Sunday, November 29, 2009

It's been too long


Dude! It's been too long. How's it going, man?


It's going well, sir, how's everything with you?


Oh, man. You don't want to know. Trust me. The freakin' Crows are out of control!


Yes, I've heard some rumblings.


Would you believe they are planning to steal a sacred Parallel artifact and bring it to non-Parallel Time, destroy the non-Parallel Vatican and try to bring about the Apocalypse?


Jesus, that's messed up! ... er, I mean, That's messed up, Jesus!


Tell me about it. ... I have a couple of guys on it.


Jack Bauer. He's good. ... Oh, speaking of Bauer, I'm sorry that one of my polar bears ate Archangel Gabriel ...


It's cool, dude. Gabriel went rogue. He brought it on himself.


I wasn't myself at the time. I couldn't do anything to stop it. That bear is usually such a good boy. ...


Don't give it another thought. ... So how are you feeling? Are you ready for the big day?


I'm good. I'm good. Little Ronan has helped me work through some of my anger issues and I'm getting my drinking under control, prettymuch. ... Little Ronan's been a godsend. ...


Literally.


... And Mrs. Claus says she might come back to me! ... Things are going good. ... So, speaking of Christmas, I don't think I've seen your list yet. ... Assuming you've been good, got anything in mind?


Well, an iPhone would be awesome. And I wouldn't mind seeing the apocalypse averted. I mean, that's my call, right? Who the heck do those Crows think they are? When the time is right, I'll lower the boom, not some stupid birds. And I went to bat for those Crows I don't know how many times. ... Dude, I'm rambling. Howabout you? Is there anything special you'd like for Christmas?


Well.... Since you asked, you know Prancer was killed by Gabriel, and, well, I'm a little light on flying reindeer. Is there any possibility you could release Rudolph from hell?


Is he still in hell??? Where is my head? He was never supposed to be there in the first place. I was just trying to sell the whole Newman story to Bauer and I guess Old Donovan took it a little too far.


So I can have Rudolph for the sleigh team?


Consider it done. I'll put an extraction team together right away.


Thank you, Jesus! Are you planning to catch the A Christmas Carol blog?


Oh, I wouldn't miss it. I'd love to bust that Atown-Liker's ass one of these days.

Monday, November 16, 2009

We must have the artifact




Our plans remain foiled.



We must have the artifact! Caw!




But we can no longer pass through to Parallel Time.

Bauer traveled to Parallel Time through a toilet.



But the crows hate water! Caw!


We must have the artifact! Caw!



But it is in Parallel Time, protected by penguins and a scarecrow.


We must have the artifact! Caw!

Friday, October 23, 2009

Dude, I'm WASTED



Dude, I'm WASTED. I was playing beer pong with the Octopus and he just passed out! It was awesome! He's totally pissed that his wife was on the Morning Call Web site yesterday and he wasn't. He just, like, flipped out! It was so awesome. Anyway, he said he was supposed to announce that some secret agent dude washed up in Parallel Time. Whoa! It's, like, almost my turn. ... Go, Mules!

Saturday, October 17, 2009

Yoo-hoo!

Hi, girls. The Octopus here. Can you believe the morningcall.com did not put me on their Web page today? Yoo-hoo, guys! Wake up! I mean Lindsay Lohan? Pleeeease! She is so six months ago. Get with the program. ... Anyway, I'm supposed to tell you another guy washed up in a toilet in Parallel Time. Whatever.

Thursday, October 8, 2009

This is not what I signed up for

So what did you do with the my friends?

You have friends? ... The last two were sent to Parallel Time as I said. ... I'm not sure exactly where, however. Stall Number 2 is notoriously unreliable.

And the others?

Two were sent to Hell and one was sent to Macungie.

Listen Donovan. Enough people have been hurt here. I want that angel brought out of Macungie now.

What about the other two?

We should probably get them out of hell as well. Reindeer don't like the heat and Trexler might melt.

As you wish, Agent Bauer.

So, what happens next?

I shall send you to Parallel Time, where you will be given further instruction by my counterpart there. Stall Number 1. Very Reliable.

Now I'm not sure I should even go. This is not what I signed up for, Donovan.

We were expecting that reaction, Bauer. There's someone in Stall Number 4 who would like to talk to you.

Jesus H. Christ!

Actually, I stopped using the H a long time ago, dude.

Monday, October 5, 2009

I would want me too


I know you all recognize me and most of you probably want me. I can't say I blame you. I would want me too if I weren't myself, but I am. The lines form over there: Girls on the left, boys on the right. For some reason I can't use my real name on this blog, so the owner has assigned me the alias "Octopus." Whatever. He's not the first overblown freak I've had to deal with lately. Anyway, I've been hired here to be a part-time narrator, taking over the spot Donovan McNabb -- I'm sorry, "Don-Don" -- briefly held last year. Hopefully I'll stick around longer. I mean he actually remembered how to play football and got his old job back. Me, I'm not likely to do much of anything. But I sure show up on a lot of Web pages! Anyhoo, I've been asked to tell you that a few of the regulars here are making their way over to Parallel Time. That's it. Gotta run!

Friday, September 18, 2009

Blog war continues

Dear Ass,

It's been too long. I hope this post finds you relatively cogent. I suggest you find another vulgarian to read it to you very slowly, using the simplest of terms so that you may at least partially understand.

I find myself strangely compelled to respond to your ludicrous offer to me of a so-called olive branch. Sir, you may affix that bough into an orifice of your own choosing.

Should I apologize for any of my actions over the past 15 months? I think not.

Did I poison you, appropriate your vermin-infested home and put your cat in the microwave? If you remember these incidents in that way, so be it. Were you not deranged and your brain not a wormwood-adled sponge sopping with stale beer, you might remember that it was Mr. Dodger who poisoned you at my behest and Mr. Player who put your loathesome felines into the microwave in defense of my priceless polar bear rugs, from which your foul creatures had removed the eyeballs and defiled with vomit. Oh, how soon we forget.

May I also remind you that these two faithful servants of mine were brutally murdered by your associates, the inpenetrable Karl and the deleterious duchess of the deep? May I also remind you that the ghost of Mr. Player was then deceitfully turned against me, as was the ghost of My Dear Dead Friend Truman, by your absurd "team" of bloggers. Your memory, sir, and I use that term in the loosest possible of ways, is quite selective. Have you not a shred of decency?

Need I remind you that some of these very same individuals, thanks to the chicanery of the crows, are blundering their way through the past in a futile attempt to blot out my very existence? The shame, sir, is yours.

Am I to apologize for scattering your pack of dour associates? I think not. For hunting the green toad and poisoning your dear duchess? No, again. Next, I suppose you shall chastise me for hunting polar bears as well and turning them into rugs -- rugs, which I might add, were animated and turned against me as well!

Am I to apologize for banishing the poor from Allentown to live in the woodlands and building a wall to keep them out? I believe those people would still be happily foraging about in the verdant forest had the Spanish Armada not poked holes in the wall with their cannonballs. Oh, and about the Armada ... who was responsible for that hapless ancient fleet's return from its watery grave? You were, sir. You and your pet sea monster.

Am I to apologize for eating the human contents of several LANTA buses as if they were boxes of Goobers? Perhaps. But have you never been hungry? Chewy on the outside, yet gooey on the inside, with a divine hint of crunch. In my defense, those buses are habit forming.

Am I to apoligize for eating my half-brother Ronan? Do not judge me, sir, lest you yourself be judged.

Am I to apologize for the impalement of the code enforcement officers, deliverymen, process servers, Mormons, political candidates, direction seekers and flan sellers who found their way to my doorstep? I think not. Impalement is my cultual imperative. It has been widely practiced for centuries on the grounds of my various castles, chalets and yurts. My privacy is precious to me.

Am I to apologize for the destruction of Allentown? Don't hold your breath. Others were involved, Ronan/Cuchulainn, The Armada, Santa Claus, Gabriel and, most importantly, St. Michael the So-Called Archangel to name but a few. There is blame a'plenty to share and I'll accept none of it.

Lastly, sir, let me say this. I am the injured party in these matters. I have been wronged and I will most assuredly claim my retribution. No one, and let me be perfectly clear in this, no one calls Marge poopyhead.

In fact, sir, when I am through killing the dubious St. Michael the So-Called Archangel, an important task from which you are distracting me at this very moment and for which you shall pay dearly, I intend to reoccupy your premises and impale you at the top of the PPL Tower. You shall watch as I feed your wretched cats to my wolverines. You shall be dismembered and become food for peregrine falcons -- if they will have you, which I doubt. Any parts of you that remain will be squashed like insects and reimpaled on tiny skewers and fed to fire ants, which I intend to import in vast quantities. I will hunt down your associates and impale them as well. I will feed them to the crows, which I will then make extinct, after roasting their leaders on my rotisserie and enjoying them for lunch with an iced bottle of pino grigio. Those associates of yours who are already ghosts will be dispatched to hell by my recent associate, Mr. Sam Zell. I am told coach Tom Landry has a position open on his team there for Mr. Player.

I will continue to destroy Allentown until not a brick is left standing. I will also use your Secret Room to convey myself into the past where I will destroy Allentown again and again, impaling, eating, crushing and microwaving as I go, provided, of course, the microwave will function in the past. I may need an extension cord; I shall make a note of that. When destroying the past becomes tiresome I will travel to Parallel Time and destroy it as well.

That, sir, is my apology.

Sincerely,

Marge

Thursday, September 17, 2009

Détente in blog war?????

I have been asked by a client to post the following correspondence:


As I embark on what I fear will be a fateful journey into Parallel Time, I would like to make amends to those whom I may have hurt in my previous life.

Specifically, Marge.


It cannot be denied that Marge has committed some questionable acts over the past year or so, eating or impaling many innocent people and destroying Allentown among them. But in the interest of peace I am willing to put all of that aside, offer an olive branch and begin anew.

This blog war between Marge and me has gone on for too long. I'm man enough to admit my mistakes and will do anything in my power to end the hostilities that have injured us all -- all of us except for, perhaps, Marge. This needless fighting has taken a great toll and it is time for it to stop. I can see that now.

In that spirit I would like to apologize to Marge for banning her from this blog and for calling her a poopyhead. There, I've said it! I've been liberated from the chains of animosity!

I sincerely hope Marge will accept this apology and forgive me. Also, I hope she doesn't kill me, or eat me, or impale me. Or crush me like an insect. Or poison me, leave me for dead, steal my house or put my cats in the microwave again.

Sincerely,

Atown-Liker