From time to time, Marie joneses for QVC. Yes, cable television shopping. That QVC. So I’m sitting here chatting with Sweet Baby James and Tney and Hottie McHott (aka David M.) and my favorite crazy Cuban, here in the “TV Room†of the ancestral home while my mom and dad watch QVC. I am absorbing the hard sales pitches osmotically. In the 30 minutes this has been going on, I’ve learned of an ultra-concentrated cleaning solution you attach to a garden hose. It’s safe for plants, they say, but they dodged the question about pets. Hmmm. I’ve also learned about telescoping, ratcheting pruning shears that are your “best friend!†in the garden. I’m guessing that the oak tree that they’re clipping branch after branch from isn’t too crazy about the shears as a friend. Friends don’t let friends delimb them. I’m just sayin’.
I’ve also learned about a hexagonal, one-piece, click-in-place gazebo. It’s today’s special value. It comes with a carrying bag and it weighs only 31 lbs in the bag! 110 sq feet of space. Can you imagine? How are you living without one? I don’t have the yard space back in San Francisco, but I’m considering putting one in my own TV room—then I won’t have to repaint the ceiling.
Good lord, I have to go. The “Diamonique Afternoon Delight†show has started! For “two fabulous hours†I’ll learn about fabricated, simulated diamonds—including colored ones! OMG a 3.35 carat (total weight) canary diamonique ring is available!
I feel like Penguin Opus ordering cases of Tomato Crushers.
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OK Jeff… Way too much time on your hands now! Lordy next you’ll be reciting lines from one of those things they call a “Soap” drama.
Oh, by the way can you get me a deal on a 5.o carat pear-shaped blue diamonique solitaire?
Don’t forget the turnip twaddler… 😉
LOL! Good one!
How could I forget that?
Speaking of Bloom County…if you read the novel I posted here a couple of years ago, the short squat farmer was a vague inspiration for the shorter of the two apparitions.
I am totally Opus.
I miss my Bloom County. How could you not love the Banana PC Jr?
::LeSigh:: Just in case the photo didn’t make it:
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Yes! Someone else who loves Bloom County! I gotta say, while I may not always agree with Berkeley Breathed’s politics (and sometimes not even understand them, me being the tender youngster I am), he is probably one of the best artists when it comes to making you laugh at a picture and not a joke. And Opus makes a great avatar.
I loved Opus, but I am Binkley. Well, a tall, overweight, rugby-playing Binkley, but Binkley nonetheless.