Have I mentioned how much I like Dr. McNinja? I really like Dr. McNinja. Where the hell does he come up with these screwed up ideas.
Been a long week, but I have successes to shout! Spacetrawler book #2 has been sent to the printer. The two Little Dee anthologies have been sent to the printer. The postcards have been sent to the printer. I’m feeling good. (now I just have the REST of my list to get to!)
I actually took most of Saturday off! We went for a walk, and then to, um, celebrate Saint Patrick’s day we watched an episode of Inspector Montalbano and I drank half of a Guinness. Sicily is near (nearer than here) to Ireland, right?
Is he really Martina’s father? Sheesh.
Is he really so unlike her or maybe this? 😉
” I red button you!”
I’m so stealing that, lol!
No, I totally see it. He really is Martina’s father. It’s just that we haven’t seen Martina’s playful impulsiveness for quite a while since the burden of command has sat on her shoulders.
Anyway, the expression of his face upon being presented with a nice, tasty slice of cake is priceless!
Yes, OK, I can see it. 🙂
Still, I wonder how Martina would have reacted had she been there.
I love the line (how queasy it is) about a grandmaggot. That’s an inspirationally twisted line, Christopher, you should be ashamed. Then proud, then ashamed.
I’m guessing Martina recommended Nogg check out Morilin’s if he were in her neighborhood.
“conceiving a grandmaggot”
Wow, that’s…uh…that’s a lot to infer from…from just a hug. My brain didn’t go there at all.
“I red button you!” is my new favorite way to deal with annoyances at work.
re: Grandmaggots: Why do I get the feeling that, once he got used to the idea, Mr. Zorilla would be okay with whatever half-alien offspring Martina would have brought home? Grandbabies is grandbabies, I guess.
Personally, I think Martina’s dad is getting just a little bit crispy around the edges. On the other hand, he’s holding up better than I would.
Martina’s dad has entered his second childhood, irresponsibly compulsive an all. “Red button it” I have to remember that. One way or another it will enter the Urban Dictionary someday.
“I red button you” t-shirt. just saying.
I am now imagining Morilín in his bed, which is atop of a pillar in the center of a crater.
(If you’ve watched Pixar’s Lifted, you’ll get it)
It would be funnier if it weren’t so much like foreign policy…
@Christopher, re: Sicily and Ireland, the answer is yes. Believe it or not, the distance between London and Constantinople is less than the distance between New York City and Miami.
Where’s Constantinople? Is that anywhere near Istanbul?
When I read the word “grandmaggot”, I can’t help but think of David Cronenberg’s “The Fly”.
Also, TMBG’s “Alphabet of Nations” just came up on shuffle on my computer – Uruguay is one of the nations mentioned in the song. 🙂
@Sean K., I think it might be. That’s what I get for trying to write a response while studying the Byzantine Empire and listening to “They Might Be Giants.”
The ultimate “Red Button” was in the movie “Forbidden Planet.” It was located in a large room with a device that had earlier been identified as a training tool for the equivalent of “Krell kindergarteners.”
In the floor was an irreversible planetary destruct switch. In the same room as a bunch of Krell kids. “What could possibly go wrong?” seems to have been the fundamental creed of the Krell.
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Prairie
March 19, 2012 at 10:08 am | #
“I red button you” t-shirt. just saying.
I SO SECOND THIS!!!
make it so, Number 1!