You know, like an actual story of general interest or something.
But I just have fragments, and a bunch of dead-ends.
Sometimes though, it pays to post something anyways, just to keep in the habit and stave off frozen blogging shoulder.
So here, have some fragments and do with them what thou willis.
Sure this is just a blog on the Internet, but it's also my only creative outlet, and it bothers me a great deal when I hit wall after wall of bad, unfunny ideas.
It feels like a very tiny, but a very definite, failure.
My wife walked in at that moment, and quickly made me stop squishing my brain.
Only by then, it was no longer a brain I was attacking, but myself. I was trying to give me a frustrated, angry shake. You know, like in movies, when they calm people down by grabbing their shoulders and really giving them a rough time.
I try to do it to myself, but it's like I can't get the leverage right. I can't get any strength going, and I just ineffectually poke the jello of my shoulders with my awkwardly angled hands while nodding my head really fast.
"Oh that's weird looking, don't do that," my wife said. She knows just the right thing to say to talk me back from the precipice.
She made me a warm bottle and tried to help me come to terms with just how much of my life has been spent throttled by utter failure.
"....so you brought the little urinating figurine home, and now you can't remember what struck you as so interesting about it?"
"Mm-hmm," I said, blinking slowly and taking a long chug from my bottle with a little sigh. The milk was real good. Kind of sweet. Not colostrum sweet, mind you, but not that tepid,opaque 2% they sell at the big box stores neither.
"Show me what you've got so far," she commanded.
"All right."
Back when I was young and full of piss vinegar, I used to review wonderful things I would find around town on this blog.
"4. See what happen when you take off his short."
Well, I guess I'll pull this happy fellow's pants down.
You know, the ones like:
I read it. I don't know what to say. But it is 2 AM and I was already eXhausted. I wiLL try again tomorrow.
ReplyDeleteMight not improve it much, esb.
DeleteYou are a bad influence (and I mean that in a good way) as I am now trying to combine a knock-knock, why did the chicken cross the road, and an elephant joke into a single piece of humor. It may require gene splicing and Gorilla Glue. Meanwhile I must do laundry and eat piZZa.
Delete7 a.m. here and I am cracking up!! One would think the noogies to the brain would help so much!
ReplyDeleteThey didn't help at all. My brain just got all dented looking.
Delete"Here come the elephants!" BWAHAHAHA!!! OMIGOSH! I can't breathe! Can't breathe!
ReplyDeleteIts right up there with the "ask me if I'm a fire truck" joke. Answer: no.
DeleteAh Gweenie, no one quite does poignant, yet funny like you do.
ReplyDeleteThanks Lily. I like the layout of your new blog, by the way.
DeleteAww,Thanks Gweenie. Now if only the contents matched. :)
DeleteI want a copy of the children's joke book!!
ReplyDeleteIts called "ha ha bonk" or something like that
DeleteIf these were just "fragments", I wish others would do more with fragments, because this was just fantastic! The exact opposite of "Oh that's weird looking, don't do that". Okay, maybe a little weird looking, but don't stop.
ReplyDeleteThanks Alan. I am glad you liked it. Pretty much I don't have anything too cohesive to post these days
DeleteWell, I thought it was funny AND it's late and I'm tired. I've been reading your blog for I think 3 years now (maybe more? there weren't too many posts when I found you). I have you bookmarked and I check back regularly. I'm always happy when there's a new post, even if it takes months. Do whatever you do, and I'll keep reading. I'm a fan. Thanks.
ReplyDeleteWow cool! Thanks Leslie. That made my day.
DeleteThe clip is hysterical and this post is brilliant! I always wanted one of those when I was a kid! I still laugh at potty jokes.
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