Category: Serial Novel

The word retribution comes from the Latin word retribūtiō, which means “recompense, repayment”. It first appeared in the Vulgate, the Latin translation of the Christian Bible, as well as in City of God by St. Augustine of Hippo, and writings of other Latin church fathers. “An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth” is… Continue reading Retribution for those who Rebuke: An exposé

Money brings out the worst In people. A gate way to drugs. The entire idea of addiction depends solely on one’s ability to budget their financial affairs. We see it permeate in popular culture everyday with Don Imus sleight of hand. Or John Madden. Or Bobby Knight. Giving way to reverse racism or affirmative action.… Continue reading Aptitude of Servants

Shiva is a major Hindu god who is often depicted as male and female at once. This indicates that Shiva is above and outside the physical world, beyond human limitations. According to Hindu mythology, Lord Shiva is considered as a godly manifestation of a man or a true masculine force. In a literal sense, Shiva means that which… Continue reading Condemnation

Are we resigned to the African skinned hill of Faith (pun intended)? Willowby the eloquent elegance of colloquial elocution. Murphy’s Law, and/or entropy as the Cismales’ tampon. Burning the Dark Knight oil: I am tryna to sleep facing the west – legs bent to the east a la corkscrew – shooting currents of pain. Haven’t… Continue reading WALKY THE TALKY

The inhibition of cortical frontal areas stops during laughter. Due to the interdisciplinary nature, or neuroanatomy, brain imaging MRI & PET scans prove [how] humor is realized. Production involves Duchenne + voluntary. The former stimulates the amygdala, thalamic (gray) matter + brain-stem. Voluntary laughs fan the premotor opercular in the temporal lobe – moving to… Continue reading On Directing An Audience of Light-Bulb Shaped Walnut-Sized Brains

I once hoped standup comedy would offer up a master key to the differences between various comics. A number of well-known & not so well-known hybrids. The genes that vary between most also tend to vary most within chuckle huts. Carefully sculpted to engage the machinations of turbulence. Let’s concrete the stakes: Humor are the… Continue reading The Depressionist

Comedy clubs are designed with the aim of being able to screen out distorting variants. Comics control the esoteric ambience to stabilize consistency. Crystallize identifiable patterns reacting to an ever-changing scene. To time-travel is to concoct a time capsule. Persistence of the organism over a birth-cycle requires an inconceivable precise balance of division rather than… Continue reading To Time-Travel Is To Concoct A Time Capsule

The comedians’ job is go where nowhere else wants to go. Comedy in all of its ability to divide us can bind us. A welcome relief. Good times could have been great or even grand. I’m interrogated: “Why’d ya start stand up?” I comply, “I haven’t really. Think of it like punching cement.” They further… Continue reading Humor: The Singlemost Fatal Aphrodisiac

My gen is downright being held accountable but not responsible for the hyper-sexualization of serotonin against the deferment of psychology. What has become known [today] as smelling reality. This, in turn, plummets melatonin levels. So now restless legs – eyes peeled – all due to elongated facial features drawing the accompaniment of ire “Why the… Continue reading Side-Winders Unite

Seek the arrest for half of the stuff you say on the mic. Put the T in hustle. Like a crucifixion. Your mindset thru & through. It forever remains an uphill battle cause victory has 1000 fathers; Defeat is an orphan. Head over heels nose dive into the industry. Now this is the tricky crossroads:… Continue reading The Inside Joke

Being a dark & plainclothes gentleman is a stinker – we are ballerinas wound up by the opposite species to dance around others all day. We take refuge in refuge. Once a decade or century you will stumble upon a real humdinger known from here on out only as drugs. Once you kneel to grab… Continue reading A Bit

Walls are adorned with pictures of people you recognize – torn out of history. Some feature intricately crafted props that shouldn’t be touched; other times, when drunk, you are encouraged to rip things apart to discover clues hidden in seat cushions & under floorboards. You fiddle with one of the countless switches found mounted on… Continue reading Escape

01) What inspires me to perform stand-up comedy? Growing I loved all sports. I wanted to be an athlete but I could never choose which sport. Standup comedy is diplomacy. It is a sport in itself. I exercise my jugular or esophagus muscles, manipulating low frill sounds using a boom mic. I am the best… Continue reading Q&A

Are open mic’ers standup comedians? Less realistic than mollifying; an age-old issue of aristocratic succession. There are risks involved in carving up fiefdoms, no matter the talent. Think of established comedians as the scene’s board of directors, lined up in our favor automatically. Swing votes. If this scenario came to pass, we retain top talent… Continue reading Crackin’ Up

Ringtones aren’t just a signal that someone wants to talk to you — they say something about who you are. A sign of how profound a simple interface choice changes an environment. Cellular corporations keep the wheels of the system spinning via ‘creative self-destruction’ embedded in the established structure of the human component of the… Continue reading Spinning Wheel

The epochal storm of tech spawned a dotcom wave cresting in 1998. 2 decades later, my ink captures the fervor of said era. Unlike James Frey – “I swear to tell the truth, the whole truth & nothing but the truth so help me Shiva.” The way Galileo put it: “Before understanding communication, understand the… Continue reading Narcissus

Never Repeat Jokes began on December 2009. Still runs today. During this decade, I faced radical innovations, like the reality television boom, cable, on Demand, & satellites. There is also the rise of independent film & the revolution of digital technology. At each step, I insist NRJ be ahead of the curve of each innovation.… Continue reading Houdini Of Comedy

I begin with a yes or no question: Do you believe in sit down comedy? Thank you. So … you believe that the art of standup comedy commands routine? Wrong! As if venues or halls or auditoriums or nightclubs or pubs or theaters are going to quota how much we laugh? Comedy is in a… Continue reading SitDown Comedy?

“Stories build the world,” right? It inspires, motivates & helps. The greatest people of this world were inspired by stories before they built their own. The bed-time stories recited by the elder members in the family always fascinated your aspirations. I’m fighting for a dream that is Never Repeat Jokes. What’s worse than bullying? Psychological… Continue reading Hate Mail

Nowadays we are online – not public, not private – somewhere in between. Can we say “Virtual Reality” à la Jamiroquai? A typical spontaneous persona will engage a community. We differ considerably from when spontaneity did not require a methodical dog-eat-dog spite for whom you make your opponent out to be … Which is yourself!… Continue reading I Say Meme You Say Meme

I love casting against type -not “type-casting” by definition – to sound delinquent wearing a grimace – I go against the grain. I go against the flow like salmon. I go against the norm demolishing, smashing, squashing the odds into gelatinous pudding. Not to be a delinquent but I’m cringe-worthy; performing unexpected, enigmatic plays; apt… Continue reading HEROIX

Nowadays the biopic, or the autobiography, is the single vehicle & means or avenue for the autéur. Social Media has also proven that “shameless self-promotion” can be an act of catharsis as well as SPAM. Isn’t this what we are coerced to do on social media? Now imagine a comedienne or comedian who every time they… Continue reading Standup Comedy Is A Testimony To Screenwriting

NeverRepeataJoke App live-streams never-before-heard jokes. For both audiences/fans & comedians, it won’t be too long before comedy folks use my app to live stream an entire live comedy show or event. There have been various desktop platforms including failed methods on Periscope & Meerkat to live-stream shows in the past. The ease of this live streaming… Continue reading Free App

If you want anyone to listen to you, you have to trump your spectators. This isn’t because of Donald Trump, it’s modern-day nature. We both are better off for knowing this but if “we” consisted of Donald Trump & I this would be a language of business. When you let your eyes do the talking.… Continue reading #IamDonaldTrump

“At the end of a 24-hour shift I am jet lag; drained; under par. I can’t concentrate. I have to work hard & really think to get words out. I feel drunk, making me irritable & stressed. The scariest was dozing off at a traffic light. Someone had to knock on my windshield to wake… Continue reading Restlessness

“The seminal moment of my life was the first time I stepped into a cinema:  I knew I can do anything. Go anywhere.” -Christopher Nolan If I were to get personal, I say the seminal moment of my life was being barred from WGN radio. The seminal moment of life itself is having the choice… Continue reading ❄️ Snowball Effect ❄️

2,000 “belles-lettres” [French for beautiful or fine writing] are on the Restricted Book Shelves of the world’s dozen leading libraries, of which survived centuries of prosecution, bowdlerizing, mutilation, concealment, defenestration & burning to become invaluable artifacts for scientists. A belletrist, or rhetorician, is valued for aesthetic qualities & originality of style & tone in spite… Continue reading What’s A Belletrist?

Social media users are diagnosed as suffering from mood swings. Users are subjected to symptoms of epilepsy nightly. Each treatment hits us as a blinding white light wherein lies our genius. To embrace our own psychic carnage & be content with the content we create with all five of our senses. See, hear, touch the… Continue reading Taint of Idolatry

Join me on a sun-soaked bench outside a lumber shop. I have been working incredulously w/ blood as ink. Like raining frogs, you jump to the conclusion I imply red. But blood in the veins is blue. Or it could be jaundice. Which is what people used to call each other before this shitty era was… Continue reading Message from a Genie in a Bottle on a Magic Carpet

NeverRepeatAJoke is a hierarchial blueprint to make joke-telling a digital means for conveying artists’ interior anguish. YouTube-level aphorisms. I am a grab-bag of dramatic elements lending soul & fire to the sight of a man reading from a pen & pad. Masterful deadpan performances as the gaunt, aging eminence who rubs a Genie lamp. I… Continue reading No Yoda In Ioda

Do not stand with impatience what a chapter of incidents may produce in your favor. Brutal honesty is the shortest distance of communication between among a community … Get in their grill. The question is: Do you know how to take culture out of context to see propaganda for what it is? Like paranoia, there is… Continue reading V For Vendet- My Ass