ALLENTOWN IS NICE: Simpler times

Monday, July 21, 2008

Simpler times

I've been resuscitated and I am feeling quite well, thank you.

While sorting through some old photographs earlier today I came upon this one from my childhood, when I was sent to Japan and other countries to study the martial arts and combat.

I thought I would share it with you, my dear friends.

I am pictured here in the rickshaw with my nanny, Yui, a driver and the driver's assistant. I'm afraid I don't remember their names. They also perished mysteriously in a rock slide moments after this photo was taken.

What a beautiful memory. (Aside from the rock slide)

9 comments:

Anonymous said...: My dearest Marge, the back of that photo says it was taken 150 years ago. ... How old ARE you?; July 21, 2008 at 4:40 PM
atown-liker said...: A woman never tells, Truman, you should know that. Did you ever ask Jackie Onasis how old SHE was? Age is but a number, MDDFT.; July 21, 2008 at 4:42 PM
Bernie O'Hare said...: Where does the bidding start for The Player? I'll throw him the damn ball and I like his modest style, which should fit in nicely on my blog. I can trade ... well, I can't really trade anybody. Nobody will have anything to do with me.; July 21, 2008 at 7:09 PM
atown-liker said...: I'm afraid his unfortunate demise may have an adverse impact on his trade value.; July 22, 2008 at 1:43 AM
atown-liker said...: Hey! I ain't playin any damn second fiddle to Bernie O'Hare. Hey .. what? ... damn! POOF; July 22, 2008 at 1:47 AM
Volvo Driving Soccer Mom said...: This blog is truly one of the more disturbing I have read, I LIKE IT!; July 22, 2008 at 9:42 AM
Anonymous said...: I'm coming for you Marge... look behind the curtain!; July 22, 2008 at 6:22 PM
Anonymous said...: no, not that curtain silly! The other curtain!; July 22, 2008 at 6:26 PM
atown-liker said...: Alas! How I wish it were true. But our leader has been cruelly taken from us, but we will fight on. Viva La Resistance!
-- The Team Green; July 23, 2008 at 2:13 AM

Meanwhile ...

... A group of Allentonians has traveled into the past in an attempt to kill the demon Marge before she comes to Allentown and destroys the city. However, they have repeatedly failed in those attempts. They have bungled them so badly, in fact, that they have created an Alternate Timeline in which Marge lives quietly in her chalet in Turkey and calls herself Mrs. Egram, in which she never eats her brother Ronan and in which she becomes a significantly less evil demon than the one that is destroying Allentown in the present. The time travelers -- demon hunter extraordinaire Maximillian A. Bear, his son Max Jr. (formerly the polar bear cub spirit Max), Karl, the Green Guy and Truman (the ghost who was transformed into a flying polar bear rug when he escaped from Marge via the Secret Room time portal) -- find themselves trapped in Alternate Time, having run afoul of the Crows (principally through eating several of them) who previously had assisted in their journeys through time. The time travelers have joined with Mrs. Egram in an attempt to travel to non-Alternate Allentown to stop Marge in the present time, where St. Michael the Archangel struggles with steroid detoxification as he continues to be locked in mortal combat with Marge in the streets of downtown Allentown, which has largely been transformed into a smoldering ruin. Meanwhile still-unemployed super agent Jack Bauer and a small band of followers have traveled to Parallel time to battle a new enemy to heaven itself -- the deceased actor Paul Newman, or so they believe. Newman took control of Parallel heaven and initiated the celestial lockdown protocols, blocking travel to and from Parallel Time. However one portal remains open -- that guarded by the mysterious Old Donovan in a forgotten comfort station deep beneath downtown Allentown. It was believed that Newman seized Parallel Heaven after drugging Jesus with tainted tortilla chips; however, a new story seems to be emerging. The Bauer party, however, has been separated, with Bauer traveling to the Parallel Antarctic Vatican; Atown-Liker ending up in the TV Chef Network Studios, where he is reunited with the Countess of Monaco, who has be retransformed from a sea monster back into a woman who sort of looks like a sea monster; and the Player washing up at Parallel Atown Liker's headquarters. Also, Rudolph and Gen. Trexler have been banished to hell for not answering Old Donovan's questions correctly and Bubbles, the little angel, was banished to the Macungies. Their fates will be determined at some point in a flashback. Meanwhile, Bauer has learned that Newman is not his target. The enemy of heaven is actually the Crows, who are attempting to bring about the Apocalypse through the use of an ancient holy artifact being guarded at the South Pole by Parallel Pope Boneyface. Meanwhile, while in Parallel Time, non-Parallel Atown-Liker was nosing around Parallel Atown-Liker's headquarters where he either had a massive hallucination or was transported to Dickensian London via a Secret Armoire. Meanwhile, the Irish warrior Cuchulainn remains dead after being mortally wounded by Trexler; and the Spanish Armada, led by turncoat Archangel Gabriel, remains quiet after being defeated by an underwater assault by Trexler and the frightening firepower of Santa's Battle Sleigh 1. With the help of Little Ronan (a.k.a. Parallel Time-Alternate Timeline Purgatory Ronan) and [[[Spoiler Alert!]]] Rudolph, Santa recovered sufficiently enough from depression, substance abuse and the death of Prancer to deliver the goods on Christmas. Meanwhile, the fate of Ponzi remains unclear. Previously Newman sent his small dog into Parallel Time to ingratiate himself with President Madoff and to steal Madoff's investment fund. Ponzi was forced into hiding after angering Kevin Bacon, the Muppet Bert and some TV chefs who have vowed to cook and eat him.