FUNNY WOMEN #123: Cover Letter Template
I have been responsible for spearheading many cover letters to companies like yours, which stand out from the competition because the openings you have seem as if they might pay a livable salary, to me.
Funny Women
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Funny Women is a column for literary, feminist humor writing by non-men. Previous pieces have been anthologized out of wedlock in The Best American Nonrequired Reading, Oxford University Press’s Humor: A Reader for Writers, and Reader’s Digest. Edited by Elissa Bassist author of Hysterical. Submit your funny writing here.
FUNNY WOMEN #122: Five Disturbing Teen Trends Every Parent Should Know
Don't rely on public schools or Internetting to teach your kids about the birds and the bacilli—talk to your kids about endodyogeny today.
FUNNY WOMEN #121: I Sold My Software Company and Now I’m into Art
Building a really successful, incredibly efficient metadata-driven software company that changes the way we think and feel about metadata and making art are not that different.
FUNNY WOMEN #120: Notes on “Camping”
It's been 50 years since Susan Sontag published "Notes on 'Camp.'" Now, we imagine what she might have said about Camping.
FUNNY WOMEN #119: Why Jeannie Drank, a Colloquium
The aim of this inter-, multi-, trans-disciplinary conference is to open discussion on how personal vs. community responsibility can be apportioned and other jargon.
FUNNY WOMEN #118: Welcome to Your Wonderful Engagement Photo Shoot
You may have noticed that we are on a decrepit railroad bridge, Karen and Brad, and what better place to begin your engagement photo journey? You are matrimonial hobos riding the rails!
Funny Women #117: How’s that Barnard Thing Working out for You?
Are you a Part of the Solution? Didn't Bono turn out great? What kind of work do you do by the way?
Funny Women #116: The Lady Writer’s Guide to a Successful Sex Change
Drain the bubble bath and prepare to transform the novel you’ve been toiling over for so long into a publishable, marketable piece of Women’s Fiction!
FUNNY WOMEN #115: Craigslist Formal Encounters
Gentleman randy for high culture interested in encounter at the opera with discreet female. Let us sit in the dark together and partake in a sexy live show. Arias and outcalls only.
FUNNY WOMEN #114: M.A.S.H for Adults
Since you already live in a shack, scratch out “S.” It would be nice to move on to bigger, or at least better, things. But also scratch out “M” -- you’re an adult now, and it’s time to adjust your expectations.
FUNNY WOMEN #113: Tender Buttons Pleasure Emporium
“Rub her coke.”
–Gertrude Stein, Tender Buttons, 1914.
FUNNY WOMEN #113: BUDDHIST NUN PEMA CHÖDRÖN REWRITES THE CLASSICS
If we get him, we get him. If we don’t, we don’t. There are probably other white whales out there.