Monday, September 05, 2005
Henniway you look at it, the Scratch is back, and many have been itching for it. It has been a corn filled summer in Hatchburg. For the month of August, Rosie cooked up a new corn dish every day. Rusty tried them all, and he and Raymond picked the Roasted Corn’s roasted corn salad as the dish most worth crossing the road for. Check out the roasted corn recipe published in the Feedbag.
Narcisse is unpacking her new fall line. She sent a note to Condi Rice announcing that the Casual Coop has chic feathered ensembles by Henceforth that will look perfect the next time Condi meets the press to explain why she was shoe shopping at Feragamo’s while the cries from New Orleans were rising. Hatchburgians have taken up the call to donate food and clothing to the victims of FEMA’s feeble response to Katrina. On Labor Day Henrietta stood on the corner of Broad Breast St. and Straw Ave, and handed out copies of Paul Krugman’s and Bob Herbert’s columns from the September 6th issue of the New York Times. She highlighted Paul’s second paragraph where he reports that the U.S.S. Bataan, which can produce 100,000 gallons of fresh water per day, and is equipped with six operating rooms, and hundreds of hospital beds has been sitting like a hen on an egg off the Gulf Coast since last Monday, devoid of patients. But as Bob Herbert says, at the head of his column, “Bush to New Orleans: Drop Dead.” They have, and they will continue to do so. What Mavis wants to know is: how many of the Bush man’s supporters finally get the message that a village in Texas has lost its idiot and New Orleans has the corpses to prove it? Mavis is closing Cutter’s pharmacy, and is headed to New Orleans to share her pharmacy supplies with the victims of Katrina. Miss Daisy is responding to the crisis by donating all her September profits from her candy store to the relief effort. Rusty, Raymond, and Sassy are supporting Daisy by stopping in every afternoon to buy their favorite treat: jelly worms and candied flies.
On a happier note, Hatchburg High is gearing up for their 40th high school reunion. Feathers or Not Beauty Salon is booked solid for the day of the reunion (Oct 28th). Reba is so stressed she has started biting her nails, and pulling our her tail feathers. She called Juliet Fricasee and scheduled a Pollame Psychotherapy session for her nerves, and an appointment for silk wraps at Toe the Line. Chicks are booking pedicures and feet massage to get ready for what promises to be a night of cackling and high wing flapping. Rumor has it that the class of ‘65 has produced some prized fowl.
On Hatchburg’s romantic front, Eloise had a loved filled summer. She finally got over last summer’s rotten rooster and has been grilling vegetables and sitting by the pool with a new rooster that she met on hatchmatch.com. On August 31, Eloise made a batch of del Fabro’s (check the Feedbag, Wednesdy Jan 07, 2004, for the recipe) to celebrate Martha Stewart’s freedom. She sent her a tube of Toe the Line’s soothing skin cream and suggested that Martha massage her ankle every night to rub away any flashbacks she might have from sleeping on low thread count sheets.
Leroy and Eula spent their summer engaged in political activism. Eula joined Cindy Sheehan in Texas, and she and Leroy are preparing for the big anti- war rally scheduled for the end of September in DC. Leroy says Bush has fouled the nest of the US and Leroy will march until he has lost his last feather.
Until we crack another egg, this is all the news for now. Next time Hatchburgians reveal eggsactly what they think about Judge John G. Roberts Jr. Talk about a cracked shell...
Narcisse is unpacking her new fall line. She sent a note to Condi Rice announcing that the Casual Coop has chic feathered ensembles by Henceforth that will look perfect the next time Condi meets the press to explain why she was shoe shopping at Feragamo’s while the cries from New Orleans were rising. Hatchburgians have taken up the call to donate food and clothing to the victims of FEMA’s feeble response to Katrina. On Labor Day Henrietta stood on the corner of Broad Breast St. and Straw Ave, and handed out copies of Paul Krugman’s and Bob Herbert’s columns from the September 6th issue of the New York Times. She highlighted Paul’s second paragraph where he reports that the U.S.S. Bataan, which can produce 100,000 gallons of fresh water per day, and is equipped with six operating rooms, and hundreds of hospital beds has been sitting like a hen on an egg off the Gulf Coast since last Monday, devoid of patients. But as Bob Herbert says, at the head of his column, “Bush to New Orleans: Drop Dead.” They have, and they will continue to do so. What Mavis wants to know is: how many of the Bush man’s supporters finally get the message that a village in Texas has lost its idiot and New Orleans has the corpses to prove it? Mavis is closing Cutter’s pharmacy, and is headed to New Orleans to share her pharmacy supplies with the victims of Katrina. Miss Daisy is responding to the crisis by donating all her September profits from her candy store to the relief effort. Rusty, Raymond, and Sassy are supporting Daisy by stopping in every afternoon to buy their favorite treat: jelly worms and candied flies.
On a happier note, Hatchburg High is gearing up for their 40th high school reunion. Feathers or Not Beauty Salon is booked solid for the day of the reunion (Oct 28th). Reba is so stressed she has started biting her nails, and pulling our her tail feathers. She called Juliet Fricasee and scheduled a Pollame Psychotherapy session for her nerves, and an appointment for silk wraps at Toe the Line. Chicks are booking pedicures and feet massage to get ready for what promises to be a night of cackling and high wing flapping. Rumor has it that the class of ‘65 has produced some prized fowl.
On Hatchburg’s romantic front, Eloise had a loved filled summer. She finally got over last summer’s rotten rooster and has been grilling vegetables and sitting by the pool with a new rooster that she met on hatchmatch.com. On August 31, Eloise made a batch of del Fabro’s (check the Feedbag, Wednesdy Jan 07, 2004, for the recipe) to celebrate Martha Stewart’s freedom. She sent her a tube of Toe the Line’s soothing skin cream and suggested that Martha massage her ankle every night to rub away any flashbacks she might have from sleeping on low thread count sheets.
Leroy and Eula spent their summer engaged in political activism. Eula joined Cindy Sheehan in Texas, and she and Leroy are preparing for the big anti- war rally scheduled for the end of September in DC. Leroy says Bush has fouled the nest of the US and Leroy will march until he has lost his last feather.
Until we crack another egg, this is all the news for now. Next time Hatchburgians reveal eggsactly what they think about Judge John G. Roberts Jr. Talk about a cracked shell...
