Spitball Army

I compiled a playlist a while back to complement a little writing project that I’ve been working on for, oh, the last 35 years or so. One of the pieces that I chose fit the mood of some of the source material incredibly well.

Eerily well, as it turns out.

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V-mail was originally based on the British “Airgraph”, and was an unusual and ingenious system for delivering mail from United States troops to home addresses during World War II. V-mail correspondence worked by photographing large amounts of censored mail reduced to thumb-nail size onto reels of microfilm, which weighed much less than the original would have.

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I sat at one of the tables and looked at the pictures on the wall. There was one panel of rabbits, dead, one of pheasants, also dead, and one panel of dead ducks. The panels were all dark and smoky-looking. There was a cupboard full of liqueur bottles. I looked at them all.

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“We feel that Senator Clinton has come full circle since the days when she scoffed at the idea of baking cookies,” reads the statement, presented before a small group of media representatives at Wendy’s headquarters in Dublin, Ohio. “As Dave Thomas said, ‘Give everyone a chance to have a piece of the pie.’ Let’s give a woman a chance.”

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I read the news today, about a gang of kids who broke into Robert Frost’s winter farmhouse in Vermont and had a party. This was no mundane social gathering – the evidence of the event provokes a mental image wherein some human sub-species unleashed itself within the walls of the historic home and hurled objects, burned furniture, urinated and vomited at will and wherever it felt the need. Oh, boy.

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I wouldn’t bet on it, in this case anyway. I would imagine that this particular bumper sticker sold more bumper stickers than soundtrack CDs.

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Bring Binnie Babyies if have them.

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…but have these people ever been introduced to the cigarette butt collecting device known as an ashtray?

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Both of the following YouTube videos have been viewed over 7 million times, so chances are that you’ve seen them.  I’ve seen them a few times each myself, so why not one more time…for a hearty, harmless laugh? Talking Dogs (ROFL!!): Talking Cats (eerie):

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John F. Edwards lobbyist statement #4. Hillary whacks him over the head about it with a Nerf bat.

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