…because, you know, it’s Valentines Day, and some people just don’t know how to express their love.
Category Archive: fun
Mar 30 2010
It Must Be Spring
I’d piss off a crayfishI’d sneak with you, deer,Or engage in behaviorFrom macho to queerAs long as it’s healthyAnd no one objects;Birds do it, bees do itAnd fuck, I want sex! We’ll do it like lions—I’ll stop when you biteOr peregrine falconsWho couple in flightOr lusty giraffes, we’llEntangle our necksIt’s springtime, or nearly,And fuck, I …
Jun 13 2008
Friday Limericks–Greece!
This is not the only country on my trip, but I am certainly glad it is one of them! I have wanted to go to Greece since… I think my first presentation on the Parthenon in 4th grade, or maybe earlier, reading the children’s versions of Greek mythology. Of course, ignorance being what it is, …
May 05 2008
A Blood-Curdling Cautionary Tale Of Science Run Amok
Genetically, of course, a sporkIs half a spoon, and half a forkA laboratory in New YorkCreated them, then popped the cork. Please, gentle reader, do not swoon,But there was also, once, a foon(That’s half a fork, and half a spoon)Created, sadly, all too soon. In cutlery, one tempts the FatesWhen artificially, one matesUtensils from across …
Feb 18 2008
A Global Monopoly!
I can’t believe it has been most of a month, and I only just found out about this! Monopoly–the board game–is going global, and is looking for your help to choose properties! Not streets this time, but cities. Just go here, and choose from 68 cities around the world, or nominate your own city if …
Feb 08 2008
Captain Ahab… er, Myers, and the Whale
I was thinking… just reflecting on history… and it came to me, that the high seas of long ago were the routes of communication, of commerce, of social discourse–they were the internet of the past. Or, rather, the internet is the high seas of the present. The following is a sea shanty, a tale best …
Jan 11 2008
Awwww….
As Disney and Pixar have so often told us, The ultimate goal of a toy Is to live in the sweet, unconditional love Of a cute-as-a-bug girl or boy But the truth is, the love of a boy or a girl, Though I’m sure that it must have its charms, Could never compete with the …
Jan 09 2008
Dirty Bird! Dirty Bird!
Flags to bulls, debates to pundits, quackery to Orac… some things just elicit reflexive responses. GrrlScientist was looking for songs about birds, and a comment led to… this. I apologize in advance. (yes, it does have a tune.) We met on the day of the backyard bird count, and I thought her exceedingly pleasantWith lovely …
Jan 05 2008
Danger! Warning!
When bloggers write, with laptops, seated,Bits of them get overheated—Sitting in their rooms, retreatedTo their hidden cloisters.If I should hear “Well done! Well done!”I hope they mean my writing’s funAnd not some cruel and heartless punAbout my mountain oysters. The writers putting out these blogs,Like robots built with well-oiled cogs,Or samurai, or feral dogs,Eviscerate their …
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Jan 09 2008
Kick off your Sunday shoes, Missouri!
fun, Pinheads, social commentary
by Cuttlefish
Afarensis reports on life imitating art imitating life. It’s Footloose, but in St. Charles, Mo. “The proposal would ban indecent, profane or obscene language, songs, entertainment and literature at bars.” So if Kenny Loggins wants to cut the soundtrack to Kevin Bacon’s “Footloose 2: The Documentary”, I scribbled down a few lines for him… It’s …
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