But no one ever sees you after the show, no one sees you go home to Mrs. Smiley, if severe Mrs. Smiley is a tough crowd, and harried Guy can’t earn enough to float her shopaholism, and you smoke and drink to forget all the slices of bread, all the redolent potatoes, all the food [...]
Ode to Koji Kondo, himself an Onomatopoeia, on the occasion of playing Super Mario Bros. on Facebook
Super Mario Maestro, your bleeps and bloops make me wanna do do do do do do, do do do do do do, ba ba ba! I smoke my mushroom and Barrrump, I’m big, and busting blocks is cracklecrash, cracklecrash, and killing koopas is bump, whing. I kill another one: bump, whing. And the jangly superstar: I feel invincible when [...]