THE SHOT WITH REVERB: RETIRED

Kurt Cobain is lying supine on Roger Federer's red soft ottoman psychiatrist's sofa his blond floorlength hair touching the red carpet.

Roger Federer: i've always been jealous of your long hair.

Kurt Cobain: well, you're the shrink, you come highly recommended by John McEnroe. so go.

Roger: you like my office?

Kurt: loving all the yellow ferns you have hanging in here. 

Roger: do you know why Hootie & the Blowfish sold 100 million albums of Cracked Rear View?

Kurt: shifting radio-friendly units? ah the VH1 days, 1994.

Roger: after your suicide the world was in a tailspin. an air of hopelessness gripped the planet. people were looking for good ol' fashioned southern Carolinian down-home-country-boy stability. heartland heals.

Kurt: my brain is chicken-fried.

Roger: i'm trying to help you out, old-timer. let's have a patient powwow.

Kurt: i remember those Mississippi fishers on MTV, they were saying they put that tape in their truck, it was the perfect score for joyriding on a hot summer night.

Roger: it was the same for Jack Noseworthy in the goth/metal/alternative lane on the road.

Kurt: Jack Noseworthy REALLY got beefy and sexy the three short years between Teech and Dead At 21!!! it was the hair.

Jack Noseworthy: no it was the lips.

MTV: in the '90s we premiered our dangerous shows on Wednesday nights...

Roger: so, what are you gonna do now?

Kurt: get naked for an Outer Limits episode...

Jimothy: Ranger Rick after hearing "Floyd the Barber..."

Andy Griffith: the best song on Bleach from a very uneven record.

Robert Pattinson puts his ear to the door of Matt Damon's trailer as Matt Damon YELLS for hours on end.

Robert Pattinson: having a blowout phone call with Kristen Stewart?

Matt Damon: she is everyone's ex but i was making my voice sound older to play Odysseus.

Robert: just do the Batman voice.

Tom Hiddleston: me as Tommy Fleetwood.........perfect casting, same face, same name...

Michael Weiss: as you scroll Instagram, cheap inspo memes won't improve your life, finding a woman on Instagram will improve your life!!!

Cassie Lee in Teech: Asian captain of the rugby team?...

Saka: the 3rd Place Match is going to penalty kicks!!!...

Grandma Winslow and Gates McFadden are at their loveshack on Mars.

Grandma Winslow: those infernal spiral notebooks, IMPOSSIBLE to clean up those pieces of teeth paper.

Cindy Lorenz: ...

Cindy Lorenz: the price you pay for having to get a Green Notebook...

Gates McFadden: does Islands deliver?.........i mean up here...

false positive: the most destructive thing in the world...

Javier: i'm looking for socks.

Chola Butt: for your cock? that's a sketchy opening line.

Javier: socks here at Safeway where we both work...

Chola Butt: i saw you stalking not stocking the cereal aisle for two hours waiting for the Banana Cream of Wheat to arrive. you get brownie points for that...

Kurt: but the world thinks i'm dead.

Roger: you are to them.

Kurt: only the two of us know the truth.

Roger: so, what are you gonna do now, my old friend old Kurt?

Kurt: i'm retired. like that old GUNKY torn-plastic cobalt-blue cup with the dingy bottom you keep around the dishwasher to hold your dirty silverware.

Roger: say it ain't so!!! YOU can't retire. i can retire, nobody wants to see me with white hair, i'd scare the kids. the papers are calling me the male Serena Williams.

Kurt: there was only one Jimmy Connors.

Roger: but music is an old man's game. the songs get better with age, experience, and life wisdom. do you think Bob Dylan liked his first album?...

Kurt: well there is something about growing old i want to get off my grey-haired chest.........in a song...

 

THE GREAT SOCK HUNT: PIZZA AT THE WEDDING

 

Chola Butt: i'm sorry but i just don't find you attractive.

Javier: but how can that be?

Chola Butt: i know, it's loca, we're both single Latin warriors. you're a stubby man but you clearly work out, i can see the tiny piston muscles spilling out of your tight Lacoste crocodile knit shirt and oversized head. you can't force the magic.

Javier: the Mexican magic. my head became square from smoking cannabis.

 

me: ahem *i clear my throat*

Javier: oh right. wait let me check one last thing...

Chola Butt: hey don't touch my chola butt!!!

Javier: no i was just checking to see.........

Chola Butt: my butt is REAL, hombre. loca!!! i don't have long wide ribbed white tubesocks in my buttpockets!!! 

me: that's a real shame because those are my favorite socks. they last the longest. thanks for trying, dude.

Javier: no problemo, chino.

Charles Nelson Reilly: you can't win with socks, they're either small TIGHT AND ITCHY or large snug fit with HOLES in them.

hundred hallucination: hallucinations experienced in 100-degree heat.

Hot Topic in 1989: when we were an '80s store, we sold black speedos...

in the hotel with the bellhop carts.

Eliot Spitzer: can i spit on your toes?

Lis Smith: THAT's why your name is your name? we have a Seinfeld romance. Lis Smith tits, it rolls off the tongue. how about i give YOUR toes a titjob.

Eliot Spitzer: fine go ahead, i might as well have a little fun, it's not like i'm gonna win anything again, i can't compete with these TikTok left-wingers. remember when being a Democrat meant making fun of old white men?...

star soul: Tom Cruise making a movie in space.

Hermione: i wish i had a wand...

Julian LeBlanc: Kylo Ren as the lead singer of The Strokes after doing one Red Shoe Diaries episode...

Harry Lennix: Don Lemon was set up...

Jules Smith: have you ever eaten a bittersweet English muffin?

Cassie Lee in Teech: they said i had to make my voice squeaky to be "cute."

Jerry Seinfeld: perfect squeaky comedic mousey voice for my show. helium with a New York accent.

Cassie Lee: no i didn't retire to be a Street Fighter fighter.

Maggie Han: i was one of the four in Joy Luck Club...

Elizabeth Ashley in Vampire's Kiss: much more interesting than Nic Cage's overacting and whatever he was trying to achieve with that bizarre accent of his was my sex life with my MUCH YOUNGER Latin lover in my sexy black satin Jen Carfagno Mrs. Roper caftan with the white dragon down the middle. therapists need to pencil-in love, too.

Nic Cage: i stayed in character throughout the whole movie.

Elizabeth: you wasted the Method on THAT performance?!!! 

Nic: what, it's a Nosferatu tribute. people forget about German Expressionist silent cinema.

Elizabeth: i was voted sexiest 50-year-old woman by People Magazine. i beat out all 4 Golden Girls and that Crystalline Entity lady!!!

Kurt Cobain on a porch: kids today with their knit caps and lip rings and metalcore shirts dancing in their video-game chairs think Nirvana is classic rock.

Eddie Vedder at the insane hospital: how long can a man's hair get? do you know why it's called a nuthouse? because nuts go with jam...

Pele and Messi at Azteca.

Pele: i'm still better than you.

Messi: si.

Pele: i inspired Vision Quest. i got Linda Fiorentino's autograph. i started a league not just played in one. the pitch is brown for a reason...

Trinity the cat: when i get all crazy and jumpy like that, it's not the zoomies, it's diarrhea. i have to take a hard poo.

In-N-Out Burger: another chain is targeting us. maybe now is HIGH time to finally get on DoorDash?...

tomato basil soup: lasagna.

The Rocketeer: The Rocketeer secret destroyed the German Gigant...

Melissa Leo: i could play Jackie Fitzgerald...

Harvey Pekar: Stuart Fails to Save the Universe, that had to have been one of mine. right? i remember shading that comic book...

Chola Butt: by the way my name is Susan.

Javier: no way, Josette!!! it has to be Selena or Ireen or something.

Susan: in life there are the Javes and the Jave-nots...

THE GREAT SOCK HUNT: GODZILLA UNDER GLASS

 

me: don't blow your one and only chance.

Javier: um.........hola. do you like me okay?

Chola Butt: for one thing only.

the two see each other's reflection in the glass aisle blocking the deodorant.

Kurt Cobain: why is Safeway guarding how we smell? our bodies stink, there's no getting around that...

Javier: i know what you like in a macho i mean in a man. take this red Old Spice stick deodorant with Bigfoot holding an apple pie...

Chola Butt: no.

Javier: Godzilla holding illegal Japanese firecrackers which don't exist?...

Chola Butt: you have the pin number for this keypad to this lock. 

Javier punches in the code, Chola Butt swings the glass door open, swipes an Oil of Olay bar, and skids off.

Chola Butt: don't look at me running away!!!

me: hey, you wanna see my etchings of a jealous Godzilla kissing Fay Wray?...

Cuisinart: when you buy a new toaster from us, the toaster setting is at 7 the highest setting.........to test you...

Chola Butt: do you know what we call our manager?

Jen R: he looks like Daddy Warbucks.

Javier: yeah, Mexican Daddy Warbucks.

Chola Butt: not because he's wealthy, because he has a bald head that is brighter than supermarket lights.

Mexican Daddy Warbucks: the Safeway parking lot, where every car has its motor running at all times ready to drive INTO you!!!

Jude Bellingham: i'm classier than Coach. "Hey Jude," Beatles class, not that "Wonderwall" tosh our manager sings in the shower with us recounting the old days.

Kane in the shower: The Two Ronnies were pretty good tho.

Bellingham: Oasis are scousers. our goalie is an MLS guy?...

Cindy and i are at The Greene Turtle.

Cindy Lorenz: when you see me what do you see?

me: i see a woman rubbing a dab of Oil of Olay into her palms before attacking this plate of big-ass nachos in front of her.

Grandma Winslow and Gates McFadden are in their loveshack on Mars.

Grandma Winslow: for home upkeep don't toss the Hershey's Kiss flag in the indoor recycle box, you'll never find it. transfer the flag DIRECTLY into the recycle bin OUTSIDE. we're sensitive about flags, many a torn rainbow flag came before us...

Gates McFadden: great, now that that's over, come over here and teach me Defender of the Crown. i've never played a computer game naked.

garbanzo beans: the one thing missing from the salad kit...

Judge Judy: it's the 3PM block, they're playing repeats of me from 2015!!! that's how entertaining i was.

Teech: Star Trek: Deep Space Nine as a sitcom. Odo the headmaster, Sisko the music teacher. and Miles's wife the rare progressive Asian sex symbol.

Wesley: how come no one on Star Trek wears glasses?

Breaking Benjamin: it's okay for the singer of a band to wear a hat on stage while performing live. 

Kurt Cobain: if i wore a hat on stage i'd be accused of being a lumberjack...

auburn hair: doesn't mean you went to Auburn.

Charles Barkley: i cannot speak on hair.

Drew Brees: am i in fact Trent Reznor? let's examine the evidence: same eyes, ears, nose, mouth. picture my face with long straight raven-black hair. we both live in New Orleans. 

Trent Reznor: football is a goth sport. Trent: Teeth, think about it.

Trent Reznor: we both have a scar...

me: so.........the socks?

Javier with a hangperro look on his face: oh right. try CVS.

me at CVS: THESE SOCKS ARE IMPOSSIBLY SMALL!!! 

Jen R: right? they're cute tho. they wouldn't even fit a woman's foot. and women LOVE ankle socks.

me: like what are these?!!! travel-size socks?

Jen: can you get socks at a pharmacy? loving the Vaporwave patterns and colors on these socks tho. 

THE GREAT SOCK HUNT: CAN YOU GET SOCKS AT A GAS STATION?

 

Javier at Safeway: hello, how are you today?

me: i'm looking for socks. just ordinary socks. haven't had new socks in 13 years. 

Javier: can you get socks at a gas station? because you can't get them here.

me: i'll check.........i guess.

Javier: everyone around here thinks i work at a gas station. because i'm Mexican. every time you get another packet of Boar's Head THICK bacon, you think of me, because i'm the one who cut it up. i'm the butcher boy around here.

Javier: you see that woman over there stocking the catnip?

me: oh yeah, Chola Butt. i've seen her, i mean everyone's seen her...

Javier: it's okay, vato, i get it, her butt is LEGENDARY. her butt is bigger than Planet Earth which is impossible. i've read ancient Aztec legends about this. her face softens the burning red poker in the fireplace of my loins. she looks like if Winona Ryder were Mexican.

me: she isn't?

LeBron James: i'm gonna make ALL the teams wait for me. i'm gonna put on my eyeglasses and backwards felt baseball cap and be Kadeem Hardison from A Different World for a while this summer.

Rescue from Gilligan's Island: this was WEIRD without a laugh track. 

Judith Baldwin: yeah, but this is how TV is done, you do the entire episode saying your jokes and not one person laughs, dead silence on set...

Zalman King: the man is all alone in his whitestone Santorini castle below grey sky, airing his citadel out through the paneless stucco windows. not a soul for miles along the craggy coast lined with green grass. taking off his shirt he gets to work furiously SCRUBBING the 18th-century tub of all the light-orange/brown grime from the centuries. on his knees he envisions his castle siren, in this tub shortly he anticipates that olive-skinned woman from the cafe with the muscular buttocks. the tub shall be the bed. there's no water in the tub, the two will fuck to the undulation of how they imagine the dark-blue waters off the Greek sea to be.

Randolph Mantooth: i couldn't save myself :(

Jen R: bite yourself. a little bloodletting. a dot of blood on your thumb to let the infection out. it frees and relaxes the body. bite me. i mean that as an offer...

Cindy and i are at Islands.

me: okay i'll get the Ocean Burger.

Cindy Lorenz: and i'll have the lobster.........the lobster was dry. how can lobster from the ocean be dry?...

Emily Ratajkowski: 12-way.........bidding war for my book...

Maradona: let's travel back in time, shall we? The Hand of God was nothing more than a handball not seen by the refs. not divine. you guys beat us in the Falklands War, it evens out. a deathbed apology 60 years later is still an apology...

Maradona: so, Harry Kane, your Christmas present from me to you this year is a candy cane and this VAR machine.

Harry Kane: and i'm on that 1994 England team that DOES make the World Cup, i make friends with Alexi Lalas and grow out my ginger Van Dyke mustache and goatee so i can FINALLY be cool.

Alexi Lalas: JUST a soulpatch isn't cool.

Billy Bob Thornton: ...

John Strong: 45 minutes down, 45 *voice cracks* minutes to go...

Harry Kane: mate you want my illegal Tijuana lozenges?

Talia the cat: i'm scared of spiders. but that is my own hairball lithely dancing on eight legs...

Vampire's Kiss: because Nic Cage is doing The Room, it's good...

Maria Conchita Alonso's mother: i'm complimenting my daughter when i tell her to get her little ass to work.

Maria Conchita Alonso: no, mama, the Latina chola butt is ROUND.

Nic Cage with hot yogurt on his toes: i'm gonna call you MCA, that's cool.

Alvin from Alvin & the Chipmunks: ...

Jamie Lee Curtis: i never meant for yogurt to turn into a sex thing.

Jen R: July 4th is the best birthday to have.

Tom Cruise in a wheelchair taking out his penis pump: Born on the Fourth of July ain't all it's cracked up to be.

Hayao Miyazaki: actually, being born on July 11th is the ideal, 7-11, my favorite place to dip my hot dog in a slushie.

Billy Corgan: i got on the Slurpee diet for a good two years, have you ever noticed you've never seen me fat?...

me: so why don't you approach her and ask her out? it won't be awkward, you're coworkers.

Javier: a mere Mexican mortal asking out a greasy grey goddess?!!!

me: but your cock is shriveling as we speak!!! how old are you? don't you want a family?

Javier: i'm 40, family time has passed me by. besides, deciding to have a family is the most CONSEQUENTIAL decision you will ever make in this life, next to whether or not you decide to go crazy. you can't take that shit lightly. maybe in the next life...

Chola Butt: there's no next life!!! it's now or never!!!