Free-association Friday

Unconscious Mutterings is a free-association exercise inspired by Luna Nina, answers by me, Violet, because my brain is flipping like a pancake:

  1. Taking sides:: Games. Red Rover, Red Rover, let Violet come over. Conflict. Teams. Opposition. You sunk my battleship! Curses, foiled again. Foil. Foil. Aluminum foil hat. Psycho-reactive death rays sent by covert Martian operatives living in the apartment building next door. Foil.

  2. Couples:: Doubles. Matched set. Silverware. Sterling service for twelve in the Gorham "Fairfax" pattern. Pickle fork. Lemon fork. Lemon orchard. Daleks. Being chased and abducted by Daleks in the woods. Love.

  3. Right of refusal:: Unobtainable. Distant. Distance. Maps. Remotely viewing underground Martian space stations on other planets. Hypnosis. Brain-waves. Snorkling. Costco.

  4. Marla:: Maples. Trump. Maples-Trump. Maples-yrup. Syrup. Pancakes. Flipping. Flip-flops. Mud flaps. Yosemite Sam. Deep, abiding respect.

  5. Multiple:: Personality. Schizoid. Anthony Perkins. Anthony Burgess. Clockwork Orange. Orange Julius. Julius Erving. Irving Berlin. Berlin Airlift. Lift. Lifts. Elevator shoes. Napoleon complex. Napoleon Dynamite. Dy-no-mite! Jimmy Walker. Foil hat.

  6. Trinity:: Father, Son and Holy Ghost. The Ghost and Mr. Chicken. Chicken noodle soup. Soup is good food. Fish is brain food. Zombies. Zombie Honeymoon. Mead. Norsemen. Robert Plant.


  7. Sneeze:: Allergies. Allergens. Microscopic Chinese army patrolmen invading my nasal passages. Kleenex. Windex. Carm-Ex. Kotex. Rated X. Loretta Lynn.

  8. Sweatpants:: Hot pants. Loretta Switt. Loretta Lynn. Lynn Redgrave. Leon Redbone. Redbone. Come and get your love. Solid gold. Denny Theriaux. Dance Fever. Brain fever. Brain food. Zombies. Mrs. Shea, my 6th-grade English teacher.


  9. Steve:: McQueen. Red Queen. Queen of Hearts. Red wine. Laughing with friends, playing guitars and making dim sum. Overindulgence. Boob-grabbing. Misinterpretation. Being "cut off." Protesting. Screaming for more wine. Being dragged off. Slapping. Dying alone and bitter.

  10. Fabulous:: Faberge. Eggs. "These eggs are... FABULOUS!" Eggplant. Implant. Fabulous, enormous, giant implants. Grabbing. Grabbing. Inappropriate grabbing of the fabulous breast implants. Ejection. Being kicked out. 86'd. Cold. Cold and lonely. Bitter and drunk, dying alone by the curb. Staring up at the stars. Costco.



Star of the day. . .Marshall Crenshaw
posted @ 2:14 p.m. on February 10, 2006 before | after

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She lay awake all night,

zzzzzzzzzzz......