Category Archives: Humor

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Welcome to Reality 2.0

Posted on March 14, 2025 by mitchteemley

Reality isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. Our external senses don’t tell us everything, just enough to function in the world around us, to pretend it’s orderly and makes sense. But meanwhile, there’s a whole other world inside of … Continue reading →

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In a World Where…

Posted on March 13, 2025 by mitchteemley

I love doing voice-overs. And fortunately have gotten to do a lot of them. As a member of the comedy trio Isaac Air Freight, I did my first voice-over as Little Joe in Prodigal Joe. Then went on to perform on … Continue reading →

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Let’s Go Dino Surfin’!

Posted on March 12, 2025 by mitchteemley

Music From My Movies As I mentioned in the previous Music from My Movies posts, I’ve written songs for each of my feature films. For my “cult classic comedy” Notzilla (MovieWeb), I wrote three early 60s-style tunes to play under the … Continue reading →

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Putting My Search for Meaning On Hold

Posted on March 11, 2025 by mitchteemley

My Real Memoir I’d been admitted, I discovered, to one of the top drama schools in the country. The “Welcome Theatre Majors! Party” at a wealthy alumna’s pad, revealed two other things: they could drink and they could think. If they’d been … Continue reading →

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Caterpillars Don’t Become Butterflies!

Posted on March 10, 2025 by mitchteemley

Thought for the Week Did you know that caterpillars are not “transformed” into butterflies? In metamorphosis (the name of the process), a caterpillar is liquefied. Only after its actual death can an entirely new creature, a butterfly, emerge! Most people’s … Continue reading →

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Half-Empty or Half-Full? What’s Your Worldview?

Posted on March 8, 2025 by mitchteemley

Worldviews dominate our era. The motto of the present time could be, “Everyone’s worldview is valid, only mine is valider.” The old glass-is-half-empty/glass-is-half-full metaphor seems like an effective way of “glass-ifying” some prominent worldviews: Optimism – The glass is ½ … Continue reading →

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Confession: I Like Acting Stuffy

Posted on March 6, 2025 by mitchteemley

I’m primarily a writer, director, producer, but I enjoy acting on-screen as well. Here’s a fun little promotional piece I did a few years back for an advertising company called Epipheo. I confess: I liked playing this rather stuffy British fellow … Continue reading →

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Moving Out and Moving On

Posted on March 4, 2025 by mitchteemley

Photo by Mantas Hesthaven My Real Memoir Being the director of a bohemian arts academy, at age twenty-five, gave me a certain “successful young artist” veneer. I barely made rent, but I dated a lot of our students. Pauline wasn’t a stunner, but … Continue reading →

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Don’t Let Your Habits Form You

Posted on March 3, 2025 by mitchteemley

Thought for the Week It took a while to break them in. But I finally did. And by now they were the most comfortable shoes I’d ever owned. So I wore them longer than any shoes I’d had before. I … Continue reading →

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13 Hilarious Hybrid Dog Names

Posted on March 1, 2025 by mitchteemley

Hybrid dogs are all the rage. Plus, hybrids save on gas, right? (Some dogs I’ve met run on pure methane). Here are some of my favorite combinations–and, yes, these are actual dog breed names: Bossi-poo – Boston terrier + poodle … Continue reading →

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