THE WOODCUTTER FROG AND HIS WIFE
Seeking a better life, the woodcutter frog and his wife captured a magic fish and went to Greenland. There they freed an alien life form from the clutches of a dancing robot and were rewarded with kind words and a prairie schooner filled with marmalade. Using the marmalade for good, not evil, they flew to the garden of the penitent vampire, where they were forgiven and attached to the undercarriage of a blimp. The blimp transformed into a feather of delight and deposited the woodcutter frog and his wife in an enchanted garden, and there they sit to this day in stunned silence, the wife inexplicably clutching a dozen cinnamon rolls.
A FAIRY TALE’S FINAL SENTENCE
THE LOON HAS LANDED
TURKEY FEATHER
For the next few days the loon will be scouting locations for turkey feather helmet franchises.
A SENTENCE BY RYUNOSUKE AKUTAGAWA
A butterfly fluttered its wings in a wind thick with the smell of seaweed.
Kurosawa’s very great film, ‘Rashomon’, is based on a pair of Akutagawa’s short stories, ‘Rashomon’ (duh) and ‘In A Bamboo Grove’.
CARTOON FRIDAY 89
A LOON PRONOUNCEMENT
Life can be like an elk, resembling but not so large as a moose.
ALIEN INVASION
With tentacles dangling beneath wrinkled red globular heads, the aliens drifted downward through Earth’s atmosphere like tiny parachutes of menace. Gathering in force near Fresno, they attacked, emitting a pungent scent not unlike that of the most wretched porcupine you’ve ever encountered. The population swooned to death, and the aliens took Earth home with them, had it bronzed, and placed it beside Shakespeare’s wife on their second best bed.









