Musicals led me to believe there would be more singing and dancing in life than I have observed in actuality.
For the next week, or seven days, whichever comes first
Heard on the radio: a local road is going to be closed “24/7 for the next week.”
I wonder what they thought the 7 in 24/7 represents?
A surefire plan
I see the name Adam Driver, and I start imagining a Garden of Eden heist story and a surefire plan to get away that goes awry.
“What do you mean, we don’t have a getaway car?”
“THEY HAVEN’T BEEN INVENTED YET!”
Thanksgiving Eve
Thanksgiving Eve: when fugitive birds of all types sit around the campfire and swap stories about their respective narrow escapes…
National Fast Food Day
November 16 is National Fast Food Day.
Werewolf: “ALL food is fast food if you have to chase it down first.”
New horizons
“Touch me somewhere I’ve never been touched,” she breathed.
“I heard Poughkeepsie is nice this time of year,” I said.
“That… wasn’t exactly what I had in mind,” she replied.
A werewolf walks into a diner…
A werewolf walks into a diner at the full moon, sits down, and orders pot roast.
“I’m sorry, hun, we’re fresh out,” the waitress tells him.
It would have to be steak, then. He hadn’t had meatloaf since that unfortunate event with Jack.
Exchange
“I’ll do that for you if you give me that cephalopod you’re holding.”
“But that would be…”
“Yes. A squid pro quo.”
Using recent baby gender reveal parties as a model…
You’re invited to my baby’s gender reveal party!
There will be cake and punch for the survivors.
Love Potion No. … ?
Every time I see the Cyrillic alphabet pop up on my tablet, it reminds me that I wonder sometimes whatever happened to Love Potion No. 1 through 8? (There’s a single keystroke in Cyrillic for No. )
Was there a foundational Love Potion No. 0?
Is there one ur-Love Potion to bind them all, and in the darkness find them?
“You understood that the love potion was experimental, and you assumed the risk.”
“BUT I DIDN’T ANTICIPATE I’D DEVELOP AN OVERWHELMING LOVE FOR MATHMATICS! I’M NOT EVEN GOOD AT MATHMATICS!”
— The Failure of Love Potion Number Pi