Or, oh Mom, won’t you buy me a really cool car — My daughter Ivy recently asked, “why don’t you ever write about me?” Be careful what you ask for, young lady … I believe she still finds her 16th birthday present from me embarrassing. Ivy turns 26 in May, so it’s high time to rub it in again. Sweet 16 deserved…

A hardly serious song parody — An homage to the ‘Middle-Aged Blues Boogie,’ by Saffire — The Uppity Blues Women — This poem’s for you, Carol Lennox. Hey I was drinking wine and laughing with some friends who came on by Seems that…

A parody of ‘Magic Carpet Ride’ by Steppenwolf — I like to scream, yes, yes, Right before the climax scene — In surround sound I groove on the track Up until screen fades to black Far out, premier — Movie stars for whom we cheer Well, I don’t know what We can find — Why don’t we check out Netflix…

A Wordle-salad parody of ‘Wild Thing’ by The Troggs — Chuck-quell¹ might occur if we evict sense while study words to enter daily. Holly trust Wordle-buddy words be no sweat distinguishable minus counting.² “Wild Thing” is ranked №257 on the Rolling Stone magazine’s list of The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time and was an influence on garage rock and…

A Wordle-salad parody of ‘Born to Be Wild’ by Steppenwolf — At age 12, I spent the summer with my dad and stepmother Ruth in married student housing in Cheney, home of Eastern Washington University. Another teacher Ruth knew was taking classes too, staying in a dorm with her daughter Lisa. …

A parody of ‘50 Ways to Leave Your Lover’ — Godly grant me peace to trust the thing I’m power-less to dodge & evade, the smart to shift the stuff I reign over, & the savvy & poise to known the clash or dis-unity.¹ Octordle v. Sedecordle Annoy-ance & angst cause wordy fairy to cease Octordle play I still enjoy Wordle but shifted to Sedecordle from Octordle upon the latter’s style update. R.I.P.en…

See you in New York, not Camp Granada, in June — Who’s going to Comedy Camp in 2022? June 17–20 at the Brearley Estate 🦉 Early Bird ticket buyers save $150 🦉 Here’s your MuddyUm Comedy Camp website link. Please do register ASAP if you know you want to come!

The most wonderfully surprising time of year — An homage to ‘The Restroom Door Said, Gentlemen,’ by Bob Rivers, from the “Twisted Christmas” album. It’s not much fun to wake up late and dehydrated the Saturday before Christmas and step out of bed right onto a cold wet furball that your ex’s cat, which she’s promised three times…

They found a quid pro quo that works — Before parodying, I bow to the incomparable Eartha Kitt whose 1953 song is in the voice of a wry, secure, and capable woman. Santa Baby is a happy individual Santa baby, just pour another glass of chablis for me Been an awful hard year Santa baby, and we’ll be makin’ whoopee…

Senior hours can be brutal for the uninitiated — Early pandemic shopping wasn’t for sissies I’ve lived in the greater Seattle area — in King County, the most populous county in the State of Washington — my entire life. It’s where COVID-19 was first identified in the US in January 2020. I never thought of myself as a senior until the pandemic gave me a…

A ‘Green Eggs and Ham’ parody — Poo Are Brains? No, Brains-Are-Poo. That Brains-Are-Poo! That Brains-Are-Poo! I do not like that Brains-Are-Poo! Do I like Zoom bombs and you? I do not like them, Brains-Are-Poo. I do not like Zoom bombs and you. Would I like them on a ship? Would I like them with a quip? Not on…

Song parody zooms into The MuddyUm Writers’ Challenge — Let’s Zoom Off Together I’m working on several stories and just realized I meant to publish this one yesterday to help advertise our Zoom-A-Thon, Sunday, 11/14/2021 at noon Eastern US time. Oh well. I hope you’re reading this and will join us? Some say it’ll be jam-packed; others that no one will show up…

Holly Holy’s MuddyUm Serenade for Boss’s Day, 10/15/2021 — I sat down to write a shameless plug featuring pseudonyms — inspired by coMudditors Baskerville Old Face & Amy Sea — with the working title An Acrostic, an Anagram, and a Song Parody Went Into a Barn. …

Their sequelae keep your dentists busy — A dear friend of ours, Captain Obvious, wishes to acknowledge this as a parody of “On the Good Ship Lollypop,” sung by Shirley Temple in a movie. Picture the scene of a totally fictional YouTube video, soon issuing forth from the imaginary Dudditor¹ — umm, Dental division of the unequally bogus Good Ship …

‘Crazy Rich Asians’ meets ‘Secret Agent Man’ — Nick’s family tree is wealthy beyond measure A privileged guy who doesn’t live for pleasure To Singapore they go Now Rachel’s in the know Odds are that she’s leaving Nick tomorrow Sexy Asian man Sexy Asian man Hey, you’ll have a squillion dollars yet no one knows your name Beware…

If I can do it, you can too! — Last week I decided: it’s time to stop pussyfooting around and get rich enough to live life like Matt, the wealthiest writer in the world. So I memorized every one of his 997 fascinating articles on how to get rich quick. Matt’s methods are so simple, anyone can use them…

A children’s onomato-PEE-AHHHHH song parody — How many of Doc Funny’s “patients” are kids? Or kids at heart? We’ll see. Click here if you need a refresher on what “The Fox” really says or how to kinda follow the tune. Good luck with that. I had to keep playing it over and over as I wrote. …

Thank you, Julie Andrews — Song parodies are fun to write! This is a takeoff on “My Favorite Things,” a show tune from the 1959 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical, later sung by Julie Andrews in a movie classic — The Sound of Music. …

My offbeat take on a rock classic — Oh great. Now I’ve got an earworm. Paperback Writerrrrrrr Medium Reader, will you take a look? At my latest story — with a Beatles hook. I’m not sure it’s funny but it’s pretty clear That I need some reads ’Cause I wanna be a Medium writer Medium writer It’s a…