Archive for: May 2014

Ways You Could Die #2

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WAYS YOU COULD DIE #2

A 40-part series by Dr. Jimmy, Coma Physician, Divorced Father, Sometimes Goth, Weekend Raver

I am constantly asked about death.

Most people who come to visit me in my office are concerned about one thing; are they going to die?

In most cases the answer is yes, they are going to die at some point.

The reality stirs anxiety in my patients and I realized that I could help ease their concerns if I reminded them they are likely to die of heart disease or cancer and not from some terrible, horrific accident.

I’ve created a series of graphic descriptions on the many manners of death a person is not likely to die.

This series has been therapeutic to my patients and I’m hoping it will help you as well.

So please enjoy and remember that although the description below is plausible, you are far more likely to die from some run-of-the-mill disease or auto accident.

ANSWERING A KNIFE PHONE

It is almost a certainty that sometime in the near future, a smart phone with a knife attachment will be invented.

This will represent the culmination of thousands of years of technical evolution and will mark a high-point in human history.

No longer will people have to choose whether to carry a cellular phone OR a knife- with the new knife phone, they will have the luxury of both.

You are a creature of habit and for thousands of years, humans placed the cell phone device near their ear.

Shortly after purchasing your new knife phone, you are sitting at home preparing a delicious sheet of Totino’s Pizza Rolls.  Your mind is singularly focused on the directions located on the back of the bag.

It's really easy to make Totino's Pizza rolls.

It’s really easy to make Totino’s Pizza rolls.

Suddenly, your phone rings.  Without thinking, you grab the phone and draw it toward your ear.

It is only a matter of seconds now until you die so don’t worry.  For a moment, you have clarity and higher level understanding that you just stabbed your brain with your new knife phone.

Mmmm...limited Mexican style pizza.

Mmmm…limited Mexican style pizza.

Your last thoughts are of the delicious pan of pizza rolls that would take a longer period of time to kill you and you wish you’d lived long enough to eat them.

And then you die.

Coma Weekly FREECYCLE Digest

Freecycling is when a person passes on, for free, an unwanted item to another person who needs that item. From silverware to mobile homes, people worldwide are choosing to freecycle rather than discard.

[FreecycleComa] TAKEN: Size 5 Huggies overnight diapers slightly used.

We had a lot of takers. We decided to keep some just in case. No more emails please.

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[FreecycleComa] TAKEN : Ceiling Fan with Light

This was taken

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[FreecycleComa] OFFER: old shagging balls

I have a bag of old golf balls and practice balls for shagging.

Email Jimmy for time to meet.

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townofcoma (at) gmail.com

Hats (And Pants) Off to Tuesdays

By Thomas Steven John, Future Beat Reporter

Residents living in Coma’s largest and most influential neighborhood better start checking their wardrobes.
The board of the All-Drama Homeowners Association (HOA) will vote next week to require neighborhood residents to wear fancy hats and no pants every Tuesday.

 

This man has a hat on that is so fancy he doesn't need to wear pants.

This man has a hat on that is so fancy he doesn’t need to wear pants.

The future news came to this reporter in a Peyote-fueled fever dream.
“This is a morale booster because members of the HOA board agree that Tuesdays make us sad.” said Dee Collins, the HOA’s treasurer.
The sprawling HOA encompasses several Coma neighborhoods including the heavily populated reminants of the “Actors and Musicians Trailer Park” which is sponsored by the Coma Players.
The members of the failed artists community dominate the leadership ranks of the HOA since other residents rarely participate due to time-consuming demands of jobs, bathing and attending Starbucks two for one Frappe afternoons.

“They’re gonna what?” said Robert McGuiness, a neighborhood resident, when told of the impending rules. “Can I at least wear a bloody kilt?”

The split has produced some tension between the HOA and “normals,” neighborhood leaders said.
“The public rarely understands or appreciates how much these people have to suffer for their art,” Marlee Bumgartner, Coma activist and shut-in, said about her fellow HOA leaders. “And a great way for them to learn is to make them free themselves from their pants.”
Bumgartner uses Skype, Facebook and Twitter to perform with the Coma Players and to serve on the HOA board since she rarely leaves the house.

Coma Weekly Police Blotter

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May 5, 2014, 2:45 pm- House of the Little Peoples, Coma- on 11th street in Coma reports of a man across the street standing in his window and watching the center, making parents nervous. Coma Sherrif Paul T. Frostnib I.D. the subject as a life-size card-board cut out of Jon Favreau.

May 6, 2014, 8:11pm – Dispatch- Reports of a meatloaf running east on Market Street.

May 8, 2014, 9:57pm – Coma Active Living Community Apartments-  An elderly man reported a dispute with his next door neighbor/wife who is refusing to bring him his casserole.

 

 

Council Transforms to ‘Save the World’

By Coma News Staff

The Coma Town Council plans to follow the example of the Beatles this summer and start a revolution–with music.
The governing body announced Monday that it will take the summer off from legislating to exercise the power of music as their Oldies band ‘Save the World’.

“We are the generation who ‘Can’t Get No Satisfaction’, ‘We are the world,’ we wanna go ‘All Night Long’ and, of course, we’ll paint a rainbow and then ‘Paint it Black’,” said Councilwoman Natalie Peters. “We’ve realized our greatest gift to share is not just our ‘Taxman’ council power but the pure power of our ‘Here Comes the Sun’–every Friday on the Coma Town Commons.”

The Band, pictured here in the 60s, is using the new music to help the younger generations understand how wonderful they were and are.

The Band, pictured here in the 60s, is using the new music of the 60s, 70s and 80s to help younger generations understand how wonderful they were and are.

 

The 7:30pm Friday performances throughout the summer will feature Peters on the tambourine, Mayor Dave Anderson on vocals and Councilman Bob Smith-Smith, who will play guitar in character as Spazzo the Clown.

 

“I’m playing in character because Spazzo has brought joy and valuable lessons over the years to numerous children, including my son, Jon, who is a ‘tiny dancer in my hand’,” Smith-Smith said about the 35-year-old college graduate who is living in his basement.

Natalie Peters will only give up her tambourine for a Coach purse and only if someone is willing to carry that "oversized large expensive purse" for her.

Natalie Peters will only give up her tambourine for a Coach purse and only if someone is willing to carry that “oversized large expensive purse” for her.

Smith-Smith said the summer tour, which could expand to other small towns in the region, was the latest way for his generation to display its intent – to be ‘Forever Young’ where we live forever and ‘Don’t Fear the Reaper’ with hip replacements and stay up when ‘The Levee Breaks’  with Viagra.

“What do do after you’ve changed the world, invented the hippie commune, taken greed to new heights on Wall Street, and turned the awesomeness of sex with anyone or anything into class warfare?” Anderson said. “You take it on the road.”

Other Coma leaders expressed little concern over the Council’s hiatus.

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“There’s plenty of rules to enforce until they come back with new ideas and hopefully a Delorian,” said Sheriff Paul T. Frostnib.

The band already hired a part-time roadie, Sadie Cracker, who declined to comment.

Coma Weekly FREECYCLE Digest

Freecycling is when a person passes on, for free, an unwanted item to another person who needs that item. From silverware to mobile homes, people worldwide are choosing to freecycle rather than discard.

 

 

[FreecycleComa] wanted: kegerator

My old kegerator broke. Used to keep it in my trunk. Don’t want to buy a new one. Drop off near the rectory at our Lady of the Reedemer.

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[FreecycleComa] OFFER: Keurig coffee maker and George Foreman‏

The Keurig coffee maker has stopped working but I’m certain it could get up and running again in the right hands. It’s in great shape and wasn’t used too much, but it just isn’t working and it electrocutes you when you plug it in.

The George Foreman is a large family size. Still in good working condition. It’s a grill not the man.

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townofcoma at gmail.com

 

[FreecycleComa] OFFER: Vintage Tiffany Style Lamp near the Coma Funeral Home

Turtle  Tiffany-style lamp.  Appx 18″ diameter x 14″ tall.  Cream/yellow/blue/green glass w/white globe.  Needs much TLC.  Glass broken out. Fragile & may need expert attention including soldering, but fully functional when working and not broken.

Pickup by Tuesday, if interested.  Thank you!

Dee Collins townofcoma at gmail.com

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‘Coma News’ Pioneers Pay Innovations

By Thomas Steven John, Future News Reporter
Coma News Daily will institute a series of “cutting edge compensation innovations,” next week, including replacing its journalists’ salaries with a selection of coupons, the owner confirmed.

Your not just reporting the news you're getting free fried chicken.

You’re not just reporting the news you’re getting free fried chicken.

The as-yet unannounced compensation switch came to this reporter in a peyote-fueled fever dream.
Davis Montgomery, publisher of Coma News Daily, grudgingly admitted the coming remuneration changes.
“We just couldn’t make numbers work paying you reporters actual money but the coupons will make goods and services so affordable as to be nearly free,” Montgomery said in a phone interview from Davis III, one of his fleet of G7 jets.

Montgomery plans to offer the newspaper’s reporters and editors the chance to supplement their coupons with cash earned from weekend farm labor on the publisher’s equestrian estate. Other compensation changes include the closure of the dilapidated group house the editorial staff rents from Davis in town in exchange for hay loft space in a Davis stable.

Don Johnson Michaels is editor of Coma News Daily and works on my farm for free on the weekend as part of his compensation package at the newspaper.

Don Johnson Michaels is editor of Coma New Daily and is wonderful at brushing the horses.

“The fresh air and vigorous life amid nature’s bounty will do a world of good for these nattering nay bobs of negativity,” Montgomery said about the editorial staff. “Seriously, these people desperately need to learn to enjoy life.”

“Sleeping in a hay loft?” Don Johnson Michaels, the publication’s editor, said when told about the pay and benefits changes. “First divorce, then kidney stones and now waking up to horses__t. This is turning into a hell of a week.”

Coma News was unable to get a comment from Robert McGuiness, a former reporter at the newspaper and local media critic, because McGuiness began laughing so hard at the news that he chocked on his meal at Bear’s Biker Bar, vomited and passed out.

Before he was fired from Coma News Daily, Robert McGuiness spent most of his summer working weekends on the farm.

Before he was fired from Coma News Daily, Robert McGuiness spent most of his summer working weekends on the farm.

Mud, Paintball: More Fun Than Gaming?

By Coma News Staff

The first time Chase Donovan touched a tree was when he was 12 years old. But now he regularly rides over saplings with gusto.

Like many other Coma kids, Donovan transformed from a video game addicted, 250 lb. pre-teen slob to an fit, socially aware young man with the help of The Coma Games.

 

Now Donovan is to give back by volunteering at the 5th annual event which aims to address the various “epidemics” afflicting children of the town by constructively engaging them in their environment. Specifically, Donovan is helping to run the Coma Games’ ATV races “for fat kids.”

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Chase Donovan is no longer fat now that he discovered “the outdoors are fun”.

“It’s what got me to consider that maybe not every non-Xbox activity was totally lame,” Donovan said about the race. “I had never moved anywhere near that fast through the woods so I pretty much became a speed junky after that.”

Jax Owen, who supervises the ages 14-15 Jeep-based Mud Bogging competition, said he has seen more success stories like Donovan than he can count.

Mud bogging was added to the Coma games and has become one of the most popular additions.

Mud bogging was added to the Coma games and has become one of the most popular additions.

“Once you give kids access to high-powered motorized vehicles and paint guns, you pretty much can’t get them to sit in front of a TV again,” Owen said. “And it doesn’t hurt that they give me all the vehicles, paintball guns and other equipment when this thing is over.”