Month: June 2023

• Clothing May Be the New Bumper Sticker

  Fresh off my recent musings about the growing need for subtitles, I found myself being entertained by snarky phrases on baseball caps and t-shirts (drink koozies also). Carrie and I attended a local music festival, and ballcaps were being sold aplenty. I will not share their unbefitting content, appropriately available at the “Inappropriate Trucker Hats”…

  Chard

  June 27, 2023

  General

  ball cap sayings, baseball cap sayings, bumper stickers, Chard Berndt, Ford vs. Chevy, Humor Writing, merch, music festivals, t-shirt sayings, Your Humor Source, yourhumorsource.com

• Now Hear This

  More and more individuals—not with hearing problems, nor watching foreign films—are choosing “subtitles on” for video. Carrie and I started noticing this and didn’t know whether it was “a thing” until she sent me an article by Devon Gordon that explained in detail why it is indeed so. (I remember when everything was a thing…

  Chard

  June 20, 2023

  General

  attention spans, Chard Berndt, closed captioning, Humor Writing, memes, rom-coms, streaming services, subtitle preferences, teaching, video settings, Your Humor Source, yourhumorsource.com

• Some Humor Source This Is!

  I went on a humor writing hiatus in early May as I was on a humanitarian outreach in Nepal. Now I’ve been back for three weeks and, what, nothing’s funny? Chard is all business now? You are understandably concerned. This has troubled me as well. Will I resume dispensing to “the masses” much needed levity?…

  Chard

  June 11, 2023

  Update / Short Post

  Brainstorming, But Seriously, Chard Berndt, Humor Writing, Writer's Block, Your Humor Source, yourhumorsource.com