Oscar Night
Oscar Night — we are encamped just outside the Black Gate to Celebrity Village. The ten-storey doors rumble open just enough to release a floating disembodied mouth.
Terms of Use.
“The Management provides the bag.”
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Previously on The Hairy Skeleton...
Dirt… From Mars!
ENTHUSIASTIC KID: Hey! Let’s eat some of this dirt from Mars!
GROOVY AUTOBUS.
Tolerance ranges vary from deployment to deployment, based on extant arousal levels on the four major indices (fear, anxiety, desire, other).
House of Haunted Houses.
The barker— a pallid, ectomorphic Jesus in a candy-striped vaudeville suit— stands atop a raised entry platform, swinging his cane and making tricks with his straw hat. He lets a little kid pull a chunk out of his beard; its patchiness suggests he’s been letting children do that for some time.
Sentimental Favorites
My most beloved word-babies.
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Life Among the Savages
A serial entertainment.
One man’s quest to find a mystical land, and the injuries he incurs while he searches.
Life Among the Savages, Part 22.
‘So we will have to be careful, like spies,’ said my brother. I nodded vigorously – for what young boy does not entertain dreams of being a skilled intelligencer, pursuing secretive duties for crown and country, reliant on wits and nerve alone while plunged deep within enemy terrain?
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How To Be Invisible.
To start, you should determine if you are “invisibility material.” The following quiz will help:
Are you physically average or nondescript?
Do you have a trench coat? A wide-brimmed hat? A lot of Ace bandages? A fake nose? Goggles? (Swim goggles are acceptable.)
Have you ever addressed a person audibly, while standing right in front of them, and received no response, no response at all… as if you were invisible? (You were probably not really invisible.)
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