Monday, April 21, 2025

His final papal bull: "Semper clara latus vitae"

(As texted to too many of my friends and relatives earlier today...)
So, justto get all the obvious crass jokes out of the way, and to make sure I don't accidentally send them to Mom:
a) "BRING OUT YOUR POPE!"
b) "Mum, there's a dead pontiff on the landing!"
c) "If you hadn't nailed him to the balcony, he'd be pushing up the daisies!"
d) Conclave 2: Weekend at St. Peter's
e) Given the timing, do we have to wait three days to make sure?
f) Since Jorge was a nightclub bouncer in his youth, does this mean St. Peter finally gets a vacation?
g) Did he have the salmon mousse?
h) Vance/Truss Tour: Offing Decrepit Monarchs.


("And now he works for Jesus as the bouncer at St. Peter's gate....")

Dragons are a Girl's Best Friend 🎵 Ginny Di, Anjali Bhimani, Whitney Avalon

Friday, January 03, 2025

Friday, September 13, 2024

Married Conversations: You'll Have to Answer to Your Own

UIM: "Sorry for stressing you out."
Frage: (deadpan blatant lie) "You don't stress me out.  My shoulders like to live up here by my ears."

Wednesday, May 22, 2024

Friday, May 17, 2024

Married Conversations: Go running for the shelter

Frage: "I did ask my doc to call in a scrip for Flonase, but I never heard back from them.  CVS just texted me I have a filled scrip.  I hope it's the Flonase."
UIM: "It would be weird if it was for something you never had filled before.  'We see you're married to UIM.  Would you like some Valium?' "
Frage: "Yes.  I'm going to sneak it into his food."
UIM: (mimicking mouth full) "This pizza tastes funny"
Frage: (narrator voice) "Which did not stop him from having 5 more slices."
UIM: (commercial voice, mimics holding up a product) "It's the Xanax crust!"  (wide fake smile)

Wednesday, March 27, 2024

Just a turkey boy, born and raised in south Detroit

Lyric Word Replacement - Replace 'City' with 'Turkey'

(Frage: "I got startled by something screaming outside, and when I checked, it was the feral turkeys."
UIM: "Pretty sure 'I hear the turkey screaming' is a Concrete Blonde lyric.")

Turkey Screaming - Concrete Blonde
Turkeys on Flame with Rock and Roll - Blue Oyster Cult
Suffragette Turkey - David Bowie
Detroit Rock Turkey - KISS
Paradise Turkey - Guns `n' Roses
We Built This Turkey - Jefferson Starship
Fool for the Turkey - Foghat
Hot Child in the Turkey - Nick Gilder
Jet Turkey Woman - Queensryche
Broken Turkey - Audioslave
Big Turkey Nights - Scorpions
Summer in the Turkey - Lovin' Spoonful
"Left a good job in the turkey..." - Creedence Clearwater Revival
"I hit the turkey bout 1 AM, loaded, loaded..." - Judas Priest

Saturday, February 24, 2024

#RepressedAnger

 "You're living on your own private data farm.
Where do I go from here to a better feed than this?"

Saturday, February 17, 2024

Married conversations: Case by case, we understand each other better

(As I load the items in the iGo car with items to put in storage...)
Frage: "Is that a guitar case?" (with the previous knowledge that we had ditched our respective guitars at various move times....)
UIM: "It's a rifle case with a Nerf sword in it."
(Long pause while UIM puts the rest of the boxes in the iGo car.)
UIM: "I understand the loop playing in your head: 'Why do I even ask him?', 'Why do I even ask him?', 'Why do I even ask him?' ..." 

Wednesday, February 14, 2024

The most useless dice I own

I will always be too lazy to make this my epitaph...

 He has gone where
short-sighted management
and over-confident developers
may lacerate his heart no more.
He served maintainable systems.
Traveler, imitate him if you dare.

KEVIN POLLAK 80s

Nostalgia: I audio-taped this very performance from Bill Boggs' Comedy Tonight when it aired in the early morning hours on channel 5 (WNEW). [We didn't have a VCR yet.]

Saturday, February 03, 2024

Something better than a stare....


 


 

Ominous cloud, little house.

 


Castle Island, Boston.


 

Billboard Grafitti


 

I don't know how I came here tonight... I got the feeling that something ain't right....










"You're All a Bunch of WEIRDOS!"

 

Yes, if I bought this, I would absolutely paint the body to look like Sam the (American) Eagle, with over-the-top red-white-and-blue on his wings.

Aw, one of `em got loose again...


 

I'm really bad at getting pictures up in a timely manner.

Although, technically, this shirt is accurate any day of the year.  
T-shirt from https://teepublic.com/user/chekhovsraygun  ( @NotLasers on Twitter )
Photo by Frage .

 

Inside each of us is two wolves....


 

Monday, January 08, 2024

Enthusiastic nonsense, memed.

 It's the futhark era....



Unrepressed sarcasm, memed.

And sometimes, the sarcasm goes unrepressed...

If you have a problem, memed

If you have a problem....




A sentence I have spoken, memed.

My mom used to say...


Repressed Anger, memed

"Hearing her voice....


Exit, stage-thump, memed.

Exit, stage-thump


Para-nerds, memed.

Para-nerds