Friday, May 14, 2010

The Pearfect Crime

Once upon a time there was a little green pear named Veal. Poor little Veal was not very tall, but he was terrifically sweet, and very juicy. This put poor little Veal on edge, because she constantly worried that somebody would come and eat him! And she didn't want that. That would spell the end for poor, little Veal!

So, she hatched a clever plan, as she lay in the grocery store among her other pear friends. As she sat and planned, poor little Veal watched more and more of her friends taken away! Big, giant hands descended upon them and scooped them up. She could still hear their screams!

Planning continued late into the night

Who would take care of their children? Nobody!

Veal became more and more convinced by the day that she would not share their fate. Something had to be done! The madness must end. Deep in the recesses of her soul she knew what had to be done. She had no choice!

While the great hands slept, Veal led an elite group of pear commandos out off the bay, down across the floor, and into the Walmart next door. There they bought half a dozen machine guns, and then trooped home to hide and wait.

Aisle four



They set up the weapons in between the slow moving squash and the stupid melons, hidden in the greenery of the spices. Everything was perfectly prepeared.

Early in the morning, at about 6.30 the first sign of the enemy appeared on the horizon. Giant and fleshy, he loomed like a monster over the quivering masses of pears who had been set up as bait.

Closer, and closer he moved, entirely unsuspecting of the enormous threat that awaited him. One step, and then the next. He was nearly there! The situation looked pearilous! And then...

OPEN FIRE!

Veal and her group unloaded every round they had into the mountain of fleshiness! It was torn to shreds. Blood went everywhere! The head sailed clear into the bed of lettuce in the next isle.

When the hellstorm finally stopped, and the dust settled, Veal and his compatriots found themselves breathless, flush in the success of their first, daring actions toward freedom.

However, they knew this wasn't the end, or even the beginning of the end. It was only the end of the beginning.

So they removed to their original positions to wait for more enemies to appear. An hour passed. Then two.

Finally, half-way through the third, three more came lumbering in the front door. Prepare yourself! Veal yelled. Don't shoot until you see the green of their sprouts! However, one over-zealous younger member of the commando group could not restrain himself. The urge to fight was too great! He pulled the trigger

A loud click!

- and then nothing,.

They had emptied every round they had into the first enemy! They had no bullets left.
Horror! Was this the end?!

Closer, and closer the three monsters came, shaking the ground in rhythm with the huddling and trembling pears, now completely undefended.

Gasp!
Shock!

The sight of the bloody mass of the first defeated foe brought an awful expression to their faces. Anger clouded over, and a black gloved hand descended in fury onto the pears! Beside herself with terror, poor Veal struck out desperately with all her might at the approaching doom!

Again and again she struck, bruising herself to a mushy mass of pulp and skin and juice. Breathless and stunned, she recoiled. She was dazed and half dead, and the monster seemed entirely unharmed! It was hopeless.

Veal slumped down in defeat. She should have known better than to try and fight for her freedom! It wasn't her place. Fruit like her could never be free. They were not meant by God to have the same liberty as the mighty dandelion or the free-wheeling berry. Their lot was one of servitude.

Destitute, and broken, poor Veal, racked with sobs, offered herself up. If she could not save her people, at least she could sacrifice herself to allow them to live just a few moments more! It was her final moment, a glorious, heroic moment fitting of her noble breed. She closed her eyes,and waited for that hand to fall once more.

And waited.
And waited!

Finally, she peaked open one eye, and then both. The three monsters lay dead on the ground before her! The young pear had colluded with the mighty watermelons, who had agreed to sacrifice themselves, crushing the enemy beneath their rinds! The movement lived!

The aftermath was almost too gory to stomach

Battered and beaten, but not defeated. Never defeated!

Veal and her freedom fighting friends gathered their equipment, and together they lead their fruity compatriots out the front doors. It was a glorious procession! Banners offering low, low prices blew in the wind, and columns of cucumber marched out, accompanied by hoards of juice and countless streams of pasta.

And so it was that Veal led the revolution across the entire nation, hitting Walmarts in every town and city, stealing ammunition and killing the monstrous slavers of her people. And everywhere, fruits and vegetables rose up. The movement grew, until eventually it was so massive that it's members were beyond counting! Her armies shook the earth when they marched, and blotted out the sun when they fell from the sky in their aerial assaults.

Their oppressors, stunned, but not destroyed, recoiled, and prepared to counter. Veal knew it would be a long, hard war, but he knew they would win. Nothing would impear their progress. It was their destiny, proscribed by the sun and written in the soil!

They would have freedom!


Wednesday, May 12, 2010

How I Hate Those Dirty...


I think hate them. I hate the way they look, and act, and the way they stare at me. I hate their stupid ideas. How they constantly brag about their 'accomplishments,' to everybody who will listen, and everybody who won't. I don't give a damn about their stupid ideas, and most of the time I wish they would just damn well shut up. I try to be nice, try not to be mean, but hell, they're everywhere, and it's really starting to piss me off! I suppose you could say it's my fault. People like me brought them here. We had things we needed done, things we weren't going to do ourselves, but weren't going to do without. That doesn't make it any easier, though. I can feel their eyes on me right now. Their haughty gaze is full of self-assured superiority. It makes me sick. They make me sick. I hate them all.

That's right. I hate chairs with every fiber of my body. Just look at them leering at us, so full of contempt. Sure, they 'support' people, but what have they done for me lately! More comfortable than stools, cleaner than the floor, they say. Stop bragging about how useful you are! I prefer to stand, anyway. Sure, sometimes I need to stop standing, and it's difficult to get people to let me sit on them, but that doesn't mean what you do is indispensable! We could toss every single one of you out of this country, and be all the better for it!

I don't want to give you the wrong impression, though. I'm not a bigot, I'm actually a very nice person. In fact, some of my favourite places to sit are chairs. I even kind of like some specific chairs. It's chairs in general I can't stand. Everyone knows when a group of chairs are all stacked in a corner they're up to no good.

I say it's time we do something. We have to work together to rid our land of this scourge. Every social evil is linked at its very heart to the chairs that we let exist all around us! In times like these, all we can rely on is... each other. Be a stand-up citizen! Just look over your shoulder if you know of any of those filthy things living near you.

Only the Fat Will Survive!



About a week ago now, I read an article in the newspaper that suggested the body’s immune system actually targets and attacks fat, but gets overwhelmed by constant eating, and so is unable to effectively prevent massive build-ups of the stuff. However, there was good news! Apparently, scientists are working on a pill that will try to aid the body in destroying fat. Someday soon, the scientists promise, we could all be thin and glamorous (well, they didn’t promise the glamorous part, but it can’t hurt to dream, right?)

At first, I was as happy as you are! Thin, because my body destroys fat better than Chuck Norris destroys reason with his fists of fury, rather than because I skipped that third slice of cheesecake. Life was going to be good again. I could smell the succulent meals, the meats and vegetables doused in sweet, buttery sauces, the sugar-topped pastries, and calorie-laden soft drinks (I never drink diet soda – that stuff’ll kill you, you know).

Then, I’m afraid, my cunning but annoyingly overactive brain (damn you, thoughts!) began to take over. It isn’t too much to imagine increasing food shortages in the future, as populations rise and arable land disappears beneath a sea of asphalt. What if we suddenly all run out of food, and my lean, fat-burning machine of a body is suddenly deprived of its calorific delights?! I might be more than just upset. I might actually get hurt!
Imagine this as a movie commercial: In a time… when the air is hot and dry, and the fields have become cracked deserts, food on Earth has begun to disappear. A species hooked on fat-burning pills designed to destroy energy without processing it will find itself facing its greatest challenge yet, and… only the fat will survive!

I’d be doomed! The drugs, no doubt made addictive by some clever pharmaceutical marketing drone, would be an unbreakable habit! Every time I ate, all the energy gained would be ruthlessly targeted and destroyed, leaving me to starve! Oh, God, no!



If I had any skills with photoshop, this question mark would be replaced with a cleverly created mock movie poster, but alas...


Damn you, science! I suppose I have no other choice than to go back to staring forlornly at the dessert case as I pass it by for… ugh… more vegetables.

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