Today we played the run-on sentence game, where I was given a topic, and then had to write a long sentence in relation to that topic. Here are my sentences. Perhaps one day, I’ll come up with a more serious blog post that will leave the reader with something more than bewilderment…. but not today.
Topic 1: A rock star that’s scared of loud noises
As he gazed down in disgust at the mosh pit of gyrating college students too drunk to have any clue whether or not he was actually singing or whether his ’58 limited edition Gibson really had all five strings in tack, he realized with terror that his least favorite part of the concert was coming up and that he would have to endure the screeching sound of the pyrotechnic explosions which hid his escape into the trap door under his feet so that he could run down the ten foot tunnel, up the fifty-step staircase, and re-appear in the scaffolding above the crowd in order to bungee jump inches above their heads just as the last few lines of the song brought everything to an all too sensory-overloaded climax.
Topic 2: What’s a clown doing here?
The crowd was a mixture of half-asleep men and teary-eyed woman who eagerly watched as John and Mary stumbled happily through their vows with the patient help of Father George until everything was brought to an abrupt stop at the entry of an all too enthusiastic clown dressed in purple polka dots and honking the horn of his 5-foot unicycle as he rode down the aisle to the tune of Yankee Doodle and threw candy out into the audience, an act that succeeded to get the attention of all the men who had previously been dreaming of perfecting their golf swing and scaring the two babies in the back row who immediately started screaming until their frantic mothers hastily gathered them up to take them outside so that they would not disturb John and Mary who hadn’t quite recovered from the shock of the unexpected wedding guest and were trying to decide whether to laugh, cry, or just skip to the kiss that they’d been perfecting for quite some time.
