Medium Day Madness

MuddyUm Wants to Be Your Funny, Functional Family

Join us at 8:00 p.m. Eastern on Medium Day to learn how

Medium and Tony Stubblebine, Medium head honcho and creator of Medium Day, have sparked my manic this morning, and I’m flying high, soaring above the clouds, running the good race — pick a cliché. 8:00 to 8:30 p.m. Eastern Time as the time for “MuddyUm Wants to Be Your Funny Functional Family,” and I’ve been practicing my streaming voice ever since. The cats are concerned.

You’ll get to see and hear more than just my voice, though. In fact, after Susan Brearley’s intro, I’m on only to throw out questions for my panel of “experts” to lobby amongst themselves.

Our panel of MuddyUm writers will discuss why they write for MuddyUm, and how MuddyUm editors nurture our writers and help them grow the funny.

We’ll also tell you how you can become a writer for us.

I’ll be interviewing Jadyn Mardy, who was MuddyUm’s amazing, motivated, highly successful intern a year ago. She writes funny from college, giving us the young generation viewpoint. She’s a social media whiz.

Also on the panel will be the irreverent Eric Filipkowski, who has promised to lie. I don’t know what that means, but since he likes to write for us and interact with the editors, he’d have to lie in the opposite direction. Eric is a gifted performer as well as a writer, so he can pull it off. He has done projects with, among others, Bill Hader.

Rounding out the panel will be Gael MacLean, writer, director and producer of documentaries and fiction for television, as well as digital content. In other words, she is who we writers want to be when we grow up. If anyone is more irreverent than Eric Filipkowski, it might be Gael. Tune in to vote for most irreverent. Also to see how the two of them bounce off each other. No squeezing required, Gael.

Kayla Dunham has been MIA from Medium for a couple of years, busy with her life, freelance writing and visual arts work. She loves us at MuddyUm and wants to shout it from the rooftops, or at least across the waves of the internet on Medium Day, August 12. She isn’t officially on the panel as she is outrageously busy, but she promises to drop in.

There may be another surprise guest — MuddyUm is full of surprises. Much like when one of the Rat Pack dropped in on Johnny Carson in the good-old-days. Not that I would remember that, of course.

MuddyUm has two slots on Medium Day. If you haven’t registered, run don’t walk to this link and sign up. Otherwise you’ll miss all the funny we’re bringing to the day.

Seriously. Wouldn’t you rather be laughing??

A huge thank you to Jadyn Mardy, Gael MacLean, Eric Filipkowski, and Kayla Dunham for volunteering to keep you laughing both on MuddyUm and on Medium Day. And to Susan Brearley for starting MuddyUm and captaining this Pirate Ship of hilarity.