Friday, October 1, 2010

How do you really dig deep into the news of the day?

How do you really dig deep into the news of the day?

            One of the problems with trying to use ‘comedy’ as a starting point is that not everyone has the same sense of humor.  So, if you don’t think it is funny, just switch to the serious points in this thesis.

            Another major problem for one wishing to blog is; what is there to talk about.  I mean really, look at the front pages of today’s internet based news reporting, let’s see, there is that war thing going on, well actually there are a lot of those going on, or hoping to go on, all around the globe.  That’s yesterday’s news really, right? Like when are those guys who try to sell newspapers going to get to the punch line, it has become like daytime soap operas, oh, by the way I am sad that ‘As the World Turns’ is finished.  I played sick a lot when I was younger so I could stay home from school and watch that one with my mom.

And is there another auto recall?  From BMW no less, now those guys made nice cars and motorcycles once upon a time, but who can afford a car these days anyway?  And why do we all need one… because like lemmings we let the few dictate the evolution of the social species.  Now we can network out the whazoo (anyone want to join my FaceBook tribe) and never leave home, unless we have to get in our car and drive out of the subdivision to buy some more beer.  Now why can’t someone invent home delivery for that?

Another headline reads “Koreas agree to a reunion of families separated by Korean War”.  Didn’t anyone in the writing or editing department of the new ‘on line’ news journals go to school?  It was the Korean conflict not the Korean war.  I hate the language thing, there are so many ways to send a message but one does have to be careful.  Sometimes word usage matters, like when you want to be correct, but thankfully it usually doesn’t, such as when you want to augment a political point of view.

This is becoming too serious, I’ll switch to the ‘on line travel section’ where you can embrace so much of the distant local with on the spot video access you never really have to leave you home, “Can you please deliver a large pizza with anchovies.”  I’ll be exploring the Galapagos Islands tonight.  Well, back to being serious again, I won’t be going to the Galapagos Islands, ever, not after those stupid ideas they planted into Darwin’s head.  I mean look what happens when you lay out on the beach with your beagle, beagles are great for sniffing out real babes, and have one too many margaritas.

After traveling around the states (the ones that are termed United, of course one of them was Texas and some there want to disunite) which brings me to Quebec.  I go there by taking a wrong turn.  Actually I loved living there and while there I got to learn a lot about local issues like the green mountain state (les montagnes vertes) and its neighbors in the new of the Hampshire’s and of course the main state will all, if given a little nudge, would secede from the Union and join Quebec in launching the new United Archaic Emirate.  They have so much in common (they say in Quebec) such as the entire region is inundated with rustic little villages and ski lodges with names that can be switch from English to French without skipping a beat.  Of course the Emirate would have a pass time that coincided with Easter where everyone would visit a sugar shack (cabine de sucre) and with the spring maple harvest in a bucket, happily lean over and lick syrup off each other’s body parts. “Don’t worry,” says Jim Gaffigan, “there is a bunny.”

Saverio Monachino's writing style has been termed by some as 'Kurt Vonnegut meets Mark Twain'.  Saverio describes it as 'comic fiction noir'. Regardless of the terms used, his attempt is to use humor to open the door to serious discussion about very important human issues.  You can find Saverio Monachino on www.comicfictionnoir.com.

Thursday, September 30, 2010

murder is not aways pretty but it can be funny

The first ever post by Saverio Monachino (http://www.comicfictionnoir.com/) is just an advertisement for his radio interview with the Authors Show on October 13 (http://www.theauthorsshow.com/).  After this, all the posts will be..., well different.

Author Saverio Monachino's writing style has been termed 'Kurt Vonnegut meets Mark Twain'. He deftly uses humor to open discussion on important human issues. By Any Means is his latest thriller novel

Author Saverio Monachino will appear on The Authors Show on October 13, 2010, to discuss his latest thriller novel, By Any Means. The show can be accessed at www.TheAuthorsShow.com.

Saverio Monachino's writing style has been termed 'Kurt Vonnegut meets Mark Twain'.  Dr. Monachino describes it as 'comic fiction noir'. Regardless of the terms used, his attempt is to use humor to open the door to serious discussion about very important human issues.

"I wrote the book," stated Dr. Monachino, "because after publishing on scientific topics in peer reviewed journals for a number of years I wanted a chance to, like newspaper columnists, just give my opinion.  In this way my point of view can be used and we can just leave the facts out of it, and of course this method is a lot more fun, and a bit easier.  In By Any Means I translate, to the best of my abilities, my vision of the three dimensional world around us and use this treatise to help people see, as I do, the important things in life and how they are clouded or misdirected by the social conditions around us."

While it can be said that Saverio's book are funny, the issues he discusses are real.  The humor in By Any Means alternates between simple and subtle.  It also uses the comic take on noir fiction to 'explore motive involving murder, the conflict between true religious belief and cultism, and deeply felt, sensitive, emotional family values.” 

"Readers will enjoy this book," continued Dr. Monachino, " because, as a reviewer in
Virginia posted:  'Comic? Yes, and the comedy is truly both deep and subtle. A mystery? Indeed, a murder mystery but those pages seem to cover the deeper mystery investigated by the author. It is obvious that By Any Means has gone to great lengths to open up more important questions than just who killed who as one begins to see the outlay of dysfunctional family dynamics, its development and picturesque guides to finding the right way to reconnect.'"

Dr. Monachino will be appearing on The Authors Show on
October 13, 2010. He is available for media interview and can be contacted using the information below or by email at r1234f56r@yahoo.com. More information is available at his website.