[A Halloween Special from the 2003 Archives] I thought the devil was red and had a tail. I had braced myself for His appearance, His style, even His odor if need be. So what happens when I call Him? He shows up at my door in a three-piece suit, looking like a successful businessman. OK,…
The Microwaved Chicken Heart bellowed in triumph as his hideous six-inch fangs tore through the President’s colon. The Chief Executive shrieked in agony; his hopes for a pleasant Wednesday shattered in a few bloody moments. “I don’t believe I’m going to be re-elected,” he whimpered brokenly. The day had dawned so calm and fresh, like…
By Chris Harris We as a race, were the essence of eternity. But there was only ever one race, which like time itself was both infinite and finite. All creatures and all time were merely parts of their respective wholes. For as a second might regard a minute as impossible, so does the cell of…
Infinite Being By Dovin Melhee ————— There was an infinite being. Infinite in ability. Infinite in power. Infinite in knowledge. Infinite in intelligence. Infinite in possibility. Infinite and limitless in everything. The being considered itself and was satisfied that it was limitless, perfect and complete. But then the impossible happened. The being thought of something…
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You can literally bet on almost anything now. And I’m not using “literally” in that post-ironic sense where literally means literally the opposite of itself. You can literally literally bet on almost anything. From a Time Traveller’s historian perspective, I see it all as a part of the continued Game and Reality Show-ification of American…
Suddenly, Bob sat up. The applause and my crying stopped. He looked at me. “We made a movie about 60 or 70 years ago,” he said. “Do you remember that?” I nodded. “We had a couple Betamax players and hooked them together. Then we got some cheap beer, think it was Keystone, and, since it…
By Bob SenitramBringing the nonsense to light… That night, Cannibal Hector escaped. A daring escape involving cunning, patience, blood, gore, and the eating of faces. Not really. Actually, he leaned against a wall and that got the whole ball rolling. It was the shoddy construction that went into the temporary prison. It was made-on-the-cheap years…
I had planned something else this week but Bob and Stephen’s recent columns jarred loose an old memory buried in my noggin that I hadn’t thought about in years. It happened not long after I first became a Time Traveller. I was still pretty green and I was still getting the precision down on my…
by Colin Blalock If you died, and after you were already dead someone said, “excuse me sir/ma’am, you’re dead”, what would be the first thing that came to mind that you wish you had done before you died? Me, I wish I had sailed around the world. It sounds far fetched, but I wanted nothing…
by P.S. Gifford -Strange – 2 Pages – Frank sat there writhing in the uncomfortable old wooden chair and fidgeted awkwardly. “So am I right in assuming Mr. Frank Halford that on the night in question you were drinkin’ in the‘Tar and Feathers’ public drinking house in Aysgarth?” Frank squirmed a little more. “Answer the…
-Strange – 8 Pages – The cold dark basement smelled of rotting mold and stagnant water. Cobwebs lined the floor joists above moving only slightly to the wind of Larry’s breath. A pinprick of light showed through small holes in a window that had been painted black. The rest of the small dirt basement floor…
Confessions of a Professional Defuser by Randy Bone Thought bombs are carefully designed psychological viruses routinely implanted into our heads from a very young age through the schools and later through the media. The powerful devious minds behind it all call it “inoculation”. Which is ironic you see because what they are inoculating against are…
I received a nice letter recently from a concerned mom in Kansas. She wrote that her son was 18 and was considering having sex for the very first time. The boy has not ever had sex with anyone before and his mother is concerned that he would contact a disease since it was with a…
What an interesting weekend this turned out to be. To be perfectly frank I wasn’t highly motivated about attending- and barely prepared for the trip. Besides I was broke- and Vegas isn’t the cheapest place to hang out at. On Thursday morning, after another of a string of sleepless nights, I dropped off Chester at…
And Buddha said unto the Lord, “You must un-learn what you have learned.” The Lord was looking upon the Buddha, who pissing on the floor in front of the litter box, “but we’re supposed to pee IN the box.” The Lord looked about the room for the punishment that would certainly befall the Buddha, but…
Jethro Tull—“Minstrel in the Gallery” MoTW—“Born to Fight” Let’s talk about dreams today. About 4 years ago, I received an email from someone wondering what theirrecurring dream meant. I decided to hold onto the email and wait forsomeone else to ask about their dream(s), which I eventually receivedabout 2 years later. I completely forgot about…
For this edition, we renamed the column, “North of the Border”. It was one of the columns submitted to replace Melissa Paterick’s “Chick Shit” column. It didn’t quite fit in, and he actually wrote an Ask Bob column, so what the heck. We’re putting it here. Ask Bob will return next Friday (10/04/2024). Until then,…
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