Frog Applause by Teresa Burritt for April 09, 2023

Wow. That’s never happened before.

If this were a real slide show from the family archives, the slides would be in random order with a few from a different (though unidentifiable) time and place sprinkled in.

Kats on the river bank mud slide, putting on a show. Unbeaver dammed again.

Why should today be any different?

The thing about explanations and resolutions is that

 

My Favorite Part™ was ᴄʟɪᴄᴋ.

So, I finally clicked past all the ads, and there wasn’t anything more to it.

This actually happens on one cable network, where you DVR the show, and it is never viewable, and cannot even be deleted. I think it is just an ad for their streaming service. But, as every frog knows, the stream is filled with vicious things that rise from below to swallow you, and all the best bugs are still back at the pond.

Poor Kitta!

Always being passed side to side, click by click, with no regard to his equilibrium, and he’s always off balance when it comes to everyday activities.

He wobbles when he walks, he zigs when he wants to zag, he purrs but Meow comes out and he coughs up hairballs every time he eats treats!

The insanity of it all!

Happy Easter to all! ☺️

Like we’ve got nothing better to do ? Or do we?

I was lost, and became despondent again in the face of life’s mysteries, when I first noticed a cat made out of pine paneling.

A planking cat …

or is it the new chocolate thing for Easter …?

I’ll slide on by, since I got the picture. Music: “On a carousel” (Hollies).

Another Kodak® moment.

Frog Applause needs no explanation or resolution. It is, of itself, the Alpha and the Omega.

…my life keeps buffering …

…though I did finish the first draft of my novel…

…well, as y’all know…

…I’m not a very good story teller…

…and my poetry is even worse…

…so I went for it…half poem…

…half story…

…I call it a, ‘stoem pory’…

…½ based on the Bible style…

…½ based on Beowolf(sort of)…

…½ based on Pulp Fiction…

…the early Daily Planet review states…

…‘it would be garenteed to offend everyone if it wasn’t so unreadable.’…and the Peaksville Piqua claims…

…both the sophomore theology and freshman 101 philosophy skewed off kilter makes you think he may have had down in his head. It just didnt make it to the page…

…just the jive I wanted…

…Happy Easter everyone…

Well! That’s putting us readers in our place! —At least, metaphorically.

Scat, cat, for you have demoted to insignificance by the harsh editing of Creator….

Hey! Happy Easter!

Not unlike all of them, which is why I keep coming back. Some day, Frog Applause will publish a strip with the answer to life, the universe, and everything.

…there is a 50-50 chance that I’ll either put the slide in upside down or backwards vs. correctly…

…on the other hand, Google offers me memories from last year to 13 or so years ago…

…all of which at sometime in the future when Google fails or brings in a new system …

…will simply disappear and vanish…

…like all of my borrowed, downloaded, uploaded, burnt or purchased music disappeared…

…because I didn’t read the emails scattered in with all the rest of their junk mail-telling me that was going to happen…

…all the music I collected, mixed, edited alll…

…poof…

…suddenly gone…

…the same with all the photos I took on an old P.C. when the screen went black never to return…

…four years of photos I thought that I would always have…

…poof…

…gone forever…

…but I do have good news…

…I saved 15% at Geico…

Annette the Mickey Mouse with Frankey from down Underwood. Take a slide ruler instead of a Texas Instrument to the Outback.

War broke out between Gays and Straights in comic everywhere.

Welcome back from YOUR “poofing sabbatical” …❗️

Lamellipodia looks like:

1. Misshapen Volkswagen

2. Anteater

3. The front grill of the spaceship from Childhood’s End

4. Polyphemus the Homeric Cyclopes

Mummy cat got your tongue. Mum’s the word.

Click, click makes me mildly nostalgic for many lost mechanical sounds. There is something soothing and familiar about analog mechanical sounds of yesteryear, like the click-shuffle-slide of a slide projector or the shlick-rotary-tick-tick of an old rotary phone. Now it’s all beep-boop-ting.