Jack Acid.

"You see me from the outside, so you think I look beautiful. I'm afraid if I let you get too close, you'll slip inside me. Then when you look at me from the inside you'll see what I see in the mirror, and you'll be horrified and you'll leave."

"Why don't you ever play games with me?" El asked, sitting cross-legged on the floor ( Read more... )

Driving around yesterday, two signs caught my attention out of the corner of my eye because of how my mind misinterpreted them:
The Happy Hocker Pawn Shop
Whole Foods: Fill your pantries!

1337 N 3rd

Mayan Tensions
Perhaps they could be a cover band of Mayan Sanity.

After this occurred to me, I discovered about a hundred more words this pun works with.

I just had this idea that you could rig up a sort of frosting printer to spray intricate patterns such as fractals on a cake...

I think Trump Duck is an excellent name for a cartoon superhero. It's also a spoonerism for dump truck.

The other day I found myself contemplating how martial arts styles are often named for animals which the movements of the style are meant to imitate. I wondered where there isn't a human style, but I figured we've become too removed from our natural selves. We're too self-conscious to present an instinctively natural style of movement that could be ( Read more... )

We've made a couple of new friends, under somewhat extraordinary circumstances. Rachel and I were at a Japanese restaurant when one of the waitresses came up to our table and said to me, "I like your persona." Now anybody who knows me knows that I'm not the sort of person to let a sign like that just pass by. So on our way out I caught her ( Read more... )