What’s Something That Tickled Your Funny Bone This Week?
Sunny Side Updates with TBIN || Week 62!
It’s the season of laughter and joy. It’s the season of me pointing to fresh lasagna and saying, dear delicious carbs,
You are but a pasta cake. ♥
There a lot of things that make me laugh, but one surefire way to do so is to describe something common and usual from a completely new angle. It doesn’t sound like the key ingredient to humour, but it is, trust me.
But I’m curious — what kind of humour do you have? What kind of humour tickles your funny bone?
I challenge you to comment below, or even flesh it out into a 150 word shortform, or if there’s even more rattling in that brain noodle, up to a 1000 word essay destined for The Brain is a Noodle! ♥
Until next week,
Lucy 🍳 EIC of The Brain is a Noodle* Podcast || Twitter || Instagram || Redbubble || Newsletter *This is factually incorrect. Please absolutely do not go out and eat brains. 📚 PS, I have a new book????????? and I’m five sales away from hitting my 2021 goal!!!! That’s like, the number of fingers on one single hand!!!!!?!?!?!?
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🍜 Piping Hot New(dle) Pieces of the Week
Challenge: *highlight* the ones you bookmarked/ read and make sure everyone gets highlighted at least once! ❤
🧠🍜 [1] Why? by KSHernandez ‘My mind and spirit already left that place, a space that no longer served me — ‘
🧠🍜 [2] Consternation by Roxanne Barbour ‘soldiers of Centauri…’
🧠🍜 [3] “Does the brain control you or are you controlling the brain?” by Edward John ‘Karl Pilkington is confused. He thinks his brain is separate from him.’
🧠🍜 [4] My “To” by Dennett ‘I ran away from him because he wasn’t a good father, took 48 years to know that’
🧠🍜 [5] Fire of Hope by Tarun Gupta ‘The most underrated commodity in today’s world is hope. Humans are inherently hopeful beings.’
🧠🍜 [6] The Caring Cat by Simão Cunha ‘Every day, without exception, before 07:00 in the morning, the time to serve the first of two meals of the day, Leia, in all her elegance, climbs on top of me, who mostly sleep on my side, and with her little paw, touch me in the face.’
🧠🍜 [7] “Why didn’t evolution make a giraffe good at carpentry so it could build a ladder?” by Edward John ‘Why didn’t evolution make a giraffe good at carpentry? It’s a great question.’
🧠🍜 [8] Bonding by Roxanne Barbour ‘meeting of minds (The rest of the tiny poem — click through to read!)’
🧠🍜 [9] What’s Not to Like About Lichen? by Margie Willis ‘The fundamental fleecer . . . after dry crispy crusty months then a rainy punch and POW! instant squishy pillowy fluff!’
🧠🍜 [10] Falling for Someone by Tarun Gupta ‘How often does it happen that we fall for someone, but things don’t pan out?’
🧠🍜 [11] Memories by Robert Shaneyfelt ‘Some are good, Some are bad. Some nostalgic, some odontalgic. Some uplifting. Some unpredictively shifting.’
🧠🍜 [12] Think of the second thing first by Luke DeLalio ‘I saw a fat kid on a bike who had a nice smile’
🧠🍜 [13] Scotch Eggs by Crystalclearcandace ‘I had never heard of Scotch eggs before today. Now I want to eat them.’
🧠🍜 [14] On Lunch Break by Simão Cunha ‘Sitting down to write, With the winter sun touching my face; I could be reading, But Kobo’s battery isn’t charged.’
🧠🍜 [15] How a Salad Green Unblocked My Writing Brain by Caroline de Braganza ‘Some days I’m a Wilted lettuce Bereft of mental sustenance Idea basket empty’
🧠🍜 [16] Queendom by Damilola Abiola ‘The flames consume her, Yet not a single tear on her cheek, No ounce of remorse nor care, Her enemies begin to rage and freak, They increase the intensity of the flames, They try to break her spirit,’
🧠🍜 [17] Hand in Hand by Mihai Brinas ‘Like two lovers we were walking through a garden time seems to us’
🧠🍜 [18] You’re Wrong Again by Crystalclearcandace ‘You’re wrong, you know, I told you so, and I’ll tell you so again. I’m always right, so let’s not fight, you’re lucky I’m your friend.’
🧠🍜 [19] It Took Me Less Than 5 Minutes to Know Why He Blacked out… by Rose Butcher ‘We call ‘999’ when we’re at the end of our ropes, dangling above an ocean of doubt, afraid we might let go and drown.’
🧠🍜 [20] Shoutout — Interpreting the Rules by Carolyn Hastings ‘Winston loves a good shoutout He says it’s an absolute essential. “No shoutout? Hmmm, well, that’s too bad my pub shan’t be serving you. I’m the boss and they’re my rules; ain’t changing them for you!”’
🧠🍜 [21] Blue Tastes Like by Tree Langdon ‘The color Blue looks like the smell of petrichor. Fresh rain on the dusty earth that drenches the drought of my spirit as it slips like quicksilver into the black.’
🧠🍜 [22] Incontinence by Roxanne Barbour ‘Incontinence world end hinted’
🧠🍜 [23] Successful people are those who find their passion and follow it. by Isabel Young ‘They do not care about how much money they make, but they care about the quality of life they live.’
🧠🍜 [24] Those Eyes by Suntonu Bhadra ‘that words can’t express in its full glory,’
🧠🍜 [25] Lemony with Bits of Blueberries by Dennett ‘I made you breakfast scones, lemony with bits of blueberries, no sweet icing to steal the show, just crumbly dough’
🧠🍜 [26] Permission to Proceed by Evan Wildstein ‘There is a feeling, sometimes. And though I call it a feeling, I can’t quite put my finger on it or even describe it. I suppose that’s the purpose of a feeling, no? To describe the indescribable?’
🧠🍜 [27] Stealthy by America Zed ‘I met you living stealthy on the crooked side,’
🧠🍜 [28] Child by Lubna Yusuf ‘Just a little child’
🧠🍜 [29] Publishing consistently on Medium, over the past year, has made vulnerability a near-daily practice. by Nia Simone McLeod ‘The stories I’ve shared on Medium have been stories I’ve rarely talked about on a public platform, like:’
🧠🍜 [30] Hospital Christmas by Sam Branstner ‘snow under boots in the parking lot crunch like peanut brittle
the building — a behemoth born of brick and bone’
🧠🍜 [31] Alien Elf Train by Roxanne Barbour ‘alien elf train’
🧠🍜 [32] In The Spirit of Wlogmas #5 by KSHernandez ‘Squirrels are cheeky little beings! Have you noticed? I just love their moxy, and mischief. ‘
🧠🍜 [33] Sunny’s Gnocchi by Pablo Pereyra ‘I still tend to fall in love with any woman named Natasha after Leo Tolstoi’s character in War and Peace. I partially blame Hemingway for coming to America, even when his most memorable adventures were in Europe; Chicago to this day still is the only city after which I lust.’
🧠🍜 [34] Brain Freeze by Damilola Abiola ‘Why do no words come out? Why is there a blank space?’
🔊 Voices to Amplify
We don’t have to leave it to the algorithm to suggest our favourite pieces! Here are some of my archived faves!
Thank you to Alexandra Forsyth, Kyomi O'Connor, Jimmy Misner Jr., Matthew Ryerson and Shivangi Patel for writing these pieces!
🧠🍜 Thank you to the Noodle Team!
challenge: pick 3 writers you haven’t met yet and get acquainted with their pieces!
New writers: Iamlonglost | Judson Vereen | Sam Branstner | Rhonda Marrone
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