John Teehan - All the Words

Everything But Comprende, and Vado Bites Diamond

XJanuary 21, 2009

I don’t know if it started with a 2001 episode of The Oblongs by Jace Ruchdale, of its origins are older, but I really wish I had invented this idea..maybe mini-meme.. Jared (to Milo): Listen twerp! We don’t want no Valley kids hanging around our women. If we catch you around here again, we’re going to beat your face in. Comprende? Milo: Everything but comprende. Jared (confused): But if you.. no.. wait.. argh.. tosses

Attack of the Bacon Cat

XJanuary 16, 2009

So Pretty Maggie is looking up on the internet how bacon might affect cats. One of our cats, Nemo, loses his furry little mind whenever I cook bacon and she wanted to make sure that giving him such delectible tidbits wasn’t too unhealthy. So there she is typing in “cat” and “bacon” without specifying if the bacon is to be applied internally or externally. Yeah, I know. Right? So… She finds this

Demolition Man Burns Hollywood

XJanuary 14, 2009

Movie time! Yep, gonna talk about a couple of movies today. First up is an old guilty favorite of mine, Demolition Man starring Sylvester Stallone, Sandra Bullock, Wesley Snipes, Dennis Leary, Benjamin Bratt, Glenn Shadix and the incomparable Nigel Hawthorne. I think my favorite aspect of this flick is the dialogue. It’s an interesting take on what language could become if society underwent a radical change…and by radical change I

A Man Walks Into Prince Valiant…

XDecember 10, 2008

A man walks into a bar. Let’s listen in… BAR: Oh, hey man! Haven’t seen you in like..what? Eight years? MAN: Almost nine. BAR: Yeah, yeah. Long time. Long time. I hear you got married, or something? MAN: Yep. Happily married. Got a good little business going too. BAR: Kids? Nice home? MAN: The works! BAR: Sounds like things have really worked out well for you, huh? MAN: How about you? BAR: Oh, you know..the usual. I almost hooked