Frog Applause by Teresa Burritt for July 05, 2021

I have an idea, I’ll put in a window.

New ideas don’t compute in a black and white world view.

For this tot, everything is new.

Light Bulb, goes on and off if plugged in to an outlet. Electricity….elect ricity and clouds fill the air.

But I’m going to vet them very carefully.

To be perfectly honest, I’m not actually comfortable with the old ideas, just yet.

…my Froglandia Piqua horoscope reading for today…

…bland and noncommittal…

…just the way I like them…

…if it would had said…

…your photos are in the mail…

…or, if it’s free- take two…

…I’d start to worry…

…here’s a new idea…

…have today’s horoscope predict what tomorrow’s horoscope is going to be…

…Tuesday you will be one day away from Wednesday…

…that is the information that I need…

For some reason, my outlook reverts to yesteryear…when things were not so complicated, electronic devices meant turning a lamp on or the 5" tube TV….reading a real book and or a newspaper, personal business was private…..stop the world, I want to get off!

“Aquarius! There’s travel in your future When your tongue freezes to the back of a speeding bus, Fill that void in your pathetic life By playing whack-a-mole 17 hours a day… That’s your horoscope for today!” (Weird Al)

If there were any such thing as a new idea, it might.

sigh I forget them before I can write them down.

OR … A new outlook could improve your idea today …!

Is that half empty OR half full …?

It looks like she wants some lunch.

1 for the ride home..

Spider Man Hood…

Gender Hood

My fortunes are always like that. I’m capable of objective introspection. I know what I need to do to stimulate personal growth. Fortunes are supposed to be fun.

In fact, it was only my good fortune that the christening was held on a Saturday morning, and I still recovering from some celebratory libations the evening prior, that I failed to respond clumsily and embarrassingly when the child was named. There was no way I could have been properly prepared. I had no way of knowing beforehand that “Flappy” was an old family name that had been passed down for generations in the Buttzceecz family.

The middle name of Oudris didn’t help, either.

For those of you who are rubes, I’ll explain what’s going on: Teresa Burritt has financial and ideological ties to Big Idea, i.e., the new ideas industry.

It’s worse than that, she’s dead Jim.

(Uno memento mori, por favor.)

New ideas are few and precious. But there is no correlation between them and my generally skeptical outlook. I can have the most wonderful New Idea and still be a well-nigh professional grouch!

One day, my naive baby, when you have grown up, you will realize the truth of my commentary….

to wish bone or not wish bone

The look on her face is chilling.