Comments on: Hickey Means Love

By: Hap

Hap — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 11:20:27 +0000

Your NEA grant check is in the mail. MacArthur Foundation indicates interest, also…. And the Marjorie C. Shuggin Foundation. (“Shuggin… Fit for Brains”)

By: jenny

jenny — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 01:21:07 +0000

vivian: if only there were a bigger market for sea-creature sonnets.
fiorello: ooh – you definitely need to share those winnings with me. but if you lose, it’s all you…
miss britt: hmm… it might fit better to “when i’m 64,” but that’s also a stretch.
peefer: yes, please! and btw, peefer? i hickey you.
mad william: oooh… a ch-ch-ch-chia pet poem? you are my muse.

By: Mad Willaim

Mad Willaim — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 22:43:41 +0000

Bloody Brilliant.
This could be the new advertising campaign that brings Sea Monkey’s back it’s rightful place in American Pop culture.
If you take requests I would like to read “Ode to the Chia Pet”.

By: peefer

peefer — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 20:20:47 +0000

Someone please PLEASE write the music for this. (Hi Jenny.)

By: Miss Brit

Miss Brit — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 19:44:59 +0000

I am finding myself singing your poem to the tune of Love Me Do.
I’m not sure it exactly fits, but it will do.

By: Fiorello la Guardia

Fiorello la Guardia — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 19:19:57 +0000

Sea-Monkeys? Hmmmm…Jenny, have you been to the casino again? Oh, wait, no….you have just shared a big lucky premonition with me, right? Thanks, pal, if I win, I’ll share with you.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 14:57:18 +0000

Dear Jenny,
You are an underwater bard! A minstral for mermaids!
To poetry! And… sea monkeys!
Love,
Vivian

By: jenny

jenny — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 14:15:44 +0000

sir: "this is not my beautiful sea-monkey!"
don: just wait 'til i pull out the old ventriloquist act. it slayed them in peoria!
thb: wait? there's a sea-monkey in finding nemo? i need to watch it again...
iron fist: thank you for recognizing the homeric influences.
hap: well, i would've said ernie just because he seems like the cousin oliver equivalent, but then it would've been called my two sons and this ugly runaway.

By: Hap

Hap — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 11:51:51 +0000

“MTS” (as we fans call it) was one of the earliest citable examples of sitcom shark-jumping. For 100 points (no googling,please): name the late-in-run kid addition to the cast.

By: Iron Fist

Iron Fist — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 08:36:56 +0000

If there's one thing that can bring Sea Monkeys back from obscurity, it's this poem. It's like Homer's The Iliad except for crustaceans instead of Greeks.