April 7, 2013
Loon: We are invigorated today to welcome the one and only Charlie Chaplin to the 3 question interview. Tell us, Mr. Chaplin, why were you famous? Chaplin’s ghost: I was a genius. Loon: Some geniuses aren’t so famous. There must have been something else. What was it? Chaplin’s ghost: My prodigious talent. Loon: What do […]
April 6, 2013
Nevertheless, Celia wore scarcely more trimmings; and it was only to close observers that her dress differed from her sister’s, and had a shade of coquetry in its arrangements; for Miss Brook’s plain dressing was due to mixed conditions, in most of which her sister shared. This is an early sentence from MIDDLEMARCH or THE […]
April 5, 2013
Washington Irving’s wren bone pen was really cool.
April 4, 2013
Washington Irving wrote The Legend of Sleepy Hollow: a. to pay off a gambling debt. b. after hearing a joke about a horseless headman in a tavern. c. to get out of doing an honest day’s work. d. while taking a much needed break from dancing jigs. e. with a pen fashioned from wren bones.
April 3, 2013
academia nut – one who memorizes the names of all the institutes of higher learning
April 2, 2013
If you stumble across attractive blooms like these when working your way through dense undergrowth while lost in the forest, turn back. For you see, these flowers are sentinels guarding the local witch’s cottage. If you approach this close, she already knows you are there. Reverse course with all possible haste.
April 1, 2013
Triffid troops assemble for inspection wearing camouflage headgear. Beneath the earth, their venom-filled bodies stretch out a good ten feet below their attractive lavender and green heads. Venom spray spigots are neatly hidden in the yellow camouflage.
