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Wednesday, July 26, 2023

Sibs of Celebs

     1. Younger brother of Holmes creator 

Siddhartha Conan Doyle,
is apprenticed to a mohel
and's finesser than Der Messer with his knife.
Hep to epee, shiv and foil,
Sidd can lance your weeping boil.
Who's his mate-de-mayhem...? Martha. (She's the wife.)

     2. Kid sister of famed Civil War general 

Lizzie Simpson Grant
is devoted to her aunt.
Whither Aunt Corisma visits, Liz is there.
Is this Liz a sycophant
or some State Department plant...?
Nope, Ms. Liz is but Aunt's Class II legal heir.


     3. Rags-to-riches kid brother of famed New Critic

"Rabbit" Penn Warren
appears, to some, foreign.
It seems, though, his story's mundane.
In fact, he's Andorran.
(As promised, it's borin':
his mum was some slum bitch from Spain.) 

     4. Ne'er-do-well sister of business magnate 

Blondie Rockefeller:
had this gal been born a feller,
she'd have shared in brother John's ill-gotten gains.
But instead the girl turn'd heller --
her descent from grace quite stellar.
Blondie's tale reads like some narrative of Twain's.

          (a work in progress)  

     5. Older brother of telecom pioneer 

Ellis Sandor Graham Bell

     6. Bright young thing sister of American novelist

Florida Madox Ford


Circe Jo Walcott 
Annie Mae Armstrong-Jones
Hank Lloyd Wright 
Lance Christian Anderson
"Texas" Zorba
Miranda Gandhi
Mohan Sebastian Bach
Mame Fennimore Cooper
Boris Kerns Goodwin
Jeeves Saint Laurent

 
     And in yet another unrelated category: 

Jonah Pharque
Macan M. Pei
Upton O'Goode

Monday, July 17, 2023

The Geriatric Chronicles, Episode 2: The Welcome Wagon



Neufogram Set #6: BENOTTTUY

BUT 
NOT 
YET

TUB
NET 
TOY 

BUT-
TON
TYE 

TNT
YOU 
BET

BUY
TEN
TOT

TET
BOY 
NUT

OUT
BEN
TYT

BOU
YEN
TTT

Never Dated, Never Mated, Nowt But Nom'nally Related

     I. 
Kipling's Kim and Ms. Kardashian;
players both -- in each's "fashian":
He the Great Game made his own.
She...? Just known for being known.

     Upcoming pairs: 
Howdy Holmes and Howdy Doody;
Pip Pirrip and Pip Torrens;

     (More to come; work in progress) 

Saturday, July 15, 2023

The Geriatric Chronicles, Episode 21: The Rise of the Commodes

 


Runcibl'd Spooner: The Truth Shall Set You Free

     The London season of 1892 sees British 
theatre actor/manager Herbert Beerbohm Tree
stage his own production of Hamlet at London's 
Haymarket Theatre. Notwithstanding The Times's 
declaring Tree's effort a "notable success," one 
Mr. W. S. Gilbert disagrees, saying of it, "I never 
saw anything so funny in my life..."
     The disgruntled performer confronts Gilbert, 
challenging that man's negative review, but the 
successful librettist stands his ground. 
     "Fear not, my dear fellow, even though...
the sooth shall fret you, Tree."

Litany Chanted Over Schrödinger's Box

Is he dead yet...? 'Yes' or 'No'...?  All'd 'God Bless!' if 'Yes,' you know.  Is he dead yet...? Don...