July 21, 2009
The Cane Mutiny Word passed through the field from row to row in a hush of excitement. The moon was high. It was time to go. When dawn broke, the workers approaching the field fell silent, stopped, their machetes, now useless, held in awkward pose. The sugar cane had vanished, leaving the field perfectly flat, […]
July 20, 2009
Tinsel without soul Las Vegas Soul without tinsel Puritan Soul with tinsel Little Richard
July 19, 2009
The Golden Hummingbird (Three pensive people in evening dress stand on a terrace. Through the doors behind them the low hum of a party and the fanciful musings of a piano can barely be discerned.) Lars: The night stretches out before us. Priscilla (sighing): Like a surgical glove without fingers. Alvin: Truth is laike that […]
July 18, 2009
Scoopy, the Broken Neanderthal Scoopy could not even begin to fathom the pain. To do so, he would have had to rent an extra fathomer. One minute, he’s darting in for a thrust at the woolly mammoth’s vulnerable underbelly, the next he’s laid out flat on the ground. The collision between swiftly rising woolly mammoth […]
July 17, 2009
“What’s playing? “Gone with the Sound of Jaws Meeting Star Wars in a Close Encounter of the Third Kind with Batman on the Titanic.”
July 16, 2009
TUMBLING CARS EXPLODING WRITER: We open with tumbling cars exploding along a highway in the desert at dawn. The girl is running across the dunes. The helicopter chasing her explodes and tumbles to crash behind her. The music … HONCHO: This isn’t a musical, is it? No musicals. I hate musicals. Musicals suck. How many […]
July 15, 2009
ear pick – a device often of precious metal for removing wax or foreign bodies from the ear “Oh, Jeeves.” “Sir?” “Would you mind being so awfully good as to fetch my solid gold ear pick, the one with the ruby fleck inset? It seems Monsieur DuBois has somehow become lodged in my ear.” “Indeed, […]
July 14, 2009
medical student medical student medical student debris nurse patient nurse surgeon anesthesiologist debris coke machine bucket of buffalo wings tapped keg debris wiffle ball medical student passed out on floor waiting room worried relatives
July 12, 2009
A recipe rarely read through all the way to the end Goat Bread with Hooves 3 goats 1/2 cup salt 10 lbs barley flour chives (optional) Dice three goats to a fine paste, first removing and setting aside hooves.
July 11, 2009
(A neat middle class living room. Spoon lazes in easy chair, engrossed in magazine. Dish sits on couch, knitting. Lamps, tables, bookcase, etc. Painting of ‘Cow over Moon’ above fireplace.) Dish (dreamy, sets knitting on lap): Remember when we ran away? Spoon: Hmm? Dish: I said, Remember when we ran away? Spoon (looking at her […]