Archive | August, 2011

Beach Babes of Vision

Misunderstood Genius

Greta

Greta “The Fallopian” Webcastico was ahead of her time. Not only was she the finest beach accordionist in the tri-state area, Greta was the first composer to create music designed to be played in counterpoint to the dulcet tones of molting seagulls eager to eat your French Fries.

The truth was, Greta was the ONLY beach accordionist in the tri-state area. That said, Arnold Schoenberg was intrigued by her ideas and incorporated them into his 12-tone masterpiece, “Variations on the Key of Bleeding Ears.”

Jenny Buxom, beach babe and safe sex enthusiastTime her of ahead

Jenny Buxom was also a forward-thinking beach babe. Nobody was sure if her claims that she had been to the Land of the Future was eccentric whimsy, or if her radioactive bikini (which she’d picked up for a song at the Atoll-must-go sale) was causing a her synapses to misfire.

Whimsy or not, she was serious about any prospective beaux putting on “the suit” before hanky-panky.

She called it safe sex.

Dieter called it delectable. Particularly when she stood on his air hose.

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Alltop is also ahead of their time. Thanks to Foxtongue for finding these pics. Originally published in February, 2009.

[From the Toulouse Le Grandfig Necrobiblia collection]

Lucinda at the Laundrette of Shattered Hope

Lucinda was a dreamer.  She was also stuck in a clothes dryer.Lucinda was a dreamer. Someday, she knew that her Mom would return with the waffle iron and say she was sorry; perhaps even share her delicious recipe for Translucent Liquid Essence of Bran.

She watched as Betsy came back to the Launderette of Shattered Hope, carrying a sack full of soiled turnips that she liked to cook in the dryer next to Lucinda’s (on fluff for about an hour, and then ten minutes on high heat).

Some of the other inhabitants of launderette didn’t like the sound the turnips made as they bashed around inside the genuine Tagmay industrial-strength dryer (and cappuccino maker), but it made Lucinda think of tumbling bags of cats, and furnishings, and a time when she wasn’t sitting in a pool of her own sweat.

Oddly, it made her yearn for the days when her Mom would make potato-flavoured expectorant. That Betsy!

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Alltop enjoys properly dried turnip. Originally published October 2006.

E-nnui

E-nnui - giant robotToto the Bio-Sphere Demolition-Bot wondered what it was all about. Did life really mean anything? There had to be more to existence then the senseless destruction of countless inhabited worlds at the bidding of his master, Dorothy Bunny Slippers and her noxious cohort of flying syphilitic space monkeys.

Maybe it was time for Toto to settle down. Find a nice Species Eradication-Borg and construct a family of Cybertronic Death-Bots equipped with plasma field generators.

Or maybe he should write a novel.

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Alltop is also feeling a little blue. Originally published December, 2008.

The love that dare not speak its name

The love that dare not ... men in contamination suits“Oh Sergei, do you think we’ll ever escape this festering plain, this landscape of ennui and emptiness, so that we can share our love as it was meant to be shared?”

“Mmphmh…mghmm…”

“What Sergei? I can’t hear you through my containment suit?”

“Mgnnnnn! Mgnnnn!”

“Oh, I love you too Sergei. Fishheads. We’ll have fishheads! And bathe our radiation sores together!”

“Gnnn!!! Gnnnn!”

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More awkward embraces at alltop. And for all of you who’ve already seen this, and a few of the other posts of the last few days, my apologies — I’m consumed by this novel editing thing. Originally posted November, 2009.

Catholic school

Sister Mary Trenchbroom, wearing gasmaskJeremy went to a Catholic school.

There, Sister Mary Trenchbroom taught Civics and Personal Hygiene.

It’s fair to say she scarred him for life.

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Alltop has also destroyed many lives. Originally published November, 2008.

The Chair That Sat Back

Evil chair Mephistopheles relaxed after a good (evil) day’s work. He’d chalked up three witches, a magus, a handful of brick-makers who’d had too much to drink, and Michael Bay. (Boob, explosions and flash-cuts could only get you so far.)

The day’s coup had to be snagging the eternal mojo of an untalented, passive-aggressive tenured professor of Comparative Literature. Few outside the world of academia were willing to sell their souls, period, but usually they required at least world-wide fame, or in the case of the brick layers, as much beer as they could drink. That dude really wanted to be Chair of the Department.

Alltop does a lot of hellish sitting to produce funny links. Originally published on Name Your Tale, July 2009. Evil chair photo by E. Monk via Flickr.