forbidden fruit
Wednesday, May 2nd, 2007Yay, it’s haiku time again. Gimme!
Today’s comic was partly inspired by a fruit thief I know. In this part of the state, it’s common to have grapefruit or orange trees on your property. Those that don’t either look at their neighbors with envy or take matters into their own hands like my fruit thief pal who will tiptoe around the neighborhood late at night on a fruit raid. I’m an enabler as I’ll happily accept part of the loot when it’s offered. Anyway, that was where the idea for the haiku started but it took some other directions in the process.
There technically is no such fruit as a ‘bloodfruit’ as far as my googling research shows. There are blood oranges though which are kinda spooky looking.
I hope you enjoy. Spread some love and tag me if you use stumbleupon.com or digg or any of that stuff. Have a good week and I’ll see you next Wednesday.
<3 calan
May 2nd, 2007 at 1:23 am
plentiful bounty
grown ripe in the harsh sunlight
plucked from bowing limb
May 2nd, 2007 at 12:33 pm
Eat, eat dear Lenoir
Eat ’til your heart’s contented
Put some flesh on you
Calan- this is your *best* cartoon ever. I love it, I love it.
May 2nd, 2007 at 1:54 pm
thanks Seraphine
May 2nd, 2007 at 3:36 pm
temptation beckons;
enterprising skeleton
gives in to it – twice
juicy prize awaits
Lenoir stealthily takes it
arm raised in triumph
May 2nd, 2007 at 4:10 pm
I need to get one of those trees in my yard.
May 2nd, 2007 at 4:27 pm
Sharp teeth pierce taut skin
Juice burts, dribbling down my chin
savory and sweet.
May 2nd, 2007 at 9:36 pm
i liked that one Keiki! it even had a little rhyme in it!
May 3rd, 2007 at 1:11 am
i noticed keiki’s are often pretty sexy. rawr!
May 3rd, 2007 at 12:41 pm
Fruit taken from tree
Blood red and shiny in sun
Eat untill sated
May 3rd, 2007 at 12:45 pm
Do you think Lenoir
She gave those to Ginger Dead
Or ate them herself?
I am a fruit thief
I can admit it Calan
Stolen fruit so good
May 3rd, 2007 at 5:12 pm
A thief in the night
Feasts on ill begotten gains
Fruit trees are left bare.
May 3rd, 2007 at 5:52 pm
Poe: it does taste a lil sweeter i think.
Zef: welcome and thanks for that haiku. it’s lovely!
May 3rd, 2007 at 7:35 pm
Bloodfruit sounds really good right now, for some reason.
May 5th, 2007 at 3:31 pm
hop the fence to see
how red the fruit grows, how ripe
and sweet the fruit tastes
May 6th, 2007 at 7:06 pm
This fruit you rifle
Would be nice in a trifle
To eat with some cream
Oh I dream to eat trifle with cream…
May 7th, 2007 at 10:40 pm
So weird.
So rad.
May 7th, 2007 at 11:55 pm
thanks mr. mulberry gallows. you’re pretty rad yourself.
May 8th, 2007 at 11:43 am
Thanks, although I am somewhat crappy rad (crad)
I’ll try and remember to link you in my news next week. I like this one a whole lot: http://gingerdead.com/2006/12/06/dumb-song/
May 8th, 2007 at 3:21 pm
bleeding down her chin
can’t get blood from an orange
cartoons are funny
(Adam, your strip is cradical)
May 10th, 2007 at 9:16 am
Whispers in the dark
Fruit secretly flying free
Poor tree left empty
September 15th, 2007 at 12:31 pm
I used to eat blood oranges, but their unusual taste is a little too strong to eat on a daily basis.
What is good is a hybrid between normal oranges and blood orange (I can’t recall the name of the hybrid). Ciao Bella also makes a blood orange sorbet that I am quite fond of, second only to their pear.
For something truly strange, and possibly revolting, buy a bottle of blood orange juice. It can run you about $6 for a bottle.