Several unrelated things.

Fun fact: since zombies are killed with headshots, and chickens can survive without their heads, zombie chickens are invincible.


In the past few days, at a speech and debate tournament I hanged out at, (is it 'hanged out' or 'hung out'? Both sound wrong...) I've had a chance to be both a chicken and a zombie, though I don't recall being a chicken zombie.
 
Also, I have a second blog now. And none of you can read it. Ha ha.
 
And no, I haven't forgotten about the pear, I've just been really busy. I'm still busy all of this week, but I might get around to it.

The Pear: Part Four

Only a day left on the poll... It's looking like I'll have to pull a Soloman, eat half, and then chuck the remains into the woods. Kind of a gruesome death, even for a pear.

The Pear: Part 3

         Well, I have decided to name my pear Lemuel. That's right, I named him. He's a happy lil pear now.

         Currently, the poll is leaning towards freeing him, but there are still a few days left, and you all are welcome to vote again if you want. I was looking forward to eating dear Lemuel, but I'm also content to chuck him back into the woods behind the house.

       Maybe I'll video tape the results...

A Jolly Good Musical

A Jolly Good Musical is the actual working title of a musical that I may be writing. I might only write the songs for it, since those are the fun parts, but I'm also considering writing the whole thing and using it as a way to try to be as clever and funny in as many different ways as I possibly can.

I got the idea way back during the final round of a debate tournament several months ago. I was a little bored and decided to write out an idea that had been kicking feverishly around in my head for a while, turning it into a song. It fit best as a musical number, so I added a little introduction naming all the characters. I also decided that one of them was after a pocket watch that belonged to another of them. By the time I was done, I had a chunk of story that felt as if it were part of a screwball musical comedy. Now, this was all well and good, but unfortunately, my mind kept working on it, and ended up figuring out the rest of the plot to go with it.

Here's a synopsis that I've written of it.  Although it's subject to change, it should give a pretty good idea of what the story's like. Except it'll be funnier.

    Simon Pivett, a city boy with large, though decidedly materialistic, dreams, is in search of the Earnheart fortune, a treasure said to have been hidden somewhere in the town of Hufflebump by Old Captain Earnheart the pirate. After finding a clue that the secret to its location might lie with the captain's old pocket watch, Simon must attempt to get his hands on it, handicapped by a rival gang of thieves, a vengeful government agent, a cranky housekeeper, an annoyingly spunky love interest, and an insane old man whose mutterings concerning the eminent End of the World might be foreshadowing something a bit more disturbing than anyone could imagine.

Violence isn't the answer.

... sometimes.

... It is the question. The answer is 'yes'.

... but I got it wrong on purpose.

... but it's worth a shot anyway.

... but there's no harm in trying. .. er, wait..

... it is the punctuation.

And for those who are a little depressed by the above statements:

... if you think so, you've misunderstood the question.

The Pear: Part two

Now I have frozen the pear. Just for fun. I may eat it tomorrow, after it thaws.

It still looks really tasty, if anyone was wondering.

The Pear

Today I found a pear in the gravel parking lot at Green River CC. The cold and the rain had preserved it pretty well, so it was in better shape than you would expect a pear to be after lying in a parking lot for an indefinite amount of time. I picked it up because I always have a pear in my lunch, and since it was sitting just a few feet from my car door, I thought that it might have fallen out of my backpack somehow. It turned out that it hadn't.

After threatening to throw it at a friend of who had parked next to me, I put it in my car. However, I now face a gastronomical dilemma: should I eat it or not? It still looks quite good now that I've scraped off the bits of gravel sticking to it. All you readers out there can comment and tell me whether I should go for it or not, and I will make me choice based off of your sage advice.

Freckles and Life

"Today, in science class, we were discussing genetics, and how two different traits can both appear within someone, like a black-and-white speckled rooster. I thought of how awesome it would be if there were speckled people with polka dots on their faces. I then remembered freckles. MLIA."


The above MLIA is actually pretty interesting if you think about it. How many things exist in normal life that we would think were really cool or abnormal or strange if we hadn't grown up in a world that had always had those things? The answer is pretty much everything, from gravity to cars to feet to oxygen. It only changes depending on your prospective. So the next time you step out the door, think to yourself that not only is the world just as completely and utterly mind-bogglingly, jaw-droppingly awesome as it is boringly normal and dull, but it's also both at the same time. 

Phenormenon

is the word that I have coined to refer to people who are proud of the fact that they are weird. I often find such people annoying, as they usually aren't very weird. They are also usually tweenage girls.

Funniest MLIA in a while

Today, I woke up in a bad mood. While driving to work, there were signs every few blocks saying things like, "Smile," "I love you," or "Have a great day," I smiled looking at them, but didn't give them much more thought. That is, until I saw someone trip over one and faceplant. It certainly made my day. MLIA

Crossovers?

You know how there are different mash-ups of movie quotes online? Someone takes two movies and puts the dialogue of one with the theme of the other in a funny way. Here's an example. http://mollyringwraith.livejournal.com/44608.html


I think it would be even better to have crossovers with the same movie. You could have stuff like:


 "Stop rhyming now! I'm serious!"
 "Anybody want a peanut?"
 "Ha! You fool! I switched words when your back was turned!"