FFF
Two of my co-workers are currently writing a soap opera based on … the rest of my co-workers. They have renamed us, redressed us, and given us drama to spare. I don’t mind being (Jose’s version of me) Kitty, the wide-eyed, innocent, too-sweet-to-not-be-evil character, as long as there is humor involved, but I’m not willing to take on extra paperwork for the cause. (I know that you’re reading this, Jose and Betsey…. No more paperwork!)
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This is one of my favorite poems… ever!
My Star
(By Robert Browning)
All that I know
Of a certain star
Is, it can throw
(Like the angled spar)
Now a dart of red,
Now a dart of blue;
Till my friends have said
They would fain see, too
My star that dartles the red and the blue;
Then it stops like a bird; like a flower, hangs furled;
They must solace themselves with the Saturn above it.
What matter to me if their star is a world?
Mine has opened its soul to me; therefore I love it.
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I once saw a story about nude skydiving on “Real People”, that show back in the 80’s hosted by Byron Allen, funny man Skip Stevenson, and Sara Purcell, the woman who cried after every story… including the one about nude skydiving.
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Toy Alert:
If your Bionic Bigfoot was purchased after 1988 you should be okay, but since the Bionic Man, for a mere $6 million, was built in 1974, he will likely explode into a million pieces within the next five years. I’m okay with this, as long as it doesn’t make the cable go out, and I do have a survival plan. First, I’m eating a lot of pizza and Chinese food and Cadbury Eggs so that I get fat and will have extra energy stored away incase the world shuts down. (That’s my story and I’m sticking to it) Second, to insure a solid financial future, I’m investing in cats. Third, I’m taking the rest of my money out of the bank and inserting it into the slot on the front of my penny loafers. Forth, I’m stocking up on fire crackers.
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I LOVE Steven Wright:
"I stayed up all night playing poker with tarot cards. I got a full house and four people died."
"I just got skylights put in my place. The people who live above me are furious."
"I went to a restaurant that serves, "breakfast at any time." So I ordered French toast during the Renaissance."
"While I was gone, someone stole everything in my apartment and replaced it with an exact replica. When I told my roommate, he said, "Do I know you?"
"When I woke up this morning my girlfriend asked me, "Did you sleep good?" I said, "No, I made a few mistakes."
"It's a small world, but I wouldn't want to have to paint it."
"When I was a little kid we had a sand box. It was a quicksand box. I was an only child... eventually."
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