1. “Well, sugar my foot!” Translation: “I am thoroughly astonished that what you just said is actually true. Even if it’s really not.” This is a response often heard during whispered gossip sessions at the local Baptist church. 2. “That thing just flopped back yonder.” Translation: “The […]
“Don’t come into my cube unless you can get to the point within four seconds.” “Why do you have to yell everything you say? Is that how they do it on your home planet?” “Let’s just assume that your amazing niece did something extraordinary once […]
Greetings. It’s been a bit since I posted a “new” piece on this blog, having resorted to dragging out dusty bits that I had already posted on my other blogs in years past. There’s a fair amount of shame associated with doing so, this recycling business, but sometimes […]
1. People don’t pay any attention to what’s going on around them. This is a general theme in all of his books, with the townsfolk taking forever to figure out that something is not quite right in their little burgh. Sure, we always have ONE character who […]
1. Watching all the crazed, clearly-drug-inspired cartoons on Saturday morning. I would leap out of bed at the earliest crack and race to turn the TV on and then sit there, glued, for hours. My favorite reefer madness was this thing called “Lidsville”, about a real boy and […]
1. The massive, pounding headache. Your sinuses have swollen to the size of grapefruits, forcing everything else in your head to adjust, and nobody is really happy about that. Every single pain receptor in your noggin is reporting the dissatisfaction. It’s an overload of misery every waking second, […]
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