Did Someone say Challenge???

To my regular readers…I might confuse you today. Come to think of it, I confuse you most of the time, I suppose.

 I normally don’t launch a  post on Monday but I have included myself in a writing challenge.  Why??? I haven’t the foggiest notion. I was reading a story over at A Beer for The Shower  about  about a fictional character, Slim Dyson.  So anyway, about this challenge…Bryan and Brandon over there are releasing a novel today ….YES… a new novel…aptly named The Sensationally Absurd Life and Times of Slim Dyson

Let me catch you up by giving you a synopsis of the story thus far and what this challenge entails. 
(BTW..if you don’t already read A Beer for the Shower, the cartoon work
is amazing. They draw it freehand in Microsoft Paint.  That is WWWAAAYYY
harder than you might think.   Let’s just say I am impressed.)

Slim Dyson is a homeless man that had his journal stolen.  Someone put it on the Internet, it went viral and is set to become a movie.  Slim became a millionaire overnight but remains living his life as a homeless person in Denver.

Anyway…Brandon and Bryan came up with a challenge. The challenge is to throw Slim a party for $10.00 or less and write a post about it from the point of view of being among the homeless.  They had the audacity to have a whole list of rules that I may or may not of followed.  I also, stole some of their cartoons and took liberties with them.  Copyright infringement’….didn’t see that one on their list of rules.

Tis the Season to Party

 ”Stringbean Johnson…I have been looking all over for you.  What are you doing sleeping in the park?”,  she gasped trying to catch her breath.

 Annabelle “Little Sis” Larquette, gave the impression that she had run all the way from the 16th Street Mall where Stringbean  had been camping  out for the last couple of nights. Little Sis is small and boyish looking in her oversized coat and a hat that could have been sitting in the prop room for  the movie Deliverance.  This morning, however, Stringbean  is  laying  cocooned in a  sleeping bag on a bench in City Park. There is a slight movement as he raises his head to see Annabelle approaching.  “What’s up, Lil’ Sis? Is anything wrong?

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I am a veteran of corporate moves. Having moved 21 times while my husband climbed the corporate ladder while dragging me up… rung by rung over the course of our 40+ year marriage. I used to delude myself into thinking
that I was middle-age but now realize that I would have to live to be 116 to justify that term. If wisdom comes with age, I am wiser than some, older than many, and more cynical than most. My blog is to jot down the nonsense I
see, hear and think about while I still have all my faculties working.