2017-05-31
Shaenon: This storyline was co-written with David Blake, who pledged at the Arbiter of Reality level of our last Kickstarter and thus gained the privilege of doing Jeff’s job. Thank you, David!
Skin Horse
By Shaenon K. Garrity & Jeffrey C. Wells
Beetlejuice! Beetlejuice! Beetlejuice!
Second comment here. I might never get this chance again.
Try to be here around midnight eastern.
It’s amazing how many problems can be solved by being an alligator.
Just imagine being an alligatorin Congress!
Granted, you’ll have to deal with your opponent calling you a ‘croc’ just to wind you up.
==> Remy, be the other guy
You can’t be the other guy, because the other guy is already being someone else. (An alligator, in this case.)
If an alligator
should purse his lips
and ask us tips
on how to evict a landlord
who should be drinking
and probably thinking
I’ll see ya later
“You said he was dead.” “No, I said he sleeps with the fishes. You see—”
—somewhere in “The Simpsons,” relating to certain rumors about a particular character.
Rumors of Aquaman’s death are greatly exaggerated.
KILL MY LANDLORD by prison poet Tyrone Green (Eddie Murphy)
Dark and lonely on the summer night.
Kill my landlord, kill my landlord.
Watchdog barking – Do he bite?
Kill my landlord, kill my landlord.
Slip in his window,
Break his neck!
Then his house
I start to wreck!
Got no reason —
What the heck!
Kill my landlord, kill my landlord.
C-I-L-L …
My land – lord …
Def!
Ah, the classics. I immediately thought of this sketch, too—but the actual title of the poem is “Images.” If you don’t know this sketch, definitely YouTube it.
Yes. It actually loses something in the writing. You need Eddie Murphy’s recitation to really appreciate it.
And then watch Eddie Murphy in “Mr. Robinson’s Neighborhood.” He was so new and SO funny.
Thought of that, too, but decided to make some other reference.
I suggest a compromise.
The gatorgeist kills their landlord, and then Remy helps the landlord’s spirit find peace.
Ah, good old gatorgeists. As introduced to cinema audiences in “Gatorgeist v/s Sharkubus”….
Does he want to kill the old landlord, for selling the property, or the new landlord, the developer? Seems to me that there are different ethical questions involved. For one thing, developers have no souls to be put to rest…
Remy doesn’t do this sort of thing, but if the gator has a dozen donuts and some sammiches, he has a number she can call . . .