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  • Ire with a Muffin

    A few days ago, unsatisfied with sketch #1 (Girth), I wrote sketch #2 (Muffin). I liked sketch #2. However, in a whirlwind of insecurity, I decided to post the first sketch thinking that the first idea is always better. But then I reread the first sketch after I posted it and thought “what the hell is this crap?” Quickly, a whirlwind of insecurity set in about sketch #1. So, I decided to cancel out the insecurities and just put the second one up too. Yes, a friggin lunatic am I.

    [fountain]

    INT. LOCAL CAFE – DAY
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  • Prank Warfare

    Good grief. I think this topic is Peter’s fault. Ugh. So sorry.

    I hope y’all find it funnier to read than I did to write. But I seriously doubt it.

    [fountain]
    INT. KINDERGARTEN – DAY
    YOUNG DAVID looks up from gluing macaroni to construction paper, interrupted by YOUNG EMILY’S ponytail sweeping across his desk. He brushes it aside once and she spins around, glaring. Then she smiles.
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  • Girth of a Nation of Dozens

    Okay, so I thought I’d post earlier than usual to avoid the end of the week pile up. Anyway, yeah…blame this one on sleep deprivation. Mad Max meets, well, a freakshow, if you will. Don’t know if its funny, but its definitely strange. Come to think of it, was that really a stamp I licked the other day…

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    EXT. OPEN FIELD – MIDWESTERN UNITED STATES – NIGHT

    An ANGRY MOB of dirty and nearly emaciated men, wearing potato sacks, carrying farm implements, and brandishing torches, march up to an open field. As the group stops, COLIN, the leader of the mob, emerges carrying a pitchfork. He stands tall and looks at the hill in the distance.

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  • Peter’s Commentary on the “CSI: Anywhere” Edition

    Here’s my commentary for the latest round of Sketchwar, which had the theme “CSI: Anywhere.”

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  • CSI: Anywhere Wrapup

    Damn Horatio Caine and his concern about cataracts!

    Depending on how you want to count Ken’s brilliant four-part runner, this was either a banner week for us with eight sketches, or an average week with five. I think for voting and wrapup purposes we’ll call it five.

    So what did the sketch warriors bring to this weeks topic?

    Next week’s topic should provide an interesting challenge to our loquacious band of warrirors: Silent Scenes.

    If you think you’ve got the comedy chops to do battle with our scarred and bitter warriors, if you dare step into the hailstorm of seltzer and cream pies, if you think you’re MAN ENOUGH or WOMAN ENOUGH to make us laugh, write a sketch and contact us at submissions(nospam)@sketchwar.org.

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  • CSI: Alaska (part IV)

    Part I
    Part II
    Part III

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  • CSI: Alaska (part III)

    Part I
    Part II

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  • Crime fcene inveftigationne

    Hi all — here’s my take on the “CSI: Anywhere” edition of Sketchwar….

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  • CSI: Alaska (part II)

    Read Part I first…

    Here’s part II of the 4-part runner.

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  • CSI: Alaska (part I)

    Hi-dey ho, sketch-a-rinos!

    Sorry for the absence – last week was a rehearsal / performance filled blur, and this week started off the same way.

    But neither wind nor sleet nor lack of sleep can keep me from my appointed rounds.

    I’m going to try something different this week too….instead of a single sketch, I’m going to do a runner – a series of short sketches that would be placed intermittently through a review that, hopefully, in the end add up to something more.

    So without further ado, here’s the first one….CSI: Alaska

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