[Play] A Hand Grenade Loose in King Arthur’s Court A Play By Rhombus Ticks Act 1 Scene 3

 Scene 3

Merlin and Morgan walk on stage together, horizontally.  The location is a different one than the one Order and Chaos met at.

Morgana: A Hand Grenade Loose in King Arthur’s Court.

Merlin: A Costumed Loon Blows Up King Arthur

Morgana: An Insane Super Hero Blows Up The Past

Merlin: The Butterfly Defect.

Morgana: Oh that’s a good one.  How many times have we done this now?

Merlin: I’ve lost count.  More than five hundred, less than five thousand.  

Morgana: I wish we could forget like everyone else.

Merlin: Magic has a price.

Morgana: Its so cliché; Chaos opens the portals, and Order ensures that the basic story structure remains the same, the rise, the fall and the end of chaos.  They play games across the cosmos but this is their Poker.  I don’t get it.

Merlin: It’s comfort food.  They’re so far above us that we can’t understand even the slightest shard of them, but in some ways, they are both creatures of habit.

Morgana: That’s….disgusting.

Merlin: Isn’t it just?  Well, let’s get this over with.

Both take out two stones, one Yellow and the Other Green.  Each takes a stone.

Morgana: Order.

Merlin: Chaos.  Damn, I hate it when I am his champion with the truly random ones.  

*****

Morgana: I don’t understand why they don’t stick with you for Order and Chaos with me all the time.

Merlin: Chaos literally can’t do that.  Otherwise he wouldn’t be Chaos.

Morgana: Well why doesn’t Order just insist on it?

Merlin: Because if they didn't do games, it would be pure war...their minions and agents fight enough, if they did, whole universes would shatter...and Oberon and his wives wouldn't tolerate that, and God forbid higher powers than that got upset.

Morgana: Higher powers?

Merlin: Turtles all the way down, turtles all the way up.  Even if you can’t see it or they don’t see you.  

Morgana: I...guess.  Do you want to do a side bet this time around?

Merlin: Certainly, shall we say loser teaches a spell to the winner?

Morgana: I like it.  We haven’t done that one in a while.  What stakes?

Merlin: I set the stakes last time...your turn?

Morgana: Hmm.  I think this one has hidden potential.  I think he will do more good than ill.

Merlin: Are you kidding me? I’ll definitely take that bet.

Morgana: Done.  Let the games begin.

Merlin: I almost feel guilty.  Almost.

(both exit the stage)

Emmit's Corner - Conjunction

8 Poems by Emmit Other including:

Conjunction

Is that really a good idea?

To My Beloved

Saving Christmas (Again)

This Too Shall Pass

Prince Polonium

Awkward Duck Walk

Robinhood This!

https://poetizer.com/poem/1713821

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[Play] A Hand Grenade Loose in King Arthur’s Court A Play By Rhombus Ticks Act 1 Scene 2

 Scene 2

Two Heralds, standing on different vertical levels, one above the other meet.   They are unable to touch but interact verbally.  

Herald One

Hark servant of Camelot, I see your vile colors still shine and thy banner stains the light.

Herald Two

Hark servant of Eastland, I see your foul mouth still pours forth vapors as the bog.

Herald One

Behold the assembled host of my master, six kingdoms harken to his banner, four thousand strong.

Herald Two

It is true that we are but two thousand, but behold the rabble at thy master’s feet, lickspittles, backbiting and quarrels infest thy number.  And Arthur is rightful king of all the Britons.  God is on our side.

Herald One

God is on the side of the latest armies.  We shall crush thy flotsam band.  Hark! See the first waves meet each other on the field.

Herald Two

What carnage! See the heads on lances on the valiant knights of Camelot!

Herald One

No less so that of Eastland! Now see the second wave sally forth.

Herald Two

(Winces) It is an ill omen.

Herald One 

(Laughs) You will rue the day!

Herald Two

What is this?  Merlin’s work assuredly, some portal opens up in the middle of the field.

Herald One

Your demon wormtounge will not save you.  God is on our side.

Herald Two

Your knights attack the newcomer, dressed in strange clothing and decorated in all manner of curious colors.  They will regret this.

Herald One

I find it highly unl….Great God! What is this?

Herald Two

Thunder in bottles and strange colors, slippery oils and noxious gasses that this alchemist from another world hues and cries on thy foul nights.  I told you Merlin would do us right.

Herald One

It’s...impossible.  So many explosions! LIke lightning called to earth on a cloudless sky.

Herald Two

Thou art in retreat!  Arthur wins the day!

Herald One

You will regret this.  We will win in the end.  (Leaves)

Herald Two

All hail this strange knight from afar! Welcome to Camelot stranger! Welcome Alchemist of wonder!

[Poem] Team Incompotent For The Loss

 Check out Emmit Other's poem!

https://poetizer.com/poem/3189820

Governor Warmed Over Stale Wonderbread

Lost to a Walking Talking Racist Dog Whistle

Centrists Battling Centrists in DC

To see which Luke Warm Pedialyte Crap

They Can Jam Down Our Throats 

Fingers Doing the Nixon V for Victory

While Actual Fascism Rears Its Ugly Head

I am Not Running Away

I am Simply No Longer Helping Team Mr Magoo

Old White Men and Old White Karens

Bore Me to Tears

And Their Fake Concern About Moonbeams

While The Most Powerful Man in The World

Twiddles His Thumbs and Shrugs 

'Who Me?'

If You Needed Me, You Would Act Like It

Bye

[Play] A Hand Grenade Loose in King Arthur’s Court A Play By Rhombus Ticks - Act 1, Scene 1

 Scene 1 

Order and Chaos stand opposite each other on stage.  When possible everything else should be cleared.

Order: Welcome Brother, another match on this, our favorite game board of Camelot.  I see that you have opened the portals to other worlds.  What randomness will you inflict on these poor folk this loop around? A spaceman? A Connecticut Yankee?  You have lost six times in a row to me.  Why not just give up?

Chaos: I love you, I hate you, I love you.  We are twins and yet could never be further apart.  These games of ours, they are how we prove each other the best.

Order: And yet...I keep proving that I am the better?

Chaos: Castles in Sand brother, castles in Sand.  You win the match but you lose the war; Camelot goes away.  

Order: outside of the scope of our match, what do I care for the inhabitants of this little mud ball?  Entropy is part of Order in the right context, it is the natural state of things in the fallen world.

Chaos: But it is here brother? In this realm of ideas where we play, this is the idea of Camelot, not just the mundane Earthly realm but the imprint of it upon every Other Earth.  Here, the stakes we play for echo throughout time.

Order: What is, is what is.  What must be is what must be.

Chaos: Are you so certain?  Wouldn’t you like for Camelot to finally be more than a blueprint for future societies but an island of order?

Order: What are you proposing?

Chaos: Let us up the stakes.  Let us play for more than the apex of the board, but its ultimate fate.

Order: Intriguing.  Let us see what this loop brings from your randomness, and mayhap I will consider it.

Chaos: Excellent, let the games begin.

Order: Let the games begin.

Realignment

The podcast will focus more on my writing for a few months and in this podcast I talk about past, present and future plans.

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Mommeries - Chapter 31 - The Darkest Hour

In this Chapter we cover the 80's in Denver Colorado after the divorce but before she met her life Partner Skip.  The Bitening.  Crap Jobs.  Abuse from a Psychopath and a No More Wire Coat Hangers Director.

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During the Coup - What to Expect

In 1993 as an LDS missionary in Venezuela, I was in a 3 day coup attempt that was stopped.  I will leverage my personal experience as well as knowledge of history, current events and politics to walk you through what it will be like in this country when a coup attempt (unless stopped by voting reform) takes place.

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The $ins of $ilicon Valley - Epilogue: Where do we go from here?

Finito.  Fin.  Done.  Many episodes later, I have finished what I started and exposed and analyzed the corrupt culture of Silicon Valley and how toxic CHUUD technofascists have taken the wonder and glory of science and STEM and turned into a dystopian nightmare and the second gilded age ripe to hand the keys to Frankenstein's Nightmare over to the First American Reich as early as 2025.

So now that I've done this, what am I, personally, gonna do about it?  TLDR? Delete my damn Facebook account ONCE and FOR GOOD.

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The $ins of $ilicon Valley - OK, Tumor

At the penultimate episode in this series we conclude with a few things; culture matters and its the root problem of the tech companies, and that each of these companies started out as something small and grew into the very thing they hated...Microsoft.

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Saigon 2 - Electric Boogagloo

Saigon 2 (Khandijar edition) isn't just about the tragic pending enslavement of millions of Afghani women to the truly despicable Taliban, its about the fact that Bizzzen's obsession with Infrastructure means that if he is willing to write off our embassy staff he is also going to write off voting rights which means that no matter how many VOTE in the 2024 election the Taliban (American Edition) will turn this country into the Republic of Gilead in 2025.

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Putin is Secretly Flintheart Glomgold

So we saw all kinds of scary scary articles about Russia's new fighter called the Checkmate this week only it turns out its a paper shell that may never actually get MADE because Russia might not be able to afford to build it.  This kind of scheming makes me realize that Putin is secretly the Disney cartoon villain from Ducktales, Flintheart Glomgold.

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Thank you Twitter Support!!!!

I just want to thank Twitter Support for sending me a personalized note about their concerns about any suicidal thoughts or self harm that I or anyone else might have and that they totally don't mock mental illness or my own well being or their stockholders or customers at all!  Oh wait....

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The $ins of $ilicon Valley - Uber and Lyft - Driving Ms Duncy

Both these companies flagrantly lie about what an employee is and engaged in Phillip Morris level deception in a recent referendum in California on driver rights.  I also share two person experiences about the arrogance of Lyft employees in their partnerships as well as the fraud of their 'voter helping' initiatives.  With Uber I go into how they were started by a "Creep Bro" and then utterly and blatantly stole Google's intellectual property.

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Mommeries - Chapter 30 - Separation and Divorce

Separation, Divorce, ACT, Lockey Lawson's Funeral, Dark Days

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Drunkenly Reading Different Versions of the Gettysberg Address

In which I read (drunk) various versions of the Gettysberg Address

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The $ins of $ilicon Valley - Blocking Max

Who is @MaxNordau and why is @twittersupport unblocking them every single day when I try to block them?

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The $ins of $ilicon Valley - Crypto Carny Jack and the Real Reason for Twitter

Jack Dorsey is a luke warm CEO that arguably hates his job.  So why does he do it? I make the case that the reason he stays on track on Twitter is to increase the value of Bitcoin by using the social media company to spread lies, disinformation and distrust of government as much as possible to allow cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin to become as popular as possible.

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The $ins of $ilicon Valley - The Largest Illegal Experiment in the History of Mankind

Signing a EULA is not going to meet (I believe) APA guidelines to participating in a Psychological Experiment.  Facebook doesn't ask ANYBODY when it tests out a new feature, and knows, down to the 'molecular level' how happy, sad, enraged, angry a new feature or twist to the Demonic Algorhythm that is the satanic secret sauce that keeps you addicted.

Have you ever been addicted to facebook? Has it made you angry, depressed, hurt, or afraid? If Facebook has knowingly done things it KNOWS cause these problems and done it anyway for $$$$ that's ILLEGAL and prosecutable but I dont see anyone doing it.  Why is that?

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Both Sider Freak

 Both Sider Freak
Loves both sides the same
Thinks they are above it all
And they are not to blame
But when one side sees you do this
From your frothy ivory tower
You make all thinks possible
For the darkness seeking power
Terrorism and protests
All the same
Murdercop hobo jambories and Filming a murdercop
All the same
Zombies who eat flesh and people who flee them
Virus that gives you a stroke if you get it and people who wear masks
All the same
The monsters check
From time to time
To seek a go for more
And there you are you free
A thumbs up and higher score
When everything is nothing
And nothing has no cause
Then the both sider freak
Is to blame
Twitter suspended me
For pointing out this truth
But then Jack is a crypto carny
Who would sell a victims tooth
For precious fake bitcoin gold
And lets the inmates run the asylum
Twitter exists to cause mayhem
And death and blood and more

Twitter Support Mad

 The frothtards at Twitter Support are super super angry because when the National Review hit piece by Max Nordau was made national by blue dot after blue dot #maxan

on followers reported THE LEAST offense tweet I make and have made again again but suddenly I am shut down for 12 hours hmmmm loloolol

The $ins of $ilicon Valley - Facebook - Peter Thiel

The worst of all facebook's crimes is Cambridge Analytica and the data it fed them and Palantir and the center of all of it and so many other data misuses of data is Peter Thiel.  This misuse leads to lax security and neglect of privacy.

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The $ins of $ilicon Valley - Facebook - The Worst of the Worst

Facebook is worse than any other company in this series by four or five orders of magnitude.  Everything I talk about with evil for the other companies before or after applies to facebook.  Facebook does more harm to EVERY aspect of human society and Mark Zuckerberg, as the sole ultimate owner and controller of facebook bears responsibility for this.  He cannot be stopped, he cannot be removed and is not beholden to anyone short of criminal prosecution for a law that does not yet exist on any book that I am aware of.

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Mommeries - Chapter 29 - Israel, Egypt, College

Chapter 29 in the autobiography of Josie Burgin Lawson.  The trip to Israel and Egypt made a huge turning point in her life where she seriously started to question the LDS church and also the circumstances of her marriage.  She enrolled in college as a way to reinvent herself.

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Mommeries - Chapter 28 - ERA, Right to Life and the Genealogy Trip

In this chapter we discuss her time with the Wyoming Right to Life organization, the things that she learned about it, the ERA and the LDS church at the time including a number of inconsistencies and lies that started the multi year process of her questioning her participation therein.

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Primary Manchin - Without HR1 we are Toast anyway

The primary argument against primarying Manchin is that no other democrat can win in West Virginia.  OK...but without the filibuster there is no HR1 and with no HR1, there is no winning for democrats in Red or even purple states ever again as Republicans steal elections; so why not punish him while we still can?  We can pressure him and who knows, maybe he might change his mind and decide to save America?

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The $ins of $ilicon Valley - Amazon - Walmart on Steroids

Everything people have complained about Walmart applies to Amazon on steroids.  They treat their workers like crap (white collar and blue collar), they have unsafe working conditions, they avoid taxes, they pretend to be progressive except whenever it is slightly inconvenient for them, they bully Seattle on minor taxes and they act like Trump whenever they want.

 

 

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The $ins of $ilicon Valley - Google - The Fish Rots from the Head

Google does a much better job than the other four "horsemen" of the tech world 'keeping its nose clean' (by standards not set by lying conservatives) but it still has some problems, the most prominent of which is its management culture which seems to ignore the will of its stakeholders, employees or the populace at large to do short term, frankly STUPID things like fire diversity experts in AI.

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The $ins of $ilicon Valley - Apple - The Company Store

Just because Apple built something new and only controls HALF the mobile market place doesn't mean that it should also be able to take a cut of or set ANY price it wants for anything that is used in their "walled" garden.  We also touch on Apple's collaboration with China to maintain the Great Firewall and the horrific conditions of Foxconn warehouses that Apple is "shocked shocked shocked to find gambling in this establishment."

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A Little Every Day

 By Emmit Other

Little things in your love language

Life by a thousand cuts

Show me you love me

And I bask in your kindness and affection

The sexual permutations of your magnificent body

That I love to compose symphonies with my hands with your flesh as the strings

Moans validation that you are there

And your desire is very real

I love you

In all the big and little ways

That show me you are mine

And I am yours

Shermaning the Culture War - Remember the Alamo and Wagner

Today is the anniversary of the Alamo and a lot of left wing and moderate Texans are shocked right now that the Alamo is getting the "Christopher Colombus" treatment.  This podcast is about how cultural elements can be stuck together, like Wagner and Nazis, and how despite the 'positive' framework of the Alamo is going to be respun thanks to MAGA and the acceleration of the culture war from a cold war to a 'hot war' thanks to the far right and Qanon, and how "Nice White Centrists" should get used to it because in a culture war there are casualities.

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20 Minutues of Me Talking Like a Cat

I spend 20 minutes talking like a cat.  About 60 percent of it is me just making generic cat talk noises, 37% cat singing and some random english words or other animals to create the illusion of stimulating conversation.

I dont recommend listening to it.

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Climate Rape

 We can pretend

That the Very Concerned White Men

Being Howler Monkeys 

In the hearings

For the First Native American

Interior Secretary

We can

But it would be moronic 

Stupid

Wrong

Indulgently Ghoulish

These oil and gas companies

Reach into mother Earth

Pull out her blood

Churn it as poison into our skies

Thrust it into our lungs with a pitched fondu fork

Melt the poles for a quick buck

Kill other sapient species on this planet

Those non human brothers who know they are alive

And do not have voice as these toxic agents of filth

Chortle and Harumph and Act Very Concerned

About Jobs for Rural Meth Maga America

Pardon if I dont give a fuck for your Maga feelings

I did not consent to the destruction of our world

For your Goddamned SUV

The $ins of $ilicon Valley - Microsoft - The First Horseman

It all starts somewhere right? The poster child for why all other tech companies are ammoral with a glitz of magic and a dash of some good but mostly rotten to the core all starts with Microsoft that acted as an ACTUAL monopoly and taught the other companies to be greedy in DIFFERENT ways for the laws we havent even invented yet as compared to the 100 year old Sherman Anti Trust act.

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The $ins of $ilicon Valley - IBM: Prelude to Genocide

Long before the First "Horseman" Microsoft came along and set the stage for toxic Technoculture in America and the rest of the World; IBM helped contribute meaningfully to the Holocaust by allowing the German government in WWII to identify, catalog and kill millions and millions of people based on their religion, culture or sexual orientation.  This was entirely preventable, but IBM looked the other way and has since still defended themselves. 

As of now, IBM has suffered no meaningful consequences for their crime.

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Arsonist by Voyuerism

 by Emmit Other

Taking away the gasoline

From the match lighting pyromaniac child

Who wants to watch the world burn

Why standing by 

Twiddling your thumbs content with the world

The fat happy apostle after the last supper 

Ignoring the shaking of the world around you

While all around you gremlin goblins in human form

Set up the bonfire of the earth

And all the kindling therein

And draw you a bulleted powerpoint 

And ancient treasure map with a big red x

Saying here on 1/6/2021

I am going to make the world burn

Makes you an arsonist by voyeurism

Petty Karma

 by Emmit Other

I want to believe in beautiful karma

That some giant bony invisible hand

Ticks of points like the Good Place

......er.....or better

Some kind of karmic balance

In this life 

Or the next

But the cosmic toxic muppet muggle

That decided to make me her Work Project

Who whisper lisped her anti moxie dribble jibble

Flippering flappering peppery tribble

Liquid farts in vocal form

Her puking flukes of sentance gorm

Proves to me with wicked breath

Of heavens mist and angel death

That this person who needs a gremlin smack

To the back of gnobbish head

Not demanding meteors or gasoline trucks

Or broken knees on banana peels

Just a torbid curled nasty sandwich with her least favorite ingredient

That she eats half way through as she lords her psuedointellect over her family

Or something of that vein

Anyway it was an interesting day at work

Making the 20's Roll - Vaccinating Affluenza

500 people own half of the world's wealth, and none of them deserve it.  Not one.  Even the ones that 'earned' their own money took it with short cuts along the way that involved union busting, inherited wealth, unfair competition, monopolies and very often actual criminal behavior.  We need to fix that.

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Prince Polonium

 by Emmit Other

All over Russia

Patriots protest evil

Twitter talks about swatches

Do you know how hard

It is to protest in -30 degree weather?

This dark shadow across the world

This nepotistic freak 

The father of the axis of fascism

Patron saint of illiberal democracy

And conservative lies

One man stands up to him

Balls of Steel

And the Dark Lords of Silicon Valley

Distract you with Cat Videos

Gross beyond Gross

This Too Shall Pass

 By Emmit Other

Entropy is constant

The great objective truth

But that doesnt speed our perception

of the darkest of times

Hour compounded on hour

Til the longest night

Seems the darkest year

Time is the slayer of everything

But only experience is a balm 

Against how it seems

Darkness will return

Darkness will recede

But today we got a vaccine

Against forgetting in the pit

That there is something more

That light exists

Even when we cannot see it

This too Shall Pass.

Making the 20's Roll - Shermaning the Culture War

At this point, the fate of civilization AND every sapient being on the planet means that the disinformation and gibberish used by the Axis of Fascism doesnt just need to be countered, it needs to be overwhelmingly defeated.  Here are three ways how to do that.

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Making the 20s Roll - Big Tent Small Tent

This podcast episode has two parts.

How the Democrats can REALLY be a Big Tent Party and get third party voters to help accelerate the natural destruction of the Republicans with Ranked Choice Voting.   

How Progressives can become the real engine of the Democratic party and the country as a whole by having lasting Political institutions to help facilitate change that are dedicated to Progressivism not just the Democratic Party

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Making the 20's Roll - a New Constitution

Its a new decade! Let's make it an awesome one by fixing things RIGHT.  Job one? Get a new 21rst century constitution.

Pesky conservatives and Article V in the way?  

Not as hard as you think.  We are the majority.  We have legitamacy and moral authority.  Here's how we get one.

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News of the Four Worlds - 2020 In Review

Who could have foreseen what an .....interesting.....year 2020 was for all four worlds.  Robot 1 and Robot 2 discuss in detail and also make predictions for the year to come.

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Saving Christmas (again)

 by Emmit Other

There is power in belief

But so few consider the consequences

Such reckless belief might make Santa and his reindeer fly

You might not even mind the Krampus

Revived by a raft of Christmas horror movies

But now the existential Christmas Dilema

Is part of the Mythology

Like Mr Magoo

Santa needs constant saving

His head stuck in a bucket

Or jail

Or kidnapped by Martians

Or trapped in an office complex during am elaborate heist of Nakatomi Plaza

Like Camelot being invaded

By every rando and his aunt matilda

Incompotent Santa needs constant help

It makes Christmas ours

Democratizing the magical distribution of presents

Though by new the sleigh smells like a used restroom in the Back of Fucking Beyond

The elves really cant get the smell out

So when you see Santa 

With his neck stuck in a plastic six ring beer holder

By all means help the poor bastard out

But let him do his job

Poor man has self esteem issues

Let christmas save itself for once

To my Beloved

 by Emmit Other

The stars burn eternal

But also with envy for thee

Envoy of Kindness

Sentinel for all creatures great and small

Keeper of Lore

Organizer of Archives

Solver of Puzzles

Patroness of the Arts

Fashionista Appreciator

Fellow Traveller to Exotic and Distant Lands

We roam the Earth

But in some ways the Cursed Year was blessing

More time with thee

Glory and Amber we Made the Hourglass stopper

In thine eyes I see my best self

Merry Christmas Most Beloved

Twas the Night Before Spacegoats

We take a beloved christmas poem read by a robot and add Space Goats to key parts...because what could be more 2020 than that?

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Is this really a good idea?

 by Emmit Other

I see a future

A thousand thousand years from now

When we are but a myth

Our seeds are scattered to the stars

Panhuman missives zeal from one colony to another

In the blink of an eye by quantum entanglement

The line between flesh and steel blurs

And Earth is lost

Only to be found again

Earth herself

Our cradle, reduced to a rancid Venus hothouse

Our reexplorers are saddened

But their sorrow turns to horror

As the only life in the Sol system

Is a never ending cave complex

Deep beneath the surface of Mars

Bat eyed mole men

Slink and slime around 

Living on roaches and spiders and centipedes

Sapient enough to know horror

But with no record of how they came to be

Leon Stink has cursed the Martians 

To a million years of evolutionary horror

Just so he could die with a feather in his cap

His grinning skeleton beaming down on the ruin of his colony

Orbiting in his car with his hand on the wheel

Stellar wind in the final strand of its vacuum preserved hair

Lord of the empire of Morlock horror 

That panhumanity leaves

And never visits again

Conjunction

 by Emmit Other

Chronos and Zeus

Battling it out again in the heavens

800 years past

Mirage of Mythology

Panoplay to the steely naked eye

Bookending the Year of Chaos

Aquarius hosting the galactic affair

Drowned in a glory of stars

Stars we cannot see due to the pollution of light

One era ends

Another begins

The Golden Age is ours

If we but claim it

Fire was stolen once

Lets steal it again

And go up to join them

Potato Messiah

There are other worlds than these.

On Gaia Handle made a very different song.

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