We get questions about Banana from all kinds of people. This section answers some of the more oft-asked questions. Why is Banana so umphy? What you hear as an “umph” sound is emitted by a bagpipe-like structure adjacent to her esophagus called the Smithy Dingus. All Bostons are born with one —…
45 Ways
Paul Simon’s 50 Ways to Leave Your Lover is a classic song with an obvious flaw: the song only really offers 5 ways to leave your lover – an order of magnitude off. We have 45 other suggestions, just in case: Run like hell, Mel Let yourself go, Mo Disintegrate, Nate Cyanide…
Members of the Justice League Unlimited Auxiliary
The Auxiliary (Good Guys): Aristotle Bi-clops Captain Cardboard Captáin Brûlée The Doormat Fingerman Fro Giggles The Gov’ner The Hypotenuse Jiggly Giant Mellow Yellow The Piñata Sea Monkey Unitard The Un-Visible Man Whizzard The League of Unremarkable Evil (Bad Guys): Bad Cholesterol Buffy the Vampire Dr. Doo The Enabler Frenchy Lab…
Finger, Finger!
By far, the best place to start with Harry Stephen Keeler is the titles of his oeuvre, which flop around in one’s mind: The Skull of the Waltzing Clown, X. Jones — of Scotland Yard (nicely paired with Y. Cheung, Business Detective), The Face of the Man From Saturn, and…
Bumper Stickers
A list of bumper stickers, mostly real, spotted in Southern California in the early 21st Century. Note that we have no opinion or judgment about the topics covered. Many fine people are named Fred. We merely appreciate the variety.
Zardoz
Zardoz is the re-novelization of a movie that was memorable for all the wrong reasons. The goofy title. The giant floating papier-mâché head giving orders and life counseling to a bunch of guys wearing smaller versions of the papier-mâché head over their own heads. Sean Connery—at the time having played James…
Time Snake and Superclown
When you hear the words “Time Snake and Superclown,” what pops into your head? We folded this book into the library on the merits of the title. To the extent there’s conventional wisdom about Time Snake and Superclown it’s that the book itself is as crazy as the title. That’s…
Bad Words
A list of English words we find unfortunate even in a context-free setting.