NakedSunfish.com - Spontaneous and Sporadic

Conk & Bone

Raconteur Theatre
at Club Diversity
Columbus, Ohio

by Rick Brown

The Sarasota Blues and Music Festival

Ed Smith Stadium (sort of)
Sarasota, Florida
September 29, 2012

by
Rick Brown

The Non Fiction Theater of the Truly Mundane
proudly presents:

Eye of the Beholder

by Rick Brown

Scene: An opticians’ office. Stage right has glass displays of the newest eyeglass frames. Stage left is a customer service area with four service stations. Rick is seated at one of the stations. An attractive, professionally dressed, smartly spectacled, white haired woman is helping fit him with new bifocals. Her nametag reads “Ellen”. Music plays softly in the background.

Ellen (Gently placing the glasses on Rick’s nose) – How is this now Richard?

Rick (Looking around the room.) – Well, I’m afraid it’s still a bit blurry.

Ellen – Oh my. Well, it usually takes a while to adjust to new bifocals.

Rick – I think it might be because I have only one good eye. You know, even as a kid I looked at things crooked … cocked my head. My teachers all thought I copped an attitude. So I did because I felt I had to. But that’s how I look at things even now. And the glasses don’t accommodate the crooked look thing. Does that make sense
Ellen?

Ellen – Yes, Yes it does Richard. But wait … let me try just one more thing okay?

Rick hands the eyewear back to Ellen and she leaves the room for a moment. Ellen soon returns, walking confidently back to her station. She sits and begins cleaning the lenses with a cloth.

Rick – Maybe it’s just because I’m getting old. I turned the big 6 - 0 last year!

Ellen – (Smiling) Well … I’m 10 years ahead of you.

Rick – No way!

Rick leans in closer to Ellen, across her station.

Rick (Congenially) – But you know … you’re still a babe!

Ellen giggles quietly … then smiles broadly.

Ellen (Cheerfully) – Now Richard … I need to remind you that I am holding your new glasses and you do not have your contact lens IN!

Curtain

Cast:
Ellen - her attractive, professionally dressed, smartly spectacled, white haired self
Rick – his one eyed, crooked looking, cocky eyed self

Blanket

by
Rick Brown

Prologue:

It was a gift for our wedding … way back in June 1974. It’s just a simple, generic blanket really … a thick dark green flat soft cotton with fake satin trim. Yvonne and I … along with a myriad of other people we’ve shared it with … have had and continue to have … fun on the thing. There have been concerts, picnics, plays, and some “wild times” that I will leave to your imagination. This old, beat up green blanket has many a story in its history. This is just one ... but this one tells how a green, square piece of cloth got an affectionate nickname.

Continued...

Hmmm's

by
Rick Brown

Hmmm # 52

Here’s one
they deleted:
In the beginning
Yahweh sautéed up
a big mess
a onions.

Hmmm # 53

Ninety- nine percent
of folks
NEVER …
“Take the hint”.

Hmmm # 54

The U.S. Constitution
is not
the Bible.
In fact
the Bible isn’t even
the Bible.

Flowers and Trees

by
Morris Jackson

Art_Cathy

Peru Vispo

by
C. Mehrl Bennett
Blog:
http://cmehrlbennett.wordpress.com

Each Day

by
Dennis Toth

Each day
Dissolves
Like dew.
Each day
Descends
To darkness
Falls.
Each day
Repeats
Its dawn.

Scattered lives
Entwined like
Webs.
Scattered thoughts
Unwound
So slowly
Like tumbleweed
In a desert
Breeze.

Nothing last
It seems
And nothing
Adds with
Interest
Till all the
Zeros
Tally in an
Endless row.

Once, in the
Facing mirrors of
A barbershop
I could see the
Future. An
Infinite loop
That stretched
Forever
Like a dream.

http://leavesofcrass.blogspot.com/

Rick's book, Best Bites is available at:
Lulu.com & Amazon.com

chicago

Chicago

Shadowbox Live
The Brewery District
Columbus, Ohio

by Rick Brown

Holiday Hoopla XXI

Shadowbox Live
The Worly Building
Brewery District
Columbus, Ohio

by
Rick Brown

by Sue Olcott

Click Here

SB Moon

Full Moon

Shadowbox Live
The Worly Building
Brewery District
Columbus, Ohio

By Rick Brown

Untitled
by
Cyndi O'Leary

Cyndi Needs a Firewall
Cyndi needs a new look
Cyndi is sick of this layout now

Cyndi needs lots of room
Cyndi is brilliant, but not organized.

Cyndi needs to start with a great video
Cyndi needs fabulous costumes

Cyndi wants to ask you out
Cyndi wants to take you down
Cyndi wants truth and justice

just not the American way
(the world needs more people like her.)

Cyndi needs stilettos and a sexy walk
Cyndi doesn't worry about falling
Cyndi needs icing and stack of cakes
Cyndi longs for free therapy
Cyndi craves unabbreviated love

Dear Cyndi has Gender Issues
(between you and me cyndi wants it all)

Cyndi needs prayer
Cyndi is making a deal with god
Cyndi is selling her soul to the devil
Cyndi needs to freaking love Cyndi

Everyone needs to back off

Cyndi has had enough
Cyndi needs to develop her warrior side
Cyndi wants to push you around
cyndi wants to ruin your reputation
Cyndi wants to give them something to talk about
cyndi wants to push you down
cyndi wants to upset the neighbors
Cyndi wants to tie you up
cyndi is looking for trouble

Cyndi Needs A Fix
Like You Wouldn’t Believe

Cyndi is in your business
cyndi is causing a scene
Cyndi needs anarchy
Cyndi is blowing up your cause

Cyndi is having a hard time meeting needs

Cyndi needs a fantasy
Cyndi needs to check her hat at the door
Cyndi needs hard words in a declining world
Cyndi needs better lighting
Cyndi needs wheels on a road

Cyndi is keepin it real

Cyndi isn’t a studio
Cyndi doesn't need playback

Cyndi needs a tiny miracle
Cyndi needs to get started
Cyndi needs to feel her heart again
Cyndi needs to be face to face
Cyndi needs to be touched
Cyndi needs to be reached
Cyndi needs to be scared
Cyndi needs to be warmed

Cyndi doesn't need to prove it
Cyndi doesn't need to explain

Cyndi needs a rushing river
Cyndi needs a flood
Cyndi is dying of thirst
Cyndi carries a heavy load
Cyndi needs to read this

Cyndi needs you now
Cyndi need you more than ever

Cyndi needs to strip off
everything that isn't Cyndi

Cyndi needs a firewall