Frog Applause by Teresa Burritt for August 22, 2023

Stick’s

I love you

Thanks for this day.

Hope I make it the next few moment’s though.

It’s all in the wrist.

I think you love steak knives more… but that’s just me

A dam Thing appeared incognito as family members got their member off the PG level in neutral and thing gave us escasy. Norman Bates, and Donovan, Gomez, and Jack ’n Jill.

I don’t think that’s love. I think that’s a foot of dull steel.

…do I love you?…

…I’ll take a stab at it…

…true story…

…one night the neighbors across the street were yelling at each other…

…she was yelling at him to leave…

…he was holding up his arm…

…blood was running down it…

…he was yelling…

…. I BLEED FOR YOU!!! I BLEED FOR YOU!!! …

…aah, kids…

The first cut is the deepest…

The surgery to place a permanent slit in his arm was expensive, and also a lot of trouble. But it was worth it to see the look on her face.

Reminiscent of a bumper sticker c. 1971:

If you don’t ♥ Dixie get your (kicking donkey) out

Thanks for coming right to the point….I really don’t appreciate the fact that you want to draw blood to prove your love but if that’s what compels you, do so!

stickers

This is why Rodney was banned from keeping sharp objects around the house. He was always trying to stick something somewhere where it didn’t belong.

Wait, is that a novelty item, like a joke arrow you put on your head?

(I don’t mean to spoil it for anyone.)

Why is no one worried about the leg?

Following the “Searching for Maura” piece on the Blog, and the ghastly and misguided mutilation of corpses by the Smithsonian, I highly recommend Paul Harding’s latest novel, “This Other Eden.” It deals with the true story of Apple Island, which the Maine authorities simply cleared of inhabitants (because as the descendants of a former slave and an Irish woman) they were considered mixed race and therefore undesirable. Some were undesirable enough for Maine to arrest and commit them to institutions for the “feeble minded” and “sexually immoral.” This was all done in 1911-1912, during the heyday of the eugenics movement.

The book has been longlisted for the very prestigious Booker prize for 2023. Harding already won the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for “Tinkers.”

https://wwnorton.Com/books/9781324036296

That’s nice! But let’s just put the steak knife down for a bit, shall we?

for “love”. is that why self-mutilators do it?

I love you so much it hurts!

Mutilation, mutilation

Is makin’ me late for

Your anticipation …!

( and tomorrow we might not be together )

… too macabre …?

Like The Bloggess would say, “Feeling a little stabby today…”

So, this wicked, warped wench puts a kitchen knife through her forearm and into her thigh as a way of expressing her love for us?! I can only accept this as a metaphor for Sister’s love of her loyal Froglandians, since it would simply not do for a working cartoon artist to impale her necessary extremities and impede the skill set used to such enigmatic output as seen here by the fortunate….

♫ When you’re a Jet, you’re a Jet all the way! ♪ ♪

Meh, not impressed.