Anvil in a Lace Bootie

‘After I kill you, this place will be as clean as clean can be.’

This happens whenever the loon drinks his ‘special’ medicine.

So many times … hopes dashed … curse prolonged. Are you the one, child? I’ve heard you conspire with the boy every day. Oh, yes, little one, my eyesight is weak, but my earhear is most uncommon keen. Can such a tiny petal of life perform my dream of a miracle? Well, there’s no reward to be found in delay. How many times have I reached this point only to be squashed hopeless by the cowardice of children seeming to be far bolder and sturdier than you, little chit? Mournful waif. Oh, my bones, how they ache. My twisted fingers … agony to move. Go on, keep crying. Ah, you cry on the outside, I on the inside. Such a thin meager hope. So many years. You are the least likely of all who have gone before. Nevertheless, I will spill the words of instruction for the hundredth time … thousandth? ‘__________’ What’s that? Don’t bring my ember to flame, only to douse it. Oh, my soul, I will spill the words for the second time. ‘__________’ Oh, it proceeds, but now, but now … show exasperation. ‘__________’ Lean in. Pluck up the courage, my darling. Do it. Do it. Little angel, please. OH JOY! OH RELEASE!

Because:

Birdie Tebbets

Preacher Roe

Granny Hamner

I mean, come on, GRANNY?

This close-up representation of the imprisoned one-eyed giant octopus from the planet Brillig is presented as a modest tribute to the right-handed starting pitcher from days of yore, Art Mahaffey. Art, here’s to you.

There are pear trees of a sort on the world of Boad, where Bekka of Thorns lives.

And so I step up, into the darkness within; or else the light.

This baby is chock full o’ nifty handmade handmaid sentences.

The crude landmark reads: I HEREBY CLAIM THIS TERRITORY AND ALL IT IMPLIES IN THE NAME OF SOME SCROFULOUS INBRED NITWIT

The correct answer is ‘all of the above’. Yes, the diminutive Russian minx was a woman of many talents. In the photo, she is of course instructing Lon Jr in the brow furrow technique he used with so much success throughout his career. On a side note, Maria once accidentally spilled a cup of tea on Chekhov.

The most valuable lesson Lon Chaney Jr learned from Maria Ouspenskaya was:

a. how to perform the perfect brow furrow.

b. the proper wrist action when casting while fly fishing.

c. how to work the punchline of a dirty joke.

d. when and how to use her sure fire patented wrestling move.

e. how to use the Stanislavski method in cooking salmon.

f. how to take apart and reassemble a locomotive in fifteen minutes.

g. all of the above