The walls were stucco, and the color rather like tobacco-spit.
A very Truman sentence indeed from Breakfast at Tiffany’s.
Ed and Johnny were rehearsing a skit. There was a mattress outside the window for Johnny to land on. The fact that Ed’s enthusiastic hurl caused Johnny to miss the mattress by a good 5 feet is beside the point.
In this photo Tiny Tim is reacting to:
a. a frenzied mob rushing at him intent on tearing him apart.
b. the grenade launcher display at his local arms dealer’s basement hideaway.
c. evil tulips tiptoeing in his direction.
d. Ed McMahon tossing Johnny Carson out the window.
1st – She was born the son of unsuccessful tugboat captains on a small farm in Idaho.
2nd – She grew all alone on her own with the help of several bar tending clowns to nominal size perpendicular to a river.
3rd – Her middle years were spent as a migratory baggage handler based out of Tucson, Arizona.
4th – Middle age found her and a bedsprings manufacturer holed up on the eighth floor of an abandoned paper box company.
5th – Just before senility, she found glee singing filthy sea chanties on busy street corners next to major metropolitan car dealerships.
6th – Peace at last found her in the form of death.
I like to tell stories about storytellers telling stories.
Loon: Today on the 3 question interview we have the ghost of the founder of the city of Tarzana, Mr. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Mr. Burroughs, did the naming of the city have anything at all to do with the famous Tarzan, the Ape Man?
Ghost of Burroughs: Naturally.
Loon: 2nd question. Do you like avocados, being a Southern Californian and all?
Ghost of Burroughs: They lend themselves well to salads.
Loon: Finally, if you could eat tortillas all day, would you?
Ghost of Burroughs: Hadn’t they best get you back to the home? (swings off on phantom vine)
Loon: What did he mean by that? Space shoes? (trembles, foams at the mouth, collapses)
‘Moe, I don’t care how many of them damn degrees you got, they ain’t never learned you to hit the curve.’
Buck Crouse, Chicago White Sox catcher in 1927 to teammate Moe Berg.
They stabbed each other with poisoned darts. To be fair, the darts were made of soft rubber, and the poison was quite mild, merely rendering them a bit dizzy for half an hour or so.
While making the movie I Married a Witch, Veronica and co-star Fredric March would often:
a. fly tandem out to Santa Monica on Veronica’s broom.
b. pass the time playing shuffleboard with John Proctor’s ghost.
c. demonstrate cauldron cooking for the crew.
d. playfully stab each other with poisoned darts.
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