Morning Constitutional 04/12/11

Tragedy has struck again in St Clair Shores as the Central District Dairy Queen has burned to the ground. Authorities are not certain what caused the fire, though they've ruled out sabotage.

Due to the explosive nature of the Pineapple Syrup, trawlers reported the fireball could be seen miles from shore. No employees were hurt but the store parakeet, Sandy, perished in her cage next to the Dilly Bar machine. The many Little League and junior Field Hockey teams the store served have been dividing up amongst the town's other 18 ice cream stands and hot pretzel carts.

Not the best start to the season.

Nightcap 04/11/11

Three days now since we stopped for souvenir hats and lighter fluid at that place near where the river ran dry. I gave the guy at the counter all of my Canadian coins and he didn’t object to their use of wildlife imagery. Even placed three of their little-too-shiny pennies in his mouth and swallowed. Or at least gulped real hard. The hat came with an extra sweatband in a plastic bag. He pointed it out to me, rolled up behind the rim or else I would’ve missed it. He did so without making a sound. Even fresh, a sweatband from down south is slightly yellow under the Yankee sun. Still, I forgive him. He had a nice little shop with plenty of alligator cartoons on the walls and no loose children to make you feel guilty about taking up the government’s offer of free...

What is the state of Felt Puppetry?

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Morning Constitutional 04/08/11

Top Hats, although we here on Earth are done with them, continue to travel ever-deeper through outer space. Gathering speed by the second, the hats never lose their stature. They remain as grand today as they were 80 years ago. Although to us these Top Hats are a head gear of a time long past, it is we, living in 21st Century America, who are ancient to them. As Einstein demonstrated, when Top Hats race away from the earth they actually travel further and further into the future. Had they the desire to return to this planet, these Top Hats would find a scarred, barren wasteland of Topiary sculpture and mangled wire shopping carts and no brow they could call human upon which to rest. Even now Scientists predict some of the first Top Hats are reaching the outer edges of the galaxy, making...