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December 18, 2011
Thought my tree was shimmying to James Brown’s X-mas album, then I saw my cat, getting on the good paw, dancing on up the tree. #cnftweet
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Michael Johnson
SurrealtweetsMichael Johnson

perseus poaches parsnips
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E. Victoria Flynn
PennyJarsE. Victoria Flynn

by Surrealtweets

Black suit and a conga drum, eighty feet tall, man, eighty feet tall. “Scare yourself!” He blows us down. #cnftweet
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Michael Johnson
SurrealtweetsMichael Johnson

A stopped watch peels no onions.
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Michael Johnson
SurrealtweetsMichael Johnson

A watched pot never squeals.
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Michael Johnson
SurrealtweetsMichael Johnson

Never count your roofs before they’re thatched.
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Michael Johnson
SurrealtweetsMichael Johnson

If I had any ducks, I’d be putting them in a row right about now.
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Michael Johnson
SurrealtweetsMichael Johnson

Snow on the ground this morning: this may be the last time this winter that I even notice a mere inch of snowfall.
Poetry by Adrian Matejka, Mixology: “a goldfish with thumbs hitchhiking / toward a fishbowl full of dub.” #fridayreads
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Michael Johnson
SurrealtweetsMichael Johnson

Tired of being told to “man up” by tv ads–and, anyway, there’s nothing manly about light beer, no how, no way, no matter the brand.
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Michael Johnson
SurrealtweetsMichael Johnson

Excused Absence #Haiku (Holiday Edition): ride leaving early / mother bought plane ticket, what / can I do? excused?
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Michael Johnson
SurrealtweetsMichael Johnson

mother died, father / too, roommate dead, me with flu / at death’s door–excused? Excused Absence #Haiku
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Michael Johnson
SurrealtweetsMichael Johnson

Excused Absences #Haiku: students sending notes: / suddenly slippery roads / can’t make it to class
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Michael Johnson
SurrealtweetsMichael Johnson

Oh, yeah, that’s right, The Talented Mr. Weasley, the long lost collaboration between J. K. Rowling and Patricia Highsmith.
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Michael Johnson
SurrealtweetsMichael Johnson

If I’m remembering the book correctly, Ron meets HP and Hermione in Italy, kills HP and pretends to be him (or maybe i’m mixing plots up).
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Michael Johnson
SurrealtweetsMichael Johnson

Not seen the new HP film, may have to wait awhile until crowds die down. At least, I don’t have to worry about avoiding spoilers.
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Michael Johnson
SurrealtweetsMichael Johnson

Wardell Gray on sax, chasing Dexter Gordon and being chased, note for note, nothing monochromatic about it, jazzing up a gray day. #cnftweet
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Michael Johnson
SurrealtweetsMichael Johnson

Just bought tickets for George Clinton concert. If I don’t emerge funkier than before, I’m a hopeless case.
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Michael Johnson
SurrealtweetsMichael Johnson

Dusk is when the sun comes out, or, rather, when I turn on my sunlamp, artificial sun to fend off SAD (and sadly ineffective) #cnftweet
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Michael Johnson
SurrealtweetsMichael Johnson

@michaelkhensley Make my funk the P-funk (I want to get funked up).
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Michael Johnson
SurrealtweetsMichael Johnson

Daylight savings time, and the sun sets now at 4 pm. Where’s the savings? Isn’t this the kind of banking that got us in trouble? #cnftweet
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Michael Johnson
SurrealtweetsMichael Johnson

4 weeks of listening to Parliament/Funkadelic, and I think I might finally be slightly funkier than when I started.
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Michael Johnson
SurrealtweetsMichael Johnson

Folllowing twitter reports on Rally to Restore Sanity by @wordjocky http://twitter.com/wordjockey #fb
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Michael Johnson
SurrealtweetsMichael Johnson

Feeling very autumnal: the late afternoon October sunset really brought out the color in the trees in this evening.
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Michael Johnson
SurrealtweetsMichael Johnson

and of course, regrets / a familiar bedfellow / unfortunately#haikuchallenge
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Michael Johnson
SurrealtweetsMichael Johnson

2 weeks of listening to Parliament, but I don’t seem to be any funkier than when I started.
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Michael Johnson
SurrealtweetsMichael Johnson

Better than an alarm clock: the toilet overflows; in the near dark, I don’t notice til cold water begins seeping through my socks. #cnftweet
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Michael Johnson
SurrealtweetsMichael Johnson

Wondering when the coined word “Mainely” will make into the dictionary. How many Maine store names (like “Mainely Flowers”) will it take?
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Michael Johnson
SurrealtweetsMichael Johnson

Thanks @spitballarmy The first month of the semester was a bear, but starting to get back into the flow now.
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Michael Johnson
SurrealtweetsMichael Johnson

After @kmwalsh: “Year 1 traditional: paper; year 1 actual: sex.” Year 15 trad.: crystal; actual: watching True Blood together. #cnftweet
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Michael Johnson
SurrealtweetsMichael Johnson

Storing forks and spoons together will not produce sporks—only dissension and disorder in your silverware set. #hintsforsurrealhomemakers
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Michael Johnson
SurrealtweetsMichael Johnson

Salad forks and soup spoons have opposite sensibilities and should not be stored together. #hintsforsurrealhomemakers
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Michael Johnson
SurrealtweetsMichael Johnson

You may also sing love songs with lots of “fork” rhymes, but there really aren’t as many of them. #hintsforsurrealhomemakers
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Michael Johnson
SurrealtweetsMichael Johnson

To prevent petulance, polish silverware frequently while softly singing love songs with lots of “spoon” rhymes. #hintsforsurrealhomemakers
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Michael Johnson
SurrealtweetsMichael Johnson

Petulant silverware is the frequent bane of the homemaker. Many a party has been spoiled by a petulant fork.#hintsforsurrealhomemakers
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Michael Johnson
SurrealtweetsMichael Johnson

Courage! Though care killed a cat, thou hast the steel spine of Washington, Lincoln, King, and mettle enough to kill care. #shakespalin
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Michael Johnson
SurrealtweetsMichael Johnson

@pennypyro We believe he came from England. He changed his name in America, and no one knows the original name.
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Michael Johnson
SurrealtweetsMichael Johnson

Exit, pursued by a mama grizzly bear. #shakespalin
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Michael Johnson
SurrealtweetsMichael Johnson

MacPalin: “Unsex me here,” Scott MacBrown cries, and the real Republican replies, “Already been done!” #shakespalin
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Michael Johnson
SurrealtweetsMichael Johnson

MacPalin: Lay on, MacBrown, and damned be he who first cries, “Pls refudiate!” #shakespalin
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Michael Johnson
SurrealtweetsMichael Johnson

MacBrown: Though grizzly born, I’m 100% American and have US birth certificate(just looking ahead to 2016, or 2012—too soon?) #shakespalin
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Michael Johnson
SurrealtweetsMichael Johnson

MacBrown: I was not of woman born but birthed by Mama Grizzly, and untimely ripped from her den. #shakespalin
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Michael Johnson
SurrealtweetsMichael Johnson

MacPalin: Laugh to scorn the power of man, for none of woman born shall harm MacPalin. #shakespalin
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Michael Johnson
SurrealtweetsMichael Johnson

But up here in Alaska, our deaf pillows discharge no secrets. We have a pioneering spirit, bloody, bold, and resolute. #shakespalin
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Michael Johnson
SurrealtweetsMichael Johnson

Oh, Scott MacBrown, I do fear thy nature is too full of the milk o’ human kindess. #shakespalin
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Michael Johnson
SurrealtweetsMichael Johnson

Scott MacBrown, screw your courage to the sticking-place and respect the will of the people. #shakespalin
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Michael Johnson
SurrealtweetsMichael Johnson

I have given suck, know tender feeling 2 the babe, but I’d pluck my nipple from boneless gums before voting with Democrats. #shakespalin
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Michael Johnson
SurrealtweetsMichael Johnson

Foul whisperings are abroad. Unnatural antics do breed Scott MacBrown’s unnatural troubles: liberal leanings, weak compromises. #shakespalin
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Michael Johnson
SurrealtweetsMichael Johnson

MacPalin, or The Scott(Brown)ish Tragedy, a play of pioneering independent spirit. #shakespalin
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Michael Johnson
SurrealtweetsMichael Johnson

Discovered my 3xgreat grandfather came to America as a stowaway on a ship–and I’m yet another descendent of an illegal immigrant. #cnftweet
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Michael Johnson
SurrealtweetsMichael Johnson

Tiger divorced–I predict Twitter will soon be overwhelmed by tweets with “wood” puns in them.
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Michael Johnson
SurrealtweetsMichael Johnson

They came in, moving down the bar like cows on slick ice, their eyes not yet adjusted to the dimness. James Welch, Winter in the Blood
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Michael Johnson
SurrealtweetsMichael Johnson

More types of pirates: hand pirates, grass pirates, road pirates, lesser pirates, true pirates, thou pirates, pirates of refudiation.
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Michael Johnson
SurrealtweetsMichael Johnson

Types of pirates, glass pirates, grase pirates, night pirates, late pirates, window pirates, snow pirates, winter pirates, spoon pirates.
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Michael Johnson
SurrealtweetsMichael Johnson

Since pirate and pirates were the most popular terms in my tweet cloud, I offer some pirate clouds, generated from my most tweeted words.
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Michael Johnson
SurrealtweetsMichael Johnson

TweetClouds are strangely interesting. Fourth and fifth most often used word, refudiation, refudiate. Too many #shakespalin tweets!
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Michael Johnson
SurrealtweetsMichael Johnson

I just generated a #TweetCloud out of a month of my tweets. Top three words: hand, pirate, pirates – http://w33.us/7qvf
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Michael Johnson
SurrealtweetsMichael Johnson

1rst amendment rights? 2b or not 2b? Not 2b for Dr. L due 2 activists! Don’t suffer liberal slings and arrows . . . reload! #shakespalin
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Michael Johnson
SurrealtweetsMichael Johnson

When shall our cackle of rads meet again In thunder, lightning, or rain? When the refudiation’s done and the 2 crucify begun. #shakespalin
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Michael Johnson
SurrealtweetsMichael Johnson

One tire flat, travelling down the road on a too-small spare–like a pretending-to- be-wounded bird drawing attention from a nest. #cnftweet
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Michael Johnson
SurrealtweetsMichael Johnson

What a piece of work is woman, in form as admirable as steel magnolias, but in action how like a mamma grizzly. #shakespalin
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Michael Johnson
SurrealtweetsMichael Johnson

Hold or abandon / me, complain to me, make me / crazed–but don’t bore me. #haikuchallenge (hold, abandon, craze, bored, complain)
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Michael Johnson
SurrealtweetsMichael Johnson

By the side of the road today, a man and boy cheerfully flipping off cars going past–nothing like a family activity on Sunday morning.
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Michael Johnson
SurrealtweetsMichael Johnson

My brush w/ Patricia Neal (r.i.p.) fame: she came to a restaurant where I worked, and, proud to say, I refilled her coffee cup. #cnftweet
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Michael Johnson
SurrealtweetsMichael Johnson

Empy object: A clear glass vase, I can see the weight and volume of the emptiness within, touch its contours with my hand. #cnftweet
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Michael Johnson
SurrealtweetsMichael Johnson

O Romeo, Romeo! wherefore art thou Romeo / Deny thy father and refudiate thy name. #shakespalin
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Michael Johnson
SurrealtweetsMichael Johnson

Let me not to the marriage of true minds / Admit impediments. Love is not love / That refudiates when it refudiation finds. #shakespalin
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Michael Johnson
SurrealtweetsMichael Johnson

Empty objects: the bowl of an unused spoon; cigarette paper rolled without tobacco; whiskey glass in a house without whiskey #cnftweet
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Michael Johnson
SurrealtweetsMichael Johnson

call call me call me / any any time–Blondie sings / but I still don’t call #haikuchallenge
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Michael Johnson
SurrealtweetsMichael Johnson

Winter Sounds: ice cracks, a giggle / of snow against the window pane, / soft chuckle of wind #haiku
Lonely measuring spoons may become inaccurate. To avoid unhappy inaccuracy, speak daily to your spoons. #hintsforsurrealhomemakers
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Michael Johnson
SurrealtweetsMichael Johnson

When spoons are away on holiday, freeze soup before eating. #hintsforsurrealhomemakers
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Michael Johnson
SurrealtweetsMichael Johnson

Hank Williams, of course, so lonesome he could die, playing on repeat, as I drive late night down 11-W toward Knoxville and dawn. #cnftweet
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Michael Johnson
SurrealtweetsMichael Johnson

Unskeptical, he / made a disrespectable / late night spectacle. #haikuchallenge spectacle
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Michael Johnson
SurrealtweetsMichael Johnson

Dozens of dragonflies are performing aeronautical stunts in the backyard–a stunning display when two hummingbirds join them. #cnftweet
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Michael Johnson
SurrealtweetsMichael Johnson

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@JDeurbrouck maybe it was a S Palin challenge. She had written a number on her left hand and the challenge was: what’s on her right hand?
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Michael Johnson
SurrealtweetsMichael Johnson

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@JDeurbrouck sometimes I don’t get them myself.
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Michael Johnson
SurrealtweetsMichael Johnson

For those on the go / the independent eggroll / stands above the rest. #haiku #ediblehaiku
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Michael Johnson
SurrealtweetsMichael Johnson

Enlightened lobster / transcendent crustacean / flows out with the tide. #haikuchallenge out #haiku
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Michael Johnson
SurrealtweetsMichael Johnson

Receding noodles / sing and slip and slide on the / effervescent tide. #haiku #ediblehaiku
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Michael Johnson
SurrealtweetsMichael Johnson

On her right hand: RePUdiate. #handofpalin
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Michael Johnson
SurrealtweetsMichael Johnson

Come to his right hand, for this ear is deaf, and tell him truly what thou think’st of him. #shakespalin #handofpalin
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Michael Johnson
SurrealtweetsMichael Johnson

On her right hand: RePUdiate. #handofpalin
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Michael Johnson
SurrealtweetsMichael Johnson

On her right hand: the left can’t be trusted. #handofpalin
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Michael Johnson
SurrealtweetsMichael Johnson

Weak eyes, large glasses / she still reads only fine print / editors don’t age. #haiku #haikuchallenge
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Michael Johnson
SurrealtweetsMichael Johnson

A misnomer really, especially for an elephant, but you expect that sort of thing at a circus. #cnftweet
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Michael Johnson
SurrealtweetsMichael Johnson

Refudiate, refudiate, refudiate! Oh, I have lost my refudiation! And what remains is misunderestimated. #shakespalin
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Michael Johnson
SurrealtweetsMichael Johnson

SARAH: The food that to him now is as luscious as locusts, shall be to him shortly as bitter as coloquintida. #shakespalin
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Michael Johnson
SurrealtweetsMichael Johnson

BRISTOL: I do perceive here a divided duty. #shakespalin
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Michael Johnson
SurrealtweetsMichael Johnson

LEVI: That I have ta’en away this woman’s daughter, / It is most true; true, I will marry her. #shakespalin
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Michael Johnson
SurrealtweetsMichael Johnson

my face reflected / in a dish of soy sauce / chopsticks trace a smile #haikuchallenge
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Michael Johnson
SurrealtweetsMichael Johnson

shattered reflection / a stuttered recitation / shuttered window speaks #haikuchallenge
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Michael Johnson
SurrealtweetsMichael Johnson

@spitballarmy I suppose I may be guilty of sports page piracy myself.
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Michael Johnson
SurrealtweetsMichael Johnson

Also, the Express Lane Pirate, who steals space in the express line at the grocery store with too many items in his cart (or frigate).
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Michael Johnson
SurrealtweetsMichael Johnson

Other lesser known pirates: The Cashew Pirate, notorious for eating all the cashews from a dish of mixed nuts.
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Michael Johnson
SurrealtweetsMichael Johnson

Winter parking space pirates: a city dwelling pirate who parks in a parking space cleared of snow by someone else.
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Michael Johnson
SurrealtweetsMichael Johnson

Other lesser known pirates: seat pirates (who take up more than their fair share of the seat on public transit); akin to armrest pirates.
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Michael Johnson
SurrealtweetsMichael Johnson

Whatever the meaning, I just like the phrase: Grass Pirate.
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Michael Johnson
SurrealtweetsMichael Johnson

Reading a history of Montana and came across the phrase “grass pirate,” meaning someone who infringes on someone else’s range.
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Michael Johnson
SurrealtweetsMichael Johnson

Biking a sandy trail is like going uphill, but unlike an actual incline, which has a return descent, sand is uphill both ways. #cnftweet
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Michael Johnson
SurrealtweetsMichael Johnson

In Maine it’s not so much clutter as folk art, front yards of found objects, outboard engines, old cars, unattached plows. #cnftweet
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Michael Johnson
SurrealtweetsMichael Johnson

In Maine it’s not so much clutter as folk art, front yards of found objects, outboard engines, old cars, unattached plows. #cnftweet
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Michael Johnson
SurrealtweetsMichael Johnson

When the blast of war blows,then imitate the action of the hockey mom: Stiffen the sinews, disguise fair nature with lipstick #shakespalin
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Michael Johnson
SurrealtweetsMichael Johnson

I have done the state some service. Should Putin rear his head, who stops? It’s Alaska. It’s just right over the border. #shakespalin
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Michael Johnson
SurrealtweetsMichael Johnson

Shakespeare:: O well-painted passion! Palin: What’s the difference between a pitbull and a hockey mom? Lipstick. #shakespalin
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Michael Johnson
SurrealtweetsMichael Johnson

I am Alaskan / And have not those soft parts of conversation / That chamberers have. #shakespalin
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Michael Johnson
SurrealtweetsMichael Johnson

S: A slipper and subtle knave. P: Our opponent is someone who sees America as so imperfect he’s palling around with terrorists #shakespalin
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Michael Johnson
SurrealtweetsMichael Johnson

WS: The readiness is all. P: I answered him yes because I have confidence in that readiness and knowing that you can’t blink. #shakespalin
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Michael Johnson
SurrealtweetsMichael Johnson

Though I do hate him as I do hell-pains.Yet, for necessity, I must show a flag and sign of love. Iago Palin on John McCain. #shakespalin
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Michael Johnson
SurrealtweetsMichael Johnson

I will a round unvarnished tale deliver of what charms, what conjuration, what refudiation, what misunderestimation, I used. #shakespalin
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Michael Johnson
SurrealtweetsMichael Johnson

Rude am I in my speech, but I’m going to talk straight to the American people. #shakespalin
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Beckeep™
BeckeepBeckeep™

by Surrealtweets

What a piece of work is Sarah! How lacking in reason! how infinite in vacuity! #shakespalin
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Julian Sanchez
normativeJulian Sanchez

by Surrealtweets

To suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous liberals, or to quit halfterm, and by opposing, rake in speaking fees #shakespalin
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Michael Johnson
SurrealtweetsMichael Johnson

No moose so fierce but knows some touch of pity. #shakespalin All @surrealtweets quotes from Shakespeare’s “Palin III”
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Michael Johnson
SurrealtweetsMichael Johnson

Now is the winter of our refudiate, made glorious misunderestimate by this daughter of the north. #shakespalin
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Michael Johnson
SurrealtweetsMichael Johnson

Instead of mounting barbed steeds to fright the souls of fearful adversaries, she capers nimbly on Fox News. #shakespalin
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Michael Johnson
SurrealtweetsMichael Johnson

And thus I clothe my naked villainy in designer dresses paid for by the RNC and with odd ends stolen out of holy writ. #shakespalin
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Michael Johnson
SurrealtweetsMichael Johnson

Cannot a Palin live and think no harm, but thus her simple truth must be abused by silken, sly, insinuating Jacks? #shakespalin
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Michael Johnson
SurrealtweetsMichael Johnson

A moose! A moose! My kingdom for a moose! #shakespalin
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Michael Johnson
SurrealtweetsMichael Johnson

Rainy day in Maine, but slightly chilly for the first time in a couple of weeks, so, welcome, rain.
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Michael Johnson
SurrealtweetsMichael Johnson

He was so lazy that: he’d mow his lawn only during months that had an “r” in them.
He was so lazy that: he would pay someone to take a nap for him. #cnftweet
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Michael Johnson
SurrealtweetsMichael Johnson

1 room with AC, I watch all of Veronica Mars (season 2) in 3 days. Outside, hot, humid; inside, bus crashes, one cool PI. #cnftweet
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Michael Johnson
SurrealtweetsMichael Johnson

Gender trouble at 8: she refuses to see “boy” movies and disdainfully rejects those that are “too girlie.” #cnftweet
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Michael Johnson
SurrealtweetsMichael Johnson

Isn’t “temporarily unavailable” just another way of saying “gone for good”?
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Michael Johnson
SurrealtweetsMichael Johnson

Or all three: the cats wait sadly for a mouse that doesn’t appear. On the radio Morrissey sings “Heaven Knows I’m Miserable.” #cnftweet
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Michael Johnson
SurrealtweetsMichael Johnson

Or, following @gruntleme, “Cats” . . . or “Morrissey.” #cnftweet I like “waiting” as a theme as well.
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Michael Johnson
SurrealtweetsMichael Johnson

After 2 weeks in AZ, finally back to a delightfully chilly Maine.
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Michael Johnson
SurrealtweetsMichael Johnson

Based on direct observation: Like shooting pool, riding a bike is an activity one can do while smoking and drinking a beer. #cnftweet
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Michael Johnson
SurrealtweetsMichael Johnson

Thanks to @evictoriaflynn and @spitballarmy for the cucumbery inspiration.
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Michael Johnson
SurrealtweetsMichael Johnson

Every cucumber is a portal, opening to the bitter and the sweet, the seedy and the succulent, cool inner flesh, warm outer skin. #cnftweet
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Michael Johnson
SurrealtweetsMichael Johnson

Past tornado warnings: living in KS, didn’t hear the siren, looked out window, saw neighbors pointing at the sky above our house. #cnftweet
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Michael Johnson
SurrealtweetsMichael Johnson

Highly unusual: a tornado warning in Maine.
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Michael Johnson
SurrealtweetsMichael Johnson

Trying to decide between First Dude and Game on Dude for the Belmont Stakes but wondering why The Dude Abides isn’t running.
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Michael Johnson
SurrealtweetsMichael Johnson

Another sign of summer in Maine: a car with Massachusetts plates pulled over by the police (presumably for speeding). #cnftweet
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Michael Johnson
SurrealtweetsMichael Johnson

A blessing, a curse, and quite a surprise, a hot May day in Maine, over 90, breaking old record high by 5 degrees. #cnftweet
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Michael Johnson
SurrealtweetsMichael Johnson

Shoot, still trying to come up with a Curses and Blessings tweet. #cnftweet is generally a blessing, but feeling kind of cursed right now.
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Michael Johnson
SurrealtweetsMichael Johnson

Really enjoying the tweets of @rosannecash
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Michael Johnson
SurrealtweetsMichael Johnson

Contemplating the commericial viability of a project that sets the poetry of Emily Dickinson to the music of “War”-era U2.
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Michael Johnson
SurrealtweetsMichael Johnson

Born in the Year of the Rabbit, but I seldom hop, rarely eat carrots, and have yet to reproduce (much less do so prolifically). #cnftweet
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Michael Johnson
SurrealtweetsMichael Johnson

I am like the sheep, / woolly and silent. / I plant my belly on the hillside, / count myself to sleep. Cathy Song #quote
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Michael Johnson
SurrealtweetsMichael Johnson

femme fatale, lost, sad / hard-boiled haiku for tough guys / trouble will follow #haiku
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Michael Johnson
SurrealtweetsMichael Johnson

My cats are disappointed in the field of horses for the Preakness: not a Cat, Kitten, or Lion among them.
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Michael Johnson
SurrealtweetsMichael Johnson

@spitballarmy I may have to go back, take a look. I was so surprised by the switch to English I wasn’t paying attention to the characters.
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Michael Johnson
SurrealtweetsMichael Johnson

@spitballarmy Yeah, not sure about that either. I’m also not sure how they suddenly learned English and stopped speaking Latin.
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Michael Johnson
SurrealtweetsMichael Johnson

After too much film noir, tattooed love and hate, good and evil on backs of his hands but can never remember which hand is which. #cnftweet
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Michael Johnson
SurrealtweetsMichael Johnson

post-Lost moral confusion: Jacob created smoke monster by tossing his own brother into the light, so who’s good and who’s evil? #cnftweet
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Michael Johnson
SurrealtweetsMichael Johnson

Out of kindness comes redness and out of rudeness comes rapid same question . . . out of selection comes painful cattle. G Stein #quote
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Michael Johnson
SurrealtweetsMichael Johnson

Sadness and sushi / sweet rice and absolution / arranged on a plate. Edible #haiku
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Michael Johnson
SurrealtweetsMichael Johnson

Under gray skies, a / walking monk carries doughnuts / rain falls on the grass. Edible #haiku
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Michael Johnson
SurrealtweetsMichael Johnson

against nature, some / might say–dog scares hiding mouse / the gray cat pounces #haikuchallenge (ally)
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Michael Johnson
SurrealtweetsMichael Johnson

Amelia Earhart, Jimmy Hoffa, the 5 cent cup of coffee, my car keys, my dignity (multiple times). #cnftweet (opposite day version)
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Michael Johnson
SurrealtweetsMichael Johnson

Jesus in a potato chip, Mary on a window pane, Elvis in the snack aisle at the Safeway. #cnftweet
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Michael Johnson
SurrealtweetsMichael Johnson

@artsnob Stein’s food poems have a good “mouth feel.” It feels good, somehow, to say them out loud, the way the words feel when spoken.
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Michael Johnson
SurrealtweetsMichael Johnson

Leaves in grass and mow potatoes, have a skip, hurry you up flutter. Gertrude Stein. #quote
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Michael Johnson
SurrealtweetsMichael Johnson

Cat and mouse, hook and ladder, photo and frame, salt and pistachio, bagel and motorcycle, horse and glass, lobster and light therapy.
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Michael Johnson
SurrealtweetsMichael Johnson

The Most Surreal: The woman who marched along with the topless carrying a blue blanket, trying to hide exposed flesh from view. #cnftweet
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Michael Johnson
SurrealtweetsMichael Johnson

The Surreal: those who protested the topless march, holding up signs saying “put on sweaters” and “be a pal, cover your gals.” #cnftweet
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Michael Johnson
SurrealtweetsMichael Johnson

Almost May Day, good day to soak up sun after the long Maine winter, take off shirts and march down Main Street, a natural urge. #cnftweet
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Michael Johnson
SurrealtweetsMichael Johnson

When the real becomes the surreal: topless march in Maine http://bit.ly/broZQX although the marchers were least surreal part. #cnftweet
ave discovered gum on the sole of every shoe I own. Have gum chewers become less careful with discards? Have I become a gum magnet?

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Michael Johnson
SurrealtweetsMichael Johnson

@michaelkhensley I keep telling them that choosing horses and sports teams based on the mascots is not the best idea, but do they listen?
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Michael Johnson
SurrealtweetsMichael Johnson

Once more letting my cats choose my Kentucky Derby picks: American Lion to win, Dean’s Kitten to show.
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Michael Johnson
SurrealtweetsMichael Johnson

Daylight and no fish / Said G. Stein to Picasso / Hot soup and cold soup. #surreal Edible #haiku
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Michael Johnson
SurrealtweetsMichael Johnson

Not drunk, herding cats / Said Picasso to G. Stein / With weapons of bread. #surreal #haiku
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Michael Johnson
SurrealtweetsMichael Johnson

Your cinnamon skin / Said Gertrude Stein to Alice / A wish for thunder. #surreal #haiku
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Michael Johnson
SurrealtweetsMichael Johnson

Her naked beauty / Said Alice to Gertrude Stein / The tip of my tongue. #surreal #haiku
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Michael Johnson
SurrealtweetsMichael Johnson

After @matthewgmiller A bad combination: two cats, too much catnip, room with glass vases; me, two bags of groceries, a stairway. #cnftweet
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Michael Johnson
SurrealtweetsMichael Johnson

Another round: surrealist technique applied to #cnftweet: take the last few words of an earlier tweet as the start of a new tweet.
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Michael Johnson
SurrealtweetsMichael Johnson

After @spitballarmy The worm was plastic, but the apple real. Plastic or not, the worm still turns, an apple, still a good snack. #cnftweet
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Michael Johnson
SurrealtweetsMichael Johnson

Happy hour is two hours long, the cocktails are doubles (but half price), and I still spend and drink too much (by half) #cnftweet
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Michael Johnson
SurrealtweetsMichael Johnson

After @kmwalsh A can of tomato juice, a stalk of celery, tabasco, and an empty vodka bottle, not a good start to the day. #cnftweet
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Michael Johnson
SurrealtweetsMichael Johnson

Thought I might try a surrealist technique applied to #cnftweet: take the last few words of an earlier tweet as the start of a new tweet.
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Michael Johnson
SurrealtweetsMichael Johnson

Just joined http://sfra2010.ning.com as part of Science Fiction Research Association conference in Carefree Arizona.
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Michael Johnson
SurrealtweetsMichael Johnson

Mixed metaphor of the day: Cassio is just an innocent chess piece in this vicious game of cat and mouse.
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Nico
OctoberDanielsNico

by Surrealtweets

@Surrealtweets #haiku If one could eat Haiku / They would not last very long / But would be delicious
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Michael Johnson
SurrealtweetsMichael Johnson

Gunpowdered doughnuts / hard boiled haiku for tough guys / hot rice and fast cars. Edible #haiku
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Michael Johnson
SurrealtweetsMichael Johnson

dreams of cars and coats, / untethered cats, dancing blue / sunlight and whiskers #surreal #haiku
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Michael Johnson
SurrealtweetsMichael Johnson

Not really liking the spring snow http://www.flickr.com/photos/36704245@N02/4530699707/ but at least it’s starting to melt today
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Michael Johnson
SurrealtweetsMichael Johnson

Mid-April snowstorm in Maine, 4 inches on the ground thus far, surreal indeed.
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Michael Johnson
SurrealtweetsMichael Johnson

Steamed fish, temperance / hot rice, persimmons, and greed / virtue and vice, one price. Edible #haiku
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Michael Johnson
SurrealtweetsMichael Johnson

Winter storm, white rice / fresh ginger, sliced, no haircut / waving rye wafers. Edible #haiku #surreal
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Michael Johnson
SurrealtweetsMichael Johnson

not drunk, no, not yet / delighted by violets / not drunk, but trying. #haiku
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Michael Johnson
SurrealtweetsMichael Johnson

The rest of the wait staff ignores me, persona non grata to everyone but the dishwashers, who nod cautious approval. #cnftweet
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Michael Johnson
SurrealtweetsMichael Johnson

blue dancing minnows / trees without frogs or parsnips / cats swimming in wine. #surreal #haiku
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Michael Johnson
SurrealtweetsMichael Johnson

she orders sushi / seven soft kisses and rice / soy sauce and kindness. Edible #Haiku
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Meera Lee Sethi
gruntlemeMeera Lee Sethi

by Surrealtweets

Madeleine Peyroux sings; I have a sudden urge to kiss the bald head of the man in front of me. Peyroux: Your voice is not a toy. #cnftweet
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Michael Johnson
SurrealtweetsMichael Johnson

. . . dropped weights or snapped pulleys.” Good advice from “Annie’s Mailbox.”
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Michael Johnson
SurrealtweetsMichael Johnson

“Exercising in the nude is not uncommon and shouldn’t be dangerous unless sensitive body parts are in close proximity to . . .
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Michael Johnson
SurrealtweetsMichael Johnson

Yes, @JDeurbrouck, the metaphorical shelf holding the BOOK #cnftweet s is starting to sag from the weight of all those 140 character tomes
By piles of stuff at the Bark Yard, I mean dirt, sand, gravel, and perhaps mulch (the bark promised by the sign?)
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Michael Johnson
SurrealtweetsMichael Johnson

Still haven’t quite figured out what a Bark Yard is (it’s not the opposite of a Meow Yard), but they seem to have piles of stuff there.
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Michael Johnson
SurrealtweetsMichael Johnson

There really is a Bark Yard http://www.flickr.com/photos/36704245@N02/4505452477/ And it really is open
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Michael Johnson
SurrealtweetsMichael Johnson

Book ‘em, Dano, throw the book at him, let’s book it out of here, don’t forget to book the caterer, and call my bookie. #cnftweet
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Michael Johnson
SurrealtweetsMichael Johnson

One more 20th anniversary merch for @arrogantworms: Celine Dion stalking kit, complete with hair gel and tub of vaseline.
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Michael Johnson
SurrealtweetsMichael Johnson

Merch idea for @arrogantworms: 20th anniversary “Let’s Go Bowling” bowling bag.
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Michael Johnson
SurrealtweetsMichael Johnson

@arrogantworms Oven mitts are good too, especially if the oven mitts play a recording of “Dangerous” when you put them on.
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Michael Johnson
SurrealtweetsMichael Johnson

@arrogantworms 20 year old Scotch to celebrate the 20th anniversary? With big discounts for AW fans.
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Michael Johnson
SurrealtweetsMichael Johnson

A cow dreams of faith / fish dancing on the head of / such loud pigeons. #surreal #haiku
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Michael Johnson
SurrealtweetsMichael Johnson

A dog barks, courage / without thoughts of heat lightning / vodka, no tonic. #surreal #haiku
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Michael Johnson
SurrealtweetsMichael Johnson

Fortunately, his “Bark Yard Open” was worse than his “Bite Yard Open.”
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Michael Johnson
SurrealtweetsMichael Johnson

when lilacs last in the bark yard bloomed
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Michael Johnson
SurrealtweetsMichael Johnson

There are woods in many a back yard in Maine, so back yard and bark yard could be the same, and @busybeebee and @artsnob may both be right.
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Michael Johnson
SurrealtweetsMichael Johnson

“Bark Yard” could be a “forest” or a “private woods” @artsnob.
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Michael Johnson
SurrealtweetsMichael Johnson

“Frond Yard” and not “Bark Yard”? Perhaps @busybeebee, it could indeed be a sign painter with a spelling disorder.
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Michael Johnson
SurrealtweetsMichael Johnson

And even after realizing that the sign referred to trees, I’m still not entirely sure what a “Bark Yard” is.
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Michael Johnson
SurrealtweetsMichael Johnson

Puzzling sign on the drive home: “Bark Yard Open.” Eventually realized that the reference was to trees, not dogs.
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Michael Johnson
SurrealtweetsMichael Johnson

Easter lunch followed closely by Easter dinner, maybe not the best planning. . . .
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Michael Johnson
SurrealtweetsMichael Johnson

Photo, Easter, 1970: I’ve lost my clip-on tie (mom doesn’t know yet), my collar still buttoned, too tight, pinching my neck. #cnftweet
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Michael Johnson
SurrealtweetsMichael Johnson

about to pass out / somewhere in between here and / two dreams of red clouds #surreal #haiku
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Michael Johnson
SurrealtweetsMichael Johnson

In darkness, sparrows / Old bones, dust, tarnished fragments / a skylark singing. #surreal #haiku
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Michael Johnson
SurrealtweetsMichael Johnson

Dreams of eggs, hard \ boiled, cold rice, a single fish \ soft darkness, a kiss. #surreal #haiku
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Michael Johnson
SurrealtweetsMichael Johnson

@amalchik Other forbidden reading: A Chinese friend told me he secretly read smuggled copies of Whitman’s poetry during cultural revolution.
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Antonia Malchik
amalchikAntonia Malchik

by Surrealtweets

My father tells me of silent nights in Leningrad, his family passing loose pages of forbidden Solzhenitsyn with hungry fingers. #cnftweet
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Michael Johnson
SurrealtweetsMichael Johnson

rain rain rain and spoons / green tea and an orange cat / a horse snaps her purse #haiku #surreal
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Michael Johnson
SurrealtweetsMichael Johnson

green tea and an orange cat
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Michael Johnson
SurrealtweetsMichael Johnson

rain rain rain and spoons
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Michael Johnson
SurrealtweetsMichael Johnson

“Private Eyes” may simply be irredeemable.
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Michael Johnson
SurrealtweetsMichael Johnson

The Bird and the Bee even make “I Can’t Go for That” palatable (which I heretofore simply found inane, if catchy).
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Michael Johnson
SurrealtweetsMichael Johnson

Paticularly like “She’s Gone” (H&O’s version always sounded too cheerful and upbeat for a breakup song).
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Michael Johnson
SurrealtweetsMichael Johnson

Enjoying The Bird and the Bee’s new album of Hall and Oates cover songs (not really an H&O fan, but I do like B&B).
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Michael Johnson
SurrealtweetsMichael Johnson

My cats have given up on the NCAAs now that both the Wildcats teams have been defeated (one by, adding insult to injury, the BullDOGs).
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Michael Johnson
SurrealtweetsMichael Johnson

Not enough sleep, thought newspaper ad was for museum exhibit of “fiery poo.” (it was actually a “fiery pool.”) Need to catch up on sleep.
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Michael Johnson
SurrealtweetsMichael Johnson

@
@cnfonline Thanks for the RT!
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Creative Nonfiction
cnfonlineCreative Nonfiction

by Surrealtweets

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Michael Johnson
SurrealtweetsMichael Johnson

Baptised in a creek, my minister lost his grip and I sank down to the mud and rock. My faith hasn’t been the same since. #cnftweet
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Michael Johnson
SurrealtweetsMichael Johnson

I have squirrels in my attic. This is not a metaphor. They have chewed my soffits, eaten my eaves, fed on my fascias. #cnftweet
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Michael Johnson
SurrealtweetsMichael Johnson

Aider, why aider why whow, whow stop touch, aider whow, aider stop the muncher, muncher munchers. Gertrude Stein. #quote
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Michael Johnson
SurrealtweetsMichael Johnson

The combination of pop rocks and Pepsi killed him. He suffocated from the carbonation or his stomach exploded–not sure which. #cnftweet
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Michael Johnson
SurrealtweetsMichael Johnson

A little bird told me, I heard it through the grapevine, and Joe’s barber says it’s true, but you didn’t hear it from me. #cnftweet
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Michael Johnson
SurrealtweetsMichael Johnson

Monday passed without incident, despite the warnings from that obnoxious soothsayer.
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Michael Johnson
SurrealtweetsMichael Johnson

I have a feeling I should beware of something on Monday, but what?
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Michael Johnson
SurrealtweetsMichael Johnson

Possible Thursday Themes: snake charming, lion taming, or tame lions and charming snakes, sword swallowing, indigestion cures. #cnftweet
Other utensils deserving equality: cutting boards, mortars (AND pestles), measuring cups, egg timers, olive pitters #cnftweet
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Michael Johnson
SurrealtweetsMichael Johnson

Preparing for the surrealist salon by giving the fur on my coffee cups and spoons a good brushing. #fb
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Michael Johnson
SurrealtweetsMichael Johnson

too busy to tweet these past few days, but still can’t get those spoons off my mind
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Michael Johnson
SurrealtweetsMichael Johnson

Hope in gates, hope in SPOONS, hope in doors, hope in tables, no hope in daintiness and determination. Hope in dates. G Stein #quote
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Michael Johnson
SurrealtweetsMichael Johnson

Late for #cnftweet spoon theme, but the balancing lesson just happened, and thanks to @cnfonline, spoons are on my mind (but not my nose)
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Michael Johnson
SurrealtweetsMichael Johnson

“To balance a spoon from your nose, you have to tuck in your chin, and let the spoon dangle free, or you chin knocks it away.” #cnftweet
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Michael Johnson
SurrealtweetsMichael Johnson

At another table, a man tries to balance a spoon from his nose. My companion criticizes his technique: “His chin is in the way.” #cnftweet
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Michael Johnson
SurrealtweetsMichael Johnson

The gruesome graceful wet Timbuktu grew a beard madly, but the dirty bearded pen washed slowly.
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Michael Johnson
SurrealtweetsMichael Johnson

The lonely pineapple complains cunningly to the jubilant purple knickers, but the large idiotic goldfish objected objectively.
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Michael Johnson
SurrealtweetsMichael Johnson

from a game of exquisite corpse . . . .
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Michael Johnson
SurrealtweetsMichael Johnson

When she set a fur-covered spoon at my place, and carefully brushed the fur of the teacup before serving, I knew this was love. #cnftweet
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Michael Johnson
SurrealtweetsMichael Johnson

Silver wears: spoons gather in pools and become spools that loop gracefully and gleamingly across Silver’s soft skin
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Michael Johnson
SurrealtweetsMichael Johnson

@spitbarmy had to follow suit–can’t seem to think of spoons without thinking of them bent
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Michael Johnson
SurrealtweetsMichael Johnson

My neighbors held an exorcism. I don’t believe in spirits, but I once found my spoon bent in half by my plate. I’m glad I moved. #cnftweet
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Michael Johnson
SurrealtweetsMichael Johnson

The mystery of notes discovered on old pads: “mirrors, ceremonies, proposals, weddings, divorces, parties, dinners, food.” #cnftweet
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Arrogant Worms
arrogantwormsArrogant Worms

by Surrealtweets

For sale: Previously owned podium. Asking $117 million or best offer.
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Michael Johnson
SurrealtweetsMichael Johnson

seem to have slept through the big hockey game . . . good lord, how did my beard get so long?
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Michael Johnson
SurrealtweetsMichael Johnson

. . . underwater conflagration altercation . . .
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Michael Johnson
SurrealtweetsMichael Johnson

. . . spontaneous seashell combustion . . . .
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Michael Johnson
SurrealtweetsMichael Johnson

Scan cancellations / hoping for the correct name / seeking a snow day #haikuchallenge “scan”
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Michael Johnson
SurrealtweetsMichael Johnson

Snow day #haiku cancellations roll / across the television / there we are, at last
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Michael Johnson
SurrealtweetsMichael Johnson

Snow in Maine today–it’s been awhile.
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Michael Johnson
SurrealtweetsMichael Johnson

Enjoying reading the party-themed #cnftweet s but wondering if too much vicarious partying will be followed by a vicarious hangover.
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Michael Johnson
SurrealtweetsMichael Johnson

@spitballarmy I even opened a window to listen. When the sound didn’t get louder with the opening of the wndow, I realized I had been fooled
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Michael Johnson
SurrealtweetsMichael Johnson

Thought I heard the sound of spring peepers but was sadly mistaken–it was just a hidden track at the end of a Neko Case CD. #cnftweet
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Michael Johnson
SurrealtweetsMichael Johnson

. . . . contemplating penguins . . . .
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Michael Johnson
SurrealtweetsMichael Johnson

Dance tomato, dance artichoke, your wedding day will be as clear as the gaze of carp. B Peret #quote
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Michael Johnson
SurrealtweetsMichael Johnson

My tomatoes are riper than your wooden shoes. B Peret #quote
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Michael Johnson
SurrealtweetsMichael Johnson

A bird in the hand, two in the bush, let the one go to join the others. #surrealproverbs
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Michael Johnson
SurrealtweetsMichael Johnson

Fish is a dish best served as revenge. #surrealproverbs
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Michael Johnson
SurrealtweetsMichael Johnson

What is strangest is inseparable from love, presiding over its revelation in individual as well as in collective terms. A Breton #quote
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Michael Johnson
SurrealtweetsMichael Johnson

If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, despairing state of affairs imaginable. A Breton #quote
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Michael Johnson
SurrealtweetsMichael Johnson

@spitballarmy Good advice indeed! And I’ll see what I can do to clean up those sidewalks for your parents.
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Michael Johnson
SurrealtweetsMichael Johnson

#cnftweet-ers sure have had a lot of experience with boredom, and they’re not afraid to tell the tale
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Michael Johnson
SurrealtweetsMichael Johnson

@kmwalsh loved the Heathrow #cnftweet I looked through the first 10-15 chair photos, will save the rest for when I’m somewhere waiting.
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Michael Johnson
SurrealtweetsMichael Johnson

Radio-free Missouri, a friend calls it, and I’m driving north to Iowa, when the cassette tape breaks and jams the player. #cnftweet
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Michael Johnson
SurrealtweetsMichael Johnson

Topeka to Emporia, 50 some miles of interstate, not a “world’s largest ball of twine,” not even a curve, to break the monotony. #cnftweet
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Michael Johnson
SurrealtweetsMichael Johnson

As I load my snowblower back up after clearing a sidewalk and ride off into the sunset, I’ll hear a child yell, “Come back, Shane!”
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Michael Johnson
SurrealtweetsMichael Johnson

Thinking I should load up my snowblower and head south, and help out my snowed-in friends with my snow removal experience and equipment.
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Michael Johnson
SurrealtweetsMichael Johnson

Strangely snowless in Maine, watching the news reports of heavy snow so very nearby, can’t decide if I’m pleased or disappointed.
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Michael Johnson
SurrealtweetsMichael Johnson

@bloodypickle Thanks for the RT! Yes, morose, repose, prose, a lovely language to contain so many roses.
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Michael Johnson
SurrealtweetsMichael Johnson

@artsnob Thanks for the RT. I guess Valentine’s Day IS coming up, but mainly it’s reading Gertrude Stein that has me contemplating roses.
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Michael Johnson
SurrealtweetsMichael Johnson

In prose, a rose. In every rose, eros.
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Michael Johnson
SurrealtweetsMichael Johnson

In every snore, a rose. In every store, a rose. In every roster, a rose.
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Michael Johnson
SurrealtweetsMichael Johnson

Birds gotta fly, fish gotta swim, cats gotta nap.
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Michael Johnson
SurrealtweetsMichael Johnson

As through a sheet of cellophane, crinkly.
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Michael Johnson
SurrealtweetsMichael Johnson

@amalchik Thanks! Glad you enjoyed the #cnftweet–I so enjoy reading and writing those theme thursday tweets
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Michael Johnson
SurrealtweetsMichael Johnson

My grandfather is not dead, as my mother tells me, just despised. I’ve heard whispers from uncles: still alive, still drinking. #cnftweet
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Michael Johnson
SurrealtweetsMichael Johnson

He’s come by air from NYC. We stand at the coast, watching waves; a smile breaks over his face, “My God, it’s so quiet.” #cnftweet
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Michael Johnson
SurrealtweetsMichael Johnson

The best thing about leftover pumpkin cheesecake is leftover pumpkin cheesecake. And coffee. #fb
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Michael Johnson
SurrealtweetsMichael Johnson

pumpkin cheesecake pumpkin cheesecake pumpkin cheesecake coffee
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Michael Johnson
SurrealtweetsMichael Johnson

Cold but sunny today, beautiful drive out to coast, good weather for lighthouse viewing.

31 Jan 10 Fa

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