Is there a Friday Filler today? I need one. Is this one? Have I done it? Could it be?
Dr. Malasarn,
I came to the Lab and there was filler all over the floor. Have you been getting up to hijinks again?
-Mr. Bailey
Mr. Malasarn & Mr. Bailey,
We really should be judging our Notes From Underground entries... This is a good filler post so we can go focus on all that awesome writing. :)
--Glam
Co-authors,
Oh, that's right. We're working. I forgot. It's hard to tell sometimes, because sometimes working looks so much like sitting at my computer and blog-snooping. But, I must remind myself that this is all leading to the publication of fellow writers and a charitable donation.
-Doolittle Dee (my childhood monkey doll with the velcro hands)
That's right, I can even fill my own Friday Filler. What power I have.
ReplyDeleteLook...a duck!
ReplyDelete(I don't know where it came from, don't ask me, I am who I am.)
~bru
I'm like a deflated balloon today, and I can only be filled by the helium of random thoughts.
ReplyDeleteNo, I'm not on drugs.
How are you feeling, Bru?
ReplyDeleteYou're not on dogs?
ReplyDeleteThought of forming a comedy team? Too seriously funny.
ReplyDeleteYat-Yee, yes, Michelle, Scott and I are going into stand up comedy. This probably comes as no surprise. With my cannibal story and Scott's Shakespeare-based tragedies, all the signs were pointing in the same direction. Now that Lady Glam has even managed to drain the happiness out of Disney, we feel fully prepared to hit the stage. Get ready for some yuks!
ReplyDeleteWhat will the name of this comedy team be? I hope I don't have to carry around a tambourine.
ReplyDeleteThe Aristocrats!
ReplyDeleteYa'll sound like me after too many jelly belly's.
ReplyDeleteIt has been a pretty terrible and terrific week for me. Good things and bad things happening, and I think I'm feeling quite strange. My brain doesn't know how to function in this state.
ReplyDeleteI need to write a book based on Anna Karenina but more tragic. Then I'll fit in more. I need to fit in, like a deflated helium balloon tucked into the tiny pocket of a childhood monkey doll with velcro hands.
ReplyDeleteRobyn, now I want jelly belly's!!!
ReplyDeleteScott, that name fits, strangely enough.
Davin, that monkey doll scares me. Monkey dolls make me think of clowns. I don't like clowns. Can we choose a hippo or something?
I haven't had jelly belly's in a long time. They've been coming up around me lately, so I think I'm being told to eat some. I'd rather be good and healthy, but the universe is pointing the way.
ReplyDeleteWinco. Bins. Jelly Bellies. I'm there.
ReplyDeleteSorry, Michelle, but that thing around my neck was a monkey. I'm sure of it. I didn't do any DNA testing or anything, but it was a monkey. The hippo comes up in a story of mine though!
ReplyDeleteBins? Bins??? Like big enough to dive into???
ReplyDeleteNo, not that big, but it's a paradise, I'm telling you.
ReplyDeleteI'll pretend it was a hippo.
Dear Literary Lab,
ReplyDeleteThank you for your submission to the Friday Filler. Unfortunately, it does not suit our needs at this time. We wish you luck in your future filling efforts!
Sincerely,
Y.A. Duck
Mizmak, that just made my day. Hah!
ReplyDelete*eats some Skittles - the closest to Jelly Belly's I've got*
and somehow the rejection letter still hurts me just the tiniest bit. What's up with that? I need to burn more effigies.
ReplyDeleteI took Clortrimiton allergy medication once and hallucinated so badly I thought I was being attacked my owls and I went and hid under the bed sheets.
ReplyDeleteFor some reason Rose doesn't like me take Clortrimiton anymore.
Relevance is overrated.
ReplyDeleteMizmak, we shake our collective fist at you for rejecting our filler! We become apopleptic! We...we...settle down and have sugary snacks. And then realize we're all still at work. Damn.
ReplyDeleteNevets: Novus ordo venet!
ReplyDeleteScott, eat your sugar. These rejections do not affect us...
ReplyDeleteEels!
ReplyDeleteTolstoy!
Cheesecake!
Hmmmm... Despite it being 3:00 in the morning where I am and the large dose of cold medicine I took in an attempt to knock myself out, I feel I'm still not measuring up to the standard of randomness that's been set here today.
Sigh.
I like dogs.
Scott, Ha-us, ha-um, ha-bere!
ReplyDeleteWe need power rings! All writers need power rings that glow whenever we are being attacked by rejection in any form. That's my goal for the year. Writer power rings. WPRs. That sounds a lot easier than projecting a rainbow out of my chest Carebear-style.
ReplyDeleteNevets, as a joke, I think you should Clortrimiton.
We love random. We eat it for breakfast. We should forget those posts where we try to sound smart. This is much more fun.
ReplyDelete*pats Becca on the head*
Please try and sleep.
Glass Dragon, the dog-flavored cheesecake is pretty random to me.
ReplyDeleteGlass Dragon: Eels! Yes!
ReplyDeleteNevets: Habetis bona deum!
ReplyDeleteYou should all try the cheese-flavored eelcake. Dogs love it.
Set writer power rings to "show, don't tell!"
Scott and Nevets, will you please stop speaking Harry Potter-ese? I haven't read all of the books.
ReplyDeleteHenshi yo! RAITA POWA RINGU OOOONNNN!
ReplyDeleteWho's Harry Potter? Is he literary fiction, or some Thai writer I don't know?
ReplyDeleteHarry Potter is a nerdy grad student who TA's for Domey.
ReplyDeleteI don't know what y'all are taking, but . . . can you pass some my way!!!
ReplyDeleteWhy don't they let you buy bags of only grape Skittles? Or cherry Starbursts?
ReplyDeleteCould a duck chew a Starburst? Why can't I chew Starbursts right now? *sniff*
Domey- thank you for asking--I'm much better than I was, still a long ways to go. Hopefully there will be no more setbacks!
Mizmak: LOL! Way to work in the duck...
I wish I could post a picture here in comments- I've crocheted a duck or two in my day and I can't think of a better place for a picture of one.
So tell me, why do they always put toxic smelling lawn food down in our complex the week there's no rain in the forecast?
If we fill Domey with the helium of random thoughts, will his voice get higher?
~bru
Please tell me I did not come in here and kill all that awesome randomness going on.
ReplyDeleteMaybe you guys finally had to get back to work? Meh. I missed the best bits. This is one of my favorite series of comments, anywhere, ever.
...and Michelle- Hope the weekend is so good it makes up for the rough parts of the week for you!
~bru
Oh, Bru, thank you! You didn't kill anything, I promise. There was seriously nothing to kill here, hah!
ReplyDeleteBelieve it or not, Domey has a higher voice than I thought. He has a really nice reading voice. I wish he'd post up one of his voice excerpts here from Rooster. :)
Davin's at lunch and I had to clean my house and I'm sure Scott is sleeping at his desk. ;)
Q. Why did the durian cross the road?
ReplyDeleteA. To try and get away from its own stink.
Nevets, did you make that one up yourself? It kind of seems like you did.
ReplyDeleteBru, No, you didn't kill anything. If you want us to post the picture, you can send it to me and I'll put it up!
Domey, ouch! lol
ReplyDeleteYeah, well, okay, so it wasn't that great. Bru wanted random. It was at least that.
The thing is, Nevets, my comment could have been an insult or a compliment!
ReplyDeleteExcept that I've written enough comedy to know when a joke works, and that one, while (I maintain) funny in principle did not snap correctly.
ReplyDeleteSo my reader response to your words to was to take them in the sense that I would have meant them.
Maybe the joke would have worked better if I had taken some Clortrimiton first.
"Maybe the joke would have worked better if I had taken some Clortrimiton first."
ReplyDeleteI think this is a good rule in general. I love owls.
Owls!
ReplyDeleteRose: It's friday night; what do you want to do?
ReplyDeleteMe: Well, the internet has spoken in favor of owls, so I thought maybe I would pop a few Clortrimiton and then just see what happens.
Rose: Or I could pop you in the mouth a couple times.
Me: Writer Power Ring Oooooonnn!
Ha ha! Perfect.
ReplyDeleteDomey: "I need to write a book based on Anna Karenina but more tragic."
ReplyDeleteAdd cannibals.
@ Nevets. I found the durian joke very funny. At least, I laughed a long time. Partly, I admit, that's because it reminded me of the time my friends and I were riding in a taxi that stank so badly we forced the driver to stop and open the trunk to prove he didn't have a dead body in there. It was durians.
Oh, one more thing about Anna K. Don't add eels! Because that would make it a comedy of eels.
ReplyDeleteTara Maya, Where was the taxi?
ReplyDeleteAnd, I'll start working on Anna Canneninbal.
With epics, there would be A LOT of eating.
ReplyDeleteDear Literary Lab,
ReplyDeleteA horrible mistake was made by a clueless underling in rejecting your Friday Filler. We apologize for any resulting feelings of inadequacy, as well as any overuse of power rings. We have punished the guilty by feeding her durian laced with Chlortrimeton, with a side of eels.
Sincerely,
Harry Potter
P.S. The Owls Are Not What They Seem.
Jakarta.
ReplyDeleteHow exotic!
ReplyDeleteMizmak, this is the power of the ring.
ReplyDeleteMizmak sweeps in from out of nowhere for the win.
ReplyDeleteAh, Scott, I see you woke up! :)
ReplyDeleteMorning, Scott! Time to go to work!
ReplyDeleteHh? Wzzat? Morning already? Where is everyone? Why's a Russian-speaking durian chewing on my ankle?
ReplyDeleteThis has all been a dream. Me, Michelle, the writing, all of it. You're actually still Rocker Scott.
ReplyDeleteSay, when do I get to hear you rocking???
I like this dream. I think I'll stay here...
ReplyDeleteDomicile: I'll email you something this weekend. Hey, I have tattoos! When did that happen?
ReplyDeleteLooks like the reality is better than the dream, eh Mr. Bailey?
ReplyDeleteI hope at least one of the tattoos is a bear with a Latin motto.
ReplyDeleteI hope at least one of the tattoos is a bear with a Latin motto.
ReplyDeletewow. what more can I say?
ReplyDeleteNevets: Ohhh, that would be so awesomely cool! I may do it.
ReplyDelete