Writing Challenge type thing

bodhifox challenged his friends list to write a 100 word vignette or story dealing with our default user icons. This is mine!

“Pie!

Automat pie!

Oozing fluorescent jellies, dribbling onto chipped plates, or sealed betwixt flaky dry crusts, the whole basking 24/7 in the electric sun of a fly-specked light bulb, treasures sealed behind glass, awaiting the jingle of silver to free them.

Oh, glory be! A petroleum rainbow of chemical-tinged flavours, and names that bespeak sun-warmed Floridian hills and mist-shrouded orchards. Here lemon, there cherry, or apple, beside foreign delights like coconut cream! A half-dollar buys you these glories, sir, a half-dollar will open the glassy gates of pleasure and permit you to ravish a plateful of quivering pie!

Step up!”


If anyone wants to do this on my list, I’d be interested to read the results!

Battlin' Robot Steves!

Well, American readers, a federal election has been called in Canada, so you won’t have to read my musings about your election as often.

Of course, the election up here is terribly dull. The issue everyone seems to be talking about most, right now, is whether not carbon taxes are a good idea. Have you ever heard an attack ad criticizing a carbon tax policy? I have. It’s not a very exciting thing. Carbon tax is not a visceral topic that one can get really angry about.

This election will pit a very, very, very boring Conservative minority government and our wax-dummy PM against an evidently disorganized Liberal party, led by a well-spoken egghead. The Liberals are also very boring.

Not quite as boring are the third and fourth parties!

We have the Bloc Quebecois, led by a charming and eloquent raving anti-monarchist who may or may not wish to see Anglophone blood running down the steps of Parliament Hill. Nah, just kidding. He's cool. They're something of a wild card, though. The Bloc will vote with the Conservatives or Liberals as they please, making outcomes hard to discern.

Finally, we have the NDP, the raving Socialist "Bible Billy and his Funny Money" party, led by Jack Layton, who is no doubt best known as my municipal politics professor from university. I am probably voting for them.

It is also quite possible that the Green Party of Canada will win some seats in this election.

One final note of Canadian smugness - this election was called today. We vote on October 14th. 24 hours later, the election is over. So, we can get back to complaining about US politics!