Hollow Holiday
If you failed to get the memo when the pumpkin spice beverages popped up around the end of August, we are well into the Holiday Season, a chunk of calendar filled with ancient sanctities, modern marketing, and our own personal traditions, things we do because we have always done them at a certain time of…
LIKE A MIGHTY QUONKER, Chapter 32
Now Matt did slow down. Carleton Nairn was leaning way across the front seat, calling to him. “Cold for walking! Can I give you a lift somewhere?” His coat had fallen open in front. Matt saw a pen clipped to his lapel, with something white on top? A golf ball? Or a skull?…
Following the Bunny
We can read about the allure of postcards, and how they and their messages can lead us to faraway places with strange-sounding names. The ones I deal with do take me on certain journeys, which most people call rabbit holes. Take these kids, reminiscent of a certain school of popular art in the 1950s and…
Dog Wear: Necks Installment
If you have been following along, you have watched as we considered postcards which showed animals in suits, and animals who wore primarily hats. We then discussed animals (mainly cats and dogs) with bows. Today we shall conclude this train of thought at Collars. (I hope. I know I have already discussed spectacles worn by…
LIKE A MIGHTY QUONKER, Chapter 31
The corridor was dark and lacked directional signs. Matt mistook his course, bouncing off the left wall first, and then the right. They were covered in some sort of vinyl, so he failed to hurt himself until, on his fourth bounce, he hit a good, solid wall. “Come in here this instant, young man!” ordered…
BOW JEST
Here is one of the widely popular postcard cartoons, produced by various cartoonists over several decades. Its success is a result of leaving the punchline up to the viewer’s ability to say “OH! Got it!” But we are not here to discuss that but to continue our discussion from our previous thrilling installment, which…
Toppers
Now, in last Friday’s thrilling episode, we were considering postcards which showed animals wearing human clothing. We did not exhaust the subject (the number of teddy bear postcards alone would have produced a massive bit of bloggery). But we did neglect the world of postcard critters who limited themselves mainly to headgear. One…
LIKE A MIGHTY QUONKER, Chapter 30
An assortment of body odors wafted around the large hexagonal lounge. An assortment of bodies contributed to this. Matt couldn’t tell how many: the room was dim, despite a scattering of floor lamps, while the mirrors scattered among the paneling didn’t help. He didn’t especially feel a need for more light. What he saw…
Duds for Doggies
To those of us who grew up with the open collar suburban outfit of Mickey Mouse, and who now live in a world in which Hello Kitty hand sanitizer and Hello Kitty Polaroid cameras are being marketed to us every day (saw each of those this week; look it up if you don’t believe…
MIDWEEK FICTION: The Pumpkin That Wouldn’t Be Spiced
His name was Robin, because all of the pumpkins in the patch were named after things they saw around them. Robin grew in the same row as Sparrow, Clover, Crow, Mouse, Sunshine, and Man With Big Boots. They all grew in a patch behind a castle, and were well taken care of until autumn came…
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