Frog Applause by Teresa Burritt for November 26, 2023

Word salad Annie, gator got your granny.

Chatty pair of picket fence posts aren’t they.

Gotta love the “fans”.

Then the White Owl would call her name and smoke a cigar to celebrate. Creepy!

I wish I had a nemesis.

I won’t stop reading until she achieves a “mortally lame” F.A.

Frog Applause is the perfect complement to two other similar strips, Amphibian Clapping and Toad Ovation.

I’m here for the duration.

nemesis?

Teresa. Naughty. Fishing for compliments again. Well, okay: You do help a few dozen people per day flex snark or even wax poetic wit, clever nuance, suppressed conceit, masqueraded narcissism.

O well. Some chores are enjoyable if you “whistle while you work!”

I have a ‘fan’ like that, too.

…I don’t like to know how they make the sausage…

…I don’t want to hear a rock star saying that he knows that the fans love hearing a certain song, but he hates it…

… he hates playing it…

…he’s sick of it…

…Journey was once famously asked if they ever think of changing things up…

…nah, they stated…

…our fans wouldn’t like it…

…oh joy…

…Faithfully pt. II & III & IV…

…I know…

…I know…

…I know…

…what a hypocrite I am…

…hate them if they hate playing their hits…

…hate them if that’s all they will play…

…I told you…

…I don’t want to know how the sausage is made…

…but I do…

…that’s why I use Bathmat Factory gummies…

…and hit my head my head against wall…

…and read Frog Applause multiple times…

…daily…

Teresa! I have to tell you what my mother always told me ….

“Well, kid, you’ll either make it, or you won’t” …!

( so right )

I’ve only just picked this up as a regular, revered from Amanda

Why not both? Just great. And as lame as ever. Thanks, Teresa.

I’d like to say, ‘let the jejuxe juntapositions begin!’ but I am never early enough.

If we get more Meta, are we eventually going to create some sort of creative black hole from which none shall escape? I’m working on a Sunday cartoon now… maybe that’s my theme.

Right itself? Like an overturned turtle, legs akimbo? Maybe all it really wants is a belly rub.

“Stultiloquy for Two,” by Ezra Pound.

Counterpoint: “Overlamification” is the cocoon stage that will eventually explode in a blinding paroxysm of Megalamification indistinguishable from true genius.

Worst … word balloon arrows … ever.

The laminar topography combined with its soft fuzzy texture makes FA an infinitely renewable tactile and gustatory delight.

Hoo boy

Nice, good ol’ Jejune having seen that word in awhile…nor insipid.

Also funny, was in a thread a couple of days ago where the commenter was complaining in a GC comment section about not having time to read a mere 1000 word antidote referring to it as a dissertation. Interestingly apropos.

So painfully lame it walks with a limp. With both legs. Uphill both ways. In the snow.

Glad I didn’t read this one.

Today’s back-fence gossip finds us wallowing in self-deprecation, plus in the end a slap to the face to jolt us awake. I imagine Sister chucking to herself as she reads the comments and evaluates the Truthiness of our responses and the psychological status quo they imply.

Have caution in what you say and how you say it. Not too lame, but not too bold, either. There used to be a Happy Medium (a Chicago theatre I’d attended https://tinyurl.Com/33hnut43)….

It’s deluded to think that art can be “low” or “high”. Art doesn’t have altitude, it only has perspective.