Hell's Kitch{.e}net{te} : "Not 'Ha-Ha' Funny"
Humorous works by Dan Levine
Hello. I'm Dan Levine. I write things.
A lot of them are intended to be humorous, some are intended to be serious. Some
are intended to be serious but end up humorous, and vice versa.
All of them, however, are intended for publication. The serious stuff is here, but this page holds a brief sampling of the funny stuff.
By "brief sampling," I mean "I've written a whole lot of stuff that isn't here." These are just some personal favorites.
- Individual Articles:
- Really enjoyed writing this short piece, called "(Don’t) Give The Postal Service Your Two Cents," for Scott Gunnison Miller and Candice Riley's baby "The Gunnison Gazette."
- One of the funniest things I've ever written: "How To Build A Better Baby." (co-written with Mike Martone for The Phat Phree
- My lyrical remix of 50 Cent's "In Da Club."
- Pokemon: Most Wanted (Gear Magazine 500k scan)
- Lord of the Ringers (with Mike Martone for Maxim, 300k scan)
- The Ultimate BBQ (also with Mike Martone, the unpublished followup to Lord of the Ringers)
- Phish Fan Resume (The Modern Humorist and vh1.com).
- President Bush Demands India Name Change (unpublished Onion-style satire)
- "You might be a NYC tourist if..."
(co-written with Yuri Lowenthal, Danielle Vintschger, completely unsellable but fun to write)
- A summary of my work for T-Shirt Hell.
Be advised: extremely offensive in parts
- Slogans
- Newsletter columns.
- Abridged Scripts co-written with Yuri Lowenthal and inspired by the work of Rod Hilton at The Editing Room and others.
- Magnolia: The Abridged Script
- Mercury Rising: The Abridged Script
- A (more wry than "ha-ha") two-part series for Ironminds on working.
- "A Note from Skidrow.com"
- "The Perks of Work"