Metaphor Appreciators Pillows

An artist creates a sculpture of a "thumbs up" and is then crushed by it.

Reading my Critics

Meat Grinder

Race track - with the race being to apply the white lines between lanes

Nails pinning down the hammer that usually strikes them.

"He was a big man, but he moved like a cat."

'I'd put it on the back burner, but the stove's been repossessed.'

"We had a brainstorm - I hope it's a brainchild."

Man selling 'pearls of wisdom'.

'When I said I would move mountains for you, it was just a figure of speech!'

A Poem about Sand

'Don't worry it's organic...'

"You know what I think, babe? Seven on the Richter scale."

When Tia Carmen says... "A smooth sea never made a skilled mariner" it means "I can fix it with a hammer."

"See what you get for thinking outside the fishbowl!"

Out of control

"Honestly, I thought you were a metaphor."

'Are we watching business news or sports news?'

"Good news. You know that elephant in the room we never talk about? He's now in the other room."

Rats deserting a sinking ship

"I'm the bluebird of low expectations."

'I don't suppose I need to remind anyone that when I use the term 'bite the bullet,' I mean it metaphorically.'

'Stick and Carrot Business Incentive Consultants.'

'Are those physical or metaphorical thunderclouds moving in.'

"Naturally you have trouble getting in touch with your innermost feelings. You're a hollow choclate bunny."

"I'm more interested in hearing about the eggs you're hiding from yourself."

"The elephant is in the OTHER room. I want to talk about the PENGUIN in the room."

If poets wrote road signs.

'If this thing starts to snowball it will catch fire all across the country.'

"now let's try one without the tusks."

Ambitions...To Eat My Words: "Lobster, Fllet Steak, Peaches in Brandy."

Dangling Carrots

"What a day, I swam with the sharks, ran with the bears and wreastled with the bulls..."

"Well, I guess the bubble has burst over at Phillips Rodny Associates."