Newsletter

Well, I am starting to run thin on ideas, I had hoped that I would have other people join the fray by now, but nobody likes my blog!

Well, I have at least one more for now -- start a newsletter.

In high school, my friends and I were really bored with the school newspaper. Who wouldn't be, high school newspapers are boring. Don't get me wrong, the kids doing it did a great job, its just that nobody cares about school news.

So we decided to make an alternative humor newspaper. Basically, it turned out to be a project for me and my friend Chris, cause everyone else wussed out. We started writing about the school and the world in an Onion-esque style. Whenever there we had an issue come out, we would sneak onto the school the night before and COVER the place in decorations pertaining to the theme of the issue. As kids came out of assembly the next day, we blared themed music out of huge speakers we brought (we were lucky to be friends with someone with a really nice soundsystem), and handed out our paper.

I would think it would be awesome to recreate this in the work place. It would be hilarious, and you wouldn't have to deal with the censorship that we had to. Make the hand out event as obnoxious and in your face as you possibly can. Roast people in the newsletter that you create. We liked adding an activities section in every issue -- with one of those mazes that has evil characters around every turn (obviously you can make them celebs or people in the work place -- come up with funny reasons why it would be bad to run into them in the maze), or a REALLY easy connect the dots, etc. Horoscopes work well and can be funny.

And again, like all of these projects, it helps to have some creativity, but if you don't and you are just throwing random crap on a piece of paper, it will still be worthwhile if you make a big production of it.