I think we should start an advice column. I’m not even joking. I have ideas…
Alexainie
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Alexainie and Jennifer Brown I think that’s a brilliant idea. I’ve seen a few humor advice columnists and they can be really fun reading because you get to play your humor off the advice seeker, and because the particular snark of the adviser’s personality becomes like a beacon to lure in ever more interesting advice-seekers. Sometimes you get to slam the advice seeker or you get to join the advice seeker in pointing out the despicable behavior of the person they’re writing about. And, of course, if you don’t get any good advice-seeking letters one week, you can just make that shit up and voila! you’ve got the best advice-seeking letter in the history advice columns. You’ll have to choose sort of a niche area that you’re going to focus on to get your audience to come — many choose to advise the lovelorn, but there are a thousands ways to go with it. I remember back in the somewhat-shitty 1980s, when I was in college, The Dallas Times-Herald (may it Rest In Peace) published Joe Bob Briggs’ weekly column, “Joe Bob Goes to the Drive-In.” It was so much fun. Technically he was a drive-in movie reviewer who rated B movies based in part on the number of bare boobs and the volume of blood, but he had a feature called “Joe Bob’s Mailbag” in which he responded to his readers, especially his critics, and the whole thing was a fucking riot. You’ll need to offend people to pull this off so that they’ll lob grenades at you in your weekly mail and give you plenty of opportunity to show off your superior wit by cutting them back down to size.