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Comedy: November 13, 2012 Issue [#5363]

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 This week: Depression
  Edited by: Robert Waltz Author IconMail Icon
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Good humor is a tonic for mind and body. It is the best antidote for anxiety and depression. It is a business asset. It attracts and keeps friends. It lightens human burdens. It is the direct route to serenity and contentment.
         -Grenville Kleiser

Depression is rage spread thin.
         -George Santayana

That terrible mood of depression of whether it's any good or not is what is known as The Artist's Reward.
         -Ernest Hemingway


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Letter from the editor

No Cure for the Wintertime Blues


No getting around it, this year - I'm doomed.

Lots of people get what they call Seasonal Affective Disorder, which is a bullshit phrase coined specifically to make a cutesy acronym. Word of advice, people: don't give serious problems cutesy acronyms. It only makes things worse. It's like calling cancer "Dangerous Extreme Agony Turnip Hate."

I don't care what you call it, though, it's tough when nothing's funny - especially when you specialize in humor.

Nothing seems worth it. Even the great victory of good over evil in the elections last week can fail to lift one's spirits.

And TV ads don't help. Ordinary ads are bad enough, but then you see one for some sort of anti-depressant medication: Shiny, happy people going about their day (as if depressed people have a day) full of life, in the sunshine (curse the daystar!) with fresh clothes (as if depressed people bother to do laundry), nice hair (that doesn't look like it's been slept in) and a clean house (ha!) while the voiceover says, calmingly, "Blissitor. Ask your doctor if it's for you. Side effects may include uncontrollable swearing, worsening depression, and thoughts of suicide."

Okay, I made up the "uncontrollable swearing" thing because all TV commercials have that side-effect for me. But I totally didn't make up the last two. That's right, folks: taking antidepressants can make your depression worse and could lead to thoughts of suicide.

I've been depressed in my life, but I've never wanted to kill myself. Not even other people. Usually.

There's no reason - it doesn't need a reason; it just gets in your head and sits like a brick. There's no actual cure - see above about meds. I mean, I could make it go away if I got outside during the day and exercised, but I don't even have the energy to open the door, let alone exercise, so hell with that. And all the early "holiday cheer" doesn't help - it just makes me want to avoid people all the more. Winter is coming.

And that's why the world needs comedy.


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Ask & Answer

Last time, in "Comedy Newsletter (October 17, 2012)Open in new Window., I talked about funny stuff that's supposed to be scary.

LJPC - the tortoise Author Icon: Hi Robert!
I like the idea that comedy is a defense mechanism against scary things. You're absolutely right. I really enjoyed your costume critiques, too. Great NL! *Bigsmile*
~ Laura


         Thanks!


Storm Machine Author Icon: So how do you explain the guy in college who dressed as a 'one night stand'? Not sexy...

         Did you ask him about it? Perhaps he thought it was sexy. Some dudes have no clue that what they're doing isn't appreciated by chicks. Alternatively, he was trying to be funny, as I mentioned in the newsletter, like a guy I knew in college who got a white lab coat, stuck maxi-pads all over it, spray painted them blue, and stenciled "Picasso" on it. He had to explain it to everyone: "I'm Picasso's Blue Period."


And that's it for me this month - try to stay sane, and until next time,

LAUGH ON!!!

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