Frog Applause by Teresa Burritt for November 19, 2023

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Earthling I need a gallon of water to quench my thirst for the most becoming comic strip. Tell me how I can visit you there at the sleep of banana peels.(sleep spell letter R on steering wheel).

Gloomy Gus…

Doomed gloom-th zooms, zooms zooms, via vroom-th vroom-th vroom-th by the light of the silvery-th moon-th‼️

Big deal. NOBODY compromises any more.

I wonder what he gets out of purveying Gloomth. Can’t be good. As Homer said in the Town Crier episode, “D’oh-eth!”

Tree farted in the forest, beg your pardon, a tree broke wind, son that’s timber.

car 54 where are you ?

Along the Obscenic Route, George experiences extreme road rage, and becomes “Hell’s Son on Wheels.”

[See Harlan Ellison’s short story, ”Along the Scenic Route”

[From Wikipedia: “Synopsis: In a near future, freeway drivers on the 101 Pacific Coast Highway challenge one another to mortal duels under official supervision. Family man George upgraded his family car and can’t resist a provocation from a punk cutting him off on a cruise with his wife.”]

Going to Gleneth’s place.

At wind mill, bar and grill.

.. under a crescent MOONth

…radio plays that forgotten song…

…Brenda Lee coming on strong…

…showing my age…

… I used to think thatit meant that the radio signal was not fading in and out…

…but was close by..

… coming on strong…

…alas earwax…

…ComingOn Strong is an actual Brenda Lee song…

…speeding down in your muscle car hot rod to Brenda Lee?…

…now-a-days, the music would have to be Clutch or Metallica…

…in today’s faux machismo…

…Brenda Lee just wouldn’t cut it…

…how lame…

…nay…

…typical is that?…

Anyone else see what’s left of that Corvette after it hit a tree while street racing in Florida yesterday …? Last I heard, the driver survived, but pretty sure he’ll be lisping for the rest of his life …!

( film at eleven )

Think outside the home plate and Pandora’s in the batters box.

Fast and Furious and funny in a dark and delicious way.

He’s just driving through his Blue period.

Looks a bit like my ’54 Chevy.

Black leather mini skirt afair. My jaw dropped and Tounge roll out.

He’ll teach those kids a lesson!

Tired of the noisy and dangerous street drag-racing by the retro youth gangs, he acquired a super turbo-charged, rocket-assisted, long, low, midnight blue racing coupe, disguised as a mere ordinary passenger vehicle. After a period of planning and accessorizing with certain other useful devices and weapons, he drove one fine night to the notorious racing-strip street. He vowed that the Vroomsters would not know what or who had hit them when he delivered an uncompromising Gloom to them! He was now not J.Q. Citizen but rather Gloom Purveyor! (Not a lick o’ lame in him!) Ye know not the time nor place of reckoning!

ZOOMth….

…I ran out of gas on my driver’s test…

…in the very same car that blew a rod…

…on my first day of work…

…on the very turnpike bridge…

…that I would spend the next two summers painting…

…now, my first car…

…a green ‘72 Valient…

…had a different vibe…

…I’d go neckin’ in the backside parking lot of the Baptist church…

…all went well until we both fell asleep…

…wake up little Suzi style…

…listening to the 8-track…

…playing Roxy Music…

…had to walk the 3 miles back to her house to call my Dad for a jump…

…never was a car guy…

Watch out for deer.

I’m prepping for a Thanksgiving invasion … I can only assume Teresa is as well … assuming the consuming to, two, too …!

( tutu-a-loo )

If you’re gonna be toolin’ down VROOMth Highway you need one o’ them big ol’ cars from the Fifties when cars wuz cars an’ men wuz men.

Hmmm, backwards moon…what does it mean?