Wednesday, May 20, 2026

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I Look Like a Fruitcake

My hair is all mullet on top and
Navy SEAL around the bottom.
Bottom?  Top?  Fruitcake.
“No offense to myself meant,”
said Jon Stewart to his good
pal last night.  He was talking
about looking like a snow
monkey, about how “You
know what I look horrible
in these days?” or some
such.  Punchline: “Pictures!”
He was talking about aging
with the friend with whom
he’d started working some twenty-
seven years previous.  It seemed
an honest bit, one with which I
could certainly relate.
“None taken,” he added,
a bit mumbly, off-the-cuff,
in response to himself,
sitting next to his
longtime friend.
“Who wants a
hairnet full of
fruitcake?”
That was just me
punching backwards,
something I do on occasion
for a bit of extra energy.

fruitcake