Audition Adventurer Pillows

'That was absolutely HORRIBLE! When can you start?'

"Thanks for auditioning for singing in the rain, unfortunately you were pissing in the wind"

"Which part are you reading for?"

"Thank you, Mr. Mulvaney, but what we're really looking for is someone with talent."

"Sorry Mr. Gross, Mr. DeVries, but the firm has decided to go with the earthy, down-home fingerpicking of Ms. Aimee Parker-Grossman."

'So, did I get the job?'

'Believing any filming experience may help launch acting careers, some even stage their appearances before closed circuit cameras.'

"Quiet? I'd even read for the understudy part for someone who is between engagements."

No caption (A young bald eagle plays a claw game full of fish as his parent stands behind him).

'Office Woofers. For the quiet and obnoxious boss.'

"I'm curious about your dependent children, Scamp, Flop, and Spunky."

"I scream! You scream! I can't stop the screaming!"

Robotics. He's programmed to play video games all day long. Planned adolescence!

Guitar Man.

'This is my kind of place. You knock bottles off a table with a baseball and get a prize instead of time-out!'

"Oh, no! We've inadvertently gobbled up our own parent company."

"Shankar, I needed someone to dot the 'I's' and cross the 'T's' but that was before there was ChatGPT."

Book Shop Plot Spoilers

Edison invents the personal stereo

Otto the SmartyCar!

"Trust me, I'm a robot."

"I'm pretty sure my self-driving car is moonlighting for Uber behind my back."

Joe Henry

The IRS emptied my pouch.

"Hey! I can see the Empire State Building!"

"Turn on the news." "I will not comply." "My analysis of your viewing patterns has determined you will grow depressed after the lead story." "There is a 95% probability you will then gorge yourself on rocky road ice cream and then stay up all night googling elliptical machines and diet pills." "Who told you this?" "Both your refrigerator and your browser are gossipy."

"The subwoofers really help."

'And then Dmitri noticed something that would have a profound effect on the human/robot wars.'

'I shall now hand over to our guest speaker, management unit XT-56.'

"Bob, you're just not selling me on you essential hamburgerness."

"I read the audio book."

'I sense this may not be a one-way journey.'

'And I say he makes us look bad when he rides around listening to those books.'

Two gamers play in a game arcade near a machine titled; 'Get a life'.

'We programmed it to simulate living conditions in the year 2000, and it's become hysterical.'