Orange Pirate
Smashing his mother’s pumpkins, Peter the perturbed pedantic pirate sought to alleviate his concern for oft over-looked 1990s bands. He thought it poetic to demonstrate such enthusiasm for their work by creating their very symbol on the ship deck in front of the young crew–minds daily shaped under his tutelage, burgeoning with ardor.
Melvin
Melvin Kelvin as he was affectionately known by his parents, was obsessed with the temperature of light. He gravitated toward the cooler-colored end of the spectrum, believing tungsten and daylight to be shades of the past. A man of halogens and fluorescents by conviction, he felt it an obligation, nay, divine ordination, to sing their praises in the streets, always at night, beneath a green or blue hue, so he didn’t have to wear temperature sunglasses in public during the day.
The Day of Earth 2009
“Happy Earth Day!” cried Wilma the waitress while waiting for her latte at Starbucks. She wanted a water to wash down her coffee but couldn’t bear to ask for an uncompostable plastic cup. Not today.
