{"id":9853,"date":"2024-01-02T08:49:52","date_gmt":"2024-01-02T13:49:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/?p=9853"},"modified":"2023-12-31T17:26:47","modified_gmt":"2023-12-31T22:26:47","slug":"i-caught-a-glimpse-of-titania-and-bimbam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/i-caught-a-glimpse-of-titania-and-bimbam\/","title":{"rendered":"I Caught a Glimpse of Titania and BimBam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-41\" src=\"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/r-avatar-e1443983880436.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"81\" height=\"81\" \/>Happy New Years! To welcome 2024, we&#8217;ll be combining forces for our writing prompt again this week. To make things seasonally appropriate, we pulled the prompt phrases from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/dave-barry-review-2023-ai-100000295.html\">Dave Barry&#8217;s 2023 Year in Review<\/a>. Just like last time, Jen goes first. We&#8217;ll alternate until Kent uses the final phrase, and the results will be beautiful to behold.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>styling his hair with a defective Roomba<\/li>\n<li>\u2014 we\u2019ll call them Bill and Jane \u2014<\/li>\n<li>the situation is hopeless<\/li>\n<li>with a heavy heart and an upset stomach<\/li>\n<li>bored with balloons<\/li>\n<li>narcissistic gasbags<\/li>\n<li>like a cheap lawn chair at a sumo wrestler picnic<\/li>\n<li>threat unlike any we have ever faced before<\/li>\n<li>a sea urchin in his underdrawers<\/li>\n<li>looks like he got kicked out of the James Bond Villain Academy for being too evil<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Tune in next time part 865 &amp; 866 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/tune-in-next-time\/\">Click Here for Earlier Installments<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I caught a glimpse of Titania and BimBam through the gap between the front and back of the horse costume. In his passion, BimBam was so disheveled he looked like he&#8217;d taken to <em>styling his hair with a defective Roomba<\/em>. Of Titania I really could only see her feet <em>&#8212; we&#8217;ll call them Bill and Jane &#8212;<\/em> but that was enough to show me that she too was intensely committed to the moment.<\/p>\n<p>I kept inching backwards, but Small Dennis resisted, making me think <em>the situation is hopeless<\/em>. What I&#8217;d seen of the clowns made me think I might be sick. It was <em>with a heavy heart and an upset stomach<\/em> that I ceased my attempted retreat lest the costume fall apart.<\/p>\n<p>The grease-painted duo abruptly started making a noise that sounded like what happens when someone becomes <em>bored with balloons<\/em> just floating there on their strings, and starts rubbing them together. Or, in this case, when <em>narcissistic gasbags<\/em> rub against each other.<\/p>\n<p>My back was getting tired from supporting Big Dennis. If I stood here much longer, I would probably collapse <em>like a cheap lawn chair at a sumo wrestler picnic<\/em>. But before that calamity could occur, Small Dennis and I became aware of a <em>threat unlike any we have ever faced before<\/em>. It was horrifying. BimBam started a striptease, but not the sultry striptease of a man with lust in his heart. This was the frenetic, flailing striptease of a clown with<em> a sea urchin in his underdrawers<\/em>. BimBam soon wore nothing but the scowl of a clown who <em>looks like he got kicked out of the James Bond Villain Academy for being too evil<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>bonus points for using them in order &#8212; as a team!<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Stichomancy Writing Prompts\" href=\"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/stichomancy-writing-prompts\/\">about stichomancy writing prompts<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/stichomancy-writing-prompt-generator\/\">try our stichomancy writing prompt generator!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy New Years! To welcome 2024, we&#8217;ll be combining forces for our writing prompt again this week. To make things seasonally appropriate, we pulled the prompt phrases from Dave Barry&#8217;s 2023 Year in Review. Just like last time, Jen goes first. We&#8217;ll alternate until Kent uses the final phrase, and the results will be beautiful [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[319,4],"tags":[91,142,130,547],"class_list":["post-9853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stichomancy-prompts","category-writing-prompts","tag-bonus-points","tag-clown","tag-holiday","tag-tagteam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9853"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9853\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9865,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9853\/revisions\/9865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}