(That Poe, he is such a cheery guy). So, White Death arrived, sans death. Heap plenty car crash but Civilization once again failed to end.
--But there's more crispy Winter goodness on the way. The weathercritters have been happily lamenting our impending doom. Does my heart good to see them so filled with innocent joy; they're like a small boy with a magnifier finding ants on a sunny day.
Y'know, the more I look at that title, the more I wonder about just what sort of fiction Edgar Rice Poe might have turned out. "The Ape-man and the Pedulum?" "The Tell-Tale Thoat?" "A Princess of Usher?" And they think snowfall is scary!
Perhaps "Farnham's Pendulum":
ReplyDelete"Hey, isn't that the same pendulum that swung through here at the beginning of the story?!" Or "The Gold Bugonomicon". Or "Raven in a Strange Land": "Quoth the Raven: [fill in the blank]."
"Edegar Anson Heinlein?" Doooood, that's evil!
ReplyDeleteWhat about Robert P. Lovecraft? "Cthulhu is a Harsh Mistress?" "Dead Planet?" Eewwwwwww!
Quoth the Raven: "Grok!"
ReplyDeleteEeeeegad!
ReplyDeleteThere's an award for punning that intensely...probably. ;)