Foraging For Mushrooms

Wyatt: Where are you off to, Giancarlo?

Giancarlo: I'm going foraging for wild mushrooms for the spaghetti sauce

that I'm making for dinner tonight.

Wyatt: Sounds like fun.  Can I come along?

Giancarlo: Molto bene!  Of course!

Giancarlo: But we must be careful, amico.  Some varieties of mushrooms are poisonous.

Wyatt: Oh, I know.  I've watched The Beguiled.

Wyatt: What about these?

Giancarlo: No, amico, these are not safe.

Giancarlo: Neither is this one.

Wyatt: It looks like something already tried to eat it.

Giancarlo: Probably my arch enemy, the squirrel.  Serves him right!

I hope he's sitting up in his tree with a bad belly ache.

Wyatt: I have to say these look a little suspicious even to me.

Giancarlo: Very suspicious indeed!

Wyatt: Gee, we're really not having much luck.

Giancarlo: Do not despair, amico.  A mushroom hunter never gives up.

Giancarlo: A-ha!  You see?  

Giancarlo: Now these are good mushrooms!

Brother Incoming, Part 1

Daddy John: The Electric Eight have convened a summit in the living room.  Everyone looks so serious (well, almost everyone).  I wonder what the topic of discussion is...

BR: I've called you all here this morning--

Kirwan Mahoney: --to identify the murderer!

Stephen Orange: Oh hush up, you.

BR: As I was saying.  This is rumor control and here are the facts.

We are getting a new brother!

>Gasp-murmur-murmur-murmur-murmur-murmur-gasp<

Stephen Orange: Oh, no!  Not another one!  This is a nightmare.

Kirwan Mahoney: Oh hush up, you!

Noah Conrad: You dragged me out of my workshop for this?

Just tell the new guy not to touch my tools with out asking.

Philip Guy: Well I think it's great!

I wonder if he's bringing a pet or anything with him?

Stephen Orange: Hmmmph.

Pete Dakota: From what we've been told so far, 

he's bringing A LOT of clothes.

Nicholas Sahara: Jolly nice! And an extensive wardrobe, you say?  Wonder if the chap'll share?

Scot-Michael: Do you know his name or when he's coming?

BR: No name yet, and he's arriving in the next couple of weeks.

WHO IS THIS MYSTERIOUS NEW BROTHER?

WILL HE BE JOLLY NICE OR A NIGHTMARE?

TO BE CONTINUED!