
For Halloween, a romantic ghost and a willing youngster conspire to make a Bad Pun.

For Halloween, a romantic ghost and a willing youngster conspire to make a Bad Pun.
Phoenix, Arizona, USA, one of the hottest places in the country–117° F yesterday–and one of the hottest hotspots in the world for the spread of COVID-19–is a city full of people who flout the mask-wearing mandate in various ways. Shame on us!

Yesterday I showed Denise’s grandchildren a drawing in progress of a terrifying bug in extreme closeup. With their coaching I was able to de-terrorize the bug a great deal. Before we were done the bug was smoking a cig, wearing a beret and cop-sunglasses, wielding an ineffectual gun, and gaining a sidekick scorpion singing to the tune of “I’m a Little Teapot.” Reflected in the cop-sunglasses were Sissy and Bubba’s faces, Bubba mock-scared and Sissy mocking-grinning. All of the enhancements helped make a going-nowhere faked-up study become a showcase of the bravery of children in the face of the unknown. Bless the Beast and the Children! [smiles]
This week the phrase “Pistachio Redeemers” has been nagging at me. It is as random as David Lynch ever gets, I think, and what I ended up doing to exorcize it helps me, I think, to “get” David Lynch a little more. So I have comic-strip continuity with a warped boy and girl bantering, thus:
B: Moustachioed schemers?
G: No.
B: Kardashian bad-dreamers?
G: No. But–nice try.
B: Eustachian tube-feeders?
G: En-oh.
B: Well, WHAT then?
G: PISTACHIO REDEEMERS!
B: Oh. COOL!
G: Thx.
B: ROCK Band?
G: No.
B: Stamp collectors?
G: No!
B: Messianic chewables?
G: Maybe.
G: Time will tell.
As for the acrostic poetry, it is a little less Lynchian, and it cleaves to almost-exact iambic septameter, and exactness of alphas/spaces per line. There is a missing word. Careful readers will be able to find what it is and where it should go. A reader perhaps more clever than I am might know how to fix the line to render the content and preserve iambic septameter.
One final note: this is the first blog post I have made of previously unpublished material.