FILLER: Writers POLL: burlesque

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original posting: Tue, 10 Mar 1998 09:56:56 EST

Today, you have been crowned head of fools and given the great scepter of burlesque. You have three chances to excite laughter or contempt by extravagant images, to lampoon, to put someone or something into the limelight of ludicrous representation, exaggerated parody, and grotesque satire. Yes, for a short time, you can ridicule a topic of your choice, presenting a ludicrous imitation, caricature, complete and utter travesty, or even a gross perversion.

What are the three topics? People, places, events, whatever...humor comes in many colors (and melts in your mind, not in your hand:) I'll even provide the numbers for you:

1.
2.
3.

As the crowned head, of course, you may choose to wield your wand yourself and bash them, bash them, knock them on their keisters... or you can ask one of your subjects to pin the tail on the donkey. So, please, either write up the buffoonery or tell us who you would like to write--and how?

(incidentally, what kind of wood has burlesques?)

FILLER: Writers POLL: We All Live In A Yellow...

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original posting: Thu, 12 Mar 1998 22:30:31 EST

and our friends are here below...

Analogously, similarly, and even metaphorically, consider the richness of the seas. Tropical, frozen wastes, Titanic and the iceberg, snorkeling, scuba, and submarines... strange anemones, fish floundering along, and the octopus, the squid, the ray and others, all there...

Now, while we're feeling nautical, what are you?

1. a fish (which one?)
2. a piece of plankton?
3. seaweed?
4. coral reef?
5. a meandering current
6. flotsam and jetsom
7. something else...
8. Oh, what about the whales, and seals, and little sharks and... well, there's a whole seascape for you...

Fill in the crabs, the sand, the riptides and gentle stroke, stroke, stroke of the waves...

Under the moonlight? In the turmoil at the edge of the storm? Floating lazily under warm suns?

Push that trope a bit, work it...why are you a hermit crab, stuck in a soft drink can? And what about the rest of us--where are we in your salty dreamscape?

Go ahead, enjoy the deeps and the shallows.