The duty Mogey took more seriously than any other was his role as a balloon handler in East Thickwhistle's annual April Fools' Day Parade. The spectacle featured dozens of enormous balloons - some of them even larger than Mogey himself - that depicted the village's many heroes of prank and ruse. Mogey's responsibility for anchoring the left arm of Saint Bunk the Toilet-Taper had been passed down from his father and grandfather, who had inherited the role from "some guy who had to go to the dentist that day," and Mogey cherished it.
Thursday, March 27, 2025
The Abbreviated Adventures of Mogey & Smush: 2025 Edition - Episode 12
Thursday, March 20, 2025
The Abbreviated Adventures of Mogey & Smush: 2025 Edition - Episode 11
"Have you been to the new Italian bathhouse in town?" Mogey asked one foggy Wednesday.
Thursday, March 13, 2025
The Abbreviated Adventures of Mogey & Smush: 2025 Edition - Episode 10
Times were desperate. Mogey and Smush were wildly in hock to the cheesemongers, and neither of them had any money coming in. All the work in Mogey's profession - food taster, but only for the delicious foods - had dried up, and Smush was a longtime conscientious objector to not lounging around all day.
Thursday, March 6, 2025
The Abbreviated Adventures of Mogey & Smush: 2025 Edition - Episode 9
It was a busy day at Mogey and Smush's florist and ironworks shop, Petals to Metals, but the proprietors still found time to deliver excellent service to those customers who seemed like they needed assistance and/or did not have much knowledge about the actual prices of various flowers and/or metallic sculptures.
Thursday, February 27, 2025
The Abbreviated Adventures of Mogey & Smush: 2025 Edition - Episode 8
"Again, I feel I should mention that a joint consultation is most unusual," the guidance counselor said, peering over his spectacles at Mogey and Smush.
Thursday, February 20, 2025
The Abbreviated Adventures of Mogey & Smush: 2025 Edition - Episode 7
Thursday, February 13, 2025
The Abbreviated Adventures of Mogey & Smush: 2025 Edition - Episode 6
"A query, if I may," Mogey submitted as the pals strode through a section of the woodland known as Fungus Alley. "Why are they called toadstools?"
Thursday, February 6, 2025
The Abbreviated Adventures of Mogey & Smush: 2025 Edition - Episode 5
Fritz Twist Grist Mill was the best flourmaker in the district, a local institution that Mogey and Smush visited frequently. Counterintuitively, however, they usually kept their modest cereal crop at home and turned it into just that - cereal (Froot Loops, or occasionally, Sugar Smacks) - so the pals rarely had any grains for Fritz Twist to grind. The product they really came to traffic in was the second specialty of Fritz Twist and millers everywhere: gossip.
Thursday, January 30, 2025
The Abbreviated Adventures of Mogey & Smush: 2025 Edition - Episode 4
"Shhh," Mogey shushed Smush as they crept through the gloomy wood. On this moonless night, the forest lay darker than the skin of an avocado so ripe it would scarcely be suitable for guacamole. And yet, Mogey and Smush searched.
Thursday, January 23, 2025
The Abbreviated Adventures of Mogey & Smush: 2025 Edition - Episode 3
Thursday, January 16, 2025
The Abbreviated Adventures of Mogey & Smush: 2025 Edition - Episode 2
Once per month, Mogey and Smush would enjoy what they called a Tin Can Supper: a smorgasbord of delicacies from many cultures and climates, with the unifying factor that everything they ate came from a can, jar, or bottle. Also, beans would always be present.
Thursday, January 9, 2025
The Abbreviated Adventures of Mogey & Smush: 2025 Edition - Episode 1
Mogey arrived at Smush's cottage one foggy morning clad in galoshes, woolen overalls, and a diving mask. Smush opened the door at Mogey's knock, his look of groggy confusion a perfect facsimile of Eli Whitney's face the first time he ever saw cotton candy.
Friday, December 27, 2024
The Abbreviated Adventures of Mogey & Smush: 2024 Edition - Episode 52
"Boy," said Ship's Mate Smush, sinking his teeth into an orange so plump that the juice ran down his chin, "I sure am glad the commanders figured out this miraculous cure for scurvy. And what a delectable cure it is!"
Thursday, December 19, 2024
The Abbreviated Adventures of Mogey & Smush: 2024 Edition - Episode 51
The Great December Tempest of '35 left many in the lurch. With snowdrifts rising higher than midsize sedans, the trains simply couldn't move. Mogey and Smush's farm was not far from the Bustleburg Railway Hub (with connections to Newington, New Newington, Newington-upon-Fluke, and Bumswood), and since they owned a sleigh driven by two sturdy yorkshire hogs named Mrs. McGillicuddy and The Vandal, they were asked to take in a stranded family on Christmas.
Thursday, December 12, 2024
The Abbreviated Adventures of Mogey & Smush: 2024 Edition - Episode 50
Smush was just about to order his first course of butterscotch pancakes when he observed his best pal entering the diner wearing an expression most peculiar.
Thursday, December 5, 2024
The Abbreviated Adventures of Mogey & Smush: 2024 Edition - Episode 49
"What do you think?" Mogey inquired, gesturing to his billowing silken shirt. "The ladies at La Maison de L'oie will like it, right?"
Thursday, November 28, 2024
The Abbreviated Adventures of Mogey & Smush: 2024 Edition - Episode 48
Mogey was running late, as usual. Smush had stopped by his pal's flat so they could walk over to the cricket match together, but Mogey hadn't quite finished making up the "road snacks" (a half dozen roast beef sandwiches with pickled cucumbers). So that left Smush to wander around the sitting room alone, trying to ignore the sounds of slicing beef and the resulting growling of his tummy (not to mention Mogey's profane shouts when he ran short of pickled cucumbers).
Thursday, November 21, 2024
The Abbreviated Adventures of Mogey & Smush: 2024 Edition - Episode 47
The party had begun to drag. All the classic signs were there: Several guests asked the stablehands to begin readying their coaches. Others were checking their pocketwatches. Even Scrumptious John, the lush postman, carried only a single beverage in his hand and was starting to look around for his mailbag.
Thursday, November 14, 2024
The Abbreviated Adventures of Mogey & Smush: 2024 Edition - Episode 46
The intensity of the moment hung over the poker table like an aged salami. Also there was a distinct fragrance of aged salami. Smush stared at Mogey. Mogey stared at Count Higgins. Count Higgins stared at Braggadocious Gil, the mole with 20/20 vision.
Thursday, November 7, 2024
The Abbreviated Adventures of Mogey & Smush: 2024 Edition - Episode 45
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Thursday, October 31, 2024
The Abbreviated Adventures of Mogey & Smush: 2024 Edition - Episode 44
The house Smush lived in was profoundly haunted. Most days this proved a mild inconvenience. On All Hallows' Eve, however, it was a moderate-to-major inconvenience. Every spirit would get all wound up and overstimulated by the day's excitement, and most flummoxing of all, they would begin to compete with one another.
Thursday, October 24, 2024
The Abbreviated Adventures of Mogey & Smush: 2024 Edition - Episode 43
"Smush, could you come to my desk, please?" said Mrs. Pewterpuff. "And yes, Mogey - before you ask - you might as well come with him."
Thursday, October 17, 2024
The Abbreviated Adventures of Mogey & Smush: 2024 Edition - Episode 42
When the lunch whistle blew at the loofah mill, the workers' first thought was, of course, lunch. But after they'd mown through the roast beast sangwiches and cornish pasties in their lunch pails, the biggest, toughest, orneriest mill workers would gather in the courtyard for a thumb rassle. These monstrous men, their digits strengthened by years of loofah production, often sprained or even fractured one anothers' thumbs, so intense were their battles.
Thursday, October 10, 2024
The Abbreviated Adventures of Mogey & Smush: 2024 Edition - Episode 41
"How do I look?" Smush inquired.