Frankenberry's Attic

(…”and dragged a comb across my head”) When I first moved into my former apartment in Hyde Park, back in December of 2014, I quickly learned why my only request of the building manager that my new digs be on the top (3rd) floor was the best of all possible requests. I can’t imagine the… Continue reading

(The Official Secret Clubhouse of the He-Man Truth & Alarm Haters Club) **ALARM SOUND** Donnie: (waking from napping to Fox and Friends clutching a Sean Hannity pillow … phone falls off the bed to the floor as he sits up) … what the Hell?! Again?!! Ben: (rushing in) What’s the problem sir? Donnie: What’s the… Continue reading

(The Official Secret Clubhouse of the He-Man Truth & REM Haters Club) So the other night, when I was sleeping (kind of – sleeping, actual sleeping, is not really a skill of mine) the chorus hit me. Then last night I sat down to write out some new lyrics and thought of my old friend… Continue reading

(Note to Universe on behalf of my Grayson: Screw You – He had his dot in this place) Grayson: (A slow, alert, deliberate peering about the living room) …Mmmmwwrowrp … Mmmmwwrowrp … Mmmmwrowwww … Mmmmwrowwwrra … Me: (sitting on the bed from around the corner) Who you talking to now dude? Grayson: …Mmmmwwrow… Me: Alright… Continue reading

(The Official Secret Clubhouse of the He-Man Truth & Expensive Chinese Haters Club) Donnie: Did you get the sandwiches? Ben: Sandwiches? Donnie: Yeah, the sandwiches I asked you to pick up for today’s meeting. Ben: I thought you wanted Chinese? Donnie: Why would I want Chinese? It’s so expensive now. No, I wanted sandwiches …… Continue reading

(The Official Secret Clubhouse of the He-Man Truth & Swede Haters Club) (Donnie cursing – laying stuff out on the Treehouse floor) Ben: Sir? What exactly are you doing? Donnie: These directions are shit. Ben: ? Donnie: These directions … they’re shit. Ben: You know you just need to turn the page over for the… Continue reading

A couple of posts ago, I took a short break from episodes from the Trump Treehouse for a little Georgia Sattelites inspired music interlude as, well, there’s always a little music inerlude (though not always one inspired by the Georgia Sattelites). It’s a tune about Donnie and the Supreme Court and how he gets to… Continue reading

(The Official Secret Clubhouse of the He-Man Truth & Tan Haters Club) Last we saw our dynamically inept duo?  (in ep #6) (trying to pull a body up the tree) Paul (Ryan): Hold your end turtle! (rope slips) Mitch (McConnel): Stop calling me turtle! (rope slips further) Mitch: And why do you call me turtle… Continue reading

(The Official Secret Clubhouse of the He-Man Truth & Music Interlude Haters Club) “Till I Check It Myself”   (Video open – A Destiny Pictures Production – Donnie dancing in robes and powdered wig away from the White House toward Supreme Court Building – a continuing follow throughout)  Got a SCOTUS in my pocket going going… Continue reading

(The Official Secret Clubhouse of the He-Man Truth & Alfred Haters Club) Ben: Are you alright sir? Donnie: (trying to hide wiping his eyes) … what? … yes, of course … shit Ben! Why are you still here? Ben: I’m kind of like your Alfred sir. Donnie: Alfred? Ben: Alfred. Donnie: Alfred? Ben: Batman? His… Continue reading