Month: October 2023
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The Theme of the Week is Mad Scientist Clones Man Puppet
The real monster in this week’s theme in the Mad Scientist.
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GORKO CHEF RAMBO BOLILLO: BEST 3 CHINESE DISHES TO SNORT, NOT EAT
Soft and warm, with just the perfect amount of spice, it will go up your nostrils like a dream.
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MR. CHATBOT HAS YOUR FAMILY ALBUM READY: WHAT DO YOU MEAN OF COURSE THEY LOOK LIKE PEOPLE
Why are you freaking out, geesh. It is close enough, no chatbot would even notice.
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STONEHENGE: CAN IT BE SPELT?
Must have taken a dozen gos at it and I am beginning to think the answer is not possible, my friends.
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‘I Age’ and 2 more by Michael Lee Johnson (text + audio)
Alone, most of my time, but never on Sundays
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Scandoval pieces by Alexander Carrigan
We don’t live our lives by logic, but hopefully when we’re older, we can tell our grandkids about how we were once TV stars
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NOLCHA’S POOP SCOOP: Who’s the Real Monster of the March?
That same evening, parents scooped up Halloween leftovers while their children slept, to hand over to the dentist.
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AND ONE OF THEM IS YOUR FATHER
You remember the stories about the infamous Peoria Concert in the Park in 2013?
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BEST ENTREES FOR JUST PICKING AT DURING THAT BIG BREAKUP
But what to order to pair with this big breakup, something not too sweet, not too savory, substantial enough to weather a good bitch-out, but that will not congeal in its own grease if you are forced to linger over…
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PUGS ON RUGS: SIDEWINKLE HEAD OVER HEELS
He falls head over heels in love with Grins Maher, a Peoria Dog Show starlet whose bite is just as sassy as her bark!
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WHAT DO YOU THINK OF MY LATEST PIECE I THINK I’LL CALL IT STILL LIFE WITH TULIPS
This is a painting of a bunch of flowers is all.
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MISTER BANANA WILL NOT BE REPOTTED
My doctor told me I needed more sunshine and a bit of luck or they might have to repot me.
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‘Synonyms for Pe#*$ in a Variety of Settings’ by Yash Seyedbagheri
it’s a Stonehenge that needs rebuilding
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Book review by Hugh Blanton: ‘All My Mama Drama’
Over decades of rapid progress, America has made itself a world leader in comfort and satiety.
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TIM IS SHORT! GORKO INTERPLANETARY ACOUSTICIANS STRUGGLE TO DECODE MYSTERIOUS SOS FROM ZORGON 12
INTERPLANETARY SCIENTISTS HAVE BEEN RACING AGAINST TIM TO DECODE THE MESSAGE AND DEPLOY AN APPROPRIATE RESPONSE TEAM.
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‘A Time Gone By’ and ‘Full Moon’ by Ileana Collazo
Frozen like statues; too late to run, too tired to crawl, too spent to fight.
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EVERY TIME I TRY TO WALK AWAY SOMETHING MAKES ME TURN AROUND AND STAY
Look at us master, up all night, basically fighting with words and whips.
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‘F’ing Freddie’ by Doug Jacquier
fossicked through files on pharmacology, / sought to distill a phial of foul poison to fix Freddie’s fate
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AIN’T NOTHING BUT A HOUND DOG
You are crying all the time, well maybe it is because you have never even caught a rabbit.
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BIODOME RESIDENTS: FOR THE LAST TIME, PLEASE USE INTERCOM TO COMMUNICATE WITH HR, HR IS *NOT* AUTHORIZED TO INTERPRET FRANTIC BODY LANGUAGE
Do not try to shout at us through the glass: we CAN NOT HEAR YOU.
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‘The Kingdom of Home’ by Professor Stout (writing as Mr. Heustis)
Perhaps there is a clever code embedded in this line whose meaning the intervening years have obscured.
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‘A Ghost of Her’ and ‘Always Like it when It’s Grey’ by Ileana Collazo
Lemony sting, purple lip, black eye, bleeding heart.
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YES BROTHER ETHERNAN OF COURSE WE ARE TALKING ABOUT FULL-ORBED PATRIPASSIANISM, YOU NITWIT
A child — a lamb are you yet in the world of men at theology, especially in the realm of HERESY, little Ethy.
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Upcoming Movie: ‘Woncha Wonka?’
The extraordinary story of the young Willy Wonka putting into action his machiavellian scheme to entrap the peace-loving Oompa-Loompas inside his chocolate factory.







