Things That Are Awesome: Iteration XVI.

June 26th, 2024

Onward and over another clump of base five.

-Skeleton key lime pie

-Tremendous quantities of rocks with trees on them.

            -Especially if there’s water next to them.

            -And some moss and lichen sprinkled on top.

-Tenacious mollusks with colourful costumes, simple codenames, and a multimedia franchise, most likely in the 1990s.

-Trees with too many roots.

-Trees with too many branches.

-Trees with too many leaves.

-Trees that are just too much.

-Numb skulls.

-That vexed little squawk cats make when they’re feeling peevish.

-A couple of chums on a shark tour chumming the water.

-Benevolent squid.

-Mixed, matched, and scrambled metaphors.

-Extremely dead ecosystems and ecologies.

-Extremely undead ecosystems and ecologies.

-Cloning dinosaurs upside-down

-Dogs that borf rather than bark.

-Careful, diligent, and gentle bulls in china shops with nice wide aisles free of obstruction.

-Ancient tablets documenting timeless idiocies.

-Grumbling grubs.

-Things that shouldn’t be on a pizza that shouldn’t make it taste good but are and do nonetheless.

-Unseasonal ice.

-Societies devoid of anthropomorphism.

-Music made with water, by water, for water, of water.

-A mystical pitchfork within a haystack that shall make whomsoever draws it forth the rightful farmhand of all the field.

-Crunchy, crispy, and crackly food.

-A very large lunch, somewhat delayed.

-Pliosaurid plesiosaurs.

-Big sandwiches that don’t fall apart in your hands but look like they should.

-The true treasure being friendship but also something else because why not.

-Mangling mandibles.

-Wealth in the form of substances utterly and intrinsically useless whose production is harmless and without victims.

-Also, magical dragons that live under your pillow.

-A pinch of this and a dash of that.

-All-natural sassafras extract used to provide crucial sass supplements for malnourished teens.

-Oone moore o.

-Dessert islands, particularly jellied ones.

-Reptile pets, friends, and family members.

-Seeing seesaw blades.

-Treasure cauldrons.

-Entirely arbitrary scales.

-Caroming off of things.

– Deliberate, premeditated vagueness in recipes.

-The contents of indescribably ancient lagoons.

-For sale: baby shoes, worn until they were outgrown it happened really fast those suckers get big quickly don’t they boy howdy.

-Scrabbling and scrambling for height, as long as it’s purely recreational.

-Roving islands. Methods include: giant turtles, hidden engines, big sails, spontaneous dematerialization, hallucination all along, and pure wilfulness.

-Nonsteel wools such as bronze, aluminium, and sheep.

-Extensive historical simulations concerning the long-term struggles, triumphs, and eventual downfall of societies inhabiting large banks of snow in the front yard.

-Any fruit that needs to be roasted for consumption.

-Driftwood construction.

-Tactical tic tac toe and its oft neglected but equally vital companions, strategic tic tac toe and logistical tic tac toe.

-Municipal battleships.

-Mayn’taise.

-Soft fuzzy cat bellies, as long as they are not touched and thereby induced to Claw.

-Looming.

-Corvids rubbernecking at the groundbound.

-A phone home that contains a home phone that is used to phone home.

-Spiteful children of any species.

-Socks on legs that do not need them, e.g. cats, elephants, tables, pianos, etc.

-Anything lacking visible external ears.

-Animals that fly that shouldn’t.

-Ongoing geological processes that produce delicious edible substances.

-Blinking.

-Any tub that is not a bath.

-Social species that reject monarchy.

-Fishing chips.

-Any form of fictitious technology involving the physical incorporation of very very large organisms.

-Vampires that weren’t human, don’t look human, and never will appear human.

-Constructing a diorama and taking a photograph of it and successfully, fraudulently presenting it as the original subject.

-Unbelievably small force wielded with indiscriminate lack of skill.

-Bays, valleys, fjords, calderas, coves, lagoons….just about any geographic phenomenon where something intrudes into something else, especially where it’s round.

-Light bulbs that work more like garlic bulbs.

-The history of earth’s continents being them playing bumper cars over and over.

-Running in big ol’ circles for no reason than to do so.

-An inordinate fondness for beetles.

-Brightly-coloured and eye-catching plant displays that are absolutely not flowers.

-Seeing seagulls.

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