliness. I wrote this invitation and descriptions for our group’s Bad Movie Day Galentine’s gathering. I noticed that as I was typing I was laughing, just straight up having a hell of a time. I wasn’t even writing in my own voice anymore, I was taking up the voices of different characters, like Maude Lebowski from The Big Lebowski. I felt so clever, and I knew I needed to do more of this.
Bad Movie Day Invitation
Bad Movie Day is now a woman-owned business for this quarter only! Come celebrate with us at a special Galentine’s Bad Movie Day on Saturday, February 15th, beginning at noon.
We’ll gather at Panda’s house in her "cave of wonders," aka pussy-themed basement. You're welcome to dress in red or pink for the occasion, if you wish. We’ll likely order food, and Panda will probably bake something and cook a side dish, even though I’ve told her over and over that she’s hurting the cause. She forgets what The Sisterhood has done for her.
I’ll bring something pre-made, because I’m not wasting my life cooking after a week at my job in mental health, taking on the many problems caused by emotionally absent men.
Otherwise, it’s BYOB and snacks. A come and go policy is in place (you can go or you can come, can you dig it?).
Women-centric bad movie selections are being finalized (don't worry, there will be plenty of titties), and descriptions are to follow. We can't emphasize enough how much women's stories matter.
Please join us in amplifying our voices and female body positivity for Bad Movie Day Q1. We hope you can make it. If you don’t, we'll just assume you’re a misogynist.
In Power,
Mx. Lisa (she/them)
Ms. Panda (she/her)
Bad Movie Day Descriptions
Hey folks,
We are ON for tomorrow unless you're the type of pussy who fears snow. Remember, we're meeting at Panda's place, gathering in her pussy den for Galentine's Day (We're all friends here). I think we said noon but I can't remember, fuck.
We might not get to all of these, but here are the selections:
Showgirls - The one... the only. Everyone is in on what this film is about except Elizabeth Berkley, who prances around like a petulant child with decent legs. Fun fact: Director Paul Verhoeven was the first director to show up to accept awards for Worst Director and Worst Picture at the RAZZIES. It's showbiz, it's ridiculous, it's America.
The Turkish Wizard of Oz - Panda found this weird shit because she always does. Just in time for the Wicked films, we present: The Turkish Wizard of Oz! It's so Turkish that we can't find the full film in English online, but we have selected clips. It's just as great as its 1939 counterpart, we promise. Taste the rainbow. Be the rainbow. Fly over the rainbow. Come defy gravity with us and enjoy some baklava.
Breakaway - Proudly a Lisa find, if you consider us scrolling on Plex and me exclaiming, "IS THAT FUCKING TONYA HARDING?!" Inky and I are infinitely glad we went for this one. It makes no freaking sense. Why is Tonya here, and moreover, why is she featured so prominently on the poster? Why is this weak old man a mob boss? And why won't this dude shut the fuck up about being an Eagle Scout when getting laid is on the line? I just can't.
The Worst Witch - Fairuza Balk is witchier than any of us will ever be. Before we knew her from The Craft, little Fairuza attended witch school where... believe it or not... she was THE WORST WITCH. (Ahhh, she said the thing!). Never give up on your educational dreams. Everyone at this school, I mean everyone, is in love with the wizard, played by Tim Curry. Why did he do this film, Lisa? I don't know. I don't fucking know.
Fuck, what else did we say?
Beyond the Valley of the Dolls - A not-so-sequel to the phenomenal Valley of the Dolls. Better tits, though. Tits that overloaded Playboy's mailbox during the Vietnam War, apparently, back when people still had mailboxes. Roger Ebert served as one of the writers for this pile of trash that only seems to exist so people could watch porn at home for once. The only good thing that came out of this was that Tim Curry used a character from this film as inspiration for one of his most famous characters in a real movie that people don't use as compost (The Rocky Horror Picture Show). We just can't with this one, but it's great in its own way, and that's enough.
Taintlight - (sings) "Turn on your taintlight!" A lovely 2.2 rating on IMDb. But it's probably still better than its inspiration Twilight. Why does this exist? It was apparently a spoof gone wrong, or right. A Chris Seaver production, if you know who the fuck that is (I said that to the wrong crowd because some of you likely do). There's a mime for some reason? I don't know. After watching this, you'll want green apples thrown at your head too.
(Full context for below: Eephus is actually a really good film featuring one of our friends who attends Bad Movie Day and is definitely the best of us).
Eephus - This trailer just hit Apple TV and we had to add it. It's like A League of Their Own but for men, I think? I guess men play baseball now. Plus, it features the biggest asshole we know. This guy doesn't know when to stop. He hits on your girlfriend, is usually drunk off his ass, puts sugar in your gas tank, doesn't recycle, doesn't tip, and doesn't always make it to Bad Movie Day because he has the audacity to make his own movies that are admittedly pretty fucking great, which pisses us off the most. But no matter how high he flies, he'll always be one of us.
