Wednesday, August 20, 2025

Eeeps Forever, Or For A While

Eeeps Forever, Or For A While

My love, Echinoia Eeeps, is out to reinvent the chicken. Her guiding principle is to start with something that works, and make it better. In this case it means making a trip to the supermarket to pick up a few packages of certified parts.

My love, Echinoia Eeeps, likes Jeeps, unsurprisingly, but done up in her own style. First, she'll skewer one on a stick, then roast it over an open fire, and, finally, will advertise it on Craigslist, because who wants a crusty, burned-up vehicle? (But she always has fun doing it, and, likewise, meets interesting people, some of whom enjoy sniffing cindercars. So how's your life?)

My love, Echinoia Eeeps, wants to start turtle ranching, with me as foreman, because I'm just perfectly, deliciously slow enough, she says, eyeing me ever more closely.

My love, Echinoia Eeeps, was on maneuvers again last week. It's a family thing. They like to stay in shape in case the waves of many termites ever return.

My love, Echinoia Eeeps: I guess if you'd ask me to list the good and bad of our relationship, I'd be best off reserving any comments until I'm released from the hospital, and preferably until after the latest set of bandages comes off, and so on — it's generally a good idea to tread lightly in these parts, as I'm too slowly learning.

The Eeeps family is holding a one-third century reunion rehearsal for cousins who have found themselves splattered around the world. It's held, as you might guess, every thirty-three and one third years, on the thirty-third day of the third month, under the light of a one-third moon, if the sky is at least two-thirds cloudless. Cousin Evanescent Bubbles Eeeps will be there, in whole or in part, and Female Cousin Fizzy Whiffles, who will be providing the majority of the entertainment by juggling cockroaches, tomatoes, and hand towels, something only she has mastered. I have been invited as well, as Witness Of Record In Training, and also as Pot Roast of Honor, but am still not quite sure about being basted with hot sauce, as they make it there. (Gets me sticky and leaves stains that remain even after I've been thoroughly licked.) Even if it is a cherished family tradition.

 


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