the pimpled frog king

halloweeno

I gave one of these to Shawnessy, our favorite ticket-taking queen at “The Blob” show last night.
“Next time you’re in hell, buy yourself something really nice.”

malfeasance

The latest New Yorker (Nov. 1 issue) arrived yesterday and it opens with five pages that sum up the case against President Awful. It’s clearly and devastatingly stated, and there’s an unintentional Halloween creepiness to the way the ugliness that began after the last election reached such epic proportions. Well, it’s almost election time again, [...]

the small, hairy, ebu gogo

Here’s a follow up on the discovery of the three-foot tall species of hominid on Flores island in Indonesia. One of the researchers, Bert Roberts, talks about how the current inhabitants of the island have tales of hairy little Ebu Gogo people who used to live there. Ebu – “grandmother.” Gogo – “he who eats [...]

smaller folk

The eclipse is pretty nifty, but the small people* are amazingly cool.
Thanks to a rare clear night, I can watch the eclipse right outside our house. I watched the moon till it was just a faintly glowing dull orange globe–a lot like I imagine Mars looks like from up close and personal. I’ll go [...]

everybody is a star

90% of all my blog readers were with me Saturday night (Maggie, Scot, Gretchin, Sven). They are stars. And they already know that I’m happy with what the director and actors (who are all-stars) did with “Pazuzu Goes the Mall.” Special kudos to Mok for the great Pazuzu costume. Afterwards we saw two Twilight Zone episodes at Theater [...]

god hates shrimp

He also hates clams, oysters, and lobsters.
http://www.godhatesshrimp.com/

the devil told me to scalp maxine carr with potato peeler, claims pedophile

I guess it was inevitable that someone would make one of these. This link will generate a random tabloid newspaper headline for you. Refresh your browser to get another one.

http://www.toothycat.net/wiki/bnf.pl?page=Rachael/TabloidHeadlineGenerator