Humor

Don’t Know Much About Science

Or science humor, apparently.

I’ll take a half-caff macchiato and some knowledge, please (Photo by Gabriella Clare Marino on Unsplash)

Yes, I know LinkedIn is a hellscape of tech bros and scambots, but I’ve actually gotten two leads for paying gigs from it by searching “freelance writer” jobs.

One is for a content mill that I now technically work for, if only I had the time, and the other is for an online humor site called Science Rag.

Now, I didn’t even know you could get paid for writing short humor until about two years ago when I stumbled into Medium like a weary homesteader coming to town for flour and stick candy.

After a fast start out of the gate, what I quickly learned is that my humor and the stuff covering the “humor” websites like a rash that won’t go away no matter how much Caladryl you put on it, are two very different things.

Clearly, this is because I am old.

I was raised on the humor of Dave Barry and Erma Bombeck and Fran Lebowitz, with more recent forays into Dave Sedaris and Sam Irby (or this right-on-the-money piece by AMRAN GOWANI on Substack).

It’s a conversational sort of humor that doesn’t require much (if any) set-up and takes you down a meandering path to either devastation or hilarity, or both.

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