Jord pitched me a few of his ideas for comedy shorts to be screened at a local comedy club.
"Manly sewing."
Has potential, I thought.
"Like, sewing rocks to a sheet of metal with a snake."
[pause]
WHAT?
"Here's another one: Autoerotic asphyxi-Asian."
"Um… A comedy about an Asian person who suffocates himself to intensify a masturbation-induced orgasm?"
"No, like, an Asian dude who's in love with himself."
"Oh. In that case, you should use the pun 'affix-Asian' instead. The 'asphyxi-' prefix is misleading."
"Whatever. You're playing him either way."
[pause]
"Remind me again — why did I move to Chicago?"