Fun Friday Resources

Here’s a no-pain contemplation to get you started: https://www.totemword.com/ It’s a very simple idea — you type in words that resonate for you to describe your year, and the site helps you define that One Word. (The site mentions 2023, but obviously it’s still useful.)

Need some help procrastinating? Head over to https://glass.funwebsite.fun/, which turns your monitor screen into a piece of glass that you then break up into stained glass panels. That’s it. You can choose some parameters — scroll down — and then start clicking. It’s quite satisfying in a completely useless way.

Are you itching to become the next Ernie Bushmiller (of the comic strip Nancy fame) but you just can’t come up with the lame gags you need to be outstanding in that field? Is the Plot Genie not working for you? Consider How to Make Money with Simple Gags, by one Glenn Bretthauer, over at the Ohio State University Library. While the book itself has not been scanned, the Gag Master has been, so you could visually pick your characters and setting, or you could print three copies, cut the actual wheels out, and pin them together for that true Gag Master feel.

So: Sweet Old Lady/Bathing Beauty/Failure to Accept Custom/in an Art Studio. And… go!