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| Ed relaxes in Treehouse Of Blessed Forgetfulness, yestiddy |
This interview was conducted via the latest T.C.S®. [tin can and string - Ed.] technology connecting surfside H.Q. and T.B.F.®.
FT3: (U-Tube unboxing video voice) Hey guys! Wassup!
Ed: Haw! You know this piece is going to get zero hits, Farq?
FT3: Tell the Four Or Five Guys© about the T.B.F.®.
Ed: Had to deforest half the island to build it!
FT3: Wasn't he Bones in Star Trek?
Ed: It's better than that dumpster you made me live in, leastways. I gots everything a guy could want up here ... seltzer ... homogenized salami ... some books ... and a lamp made out of the island's only surviving Pin-Toed Flamingo.
FT3: Great to see your concern for ecology made it out here intact, Ed! Say - what's that you're reading?
Ed: [PRODUCT PLACEMENT ADVISORY] Why, it's Helium, Farq, the swellest story what was ever wrote! At once hilarious and heartwarming, Helium is a white-knuckle thrill ride of emotions and feelings! You'll laugh at its snappy one-liners! Cry at the inherent tragedy of man's existential alienation! Throw up -
FT3: (cutting in) What's that I hear spinning on th' treehouse Victrola, Ed?
Ed: It's the blues.
... and we are all of us, in a very real sense, living in the crawlspace of Ed's treehouse, and leave us not forget it.
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Thank you pardner - but you lighten that heart now. Sometimes folks is just plain shy and didn't think they could compliment your learnin' and jokes. Me, I ain't got the fear I recon, I'm just an ol' cow poke, and don't know no better.
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Billy Gates of the Double X' Ranch.
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So that's where the work-repellent went to...
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DeletePrivate Note exclusively AND uniquely for FiveGunsWest:
DeleteI'd like to catch up with you about something. I was
going through some of the older pages and finally
noticed the response you'd posted for me months ago.
So: Thank you very much for that follow-up. If I
failed to reply at the appropriate time, and in the
appropriate location, that was only because I'd
missed the memo to begin with.
Thanks, too, for posting the Ophelias material,
which I'm finding to be quite ambitiously varied.
(It clearly reveals something about my sensibilities
that, while I do enjoy a lot of the originals, the
track which absolutely floors me, ineffably so, is
the version of "Love Is Pleasing.")
By the way, the closest I've ever gotten to Landers,
at least so far, would probably be Sky Village. I
hope to visit those other sites after everybody's
allowed out of the house.
Oops! "Teasing" -- not, of course, "Pleasing."
DeleteSorry, Farq. Been packing and today's moving day. Be back once the move is completed.
ReplyDelete... but ... you're already here!
DeleteYeah, well..... I fought the law, and the law (you know the rest).
DeleteI do now, pmac.
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