Katie sat in the waiting room with a cat, a nurse, Spongebob, and the Kool-Aid Man. There must be an unwritten rule for old buildings that all waiting rooms have fluorescent lighting and one has to constantly flicker. Leaning back in her chair, she listened to music in her headphones […]
Murder Basement Makeover
Chuck (Host): Hey y’all, I’m Chuck Dixon and we’re about to surprise Trevor with the basement makeover of his dreams. Trevor reached out to us six months ago letting us know he was in dire need of our help. Let’s take a quick look. Submission video: Hi, my name is […]
Daddy’s Little Girl
“Mom and dad, I wanna invite my friends over for a sleepover.”“I love this idea,” exclaimed the girl’s father.”“No, you have to stay away!”“What do you mean? I’m the king of sleepovers!”“It’s not that kind of sleepover, GOD! …Mom, please don’t let him ruin this!” Susan gently patted Fred’s left […]
I am Jack’s Spinach and Artichoke Dip
I took a neuropsychology test the other day that consisted of over 500 questions. One question was something like, “Do you eat differently in public than when you’re at home?” I answered yes. It wasn’t until a couple of hours later at lunch that it hit me what they were […]
I’d Buy a Car from Tom Waits
Why is it that some car salesmen have voices that sound like they were smacked in the throat by a 2×4? The commercials are unmistakable. Even if they didn’t talk about cars in the first part of the commercial, you would know by just hearing the voice that the guy […]
If You…Can…Believe It…
Not long after the pandemic started, my husband and I started watching David Lynch’s daily weather report on YouTube. He lives in L.A. we don’t, but it isn’t about the weather in L.A. it’s about David Lynch. We also folded his project videos in when he would release one of […]
The Candyman isn’t Wiggida Wack
The other night I had a dream I was driving and suddenly the Candyman was in my passenger seat. Now there was a lack of bees, so it could have been the actor and not the character, but in the dream I was thinking that it was the Candyman, which […]
Putting the Amp in Stamps
I have purchased stamps a few times from the USPS website, so now I guess I’m subscribed to their magazine, Philatelic. It’s a quarterly publication for stamp collectors. I suppose I understand why. On the USPS site I got stamps for our wedding, I ordered some awesome Star Trek ones […]
City of Cages
My husband’s favorite movie is Wings of Desire. Upon hearing I hadn’t seen it, he was looking forward to sharing it with me. It is a beautiful German movie about an angel who falls in love with a woman who is human. The angel longs to be able to touch […]
Hey, Yusuf, You Wanna Have a Catch?
For Christmas, my husband gave me the Yusuf album, Tea for the Tillerman2. If you’re not familiar, it is a full-length cover version of Yusuf’s own 1970 album Tea for the Tillerman, written and recorded when he was known as Cat Stevens. I specifically want to talk about the song, […]