Author Archives: Matthew Arnold Stern
A little good news
Traditionally, black roses are symbols of mystery, danger, and drama. Today, the black rose is part of some wonderful news I’d like to share with you. First, you will soon see me on YouTube as part of Matt Whiteside’s UniWeb Productions interview program. We will be recording next Tuesday, April 16. I will post the …
Learn to laugh at yourself
I haven’t done in a “forty years ago” post for a while, so here’s one: On this date in 1979, we published our April Fool’s edition of our school paper, the Regent Review. We called it the Reject Review, and we had all sorts of fun making silly articles and cartoons. They were all cleared by our …
Comedy isn’t easy
This post came from a couple of questions. The first was a tweet where someone asked why writers feel that they must always be serious. The second was a question from my wife who asked me, “Why did you find John Belushi so funny?” The answers to both come from the same issue, comedy is hard …
Speaking to 2,000 people
What is the largest crowd you’ve ever spoken to? The largest audience I’ve ever spoken to in person was around 500 at a Little League opening day. Whenever I speak to a group of any size, I like to pick someone out in the audience and talk to them for a few seconds. Then I go …
20 things I regret
We like to live without regret. We want to avoid doing stupid things, and we like to think the stupid things we did helped us grow and become better people. I know that if I went back and changed one bad decision or avoided one unfortunate situation, and I might not have the life I …
