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07/23/11
Land of the Loons
Filed under: General
Posted by: @ 7:37 am

MuffinMan2

The past week, I’ve been spending time with my mom near Charlevoix, Michigan, in a small cabin on a lake loaded with loons.

The lake, not the cottages.

Sure, the large aquatic birds with a  “whoop-whoop” yodel have their notoriety.

But it’s the fudgies, FIPS, fanny packers, and their offspring that give summer cottage their quirky memories.

Take for instance, the pack of  feral children that move like a pack of hyenas from one cottage to the next. 

You can spot them coming by their scent of Deep Woods Off and howls of “Who wants to play Kick the Can?”

While the males shoot arrows at Faygo bottles filled with water,  the females employ creativity making something more than s’mores.

Muffin Man.

We paper-mached a man using Bisquick, to be the target.

Mini water bottles  filled with blood (made out of canned beets and ketchup), were stuffed into his pants.

 

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His oversized butt is courtesy of the weekend edition of Detroit free press

DeathMufMan

There’s a  loony legend of Muffin Man to trump worn out ghost stories told at campfires.

Muffin Man’s been hanging in the hills of the Charlevoix area since 1981. He’s the child of Betty Crocker and Pillsbury Dough Boy.

 The scariest thing is this: Muffin Man eats small children who leave their wet swim suits on the bathroom floor.

With parental permission and guidance, Muffin man was tied to the dumpster where kids shot arrows at him until he broke into two…severing the muffin top from the bottom.

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Now all that’s left of muffin man is a memory.

As for other loons?

To be continued.

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