Auditioning at the Palladium

The impresario declined to sign Yorick's Trained Bees when it transpired that it took them more than 45 minutes to construct a scale model of Blenheim Palace from random pieces of lumber.

Overheard in the bosky dell

"Green Man my ass!  Go ahead, tell me again how you can 'regenerate' at will!  Fucking liar."

Meanwhile, in Milledgeville

Celine was certain that adding pointy ears to her one-woman show portrayal of Flannery O'Connor would add a soupçon of whimsy, but she was mistaken.

Behind the scenes

Rehearsing their Beyoncé lipsynch for the talent show only served to scare the poultry.

A weird too far

Most of his friends were cool with the tattoos, but even his girlfriend recoiled at Albert's skull implants.

Behold the power of Maximino!

"Holy fuck, how'd you do that??"

Discretion, after all, is vital in these mattters

"For God's sake, Gabriela, at least let me close the door before he goes down on you!"

Meanwhile in Bavaria...

Joachim based his hopes on the "Wile E. Coyote Principle," i.e., if he couldn't see the abyss, he'd never fall.

I don't know...

"Heh heh... heh heh..."

Meanwhile, on the Playa...

Mæja and Ásgeir founded the quintessential Burning Man camp.  

(The fewmets were a bit of a MOOP issue, though.)

Easy-peasy

 

It was hard to believe, Ivan thought, but soon he'd have a vagina and his journey would be complete.

One day in Phrygia...

That's when the cherubs' foot fetish took an ugly turn.

What Sebastian wants...

"There," said Sebastian.  "Let's give the city fathers another chance to send out all the 19-year-old boys before we hit them with another orb."

Slow to rise

Christian was not prepared to say that he fully understood the community theatre director's concept for Angels in America, but as it got him one step closer to coming out to his mother, he went along with it.

A boy and his dolphin

Kevin thought his sexual quirks were harmless, but he was wrong.  They were disgusting.

Rushing the Betas

Axel awoke to find himself in the woods somewhere, clad only in a yeti-like straitjacket, and he wondered groggily if every pledge had to go through this, or was it only the dance majors?

Meanwhile, out in the garden...

"Dude, what was in that shit?  The air is, like, colours!"

Keeping up with the jonesing

"Nope, still not enough," said the callous dealer.  "No meth for you this week, granny."

An age-old problem

Pèire hated that the children in the village made fun little Estève, but he knew he would never be able to afford the surgery to remove the growth from his son's head.

On the Orpheum circuit

Peg's peacock balancing act took off after she changed her name to The Amazing Sègoléne.

Making the sale

"Okay, these truffles are fine, but really I'm more in the market for fly agaric.  Or psilocybe cubensis if you can find them."

An odd duck, indeed

Bonifaas didn't like to play rough with the other boys, preferring the company of the local geese.  Unfortunately, they soon turned on him.