dennis scharnberg

temporary and inconsequential

Materialism: a scheme in which everything in the world is derived either from a system of some kind or from randomness.

Clive Morrow, A Crustacean’s Dictionary.

world of selfies

We should direct our skepticism toward those statements that appeal to us.

Godfrey Tooke, Collected Aphorisms.

tear a Bessie

We should want global warming.

Godfrey Tooke, Collected Aphorisms.

indispensable life coaches

bucketfool

Andrew Tertullian, Pandora’s Ponderous Puns.

up or down

lass is more

Andrew Tertullian, Pandora’s Ponderous Puns.

watch the birdie

“Do I? I say, do I? Do I care too much?”

Park V. Kessler, Nearly Music.

gates of steel

“Science, you say? Pah! I know what my old eyes have seen.”

Carson Drew, The Case of the Purloined Tiger.

choose from menu

In the bedroom closet, he finds that his well-worn oxfords now consist of two left shoes. He cannot fathom this perplexity. He cannot account for it. He seeks solace in the TV, by watching a 1940s film noir featuring Audrey Totter as an unhappy wife who, upon discovering that her favorite pair of heels has mysteriously become two right shoes, goes on a rampage (in flats), shoots her husband (six times), robs a small supermarket, and heads for the border in a stolen DeSoto.

Jason Starling, ed., Adventures in Narrative Parsimony.

thumb knuckle blues

Puns ‘n’ Poses

The Ruling Stains

The Bootles

Lewd Zeppelin

The Hoo-Hoo

Spruce Bringsteam

Velveeta Underground

Andrew Tertullian, Pandora’s Ponderous Puns.

the penny dropped

Narcissism: pathological shallowness.

Callista Ralph, Alphabet Soup.