Thanks to contributor Karen Webb, Mug of Woe was in the Hopkinton Patch paper last week! Stay tuned later on this week for another story about her in the Patch!
Your Mug of Woe story is about your children. Tell us a funny thing one of your children did recently.
I found my son in the middle of the garden last summer standing in the middle of the sugar snap peas. He’d look over his shoulder to see if anyone was looking and then snap off a few peapods and stuff them in his mouth. I watched him for a few minutes doing this repetitively. When I stepped out to catch him in the act, my husband grabbed my arm and asked “What the hell are you doing?” I looked at him dumbfounded. “He’s in the garden!” My husband then pointed out to me: “He’s eating vegetables…and he thinks he’s getting away with it.” Today, he still doesn’t know he got caught, and so when he’s grabbing cherry tomatoes off the plants or munches on the green beans this summer, I’m turning a blind eye.
You are also an independent filmmaker. What is the funniest thing that even happened while you were making a film?
When we were filming “Blazing Needles,” a short Western for the 48 Hour Film Festival Boston, we had the perfect opening: blue sky with puffy clouds, vast land, a Sheriff in chaps on a beautiful horse riding across the field. As the Sheriff and horse trotted near the camera, stopping on a small hill to look off into the distance (a perfect shot), the horse raised his tail and crapped. As a filmmaker, you try to plan for all the contingencies, but that’s one I honestly didn’t think of. Thankfully it was a comedy, and despite the several takes we took of that opening shot, we used the horse crapping version to rave reviews and hysterical laughter.
You come home and find an extraterrestrial on your front porch. What would be the first three questions you asked it?
The first question would be “Where do you want to go?” The second question would be “What do you want for dinner?,” and the third would be “Where’s your laundry?” Apparently my kids think all I do is drive them around, clean their clothes, and cook for them. Why would a four-foot extra-terrestrial be any different than the four-foot monsters that live in my house?
Promote yourself: Where can our readers find more of Karen Webb?
I’ve been co-producing a documentary film on the Boston Red Sox and spirituality called “The Joy of Sox: Weird Science & The Power of Intention.” http://www.thejoyofsoxmovie.com/ The film’s in final editing now, PBS has agreed to list it in its catalog, and we’re building our distribution plan. I’ve won a few handfuls of screenwriting awards in the past year, and I’ve been working with my agent to try to place these with the right director/production company. When I’m not doing the “film thing” (or driving my kids, doing laundry, or cooking,) I run a consulting company focused on providing strategic marketing services to high technology companies. You can read more about my work at www.PinchHitMarketing.com.
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