“Do dogs dream?”
“Sure they do. See how their legs twitch when they sleep?”
“That doesn’t really tell us anything.”
“I’ve seen a sleeping dog run into a wall. You know what?”
“Hmm?”
“Why do you think it is that animals dream?”
“Assuming they do dream. Probably for the same reasons people do, which isn’t really saying very much.”
“True enough, but [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘conversations’
May 21, 2009
Dialogues Vol. 1: The Stuff of Dreams
March 23, 2008
Instant Messaging
X (9:58:28 PM): E machine.. it s alike FORD…
X (9:58:39 PM): Format Or Die
July 20, 2007
Stubstance
1. A stubby substance: A hot dog has stubstance.
A Crystal Brainfart Production
July 14, 2007
The Geriatric Malcontent
X: Your license and registration please, sir.
X: (sniffs) Sir, what’s that?
Y: My license and registration like you asked, old boy.
X: (gestures) No, what are you doing?
Y: Barely staying alive, son.
X: That’s not what I meant, sir. What are you smoking?
Y: Oh, this? A new fangled cigarette I found in me grandson’s bedroom. Never had a [...]
June 10, 2007
The Balcony Dialogues – his riff
“Daddy…” the tiny child sniffled over Fido’s grave. “Why is Rover still alive? He’s older than Fido, it’s not fair.”
“Who?” Daddy absently responded. He wasn’t sure whether to wait for his wife or call Debbie, that hot widow…
“Danny’s dog.”
“The mutt?”
“Yeah.”
Dad sighed and kneeled, facing the boy. “Fido was a purebred. He didn’t have other breeds [...]
June 10, 2007
The Balcony Dialogues
In the dappled sunlight, as a chaser to a convulted conversation, I ask: ‘Funny how mongrels are usually healthier than purebreds?’
He looks at me through his aviator shades and says seriously, ‘That’s why I want an inter-racial child.’
He smirks, an embryonic grin in the works.
