Planet of the Japes

(Krishna Morty, who normally appears in this slot, will return tomorrow.)


*** Artist Cristo, known for his Surrounded Islands in Miami, and The Gates in Central Park, claims that before he fled his native Bulgaria in the early days of the Cold War, the communist government wanted him to design the "Iron Curtains".

*** Poor cousin Ariel and her theatrical aspirations---she made the cast of Cats, but let go after the first week for coughing up furballs, and asking on opening night, "Where's the litter box?"

*** Even as tensions on the Korean peninsula grow, TV networks are arranging power lunches on the idea of M.A.S.H.II.

*** Well, my lazy brother-in-law's in the hospital with third degree burns.
I told my sister to "light a fire under him."

*** What kinda cop gives you a sobriety test by telling you to say, "Rubber Baby Buggy Bumpers" three times?

*** The Board of Health is coming down again on our local eatery, Homely Mom's Cooking for using hungry cats to clean the dishes.

*** A friend of mine boasts that he's had more than 150,000 hits on his blogsite. Big deal---I bet he hasn't sold one hamburger!

*** Obama pick for the Supreme Court, Sonia Sotomayor, a Puerto Rican, in order to appease her critics who say she will be an ethnic activist, said, "Listen, in West Side Story I rooted for the Jets, okay!"