A Boring Program Except for the Alien Invasion
Wellington Copse: Our latest television reality show fared poorly last night among city dwellers who rely on public transportation. “Copse” features a group of trees identified only by garish purple ribbons affixed to their lower branches. The highlight of the two hour opener: some of the copse bend slightly in the breeze. A hint of suspense came when Dick “Chainsaw” Cheney, a local lumber magnate, wondered aloud if clearcutting might enhance the otherwise barren hillside.
One of the writers for “Copse” is Waltraut Frothingmunster retired postmistress of Wellington Leg. Tanked up on Leonard Cohen lyrics Waltraut wrote the entire program in a single ten hour sitting. “I’m like a bird on the wire,” she said. “A drunk in midnight choir.” VP of Development Wilfredo Tagesblatt concedes the show is doomed. “Trees are boring,” he said. “But don’t quote me.”
The insertion of a forty minute infomercial livened things up but by then the vast majority of Legians were sound asleep. “The image of the forty third earl doing one hand pushups lingers still,” noted DCI Borchardt who watched the entire program in the swank loft conversion he recently purchased from My Hedge Fund.
In defense of the two hour drama it should be pointed out that an alien spacecraft landed near the copse shortly after a paid political announcement. Creatures not of this earth picnicked under the canopy of branches studying an “Obama 08″ poster. “We may have missed a dramatic interlude,” concedes Mr. Tagesblatt.
Several Leonard Cohen CDs were pirated by the intruders from deep space, sources report. T. Rex Love-Handles reporting for Wellington Leg After Dark.