DISQUS

Ablog The Author: Texas Book Festival Post-Game Wrap-Up....

  • edmarkey · 1 month ago
    Would it be too obvious to have Sam Perlozzo doing ASL?
  • billscheft · 1 month ago
    v-v-strong
  • PatfromForestHills · 1 month ago
    ASL sign for "Jews" is the beard...What does that leave for the Amish?? (Catholic must be: sign of the cross and grab of the crotch; Protestant: golf swing; Muslim...just hold up a danish and a cartoon...)
  • billscheft · 1 month ago
    Hilarious.
    I think the ASL folks flipped a coin. Jews got the beard, Amish got the hat....
  • cathyarmstrong · 1 month ago
    Fantastic! Glad it went so well. I've seen you in action, so I don't know it could not have gone well. I hope there's more of the same in Detroit.
  • Eleanor · 1 month ago
    Your hairstyle was more: Excessively-groovy, Creative Writing prof. Works for some people, but....
  • billscheft · 1 month ago
    Eleanor, thanks for stopping by...
    Yeah, I'll go with that Einstein "I have too much on my mind to remember a comb" thing. Which would be great, if I was Einstein.
  • The_Toast_in_the_Machine · 1 month ago
    From The Late Show Newsletter...

    This Week In Dave History: "LS writer Bill Scheft writes 78 jokes the day Bill Clinton is elected this week in 1992, the most he's ever written in a day."

    Outfuckingstanding, Marine!

    ;)
  • billscheft · 1 month ago
    I remember that day. And this was back at NBC, when he was only doing four jokes in the monologue.
    I remember because of the 78 he did exactly, wait for it, zero.
    But I had a beauty the next day. It went something like, "Earlier today, Dan Quayle turned to his wife, Marilyn, and said, 'Is there an 'e' at the end of 'resume?'"
  • The_Toast_in_the_Machine · 1 month ago
    Solid gold!

    (Ha ha...Sounds like you might have been making mounds and mounds of potato salad instead of cole slaw.)
  • TheProfessor69 · 1 month ago
    Bill , you are a pleasure to read and this blog is like finding one more Black Beauty back in the 60's when you thought you were out.
  • billscheft · 1 month ago
    Professor, anyone that makes an obscure pill reference is okay by me. And I don't want to tell you your business, but if you're looking for good old rifling-through-the-medicine-cabinet fun, my I suggest THE RINGER?
  • TheProfessor69 · 1 month ago
    Thanks Bill , you are a gem .
  • The_Toast_in_the_Machine · 1 month ago
    I'm glad you did better than you expected... You may have been in "mid-blubber," but at least you weren't "wailing." (God, that was awful...Sorry.)

    “This is Bill Scheft. He wrote the funniest book of the year.” ---True dat, my friend!

    ;)
  • corkey · 1 month ago
    Bill,

    Last year one of my grandsons,Tucker was four and he decided he was going to stay at grandpas house all night. We made it through the nite - it was hard for him to be away from his Mom. The next day after we walked, played and sat down for a movie he asked me in the most caring of voices, 'what was the best part of your day grandpa?"

    The best part of my day, this day....reading, learning, sharing,and relearning via Bridge of Sighs.

    Thanks for the link to Mr. Russo Bill.The man has awareness and the ability to express that so intimately that my own awareness of self feels like a BB on a bowling lane.

    Corkey