The vain queen stood before the mirror and said, ‘Mirror, mirror, on the wall, who is the fairest of them all?’ The mirror, playing for time, replied, ‘Fair in what sense, your majesty? Equal pay for equal work? Educational opportunity? Whoa, I see by the steam issuing from your ears that it’s my opinion on […]
Loon: For the 3 question interview today, I’m humbled to be honored to be presented with the opportunity to offer questions to the most famous Queen of England I know of, Elizabeth the First. Welcome, your regal serenity. May I call you Betty? Ghost of Elizabeth I: No, you may not. Loon: Very well then, […]
Welcome to the Valuable Encampment of Delights 1. where your every wish will be considered and discarded. 2. where the winner of room roulette will get the room with the window. 3. where our internationally fugitive chefs prepare oats in 10 different ways. 4. where nighttime hi jinx blossom with barbed wire and fiends. 5. […]
It’s not widely known that the creature often filled in for indisposed symphony orchestra conductors.
At the moment depicted, the creature is: a. conducting the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra in a production of Gounod’s Faust. b. trying to get the assembled mass of creatures to simmer down enough to allow him to introduce the evening’s speaker. c. surrendering. d. miming the answer to the question ‘What letter comes between W and […]
The rookie leafs, shiny smooth and green, bask exuberant in the moment.
The Tar King, determined to exact revenge on the Simpering Fluff, oozed from the byre, ignoring the frantic cow’s plea to return and the Fluff’s mocking laughter. ‘Never in all my born days have I been so insulted,’ muttered the Tar King. He slugged up the wall, sliming his way onto the roof. There he […]
Interviewed this pair of triffid sentinels posted to guard the entrance to the underground convention being held here by the lake. They opine that the mission to overthrow humanity will be delayed as long as humanity goes about destroying itself.
on the first of june i croon a tune by the light of the moon in my giant spittoon