STAYING IN THE DREAMWORLD: LIFE IS AN ESCAPE

 

notes:

DOPAMINE IS AN OLD DRUG: THE SILENCE OF YOUR FRIENDS MOVING ON WITHOUT YOU

 

Jen R: enjoy that shower did you?

me: i mean it's more refreshing than taking 2 Vanquish.

Jen: look at your hair, man.

me: i don't shave it anymore.

Jen: i know, and you look like Larry from The Three Stooges but somehow MORE dorky. it's like there's a poodle on your head. 

me: just wait for it to dry, i'll have cool JoJo's Bizarre Adventure hair soon.

me: i want to live in the dreamworld, where time stands still.

Talia the cat: well you did sorta experience that when you were a cat...

Golden Girls: we made living with your parents COOL!!!

Trinity and Greykid the cats: cats get curiouser and curiouser like Larry King the older we get...

Melissa Maker: if you were a milk monitor up in Canada as a kid, you turned the 100 cute little half-pint cartons of milk in the crate into a Tetris board. while gossiping over the latest episode of Puppets Who Kill we weren't allowed to see because it was past our bedtime.

Chad: my school only served us strawberry milk, not regular milk. our schools poisoned us kids all throughout our childhoods...

me: this morning after sleep i stand up over my bed shakily, it's still the dawn of uneasiness. with one eye still closed i turn on the burnt faded-yellow light to my room, i slip on a tennis ball!!! the soles of my feet go flying and i swallow my tongue and throw up.

Sphinx: that was just you being a cat again...

dad as spider-sama: okay but you can't leave me here. you can't leave me in the bathroom sink alone, i don't want to get eaten by the cats...

Timothy B. Schmit: i'm Kurt Cobain's dad...

The Dude from The Big Lebowski: if there's ever a live-action Regular Show movie...

stand-up comics: we never want to wear out our welcome, we never want to stay long, when we're done, we're done...

David Foster Wallace: when it's time to go it's time to go...

Lucille Ball: look, i'll level with you, all the shows i did after I Love Lucy were BAD.

Mrs. Little: just think, you could have had me as your mother-in-law, the only mother-in-law left who has empathy, kindness, and care in her heart. the only one who talks about Bad Bunny at the Super Bowl and it brings a soft smile to your face. when i'm talking about middle-aged white women soaking up the Puerto Rican culture finally.

Gina: all you had to do was fuck me. you know what they say about the quiet ones.

Mrs. Little: even if it would have meant you would have had to live in Carmel the rest of your life. but at least you could have taken down that Hit the Road, Jack sign on your front lawn.  

Gina: i mean a billion-dollar enterprise? but Poppi soda tastes disgusting.

Liza: why does everyone in Carmel drive like a wild banshee? is it because it's a parking lot?...

me: do you know when i knew you were different?

Jen R: do i want to know? couples work better if there're secrets.

me: i was listing all the crazy being my mom's caregiver, and you sided with ME!!! that NEVER happens, everyone always says it's a privilege to care for your mom and you have no right to complain, she took care of you.

Jen: i said, "parents, what are you gonna do?"

me: that was such a breath of fresh air.

DOPAMINE IS AN OLD DRUG: PUT IT ON WAX

 

Jen R touches my shoulder and she turns both of us into cats: Me Cat and Jen Cat.

Me Cat: wow. i didn't want to live anymore but now i want to live forever!!!

Jen Cat: see? it just takes a new view.

Trinity the cat: my warble sounds like peanut-butter oatmeal.

Talia the cat: let me show you something. see this litter box? why is it inviting?

Me Cat: i can't smell a thing.

Talia: exactly. you bought the Tidy Cat with the "24-Hour Protection" with that odious red on the cover of the container, right? that powerful "odor-blocker" stench is TOXIC to us cats, and it never leaves the area!!! we can't go in a box that smells like THAT!!! we need it to be unscented and neutral, we need to smell JUST OUR POO AND PEE for us to feel comfortable rolling around in that sand dune inside the box. i will say however, the Tidy Cat is SILKY, we GLIDE in that grey sand like we were going downhill in a 4x4 buggy in the Sahara Desert.

Linda Lavin: those funky phat beats in the Alice end-credits music, that was from Sesame Street. Sesame Street used to be cool in the '70s when they had groovy drug deals and Big Bird writing a letter to his landlord...

Jackie Fitzgerald carrying a bouquet of Mother's Day Chrysal flowers: not stoned, crying.

Jen R: not pollen.

Jackie: Clarence: The Lost Tapes, bring the show back. Clarence's mom reminds me of my mom.

Michael Jackson: i own my own gas station. now i can Moonwalk on the roof of this Detroit gas station all day for entertainment, but if you REALLY want gas prices to go down you're gonna have to elect me President.

Nicodemus: you're picturing me in a dark corner of the lobby of the Sherman Oaks Galleria in the '80s sucking on Flintstones vitamins.

Monsignor Navin: i'm the one supplying Nicodemus with the Flintstones vitamins, they're a soft stoning.

Nicodemus: at the St. Cyril's Stations of the Cross on a Thursday at 2PM, empty church.

Sphinx the cat: let's move to the dishwasher. so before you load this sucker up make sure all the mugs in the top shelf have their handles turned INWARD, otherwise the slide will get stuck. we cats have heard all the old horror stories about a bath, but this dishwasher is what we imagine a shower to be, the ultimate nightmare!!!

Mark Hapka: when you make the Victory Sign with your fingers on BOTH hands, that's actually the 11:11.

zucchini fritters: IMPOSSIBLE to make.

Lan Lam: tell me about it, honey.

Deepak Chopra: i speak with a Indian accent, okay? i'm not gay, i don't have a lisp.

Brett Somers: i hated Jonathan Livingston Seagull!!!

Jonathan Livingston Seagull: give me a break, lady!!! that makes me sad, i thought you were my mommy. livingston is British for toilet, that's why i can't fly to Heathrow.

Tim Allen in Home Improvement: i lost two sons. they disappeared. caveman tool guy, how did i become a Disney dad?...

Walt Disney: the Hunchback of Notre Dame...

Blue from Wild Orchid II: in a world of cynical porn where everyone sucks, i chose the innocence of love.

Zalman King: Blue was my greatest creation.

Zalman King's two daughters only WE can carry on the legacy of our father and mother, only WE can write the Red Shoe Diaries reboot. Euphoria sucks.

Cassia Streb: i play the violin in caves, J.G. Quintel helps me out, we have a husband/wife music thing going on like Washed Out.

J.G. Quintel: i was attracted to you because you're Casio Strobe, like an '80s synthesizer concert in lights.

KFC Double Down: we just copied the Kentucky Hot Brown...

Mordecai and Rigby: we live in the workhouse. it's a commune hostel thing. you ever wonder, "wait, where is Mordecai's apartment?" we like video games but we're so poor we can only afford Intellivision...

Yogi Bear: it's cool to live in a park.

Margaret and Eileen: we're the city girlfriends who live in the coffee shop...

Michael J. Fox with a werewolf face: if it's a high school basketball game, there will only ever be 12 people in the bleachers...

Michael Weiss: there must be a measure of forgiveness on Instagram...

Greykid the cat: you're about ready to take out the trash, you put 15 gallons of week-old milk in the trash can rather than the garbage disposal, that's good, don't forever gum up your garbage disposal. but listen: DOUBLE-BAG the trash can carrying all that milk!!! i'm an outdoor cat, i smell the rotten milk coming from your trash bin outside, it's not a pleasant way to sleep at night, you don't get nice cat dreams when you're smelling rotten milk.  

DOPAMINE IS AN OLD DRUG: ALL YOU EVER DID YOUR WHOLE LIFE WAS SLEEP!!!

 

me: i'm about to take my disco nap.

Jen R: but do you disco?

me: well not anymore.

Jen: i must caution you against all this stuff. it may seem nice to take a nice long 4-hour nap in the middle of the afternoon, but it actually makes you feel yucky afterward. let me explain...

Pentagon: we're releasing the UFO stuff like we're releasing the Epstein stuff...

sleep divorce: it saves marriages.

Matthew McConaughey: not alright alright alright. no. no, man. you have to sleep together in the same bed or no amount of the good-stuff ganja will save your blessed union.

Nicodemus: i'm either a Naruto character or a Jedi...

Nicodemus: you're picturing me in the mosaic pew of a Roman church eating Flintstones vitamins...

E.T.: i know what you're thinking, but there's no finger-to-finger transmission of the hantavirus...

Sphinx: cats don't like kibble, either.

Ed from Live: you know you see that package of 6 rolls of paper towels, it doesn't look like much, but it's bigger than it looks, it's deceptively big, you can only carry THIS ONE ITEM home with you in a bag. Spielberg, Lucas, Peter Weir. but people forget Jim Henson. Live is Jim Henson. it wasn't just Nirvana, Pearl Jam, I Mother Earth. toilet paper, paper towels, tissues. but people forget napkins. Live is napkins.

me: i've had a hell of a life.

Jen R: are you meaning here "hell" in a good or bad way?

me: bad.

Jen: it's not the weekend, it's the end week...

Laurence Olivier: Marilyn Monroe lost her tooth on set. well don't blame me, the girl slurped rum taffy like it was Chinese noodles. i kept her tooth but i'm not strange, it was research for a role...

on the Friends set.

Matthew Perry: i'm paranoid Sean Penn is gonna tickle me.

Lisa Kudrow: but that's not in the script. 

Matthew: as if any of us follow the script on this show!!!

Lisa: i'm worried about you.

Matthew: too late, you should have been worried about me during the first season. look, i'm sorry i called you a disgrace to all flower children everywhere at Lisa Whelchel's housewarming.

Lisa Whelchel: i was well chill during that incident.

Matthew: you aren't a natural blonde tho, right?

Lisa Kudrow: you wanna upskirt me or something?

Sean Penn: hey man, only Spicoli tickles...

Ray Walston: i wouldn't mind getting tickled by Spicoli.

Rebecca Lowe: the Relegation Darby?

hockey player: i mean if it's 0-4 in the second period, i'm just not gonna sweep my stick across the ice anymore, you know?

Melissa Maker: like how i subtly shade Jesus in my posts? a gentle lovetap. Gentile lovetap. i was the only person in Canada who liked Jesus Christ Superstar.

Igor Jesus: Monty Python's gonna have a field day with my name...

Trinity the cat: get Pumpkin insurance. you know why. you know me.

Billy Corgan: i had a cat. he found me annoying.

Nuno Espirito Santo: i am dispirited...

Snow Job: snow soldiers aren't cool in real life. 

Rambo in a white suit: yeah, only on G.I. Joe.

Jen R: hey, i used to be like you, all i wanted to do was spend a day where i slept for 27 hours.

me: what changed?

Jen: do you have midday headaches like a vampire?

me: i'm usually eating microwave popcorn.

Jen: when you take that 4-hour nap in the afternoon, it feels like the day ripped out your soul. the day stole something from you. you're not supposed to do this, you're supposed to sleep at night like everyone else. all you've done here is waste 4 hours of your life in the sun you could have been writing or fucking.