Thursday, January 22, 2009

The birth of Mr. Advice Guy

Hey,
Below are the first three installments of Mr. Advice Guy. It's a sort of humour column I've been writing the past year or so for my campus newspaper, The Omega (www.theomega.ca).
I've got a bunch more, and I'll put them up over the next little while. Most of you probably know the idea behind these, but in case you don't:

#1) Mr. Advice Guy came about when Jen Robertson, the editor of The Omega at the time, came up with the idea of doing an advice column. I decided it would be easy to do a humourous advice column, and I wanted a way to get some funny stuff into the paper, so away we went.
This first one starts a recurring trend for Mr. Advice Guy: essentially all the letters I used came from friends and other Omega staff members. It's still the same today. I basically have to force people to send me letters.
Anyway, the first letter was submitted anonymously by Landon Moskowec, the sports editor at the time. I don't remember ever exchanging glances with him in the elevator, but who knows?

#2) The second letter was written by Melissa Vasey. Melissa was my classmate at the time, and now she's one of the editors-in-chief at The Omega.
This installment marks the start of yet another Mr.-Advice-Guy theme. As 90 per cent of my humour is based on TV, I tend to reference it a lot. This is particularly true of shows from the '80s and '90s.

#3) My girlfriend Myrissa and her sister Alyissa (pronounced Alicia; don't ask me) wrote this letter. It's a very thinly veiled shot at our roommate at the time, Pete Lucarotti.
Pete's a good friend of mine and is currently writing for the Grande Prairie Daily Herald Tribune, the newspaper with the ridiculously long name. He's a good guy, but he tends to dress like a 10-year-old boy.

So those are the first three Mr. Advice Guys. Please let me know what you think. More to come soon...

1 comment:

  1. Haha, I googled my name and this came up. Nice one, Dave.

    I think I'll google myself some more. Yes, I meant exactly what you think I did by that.

    -The first Mr. Advice Guy advisee

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