What's so funny?

What’s so funny? Everything’s so funny. But with your busy schedule, you need a hired gun to look out for you and help you figure out why everything’s so funny. Think of humor writer Tim Rowland as an au pair for your funny bone, but without the Swedish accent. He looks at society with an eye for the absurd, and explains in clear, concise language why everyone and everything around you is just plain nuts.

Tim’s humor is sassy and sarcastic, but in a homespun kind of way, like a cross between George Carlin and Charles Schulz. Unlike some of the milquetoast media of the day, he is proud to be unfair and unbalanced. He is biased against everything that gives him (and you) a hard time, from misbehaving pets to Wall Street analysts who said Enron was a steal at $75.

If something’s bothering you, chances are it’s bothering Tim as well, and he will be more than happy to ridicule the offending party into oblivion, while providing you with more laughs than you’ve had since the release of "Silence of the Lambs."

Tim writes humor columns for the Hagerstown (Md.) Herald-Mail newspaper, a collection of which is available in his book "Petrified Fact: Stories of Bizarre Behavior that Really Happened, Mostly." He produces a bi-monthly online column, and is author of the upcoming novel "Home Detention"—set for release Oct. 27, 2004—a chronicle of a tired, aging male thrust into a houseful of young, energetic and highly opinionated females.

A Mark Twain for the computer age, you will find Tim’s writing to be a breath of fresh exhaust in an increasingly mechanized, pasteurized and traumatized world. Humor, our ability to laugh at life’s injustices, is the key to unlocking the insanity of the day—and that’s What’s So Funny.