May 5, 2013
Loon: Any minute now I’m expecting the arrival of the ghost of a writer called George Eliot to undertake the 3 question interview. Ah, I see shimmering. (Ghost of George Eliot materializes.) Oh, there must be some mistake. I’m waiting for a George Eliot. Who is it that you were, ma’am? George Eliot’s ghost: George […]
May 4, 2013
The loon had to do quite a lot of quick clicking and squeaking before this Tahoe triffid believed the loon wasn’t just a woofin’ about his special relationship with the triffid empire. Fortunately for the loon, disaster was narrowly averted.
May 3, 2013
No sirree, calling Wild Bill Mr. Hiccup was that feller’s terminal mistake.
May 2, 2013
The man Wild Bill is looking at has but a brief span of time left to dwell on this world of sorrows before winging his way to eternal rest because: a. he made sport of Bill’s hat. b. he made sport of Bill’s abundant flow of hair. c. he flat out insulted Bill’s mustache. d. […]
May 1, 2013
The loon has arranged some of his books thusly so.
April 30, 2013
3 sisters were all entered in the same beauty contest, the Miss Carbon Miranda Pageant. Jane, the eldest, pictured in the middle there, hated the youngest sister, Prim, she’s on the left, with a passion matched only by her other sister, Grace, on the right. Jane and Grace may be likened to Cinderella’s step-sisters, Cinderella […]
April 29, 2013
Sweat fair flew from the brow of the Idle Hand, drenching the nearby sleeping crofters. A frenzy of whirl it displayed, galloping from yon to hither carrying and depositing loads of carrion and back again with fervently undue haste. For, you see, japing mockery had penetrated deep to the heart underneath its leathery hide and […]
April 25, 2013
Oddly enough, Robert Newton: a. didn’t claim his favorite letter of the alphabet was ‘r’. b. and his parrot often performed duets with notable success in various singing competitions. c. yearned to play Romeo. d. somehow developed his pirate squint bobbing for apples. e. insisted on umpiring college baseball games in full pirate get-up.
April 24, 2013
The triffid and the loon went out on the town They pulled out all stops and painted it brown The triffid had venison like Alfred Lord Tennyson The loon ate four chickens to honor Charles Dickens And when all was said and most of it done they concluded, by Jove, they’d had lots of fun
April 18, 2013
As her alter ego, Silver Flying Insect, Kate: a. tended bar in a Santa Monica dive. b. fought for truth, justice and Howard Hughes. c. confronted the IRS. d. outwitted Ginger Rogers. e. made Stan Laurel cry.
