July 23, 2007

Lights Out! poetry


we digs, we digs. Google Docs lets you post to your Blogger page, (which is a great notion. and Gets Us All Excited about the prospects of getting some kind of blog-like discipline into our otherwise dormant writing work habits) but thanks to the software having only bare-bones export options, and if you are a contrary sort like us who prefers one's blog's background be spat out in black (like ours is), voila! your text is hidden in the black. i'm sure it's easily overcome. but I was naturally smitten with the charming bug.


so somewhere below in the black, a spoooky poem is hiding. watch out! enjoy, children. why, it's hide & seek Lights Out! poetry.


ahem. as for Lights Out! ...when we were young, and played often with evil little baptist creek children, Lights Out! was a favorite game. Everyone spreads out in a closed-up room, the lights are turned off, and you creep about trying to find your friends and beat the shit out of them meanwhile trying to avoid getting caught & beaten yourself. ah, good times. we used to play an outdoor variation too, called Killer. Basically it was more of Lights Out! but set outdoors in the black night, Hide and Seek but with a Friday the 13th serial killer vibe. and they would usually hunt you down with some kind of large weapon. those baptist chicks were craaaazy motherfuckers.

which come to think of it has nothing to do with this poem.

...or it Does and i've just had some kind of breakthrough moment here. tearing up here.

hold me.


here's a gem from raw berry, that old whore. always good for a few laughs. enjoy! Lights Out!



feeling helen keller yes we’re only pack

of thumbs

fumbling towards the word. experience

musts be

helpful in these matters we guess. maybe blind

is sight without the pictures & the sound

turned down. boys

are like a spigot, water on the palm. we

knows the texture, but aching for a name,

mate. mute

mug shots, waiting in the dark

for touch to teach us how to speak in

tongues a

language, opening a door.


July 22, 2007

the Fall comedy lineup on TYBC©...


All right folks, we claimed these names First. You hear? If we turn on the frigging CW and see these this Fall, there will be some ass kicked.

Sublet
revolving cast (Love, American Style-style), a weekly MTV-esque soapsy serial anthology, each week featuring two hot twentysomethings running an ad for a sublet, thereupon finding their prospective renter miraculously falling into bed with either or both of their respective landlords, with the whole steamy mess neatly wrapped up by 22 minutes later with a denouement either in favor (happy threesome settles in) or with the search continuing (applicant shown the door, or a shallow grave in the basement). regardless of the ending, the next week, it's a whole new couple, whole new sublet, whole new set of jiggly & ripped young shirtless things looking for that special Sublet.

The Intricates
and yes, we know "Intricates" is misspelled. our Honeypie was trying to slur out "Intricacies" in a drunken monologue, when out spilled "the Intricates" instead. We knew at once it was a Fall lineup title for the network. It's a great title. Evokes the Pixar Incredibles, yet the name just has an elusive seedier pedigree. It just feels trailer to us. And no, we have no idea what the show's about. Isn't that what writing staff is for? Big picture, people.

Better Than Cramps
Another great show name for which we cannot recall much else. But now it sounds to us like a choice reality show slant: our Hackers jack into various situations (workers with webcams, phone calls to people we can film indiscreetly) dangling exciting cash prizes for office workers who can come up with the best on-the-fly excuse to flee work without undue managerial scrutiny. "Cramps" being, of course, a failsafe way to get the Boss to hustle you out of their office and home with a Get Out of Work Free pass, no questions asked. But what's Better Than Cramps? Tune in to find out.

©2007, TYBC (Ted Young Broadcasting Company),
a Seat of Our Pants Press production

July 18, 2007

something we all can Get Behind



Way to go, Illinois! You put me in a happy state.

July 17, 2007

toy box, indeed



it's kind of hard to make this shit up. coming to your local Wal-Mart, natch. be sure and let the good folks at Wally World know what you think on August 18!

...and from the Dashboard

OK, also very fun. We can post to Blogger from the OS X Dashboard, albeit without the ability to add photos. Pity that Dashboard's such a sluggish piece of junk in general!

what a wonderful wired world

So we can email and post to Blogger, albeit it appears that this it saves it to drafts instead of directly posting it. always something, eh? That's an improvement over iWeb and Google Pages to be sure.
We really just wish Apple and Google would get married and be done with it.
Really, fellas, you'd be such a good fit.
And then we wouldn't have to have blogs & pages & iWebs & HomePage sites scattered to the winds.
Yeah, we'd probably still do that, but still.

oh Lord, another one?


Call us crazy for Cocoa Puffs, but we just can't help ourselves. Another sandbox, another blog...focus, focus!

For now here's links to home base, the old blog, the newish FrankenBlog grafted together over at Google Pages. Focus, focus. Where will the ball eventually come to rest? Place your bets, place your bets.