2013 out

tikkun olam

applying our ability to repair the world

Cosmo Quirkle

Webley Vickers

Composite maker of the 50:80 machine-pistol 

that went ta-pocketa, ta-pocketa.

death warmed over

how I feel right now

Hanno the Great

There were actually three Hannos the Great in Carthage.  None were too great, but he was the first and the least.  This bust was commissioned shortly following his death by torture.

cel fragment

Said to be of one 'Buttery Ben.' 

No studio specified.

gruncht

improperly packaged grunch

diplosive occlusion

doom assumer

Katherine

Robert

emblem of odium

Kept under the lapel until a hole is burned.

sock puppet 2

Rash Nignew

fraddle hob

a tricky little devil

hobkeep

knows all its fraddly tricks

Jack Gurney

The 14th Earl of Gurney prepares to enter the House of Lords.

for Peter O'Toole (1932 - 2013)

NY Times obit

The Ruling Class

(originally posted 12/4/09)

affluential

affluenza:  a fictitious affliction.

affluential:  the ability to have one's wealth free one from the social contract.

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hot trodder

n.  One in pursuit of moss troopers and reavers.

- Century Dictionary & Encyclopedia, 1911 ed.

Aldi

eccentric, self-inflating Moor

mechaplasty

Kaili

Goddess demanding sacrifice of Help!-less ringed virgin.

Boy Inventor

Boy Inventor Demonstrates Perception 

Through Hole in the Fabric 

of the Space–Time Continuum

next year's model

Moofy Petard

President, Spardly Gargle Inc.

begunker

n.  jilter or balker

- Century Dictionary & Encyclopedia, 1911 ed.

bejaper

n.  tricker or mocker

- Century Dictionary & Encyclopedia, 1911 ed.

athwart

Robbie Kohl

He's often mistaken for a Brussels Sprite.

must be the place

"Home is where I want to be, 

but I guess I'm already there."

Fromut Trizowl

Do not expose to open air.

synaptic inversion

Manifestation of disturbance. 

May require occluded frontal lobotomy.

alruan

Carve the root with great care, for the spirit that matures 

takes your own shape or that which you fear.

brusque off

cockeyed optometrist

Damocles

A Camelot sword suspended by a horsehair.  No thanks.

Babongo bubinga mask

wreaker

The homes he's wrecked, the havoc he's wrought..

despair

Olla Podrida

tyromancer

divines by means of reading cheese curds

A. Audie d'Estayne

thirl

v.  to pierce, quiver, tingle or thrall

- Century Dictionary & Encyclopedia, 1911 ed.

private joke

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