February 2009
25 posts
They don’t call me Pizazz Flashburger for nothing. Especially not after I paid everybody $5 to call me Pizazz Flashburger.
Feb 27th
These were some bad blind dates. Neither they nor their tiny little guide dogs were particularly delicious.
Feb 26th
The Forces of Darkness growled. “Now, honey, we have guests.” “Yes, mumsy,” they mumbled.
Feb 25th
“Shut up,” said Jesus. “Now, Jesus—” “Shut up. You’re not my real dad, JOSEPH.” Joseph Hamilton, age 12, sighed and wished he didn’t have to deliver newspapers to this household.
Feb 24th
Jeff wished in his heart of hearts that he had not grown three extra hearts.
Feb 23rd
We thought the glitter would just fall off, and we thought we could find our children, but it just grew and grew.
Feb 22nd
“Frank…” “My name’s not Frank,” said Mr. Lee. “Frank Lee, I don’t give a damn.”
Feb 21st
“Play it again, Sam,” said Jeff to composer John Cage, who just stared at him for four minutes, give or take.
Feb 21st
The song “Hallelujah” is the touching morality parable of what happens to you when you spy on your neighbor roof-bathing, pervert.
Feb 19th
Unaware of his lifelong disability with wheaty words, Jeff shined his blacklight on the hotel bed and announced on live TV that there was semolina everywhere.
Feb 19th
Anything Jeff did would be a drop in the bucket, said the ransom letter written in Jeff’s blood.
Feb 17th
“Let me put some fire in your spire,” she purred to Jeff. Jeff smiled, agreed, and went home to find his castle in flames.
Feb 17th
We knew the celebrity impersonations contest had gone too far when we started unearthing Florence Nightingale’s corpse.
Feb 16th
As the caped guest grabbed Diane’s arm and twisted it into a giraffe, Jeff wished that he had not invited Funny Bone the Felon.
Feb 15th
It was a knife fight, and they were fighting over the ice-cream scoop.
Feb 13th
As we dodged the ventricle grenades and the pit-pat of coronary gunfire, we could only wish we had seen the heart attack coming.
Feb 13th
“I don’t think we can use this,” Jeff said as we stood around the pro-life rally poster “Are You Sure It’s Not Just Gas?”
Feb 10th
Jeff microwaved the plot without removing the aluminum foil; the fire destroyed his house, but the denouement destroyed his credibility.
Feb 10th
“The shampoo mines are nearly depleted, milady.” Rapunzel cruelly laughed and ordered the children to squeeze harder.
Feb 7th
Loving you is easy because you’re promiscuous.
Feb 6th
“I want you inside me,” said Dan to his insulin shot.
Feb 5th
The oncology ward clown made tumor balloons for everybody until one of them metastasized and turned Billy into a condom.
Feb 4th
“I told you I needed clothes.” RIP, 1890-2009, Fuzzy Wuzzy.
Feb 3rd
It was a weird movie, Pus in Boots.
Feb 3rd
It was dark, and we hadn’t paid the bills.
Feb 1st