Tag: frogs
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Daddy’s Not Coming Home Tonight (RR)
by Henry, ©2025 (Sep. 10, 2025) — “Silent Night” (4:09) “Good evening, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to ‘The Pulse of the Nation,’ the place to hear it here first. Charlie Kirk was murdered, and I prayed and then I cried. Every frog from the earth to the moon and beyond cried for the ‘Crier of the Constitution.’ We…
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“Since the Dawn of Time,” a Play (RR)
by Henry, ©2025 (Aug. 9, 2025) — ACT I As the house lights dim, the curtain rises to the music of “Chopin’s Prelude in A major, Op. 28 #7” (1:15) to the stage set as a pond covered with lily pads, the one in the center higher than the others. Each pad has frogs on it. The dashing…
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The Flattened Trail, a Play (RR)
by Henry, ©2025 (Jul. 11, 2025) — “More than I can Say” (3:35) As the lady frog “Can Can Dancers” (1:09) conclude their dance routine, the curtain rises to a packed house as “Grandmother’s Minuet” (4:18) is heard to a stage set as a section of an interstate highway. Large cardboard semi trucks pass towing trailers painted with gaudy signs reading, “Illegal…
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Laissez-Faire (RR)
by Roving Reporter, ©2024 (Aug. 27, 2024) — “Here Comes the Sun” (3:09) “Good evening, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to ‘The Pulse of the Nation,’ the place to hear it here first. As you can see, we’re at Bishop Dunkin’s church down on Hawthorn Street about to see a play written by Henry and produced by Madam…
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They Call it Progress
“ALL I SAW WAS A WASTELAND” by Chief New Leaf, ©2016 (Oct. 12, 2016) — Half a block from my house, at the bottom of the hill, right next to the schoolyard, there was a gem of a world inhabited by little ducks, little fish and big cattails. This whole world consisted of a quarter-acre, and…