Mental illness is common among shrubberies these days; the stress of living among humans has become too much for them.
28.4.22
Weather Forecast: Sunny with occasional flards (flowers mixed with shards of glass), clearing by noon.
But the cat came back the very next day
The cat came back, they thought he was a goner
But the cat came back, it just couldn't stay away
Away, away....
--Miller
27.4.22
Sketch: Hospital Corridor
Rough sketch (2B pencil stub, cheap notebook) Standing room only, cots lined up all the way to the door, general air of misery. Charles Dickens would recognize it instantly.
25.4.22
The Curse of the Maladroit Penguin 14
(Scientists) discovered the (parasitic love) vine was actually penetrating the wall of the wasp's growing chamber...sucking out nutrients and leaving behind a mummified corpse.
--science.org
And where was gunwhale, there was now vine-trunk,
and tenthril where cordage had been,
grape-leaves on the rowlocks,
Heavy vine on the oarshafts,
And, out of nothing, a breathing....
--Ezra Pound, Canto II
24.4.22
23.4.22
The Curse of the Maladroit Penguin 13
O Knights of Ni, we have brought you your shrubbery. May we go now?
--King Arthur in Monty Python and the Holy Grail, scene 18, after the knights who say "Ni" have demanded a shrubbery.
22.4.22
Queen of all She Surveys
There was a princess long ago,
Long, long ago.
And she lived in a big high tower....
--nursery rhyme
21.4.22
The Curse of the Maladroit Penguin 12
The thing about doors, whether magical or not, is you can never be sure you will be the same person on the far side of the door.
The Dark Side of the Easter Bunny
Eggzilla vs the Beaters. No eggs were harmed during the cracking of this yolk.
20.4.22
The Curse of the Maladroit Penguin 11
According to Wikipedia, the popular character, Igor, originated with the first Frankenstein film in 1931, although he was called Fritz in this film. Fritz was a composite based on a character in the play Presumption, or, the Fate of Frankenstein, in which he was played by Robert Keeley. Mary Shelley's Dr. Frankenstein did not have a lab assistant and knew nothing of any Igors, or Eyegors, or Marty Feldmans.
The Igor in this comic, and in many other stories and half-finished novels by yours truly, is Polydoor, one of my imaginary companions (I have many, but not one of them will give me any money, or smite my enemies, so what good are they!)
19.4.22
The Curse of the maladroit Penguin 10
'It is very unfair the way we Spiders are treated,' Miss Spider went on. 'Why only last week your own horrible Aunt Sponge flushed my poor dear father down the plug-hole in the bathtub.'
--Roald Dahl
Duck Soup
There was a last-minute reprieve when the duck said, quoting a line by Clint Duckwood: "If you eat me, you won't see a cent of that money."
18.4.22
17.4.22
May the Chocolate Be With You! (Chapter XXIV)
In the beginning there was nothing, which exploded.
--Terry Pratchett
13.4.22
The Curse of the Maladroit Penguin 8
....but the presence of evil, which makes a thing evil, takes away the desire and friendship of the good; for that which was once good and evil has now become evil only....
--Plato
This explains hard plastic bubble wrap.
12.4.22
The Curse of the Maladroit Penguin 7
You gotta put down the duckie (put down the duckie)
Put down the duckie (put down the duckie)
Put down the duckie yeah, you gotta leave the duckie alone....
11.4.22
The Curse of the Maladroit Penguin 6
Femme fatales exist among all creatures, including ducks, wombats, platypuses and warthogs.
9.4.22
A Quest for Honey Goes Horribly Wrong
The wise crow knows that not everything in this world is peckable.
8.4.22
New Notebook
Starting a new notebook the only way I know how, by jumping in pencil-first and thinking later.
5.4.22
Origami Magic
"...we introduce a multi-fold universe Umf where non-locality is achieved by locality."
--Stéphane H. Maes, "Quantum Gravity Emergence From Entanglement in a Multi-Fold Universe."
"Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast."
--Lewis Caroll
"Perceptions come from the inside out just as much, if not more, from the outside in."
--Anil Seth
"Big, exciting changes are afoot."
--The New York Times
"Are we there yet, Daddy?"
--Anonymous
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