Session January 4 2014

http://longstreet.typepad.com/books/2010/12/when-.html

"They demand and receive total obedience."
by PV

Either something was completely awry, or I was witnessing an unprecedented conclave. Someone was minding the kitchen for sure and after that hiatus the maestroes would enter and put the finishing touches on the culinary delights being served in the heart of the bush to the King and Queen in celebration of their gracing the outback with their presence. From their relaxed stances in this photograph it was obvious to us, with regard to the cooks, that they demand and receive total obedience.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1198572/Find-odd-place-lie-face--Is-pointless-internet-craze-yet.html

"She anointed the Cherub and then had second thoughts."
by CC

Valerie had gone out for a walk. The season was turning and it was a little brisk outside, but she never minded the chill. It was the Cherub that had her worried. She thought about the Cherub incessantly. It upset her so much that she had taken to drinking, eating chips and then suspending herself over path markers until she burped. Once she burped, things always seemed so much better. One day she came home and went to the closet where the Cherub lived. It glowered at her from the birdcage in which she kept it. But today was the big day. She took the cage out of the closet, causing the Cherub to rub its eyes and blink. She opened the cage and took it out, setting in on a tufted ottoman. Taking a vial of peppermint oil from a nearby drawer, she anointed the Cherub and then had second thoughts as it suddenly grew 8 feet tall and hit its head on the ceiling, knocking itself out. When it fell, it broke Valerie's favorite lamp.

http://www.iup.edu/page.aspx?id=110230

"She opened the door and found a large praying mantis looking in at her."
By RMAF

The States 1-1-2014. In Colorado, Legalization of Marijuana.
It's bad enough seeing a large praying mantis but after attending a festive celebration of the Merry Weed party, I was not smoking the drug but my fellow pot smokers were blowing it all over the enclosed room. I was a second hand smoker, and that was enough for me. I went into the bathroom to throw up the lousy, greasy marijuana-laced cookies. When I opened the bathroom door, I saw two large praying mantis' dressed up in freaky Dance of the Dead costumes. I screeched in horror "Oh my God! What Pandora's box have the pot-smoking law-passers just opened up for nearly anyone to try?"