DAME NOIR
She was the sort of dame who:
1. could make a speedboat look like a startled flamingo.
2. you’d hock your snowshoes for.
3. you forgot three times before breakfast and remembered twice before lunch.
4. could make a guy want to write limericks about the justice system.
5. could make a walrus forget the alphabet.
’30S DIALOGUE DREAM
… Say … Listen, pal … Sure … I’m runnin’ this show, see? … What’s eatin’ him? … Cheer up, kid … Okay, baby … Sure … Gee, that’s swell … Say, I’m no chump … We got no chance, I tell you … Gee … Swell … Oh yeah? … Yeah … Sure … Say, what is it with you mugs? … Sure, sure, swell, yeah ………………. Gee whiz
MONA AND THE RED BOOT
THE DRUNKEN LAKE ISN’T EMPTY
A SENTENCE BY T. C. BOYLE
I shut down the engine and stepped gingerly into the street, which was awash in braided ripples of dun-colored water.
I’m all about the braided ripples in T.’s Frank Lloyd Wright tome.
CARTOON FRIDAY 118
GEORGES PEREC KWIZ ANSWER
The giveaway clue was his hair. Yes, Georges could make gravity obey his slightest whim. His more burly whim was somewhat jealous of this situation, I can tell you.
THE GEORGES PEREC KWIZ
The genius French Oulipian novelist Georges Perec:
a. bathed for inspiration in a bathtub filled with toads.
b. was able to bend gravity to his will, thereby walking up walls or across ceilings upside down whenever he felt like it.
c. married twice for love, once for monetary gain, and once for a tractor.
d. always spent Bastille Day clinging to his favorite boulder while carrying his special rock in the pocket of his shirt.
e. envied cobras.








