Hey hey hey!
Are you enjoying your winter break? Or were you brought to our blog out of a desperation for entertainment?
Either way, at a Spectrum meeting several weeks ago, we had a creative prompt with only one rule: The piece must include the lovely words you see in the title of this post.
Some of the results of this prompt are as follows:
Cheesy Pick-Up Lines!
- Your smile’s as bright as the California sun.
- I wanna hop on you like a frog on a lily pad.
- Let’s do it like bunnies.
- Girl are you a dangerous criminal? Because you sure stole my heart.
- I would live in a pineapple under the sea with you (?)
-Anonymous
- California was bigger than… you know… the other state with a Disney theme-park. Flo-Rida or something. No? My bad—the Disney World state, not the singer.
- The green frog was as jumpy as a brown frog. Like those two in Frog and Toad. Except toad’s, you know, a toad. And one of them is a scaredy-cat, don’t remember which one.
- The white cat was as white as a bunny. Who was white. And alive. And not soaked in mud. Did I mention it was white?
- “This is dangerous, you know. You could be risking everything—your happiness, your job, your home…”
“That’s a pretty lame-ass sort of dangerous. I haven’t been happy since I discovered I still had college loans to pay off, killing monsters is my job—if I didn’t do this, I’d be risking my job anyways—And I haven’t had a proper home since the last Ben N Jerry’s in the state closed down.” - “What are you two doing?”
“Not each other, that’s for sure. Or eating pineapples. Or taxes, or eating pineapples. Did I mention that we’re not eating pineapples?”
“You’re eating the MISSION! We’re supposed to be delivering that pineapple!”
-Kami-Sama
Sorry I kept these jewels from you for so long, but you know–finals, life, etc. The good news is, 2015 means a new year, a new semester, and a new Spectrum issue! We’re going to need all the help we can get to make sure our Spring 2015 Issue the very best it can be!
So how can you help? Come to meetings! Our first one of the semester is two weeks from tomorrow: Monday, January 12. Too busy to join us? You can submit your poetry, prose, and art 24/7 to spectrum.magazine@gmail.com, or buy clicking the “Submit” tab on this website.
Happy New Year!
— Elke