Wednesday, September 30, 2009

Space

Day Eleven: read some futuristic space fiction that doesn't suck!

I know you are skeptical. It does exist.

Tuesday, September 29, 2009

Fat

Day Ten: become morbidly obese!
Contrary to popular belief, this does not include eating lots of tasty food.

Monday, September 28, 2009

Lice

Day Nine: contract lice from unwashed clothes at Goodwill Bins.
You will feel more real.

Thursday, September 24, 2009

Sign

Day Eight: make descriptive signs and post them on everyday objects, providing instruction to the lesser aware.
For example: make a sign for your neighborhood stoplight describing its uses and abuses to the uninitiated. Also can do this for 'One Way' street signs. An old woman drove past me today going quite the wrong way on a four-lane, one-way street. She also tried to right-turn into my car. In special cases such as these, it might be more productive to make a sign to post on the old woman.

Wednesday, September 23, 2009

Subdivision

Day Seven: pitch someone your outlandish or otherwise improper idea for a subdivision name.
For example: satirize the naming of subdivisions after the landscapes they have destroyed. "Blackberry Meadows" sounds nice, at first, but once you really start to picture it... not the best for frolicks or any other pastime [except receiving war-worthy wounds].

Tuesday, September 22, 2009

So yeah

Day Amendment-to-day-one: avoid beginning [or ending] sentences [or topics] with "So yeah..."
It is worse than "well". It can go to... cue day four.

Map

Day Six: consult an old map, and find out what used to be where you live.
Bonus, if your home is built over a sausage factory of dubious renown, a monastery, or a landfill.

Monday, September 21, 2009

Test

Day Five and One/half: get tested for STDs.
This can only improve your mood.

Dig

Day Five: discover a new way to dig up a tree.
Digging up trees is tiring, but today I found that once you start to dig, pouring some water around the root ball of the tree can speed things up considerably. I can't imagine that the tree doesn't enjoy it, too.

Sunday, September 20, 2009

Rhyme

Day Four: carry out a conversation in rhymes.
This will work, if you try, most of the time.
If it gets too hard, you can always try mime.
Just, don't say 'orange'--

Saturday, September 19, 2009

Toast

Day Three: write a speech, brief or epic, that could make someone cry.
I don't mean the mean kind!

Friday, September 18, 2009

Hold, please

Day Two: Call up someone at a business from your home and put them on hold.
Bonus: Sing your own elevator music, live.

Wednesday, September 16, 2009

"Well."

Day One: Don't start any of your sentences with the word "well" today.
Bad or mediocre news often begins with "Well...." Even otherwise cheerful news can dull under the corrosive influence of this woolly word.