MADONNA IN PAJAMAS: KURT LODER ON EMPTY

Kurt Loder is still outside.

Kurt Loder: i need a distraction. or to distract myself. wait, is that a cannon i see over that bush? that's MY lucky star!!! i see a lot of people in line wearing one-piece bodysuits with glitter on the collar, cuffs, and belt and tassels on the kneepads.........oh i see, it's not Elvis, it's Evel Knievel...

Jen and i are still at the Bedtime Stories release slumber party. with Madonna. inside.

me: my sleep is tricky now. what if you're not a night person but also not a day person?

Jen R: you're an afternoon person who can only have sex in afternoon delights.

Madonna: that was me before i started doing music to channel it, you know?

Super Mario: it's a very BOUTIQUE thing to have a gardener come to your place on a Monday...

archived tennis messageboard: that thing you wrote about Bud Collins in 2007, no one has ever read it...

Victoria Ruffo: if there's ever a Destinos reboot...

Fetch! with Ruff Ruffman: the one show that made you long for how the world was back then. adults helping kids with their science. no politics, just human kindness. a world where the aim was to be Shel Silverstein.

Ruff Ruffman: 2024 was so long ago, that's wild.

top o' the muffin: the Irish good morning.

Vincent van Gogh manifesting his own bedroom from that famous painting of his: i almost got it. just need to manifest that blue ceramic waterbowl and water pitcher to wash one's ear. the bed somehow fits two!!!

Van Gogh's dog: a water bowl for humans? my favorite sport is baseball, i like the ball...

cops on Pluto: no, Cops on Pluto.

Molly Qerim: why did i finally relent and marry Stephen A. Smith? is it because the man has $100 million? no, it's because he's a big nerd. he's my favorite soap-opera actor...

Carrie: the most visceral movie of all time.

Alfred Hitchcock: i appreciated all the references to my work.

Stephen King: that was De Palma, not me!!!

Betty Buckley: you'll never forget your senior prom. those that go to their senior prom become well-adjusted adults because they experienced magic that night.

Carrie with her first relaxed smile: this prom will be memorable in other ways...

Betty with tears in her eyes: Carrie, you're the daughter i never had.

Vanilla Ice: what i did wasn't rap, it was salsa.

Lee Thompson Young: why'd i do it? all i'm saying is an interracial relationship with Lindy Booth would have been revolutionary at the time, Disney...

Julius Caesar at Orange Julius: do i get a discount? when i think of frothy i think of the sea and my helmeted horses!!! what's an orange? i only know apples. malls unnerve me, they're staid. 

Antony: seizure salad.

Cleopatra: you know oranges, baby, you gave me an orange as an engagement ring. i put the orange on my little finger...

Julius Caesar: ah yes, by the olive tree. olive juice, i love you. 

Kurt Loder skulks to the site of the cannonball shoot. all the '70s Match Game people are there in Evel Knievel flysuits: Betty White, Charles Nelson Reilly, Steve Allen.

Kurt Loder: Steve Allen, you look like my father!!!

Steve Allen: i'm everyone's dad who went to Princeton.

Charles Nelson Reilly: know how you know it's Match Game 1982 with the BLUE background but Gene Rayburn still hosting? because i'm crabby on the show.

Kurt Loder: how was it playing Llort?

Charles Nelson Reilly: oh Don Bluth was a pansy. just go back to Disney, Don!!! his animation is sublime but the man can't write a story to save his life.

Kurt: Cannonball Run. well, Cannonball Run II.

Charles: i fucked Sally Field, Burt Reynolds never did.

Sally Field: i fell in love with Charles's '70s acid he took for that kid's show.

Charles: fuck Rin Tin Tin, my dog will always be Benji. 

Kurt Loder: hey Betty, can i get in the cannon before you?

Betty White: why do you want to leave so badly?

Kurt: why did you marry Allen Ludden?

Betty: everyone keeps saying that to my face!!! why? 

Kurt: a woman of your gravitas deserved Robert Redford.

Betty: is it working?

Kurt: no, i can still hear Madonna calling my name, Madonna calling me back to the sleepover...

 

 

MADONNA IN PAJAMAS: SLUMBERED

 

Kurt Loder and his sad eyes are getting ready for Madonna's release party of her latest album Bedtime Stories which is taking place in a HUGE warehouse made up to look like a giant slumber party. he arrives in a suit and tie and MTV mic.

Madonna in pajamas: come on, Kurt, you gotta loosen up, everyone says you're creepy.

Kurt Loder: i've got a lot of problems. but they belong to me.

Madonna: see what i mean? i toned it down for you, i'm not wearing nothing to bed, i'm wearing teddy bear pajamas, not a teddy. and non-Playboy bunny slippers.

Kurt: you know you're right.

Kurt comes back in a red Playboy smoking jacket and adds to the throw-pillow collection by tossing a pillow with tassels to the pile.

Kurt: so what's the deal with your lyrics? they make no sense. rain? what is rain?

Madonna: the lyrics aren't important to me, it's the primal feel of the music. the drumbeat in your cunt or cock. everything is sex, don't you know me by now?

Madonna: i thought we were friends.

Kurt: this is my job. it's my job to be your friend.

Madonna: do i ask about your wife again?

i spot Jen sinking in a pit of pillows in the corner.

Jen R: quick!!! quicksand!!! grab an outdoor-bazaar flying carpet and pull me outta this soft sinkhole!!! how are you enjoying the sleepover?

me: why'd you have to wear a negligee?!!! you're the only one at this party who's sexy. it's gonna be uncomfortable looking at you all night.

Jen: oh get some punch. as in my punch to your face. this negligee's blue, it's not your color, you won't get the tingle.

Jen: Madonna was something special in the '90s. something sumptuous.

Madonna: you know i'm genuinely sorry that Britney Spears took over from me in 2000 to the present year, i really hated that. i apologize in advance to all the people of the future: it really sucked that it went from grunge to bubblegum pop...

Super Mario: see Memorial Day just doesn't do it for me and my garbage men. it just means we have to collect trash on a Saturday. who wants to collect trash on a Saturday?!!!

Jeff Teague naked in bed with a woman: mama i ain't got no clothes on.

Jeff Teague's mama: i pulled up to the driveway, i saw 2 cars in the driveway, and i came into the house. who's this bitch? are you eating your oatmeal, Jeff-poo?

Pope Bob: there is nothing better than two old gay men.

Vicious: right?

Mason: i was the Kramer of Vicious. 

Penelope: i'm not like this at home...

Derek Jacobi and Ian McKellen: it was chocolate on the bedsheets, we swear!!!

Vanilla Ice: take it from me, if you're having a conversation in a dark room, everything's not okay.

Kristin Minter: in the '90s we ran around unfinished wood house foundations for fun.

Dr. Robbins: a therapist is no fun. tell your problems to a friend...

Sonoko from Sailor Moon Sailor Stars: my massive mane of green hair is actually Cringer from He-Man hiding on my head. Japanese girls play softball wearing casino card-dealer visors instead of helmets...

Bert & Ernie in the Red Baron's plane upside down.

Ernie: it's an upside-down world, Bert *Ernie hissing laugh*

Bert: i've always been jealous of your shirt, Ernie, it's more '70s than mine.

Ernie: hey Bert, when you build a house, don't put nails in your mouth, you'll get tetanus.

Bert: don't say that, Ernie, tetanus can't be the word of the day!!! you'll scare the kids, Ernie!!! this isn't Wonder Showzen. nobody had a bottlecap collection when the '80s ended...

goth man with the white pallid makeup: why are we depicted in the media as always being UNUSUALLY HAPPY? it's creepy. pass the Coke.

Melissa Gilbert: Andrew McCarthy made out with Liza Minnelli in the '80s.

Andrew McCarthy: i made out with Rob Lowe in the '80s!!!

Gilbert Arenas: Shai Butter, take Chet Holmgren's watch!!!

Chet Holmgren: come on, holmes, i liked that Sesame Street watches-in-the trenchcoat skit.

Gilbert Arenas: remember Swatch watches? mine was waterproof for shark tanks...

i bump into Kurt Loder in the parking lot. seems Kurt was running away from something.

Kurt Loder: damn, kid, why'd you have to get me right on the forehead bone?

me: sorry. i was distracted by my own thoughts.

Kurt: i know the feeling. oh fuck it's night outside!!! i forgot about that, this is trippy.

me: my friend Cindy, she invited me to The Greene Turtle over Instagram. right there, then at that moment, 4PM on a Wednesday, all i had to do was GO to her!!! she was so close, i was tasting the nachos we'd split as we watched World Cup soccer.........me and my future wife.........*daydreaming*

me: problem was, that sports bar is in Baltimore...

Kurt: bicoastal love, it's a motherfucker. the cruelty of distance. speaking of, i can already hear Madonna calling me back to the slumber party, do you know any place around here where i can get a wife?