Ink-stained Dreamer Gifts

Aw, @#$%, just go to business school. EMU. The Practical Muse.

Man listening to seashell: 'Oh, Rub-ber Ducky, you're the one ...'

"Someday, Sweetheart, you’ll look back on this day and think to yourself, ‘Covid ruined my college experience.’"

"How long have you felt like a three-masted schooner?"

Girl - 'How come they're not affecting you, mister?!' Man - 'Simple, I'm using 'Writer's Block'.'

The end of innocence

Gene Tierney caricature

Man tried to unload a ship in a bottle.

'When I grow up, Grandpa, I want to be just like you...retired!'

"Snowflakes that stay on my nose and eyelashes..."

"I thought this was the Vermeer tour."

"My new book will be an epic novel of the sea."

A. A. Milne

Lawrence of Suburbia

Man in boat sees clock rising in distance instead of the sun.

"I want to get in touch with my inner child. I need the tech support."

Edward Loves Mae Marsh

'If we could just sink Noah's Ark, think of the variety of food we could sample...'

"We live in the desert. What did you think I meant when I said it'd be a nice day to go boating?"

'If you don't stop thinking about that waitress, I'm leaving!'

'If it's the last thing I do I'm gonna buy you one of these.'

Ship's cook escaping in a saucepan.

'And not a white one among 'em, Cap'n...'

"I'm working on Plan B."

Waiting for the fleet to come in.

A writer fishes for inspiration.

"Too busy."

Winnie Hits Pooberty

Man reads folk tales to his teddy bear.

"You don't understand women. First you buy them flowers, then you ask for the boat."

Retro Kid.

"To be perfectly honest, Tarquin, I get fed up listening to your stories about 'the good old days'."

"A thousand boats of static grace and I swear I saw one move!"

'And I say it's time this boat was rocked!'

Pirate with peg legs on walkers.