Green Apple: Stratum VI cavort at Patinoire Parkaire's Wreden & Broster chemist and Hobby Shoppe.
Watermelon: Beside the spillway at Crique de Yanick, the chlorinated pool under the sun -- plus, a waft of trópico havaiano cocoanut.
The old Pr0n Orchard Haus overlooks the wrecked lot
seeing smashed crash pads of ’stached proles of nought
and their roaming lizards seek mattresses under rubble
like an hourly Seekonk inn not worth the trouble
forgotten circular pools turn to black from green
and the red naugahyde of Sky’s Place with no windows lays unseen
Let us not forget the grande dame of all the spores on the grounds, the Weeping Conk, who has not returned since her host stump died off for good.
Beef ribs, Low Country foil-pak, High Life, spirited discussion of local political vacillations.
• Louisville’s Levant Eatery: Gyro stew. For $2 per bowl, a meal too cheap to be good -- and the butt of continuous jokes. • Hole-in-the-wall joint in NYC’s Alphabet City: An authentic Polish breakfast for under eight bucks.
The Herald returns
arching the broad protonum
nods tylus: new realm
The call goes out for
tachinid mercenaries:
“quell alien horde”
Curried shrimp and the usual, plus... grilled peaches with cinnamon and honey.
Salmon, red shrimp, white shrimp, ensalada de pepino, Herr Jakob's homemade sourdough bread.
“I’m always seeking external ego validation, so it’s the least I could do.”
From Jared Gutts’ non-existant superego:
The ostentation du jour may involve armchair sociopathy, bumper sticker platitudes, tartuffian tutting, and of course, le changement d’avatar en ligne.
Low Country “Foil” (shrimp, corn on the cob, sausage, potatoes, Old Bay), salmon, crab legs.
EXECUTIVE SPOTLIGHT: Orville Corporation CEO and Head Solutioniser Johnny Gutts returns to Haute Fresh magazine to share more of his collected wisdom and trenchant aphorisms for 2020:
“PEOPLE WHO FREELY SHOWCASE their own red flags are doing the rest of us a favour. Take note: One’s projected Subconscious Conscience says more than anything in these trying days without shame.”
“THE FREER A NATION, the more likely a man is his own worst enemy. Sounds sucky but that‘s the best it gets, brah.”
“YOU CAN BRAG ABOUT having a Ph.D., and you can brag about working in sales — but you cannot brag about both.”
“PUBLIC SCRIBES NEVER SEEM to realise that the average person cares about musicians’ political opinions as little as they care about politicians’ musical opinions.”
“I HATE TO BREAK IT to young cultural tastemakers, but the ‘Suicide Girl’ look is about as f***ed out by now as the mattress at the local hourly rate inn.”
“IN THE CORPORATE ARENA, the ladies’ room is used for crying more than any other bodily function. Architects didn't plan this — it just turned out this way.”
“ALL HAIR PROBLEMS are First World Problems.”
“AVERAGE MEN with moderate ambitions quit at the finish line, marry unattractive women, and proceed to get fat. Screw that! I say, ‘Don’t stop ‘til you can’t get enough.’”
“THE ‘MANY-WORLDS’ INTERPRETATION of quantum mechanics implies that there’s an infinite number of universes wherein every possible quantum outcome is realised. But the sad truth is that in every universe, Baxter Street is still a joke.”
