Tuesday, April 10, 2012

My morning so far: A documentary playlet


The working title for this is: There Will Be Vodka.

The curtain rises on a cubicle farm in suburban Long Island.

Me: Is there art for the cover story?

Head of Art Dept.: IT'S NOT READY YET! IT'S NOT READY!

Me: Okaaaaay ...

Ten seconds later, the art department's second in command distributes the entire news section.

Me: Why are you distributing this?

No. 2: I don't know.

Me: The first page went around already. And you didn't notice the second page was all dummy copy? [Our boss] asked you to distribute the third page.

No. 2 then redistributes the first page to everyone and throws away everything else.

And scene.

3 comments:

Professor Longnose said...

Very post-modern. Is it an allegory?

Jim Donahue said...

It's whatever's the theatrical equivalent of cinema verite.

Jovianne said...

It's Snowing.