by burnstyle | Dec 24, 2018 | American Version
PASSING FANCIESEphemera hoopla hula RANGE: From the drawing board to the boardroom to the assembly line to the ad agency to the supermarket shelves to the house next-door to your own house to the closet to the attic to the garbage dump to the antique store to the...
by burnstyle | Dec 24, 2018 | American Version
CULTURE VULTURESPatronia matrimonia allimonia RANGE: Commonly found in art galleries and recital halls, these ghastly ancient female creatures also frequent vernissages and poetry readings, and occasionally stray into lofts and garrets in their relentless search for...
by burnstyle | Dec 24, 2018 | American Version
THE PHILHARMONIC ORCCacophonous gloriosas RANGE: Enormous chandeliered mausoleums named after extinct robber barons are the customary haunts of these myopic Neanderthals, but they may also be seen—and heard—on Public Television, FM radio, wine-bar Muzak systems, BMW...
by burnstyle | Dec 24, 2018 | American Version
PRE-REVOLUTIONARY WARLOCKNostalgia americanna RANGE: Ye Olde Antique Boutiques, garage sales, behind the bushes beside well-marked historic trails, landmark gift shops, graduate seminars, culture loops, behind glass cases in the court house, neatly stacked on the...
by burnstyle | Dec 24, 2018 | American Version
ELF S. PRESLEYGreilus marcas RANGE: Elf S. Presley is a union card carrying member of the Spirits of Show Biz, who accompany performers on the road. Whether the venue is a snotty concert hall or a grungy night club, a cavernous stadium or the high school gym,...
by burnstyle | Dec 24, 2018 | American Version
THE SOPHOMORE JINXGaudeamus ignaras RANGE: From the tables down at Morry’s to the place where Louie dwells, to the ivy-cluttered bastard-gothic bastions of Eastern privilege, to red brick cow town colleges, to the sprawling and over-endowed diploma mills of the...
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