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I’m DOA

As head of the United States Department of Attention, I’ve advised the President to eat a monkey at center ice during a New York Rangers game in Madison Square Garden.

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best served on ice

But the President is hesitating. Sometimes he can be such a big baby.

“What about those PETA people?” he asked.

“No,” I said. “That’s going too far. Just stick to monkeys for now.”

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What can you do? The President is such a wallflower. What’s it called, a wilting lily? He complains that nobody ever pays attention to him because he’s so socially discreet and withdrawn.

But when you hit him with a masterly proposal to enter a professional hockey game in mid-rush, stark naked except for buckle boots, fork in hand, swinging a live monkey over his head by its tail, he demurs.

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Harriet, head of DOA, curating classified documents for a weekend Tupperware Party

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I Got the Bowling Concession in Greenland!

I wanted the golf franchise, but that was already taken. It took a lot of arm twisting, but I got the bowling one.

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Picture this: every square inch of Greenland paved with black asphalt, with a Bowl-O’-Rama every 2 miles in every direction. Blanket coverage. Only Walmart and KFC will come close.

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my work has begun

You’ve heard of Eco-Tourism? Well, this is sort of the opposite of that. We expect shiploads of tourists to descend upon The Nutmeg State, or whatever we decide to call it, and erupt into an orgy of Endurance Bowling, 24/7.

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eager bowling addicts with lots of money and noroviruses

We need all that asphalt because it has been brought to our attention that bowlers tend to have knobby bodies and need to be able to park near the lanes. We’ll supply all the tools of bowling – the balls, the bags, the shoes, the mixed drinks, the defibrillators, the hernia meshes. You supply the money.

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blue balls in Greenland

And if you discover any rare earth minerals while here, drop them off at the door as you leave. They’re ours!

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Will Okra Sue?

One of the major seed companies has left okra out of its print catalog. In the table of contents, it says to go online if you want okra.

Will Big Okra sue the seed company?

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abused okra

Will the United Okra Breeders Association of North Carolina sue to get its lifeblood back into print and on equal footing with those glamour queens, the tomatoes and melons?

Will the Okra Front barricade highways? Will the Okra Patch Weeders Union Local #3 go on strike until ink hits page again and justice is served?

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badly strung-out okra

Will the mainstream media even cover okra’s exclusion? Will New Orleans soupmakers join the fray?

Will the entire okra growing industry shrink as okra, already sinking in the polls and dying in popularity, is no longer seen and talked about?

And what can be done besides legal action? Can the president sign an Executive Order mandating equal rights for okra, salsify, turnips, and other unjustly hidden vegetables?

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In the meantime, we all suffer under Tomato Supremacy.

You can’t avoid them. In catalogs, in subs, slathered on pizzas, in this salad and that salad, stuffed in the middle of a bologna sandwich, and even in squeezeable plastic bottles as a condiment.

We will not rest until there is squeezy okra in bottles, too!

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