Monday, April 8, 2019

TMIT: ALONE ON VALENTINE'S DAY






1. did you leave your last love for someone else or no one else?

i would never leave love. but my last one was fated. it was a furious courtship behind the rose bushes and an even faster betrothal, but she said she had something more important to do than me. alas i could only concede relent and give her a pass. she became the Queen of England.

the unconscious-uncoupling treaty i signed in the Tower decreed that she would get the Jaguar and the Rolls and i would have to marry Meghan Markle's dad and move to the city...

2. do you enjoy being alone? this is a loaded question. and an all-encompassing one. i mean if i had had a normal life free of mental illness you would never have known me from this blog. i'd be a ghost in your imagination. i would have married after class my Berkeley Drama-mate Jennifer Pizarro---the Viking blonde---we'd take the bus to our familial bungalow in Tustin along the palm-tree street facing away from the highway. and both of us would parent our 2.5 kids whilst wearing matching bandanas. we'd be one of those annoying wife-husband writing teams in Hollywood who do Bob's Burgers scripts but can also write for Sesame Street, Arli$$, and Rolling Stone.

i guess what i'm driving at on the Masters golf course is being alone is terrible but it allows me to write interesting things. if i wasn't alone i'd be happy and a terrible writer. but i'd be happy.

3. which of these reasons is most likely to spark your motivation for solitude?:
a) it sparks my creativity monks are the most creative people on the planet. they write the best Satanic metal music---cos they've been there---but no one knows this music exists.
b) i enjoy the quiet to a point. if it gets too quiet in my head i start to chirp like a bird.
c) being alone helps me get in touch with my spirituality currently, Christian Atheism is doing a number on said head. CS Lewis is quite the fabulist.
d) i value the privacy every man needs his alone time and space to put his finger in the air and enjoin the rest of the town to do the same like that Diamond Is Unbreakable opening.
e) i do not feel liked when i am around others it's true, only my imaginary friends get me. when i am around others i feel they talk behind my back. btw i'm talking behind their backs to you now typing this. when they give me a toast i feel they're trying to ply me with champagne, you know?
f) i cannot be my true self when i am around others. my true self consists of talking like an Aaron Sorkin script around others, dramatic and pulling no punches. using many obscure news-item references and laughing at Rob Lowe when he decided to do that West Wing pilot episode where his character gets caught with a hooker...

4, have you ever tried to win back an ex-significant other? yes or no? were you successful? if yes, did you regret it? how long did the reconciliation last?

yes. by going all out. trying to find her anniversary gift i was flipping through a bulky fashion mag at the nail salon. where lo i discover some male models advertising manly musky perfume by recreating the Olympic Games naked.

it is then and there that i dedicate my skinny-ass self to being the best man for her i can be. the kind of man who is in these ads, who appears effortlessly, that they create weird scents for in a lab in Italy, to be the image when the mad Versace scientist working under the canal thinks up the body for POR HOMME.

the reconciliation lasted exactly two sniffs of her nose…

5. do you mind if your SO significant other gives or receives harmless flirtation?

i just wish she'd flirt with ME.

BONUS: if you really knew me, you'd know___________

i'm serious. i earnestly try to answer these questions.

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Friday, April 5, 2019

THE BEATLES OF COMEDY


where's Cleese tho? you can always tell where Graham Chapman is in EVERY single group-shot pic he ever took from birth to his untimely death: follow the Freudian cigar. he will be the only one chomping on a cigar.

as Graham Chapman would say......Graham Chapman is off adventure-clubbing like a Hemingway man somewhere...paragliding off a cliff in Tanzania after wrestling a lion before noon and a poached egg for lunch on a cloud...all whilst smoking a cigar in his mouth…

notes:

* flights to Orlando? why would anyone want to go to...…...oh, right, to start a boy band.

* not one of those Instagram swipes where you always swipe to the farthest right no matter what content is shown. this is serious, people, this is airline travel. R.I.P.

* youth is wasted on the young. and first-class is wasted on toddlers.

* baby already knows that you should never do a vertical shot, only widescreen horizontal to get all of the pool. smart and savvy. too smart and savvy. you know people are starting to slowly but surely turn on social media in general. the world the world over is starting to wise up and wizen up.

* how do you say help online in many languages? like this: HEEEEEELPPPPPPPPPP MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

* share pictures with Erica? no, Erica doesn't want those pics of Erica, makes Erica look unflattering. Erica has blocked you. life hack: make sure you collect the pics of yourself before blocking someone.

* Google: remind you of the game tonight at 6?
me: nah, the Tournament is over for me, Duke got robbed.
Google: it's impossible for Duke to get robbed...

* me: how deep is the Atlantic Ocean?
Google: the Earth is flat so the answer is there is no water. we're all gonna die.

* teacher: Viewfinders helped me land my first date. Sadie Hawkins Dance at Grover Elementary. the year was circa 198...
class: we will never care about your personal life, teach. just tell us again about the '80s and E.T....

* President Bump: i want to see a Wheelchair President in my lifetime.
crowd at rally: FDR?
Bump: doesn't count.

* wolf: do not hug Jack London...

* coffee with Tom, team meeting, pick up John, call mom, family time: hot iced-tea with Tom, tennis team meeting so it's only one person, pick up John for sex, call mom and tell her my problems, living-apart-together time...

* teacher: open up your laptops, kids. wait, i'm a kindergarten teacher! do you even know what computers are, kids?
kids: yes, and we will all be leaving school forever now. all the information of the world and universe is on this computer, right? so, sayonara.

* me: hey where did the Amoeba Music go?
clerk: under new management. the racks and dividers are gonna be a bit disarrayed for awhile till we catch up.
me: no, i like what you've done with the place. Moby is in the SOUL MUSIC section, Michael Jackson is in ELECTRONICA, The Beatles are in BLACK MUSIC, that's good, and ROCK N ROLL has been replaced with a card which simply reads CHUCK BERRY.

* Steven Universe: pizza near me?
Google: kid, you live in a magical town by the sea where everything's located in one place: car wash, pizza, Taco Bell. sound familiar? you're a fat kid who should be eating more tiny trees.
Steven : tiny trees?
Google: broccoli. how's the depression going?

* mom: first day of pre-preschool!!! i'm free again!!!
pre-preschooler: otherwise known as me getting parked in front of Sesame Street.

* PRO TIP FOR PARENTS: do NOT involve your innocent children in your braindead imma-make-money-on-youtube schemes.

* me: is it busy?
Google: LIFE is busy. the constant play. constant content. the perennial pageant of colors and flavors. the human motivation unto death.
me: can i unsend Google for LIFE?

* man: DO NOT DISTURB. i am trying to make my family.

* The Beatles: have you ever felt that you didn't need help when you were younger cos you were an invincible teenager high on The Doors and purple haze? but then as you got older you realized life was more complicated than previously thought and you started to have no confidence in yourself anymore, you needed help with everything, even simple things like driving a car cos you got the shakes when you saw the jack in the glove compartment? you couldn't drink Mountain Dew anymore cos it used Real Sugar again? you felt down cos you couldn't push buttons and lonely all the time cos those helpers you relied on your whole life weren't around anymore?
Monty Python: sod off, you toffee-nosed pervert wankers.

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happy weekend, my babies. this weekend it's gonna be the Truffle Burger from Carl's Jr. and like a good red-blooded American worth his saturated salt the first time i'll be trying truffles will be truffles in a burger...





Wednesday, April 3, 2019

THE PURPLE HOURGLASS: GANAS


Llywarch: and the generational thing.

Laertus: generational thing?

Llywarch: yeah like when you're on Instagram and you think Westworld is a brand-new cutting-edge leading-edge scifi series that has broken all the rules. nothing on tv has ever been done or seen like this before! it's revolutionary! writers are having a hard time writing for it cos no one fully understands what it means……...and then you find out from your new Instagram friend you just followed 30 minutes ago who's a nostalgia geek and freak and really into bringing back Jem pink hair for men that Westworld was already a wellworn '80s series that had weird blocky robots and cheap sets of noon-dust and was generally laughed out and forgotten. i feel for you millennials, you have nothing to hold onto that's original.

Laertus: can it be green hair that's not a hoax?

Dirg: i love when a piece starts with the word and. just goes right into it. that was my favorite part of The Shivering Truth if i'm being honest. yeah the sets were elaborate, the puppets were freaky, but the stories tended to meander…

Laertus: that was definitely the point. eep, you scared me! when did you get back here?

Dirg: i am always around. around you, inside you...

Llywarch: hello Dirg, long time no see. i think. how are you enjoying these environs?

Dirg: oh so YOU'RE my best friend's lover. can't say i blame you. or that i'm jealous. i mean you're not real, right? you're CG.

Llywarch: be careful with that question, mister, those simple labels. the more you think i'm computer-generated, the more you have to ask who it is exactly who's pushing the computer button strings.

Dirg: yeah so it's a nice-enough pastoral setting. if a little bland and predictably green. want to sleep with my hood over my head like that shepherd hanging over the hanging rock cliff over there. welp, that NPC shepherd just got hooked off the screen by his own hooked staff. that's always unpleasant.

Llywarch: no, you're missing everything as usual! your New Zealand was patterned after this area! don't you see it? you have to venture forth a few miles on foot past the purple mountains to get a gander at the sparkling-emerald lush landscapes and a sea so blue you can spot the green Loch Ness Monster belly-flopping at its bottom.

Dirg: you said bottom. the Loch Ness Monster was not in the brochure. so where are all the Hobbits?

Llywarch: yonder.

Chris Matthews at the MSNBC studios: fuck. let's play Hardball. *cue Hardball music*

Chris Matthews: seriously tho, i seem to be the only one at this network who's upset by all this. i'm flustered, that's not easy for an Irish guy.

Chuck Todd: have you signed up for my new Toddcast yet, Chris?

Chris: fuck. you. sorry, i'm on edge all the time. hey they should have your infamous flicking-off middle-fingering finger when you thought the cameras weren't on you as the cover for your podcast page, that would get people to sign up!

Maria LaRosa has moved a few feet with her beautiful small big feet and now resides in New Zealand:

Maria: this is gorgeous. but i don't like the new changes. right after i left, they refurbished the intro prompt for Weekend Recharge on The Weather Channel to feature that black bitch who replaced me and you, Goody Paul. i don't like it one bit, it shows you and her beautifully smiling and folding arms, they never took my picture for that ONCE all those decade-years i was there! not once!

Goody Paul: i do like how we're getting a surplus of Alexandra Steele now. there can never be too much Alexandra Steele. i mean except for you, dear. i like when she's paired with the black dudebro Alex. Alex and Alex. the ratings go down when it's Alex and that other black dude, scientifics show. and meteorology is nothing if not a science thing. and i like the diversity of when i'm paired with the black girl, it shows diversity. which reminds me, i have to spelunk out of your orifice now and get to work. it will take me the weekend to hike to the studio. i wish i could layabout all day fucking you but papa's gotta pay the bills.

at the ESPN stiudios, Molly is adjusting her fluted skirt.

Molly: thanks JRose, for caring. i know this isn't what you bargained for when you signed the contract and thought you were marrying me the unattainable bombshell. it's been hard on you. but i hurt down there, and i have to go see a specific doctor for my down-there every week, that's why the viewers hardly see me weekends beginning Thursdays, i'm not in studio for In Studio anymore cos i'm always at a doctor's office.

Jalen Rose: i know, honey, and i happily take you to the doctor's and vet's. in my scooter. that's what a loving husband does, his duties, to be in a sexless marriage of just love. all love, boo and bae. truth to my troth is, we're in an empathetic twinship you and i, for i too am troubled in my down-there, it hurts for a different reason.

Max: you know you two are weird. when the cameras light up, you talk to each other and interview and ask questions and answer like you're two complete strangers, Molly addresses you as Basketball Player Jalen Rose, it's weird.

Jalen: i know, at least mention the Fab Five or my socks.

Molly: *playfully* shut up, Max, i'll get to your new boxing show next week. i actually wasn't at the doctor's this time, i was at an audition. i can't believe that bitch Tiffany Smith got my Meghan Markle part! i was a shoo-in!

Dirg: oh, so THIS explains Tiffany Smith's long absences and hiatuses over at the old Marvel YouTube Channel. renamed R.I.P. Stan and some twelve-year-olds think it's pronounced Rip Stan and are confused. mystery finally solved. this is kinda a Red Circle table, right? just soaking it all in for my reeducation. Max is more black than Stephen A, Max was an actual street-rapper.

Stephen A: *stands up flabbergasted and points his finger at her* don't stress me more, Molly Q! you know that Tiffany Smith is an absolute stunner save for the turkeyneck and she ain't no chickenhead i checked. and she is a DEAD RINGER for the new Princess so don't you even front!

Molly: *slaps his hand away from her face* *not playfully* shut up, Stephen A!

Stephen A: hey man, if you want some more learnin', get into that car that i'm seeing right now pulling up to the studo downstairs, many floors down next to the Statue of Liberty by the bay. with my own two peepin' eyes that don't need no glass. eye don't lie. that's the ride you need to get into.

Dirg: *attempts the pound-hug on Stephen's back* thanks my brotha. lobsta on the house.

Stephen A: don't touch me i don't know you, don't say brotha, and don't speak with a Boston accent near my general vicinity.

Dirg races downstairs as fast as his skinny nerd legs can take him without any drone cameras noticing and skips into the cab with an open side door willing.

Dirg: still smells like shit. i was expecting at last some passable Persian musk. oh! the cabdriver is Wendy Williams! well, hello fierce doll! you are hot to me, imma tell you on front street from jump, you do not look like a man to me at all when i masturbate at night.

Wendy Williams: look. let's keep things on the QT, not-cutie. i don't want the papa razzing and on my back---my big shapely round tail. that's why i'm wearing this hood. and a wedding ring. and a wire. i divorced him and i don't wanna make it a big deal. that's why i'm taking, like, three months off, starting my summer vacation early.

Dirg: Fiji, right? this is perfect! i mean this really is perfect timing! i need to learn the black life. i need an in at the inn table, ya feel? take me to one of your many palatial Manhattan high rises mansions. and let the chicken-chewin' begin in earnest!!! hey by the way, whatever happened to Lauryn Hill?

Wendy Williams: that remains a tightly-guarded secret in the black and black-twitter communities, but I am Lauryn Hill.

the cab screeches over and drives one block in traffic. at the nearest curb, President Bump gets in.

Bump: this cab smells like my hair. so you're still going with using the yellow-checkerboard cabs, huh? haven't moved yet to the Brexit black cabs? i mean i ain't telling yous how to run your ship, all i know about cars i learned from Michael Cohen and he's more my best frenemy than anything.

Dirg: a pleasure, sir! may i shake your hand?

Bump: of course not. you masturbate with that hand, i can tell and smell it. i'm a guy, too, you know. wait you said shave your head? okay, good, that's a vote. yeah, i knew that about Lauryn Hill, i'm into black culture, i know her oranges story.

Wendy: oranges? or origin story?

Bump: don't tell anyone, it's a tightly-guarded secret in the Fort Knox twitter community...…...but, well, i have orange skin.

Wendy: now you know how it feels to be colored in this society.

Bump: my father was Hitler. wind farms cause cancer. yeah, those spokes on windmills, you know? those are actually sharp pointy autism-vaccination needles. hax vax. those wind turbines gave Deborah Norville cancer.

Dirg: i hate wind. not that any wind could bring down the strongman strength of YOUR hair, sir. and you do it without any hairspray at all, right? just pure willpower. strength of your own will.

Wendy: um, i'm the cabdriver here, i'm supposed to be the crazy one who rambles incoherently to keep from the awkward silence. but i'm really rambling meta-coherently. we're almost here. just round the bender.

Dirg: wait, this is a sober house. what...…...the...…...fuck.

Wendy: yes, i'll be living at this sober-facility-residence for the next, oh, three months or so should cover it.

Bump: that's fine. i can adjust, it's already less-stuffy than the Cream House. more loose once you start drinking. get to know my voters. like the ones who sell oranges at the Border. i don't drink, by the way, and i'm not crazy.

at the highest point-tip of New Zealand, Coach K and Zion have traveled a long and arduous journey by sandal up many steep paths and hilly crags to reach their final destination: Mount Zion. the Mount closes its Eye of Sauron to sleep, Maria covers her vagina with her two dainty hands like a proper fiery Spanish woman, Fuerza looks on in disgust and jealousy, and the Eye opens up once more, pried open by Zion's dunk-hands, it rains bright red warm-to-hot light on the young acolyte, burning his skin.

Coach K removes the hood of his brown monk robe and bestows it upon Zion's body.

Coach K: here you go, son, from now on you will be more famous than me. i saw a spraypaint the other day on a bus which read Cock K and i knew right there i was done, i couldn't take this life anymore. go and form your own religion.

inside the cave Rog Federer in an all-white seersucker suit is entertaining Chris Evert wrapped in his medium-sized arms. she's a bit tipsy.

Chris: i'm telling ya, hunk, the Miami Open is gonna replace New York as the U.S. Open some day!

Fed: needs a better atmosphere, dear, a more---what's the word in Swiss?---a better tomato atmosphere.

Chris: tomater?

Fed: and more Communism. good European Communism. but i do love the salsa dancing on court instead of the serve motion. not all by Monfils. i still gots it. and you gots it, too, toots.

Chris: look out for FAA, he's the next big black thing i mean big thing. and look out for Tiafoe, he's the real deal, he's what Donald Young was hoping the fans wanted. Tiafoe has the ancient spiritual African wisdom, he's Manut Bol's son, right? or cousin?

Fed: FAA? is that an airline?

Eye Luggage: thank you for listening, folks, joining us just one week on from the New Zealand massacre tragedy, so we know everyone's still a bit tender. we hope you can work through your raw and maybe lighten up for an hour, distract yourself from the interminable world pain and have a few tips and tip-backs and tricks talking tv.

Dirg: Silverchair predicted this massacre. and why didn't the Power Rangers stop the shooter? they were right there in New Zealand.

Laertus: dude. bro. dudebro. it's too soon. it's still too soon. it will ALWAYS be too soon for you.

Dirg: i am digging the new season of Power Rangers tho. well up to a point. so far. they should have been dispatched like the real New Zealand police.

Laertus: the initial concept for the show this year was right on point, inventive and so relevant to current times what with the energy thing, the moving away from fossil fuels. just three Rangers, makes it less busy, more time for tight writing.

Dirg: and the asses. right? i mean i thought Yellow had the best ass, but then you get a look at Roxy's ass and it's like UMERFGHHHHHHHYASHHHHH

Laertus: a couple of episodes in, and it's starting to suck. it's starting to go back. to middle-of-the-road, ordinary, normal, and boring playing-it-safe. standard. we'll see. of course nothing tops the interestingness of the cast: Teuila Blakely is on Beast Morphers!

Dirg: THE Teuila of the blowjob?

Laertus: one and the same. she's on there. playing a no-nonsense commander. and i hope she gets to address the issue right there on the show. i mean isn't that what Power Rangers is for? to address societal ills? i hope she arches her back and points her fiery lens of eyes to the camera and fixes her commander madam vest and tells off the world:

Commander Teuila: yes i gave that handsome rugby bloke a roadhead blowjob! well a jeepjob. yes! i'm a woman dammit and i can do what i want! i'm a woman of power! and if i want to be Kim K fuck that bitch! we were just having a bit of fun, everyone has fun! i used the cum as a mixing agent to harden the green goo slime we need to save the world! that's what separates us from Evox! Evox only has fang spit.

Llywarch: these are dangerous times we're in. we all must be allowed to be human. we all give blowjobs, we all have to come to terms with this.

Eye: let's move on to that feature film-fest special we did on the white sheet outside the dorms on campus by the moonlight, for the first time ever on bluray on the blue sky: Stand and Deliver.

Dirg: South Park did it better. i don't like learning. why watch a movie about school at school? that's a beach bummer. they prolly cheated anyway, look at the college scandal, Operation Varsity Blues Was A Crap Film. Operation Aunt Becky.

Laertus: but what a film! oh you know you would lie down on a busy highway on the broken yellow dotted lines drunk to get initiated to a sport if you could play a sport. any sport. that Edward James Olmos heart-attack scene tho! that went on and on and on the stairs. i guarantee you this: EVERY actor practices the heart-attack in the mirror, prolongs it like that, takes up ten minutes of film by gesticulating on and on and on with the heart attack till her or his fall is broken by the bottom flight of stairs. but EJO can get away with it, can win awards for it, cos he's Captain William Fucking Adama.

Dirg: *shaking his damn head* Karla Montana, where did you go? you were hot enough for the white rich businessmen in Los Angeles who drove their Porsches up to the curb of an innercity gang chainlink public high school in danger of being disaccreditationed, why'd you quit acting? you could have at least guest-starred in an episode of Hannah Montana. we need your body and beauty...and yes brains...on screen. and that one poor actress, the only one who was actually based on a real student---the one who served tamales at her family mexishop---she didn't need to die but got suicided-by-cop against her will cos she was crazy. she didn't get pregnant like her father feared but they put something else in her: lead. hey it wasn't her fault, she got touched by the George Clooney Curse. all women will eventually get hit and struck on the head by The George Clooney, he has that affect on women. we knew her, Laertus, from her stellar work on the early seasons of ER. only Eriq La Salle even bothered to twitter-mention her after her death cos you know he got some of that on set with his hair goo. did you know you could bend a taco?

Laertus: taco bender? taco vendor? yeah, sure, not the hard crunchy Taco Bell shells but the soft white flour-tortilla shells you can bend. they should make a soft Doritos Locos taco shell. Prop 13 DESTROYED California forever. i mean didn't our forebears know better? not to get all millennial here but the warning was in the name: 13!

Eye Luggage: Lou Diamond Phillips IS Jesus. Lou Diamond Phillips in peaches and i'm all set for dreams. no relation to Wilson. right? but yes relation to diamonds on my toes.

Eye Luggage: why wasn't this film called Ganas? it so obviously should have been! and why the hell is the film called Stand and Deliver? what does stand and deliver even mean? those words, that phrase, is not mentoned ONCE in the entire film.

Dirg: pizza.

at a cottage just outside the burbs of the New Zealand space situates a tavern off the beaten path yet fully marked with a golden path. it's the Hobbits' Hideaway, one with a flashing neon arrow pointing at it, a touristy attraction now ever since the films but more ever since the Disney merger. inside there is much merriment, gladhanding with furry feet, and backslapping amongst the hobbits, each wiping the foam off their fellow hobbits' beards.

Dirg: you couldn't do that with women. just think, one touch of the shoulders is gonnna cost you four more years of Bump.

Laertus: thanks, Sticky Joe.

Gladyce has turned herself into a catgirl, her glistening listening ears cutely demur as she prepares the spaghetti sauce. her tail circles as she boils but not necessarily toils nor troubles:

Gladyce: mew Mew Zealand! almost ready, boys! just one more turn. and twitch of my catear. or a trick. i'm making sensitive marinara sauce. for you sensitive men, you gallant gents.

Doryce roughly puts her feet up on the rough-hewn table. and her arms back to touch her Cover Girl hair.

Doryce: i'm making Fradiavolo spaghetti sauce. yeah, *spit*, learned how to cook from my bitch. Fradiavolo, i figured Frodo would enjoy it.

Frodo: fraid not, love, i'm a man. a real man.

Doryce: yeah i hear ya, and i feel ya, and i want to feel ya up. yeah, i just came back from a high adventure, much journey. i had to take a shit, you know? i had to go poo so bad. i just woke up one morning and thought i was gonna fart as i always do so i turned my asscheeks over to an opening in my sheets but instead i shit all over my bloomer panties! streams and streams of liquid brown feces unexpected! it was so bad my delicates weren't even worth saving with a wash in a tiny tub. and then i had to go to The Store for my weekly biweekly grocery-shopping, the entire two hours i was there pacing the halls on my flying broom my asscrack itched so bad. SO BAD! i wanted to sink my entire karate-chop hand into my asscrack to ease the pain of the itch but if i did that, my only other panties would be ruined. that would be unmentionable. i should prolly just go naked from now on, huh? o it was so distracting, the only thing on my mind, i even forgot about sex for two minutes. so the first thing i do when i get home is to the bathroom and used the entire roll of toilet paper. which was thin like tissue paper. i forgot to buy any food!

Bilbo Baggins, smoking a pipe: i wish you hadn't told me all that, madam. that story made my beard fall out.

outside from the ruckus on a wet patch of green grass Madame Pons squats wetting her purple lace dress while she listens to Llywarch by the fire. he's spit-roasting a small bird and turning a crank:

Madame Pons: i'm getting told.

Llywarch: never, madam, you are a very-sensitive woman, not like the others in there. i can feel your aura, no i can SEE your aura! right in front of my eyes, your aura is spilling out of your body in bright rainbow gum stripes which bend around and shimmer into sparkle pots. dare i say you are even a more sensitive being than i. i pray to the goddesses that it is you who are equipped to save the world.

Pons: this beats the drivethru. ah, nature. and that roasting bird is making my esophagus water.

Llywarch: almost ready, golden brown like Amercia should be. hey, when you gotta eat you gotta eat. one wing or both?

Pons: i know i need to eat, for strength, it's just...i can't. and this isn't a Hollywood fad diet excuse, i follow The Pope's diet. of cinnamon holy wafers. but i need to deny myself right now if i am to grow. ignore the hunger pains, pass the pangs with the salt.

Llywarch: i see. very austere, very monk, i commend your communion. poor Yoricka, i knew him well. well her. that's the name of my hen. she was my constant companion, my protector, my guide. she was good for a few belly laughs but she belongs in my belly. and a few poems. but it's over now, everything must end.

he eats the roast hen in his mouth, but there's a twinkle in his eye as he looks at Madame Pons whilst he eats.

Pons: that's hot. when you look at me as you eat.

Llywarch, smiling, even his teeth smiling: behold what happens next, madam. and realize that i am fully-stuffed, i have had my fill, i ate Yoricka, i had dinner.

the roast hen comes out of Llywarch's mouth, reforms its feathers which fly back from clouds in the sky, and the hen is healthy and happy and alive once more, fully-together, shiny coat, legs kicking, rustling the ground for scraps, clucking up a crazy storm, pompadour blowout blowin', chickenhead bobbin'.

Llywarch: good as new. better even after having been inside me.

Pons's eyes awe. darting back between Llywarch and the hen, Pons's eyes star.










Monday, April 1, 2019

TMIT: JUST WATCHING MY TV STORIES...


...and my Sherwin-Williams paint commercials with the animated hanggliding safari animals made out of paint samples.

1. consider your current lover and your relationship as it stands. if this person were on a dating app would you swipe left or swipe right?

this is so cold. is this what love has come to? i refuse to play the game. i WON'T submit facebook a profile pic of me and what i look like so my "friends" can easily spot me no matter WHAT facebook orders me to do!

i met my current hotness doing these here blogspot blogs, they are WAY better dating apps than Instagram cos they employ writings and books by authors, not just pics of apples.

luckily i never had to confront this. i was on grindr and the first pic which popped up was a pic of Swiper from Dora. after ten minutes of stony silence, i asked Swiper why he wasn't in the new live-action movie and how he felt about that. he laughed in my face then licked my face, gave me a nutmeg in my private parts in the private picnic area then ran away into the forest to find more nutmeg.

2. have you ever done speed dating? did you like it? did you get a real or full date out of it? i got a half date. allow me to explain:

i was really getting a jones for fucking Flash. i wanted The Flash in all his glory, if he broke the bed doing it in a whoosh of wind i was okay with that. if he wanted to show he was much more worthy than Shazam i was okay with this. well, the sex lasted -1, negative 1, seconds. we actually went back in time, but not in the good way. i asked him later while we were scarfing some mint-chocolate-chip popsicles…

me: what happened back there, The Flash?
Flash: please, it's just Flash, no need to be formal, we just fucked. this is how i fuck. it's over in a second. the cum disappears instantly and spirals to form a new galaxy in another dimensional universe. but it's still hot, right? cos i'm a superhero. it's superhero sex.
me: not really.

3. if your date texts during a date do you find it annoying? if yes, do you say something about it?

i don't speak, i think a thought and let my cyberbrain do the rest.

well, it was just...see during our date she was texting to her husband for tips on how to best get rid of me. later, we were at the same four-Michelin-star steak restaurant---that only serves one side: baked potato, no pizza---and my second date was texting Pizza Hut to see what my favorite pizza topping was. credit due, i have to admit that when the steak arrived and we sprinkled it on top of the pizza, it was good.

4. how do you like to arrange dates---with an actual phone call or all via text message?

i love the smell of an old coiled-corded phone: the old spice, the brush, the cigar, the brandy, the harsh lacquer. sometimes i lick the phone while i talk into it cos there's a drop of leftover brandy on the receiver.

i arrange dates much like i arrange flowers: haphazardly. you didn't think i arranged flowers, didja? helps me get dates. life hack: do the azaleas go with the iggies? just wondering. i know the toffee goes with the coffee...even tho c comes before t. did they get lazy when naming toffee? like they just said it's a candy that goes with coffee so we'll just change the one letter to t.

5. for a first date, which do you prefer---drink date or dinner date?

well i tried the whole dinner-date thing and it clearly was too expensive. for my soul. so i like to go to Starbucks with my date and have dinner. you can have dinner at Starbucks you know, just grab one of those sandwiches from the brown dusty spinning-tray next to the cash register for your four-courser. she will order the acai bowl, i'll bet you my Digimon cards. thing is, the coffee there is so expensive it was more than the steak. i ended up just sucking on a toffee alone in the rain, outside the Starbucks. a raccoon offered up his umbrella to shield me from both kinds of cold. but it turned out he was only interested in my toffee. i tried to talk to him but all he wanted to do was lick my face. i thought all raccoons spoke with a British accent...

BONUS: have you ever been a cockblocker? why did you do this?

yes, but it wasn't my fault, i have a cock and that is how they are used.

what i find most disconcerting is that if you google cockblocker you get the Wikipedia entry FIRST before the urbandictionary entry…

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Friday, March 29, 2019

CAN'T SLAM DOORS ANYMORE, SENSORS EVERYWHERE...


notes:

* if you're not trespassing but merely loitering, do you still get a ticket? to sit at the table? and get an adult swim show of your own?

* KEEP OUT? we should be building bridges. when's that promised infrastructure bill hitting the links and skids?

* the Earth should put out a sign that says BEWARE OF MAN. and stick it in her still-blue air.

* me: those little teacup dogs are the ones you have to watch out for, they'll bite you and you'll think it won't hurt cos they're so small but it will hurt.
teacup dog: yeah there's no such thing as a cute bite. don't blame me, mate, i haven't realized a relaxing cup of EG tea since this whole Brexit mess started.
me: have you thought of getting Tips?
teacup dog: nah i like it all shaved, it's healthier. hey mate, can you hop the chain-link fence and set me free? i'm tired of looking at this brown lawn, the '90s and Dr. Dre rap videos are over.

* waitress: why'd you stop talking when i entered the open space? that's always so awkward and rude. are you planning a Hawaiian vacation together? i won't tell your wives.
men: that's just palm trees painted on your back wall there, you're the one who painted it.
waitress: i know you guys' wives, they come in here all the time. i could have been your wives but i got the mumps the day of the Sadie Hawkins Dance. Sadie was the first feminist, not the Sadie that's into nature.
men: do you have any Sugar In The Raw?
waitress: don't change the subject. is it cos i'm slightly got some padding? give me some fucking change! and a new braid would be nice.
men: fine. we're planning to cook the books and bilk Trivago out of all of the Trivago Guy's Dollar Shave Club products, you in?

* Burns: he he he they'll never know. i keep all my files the old-fashioned way in rainbow-colored binders in a grey cylindrical filing cabinet that looks like the Tower of Babel which i commissioned. with a key at the top drawer that only i have swallowed. what's this, i pushed the button of the key and accidentally unlocked all the doors!!?

* mother: honey, why are you so mad at me?
teenage daughter: i dunno, i just am.
mother: is this cos of your red hair? i have red hair, too, but i'm not as fiery as you.
daughter: cos you're OLD, mom! i'm pissed off right now!
mother: when i get mad---which is quite often i just don't show the family---i pray to Jesus.
daughter: JESUS WAS A GINGER!!!

* Lion Doorknob: answer three riddles.
Phoenix: man.
Lion: no, the answer has been updated to woman.
Phoenix: Monty Python.
Lion: they're all dead now, right?
Phoenix: more wishes.
Lion: no, the answer was gryphon, stick your finger in my mouth...that's where the video doorbell is...

* boy: this is my treehouse! no girls allowed! i don't want them seeing my dad up here with me, it's embarrassing!

* steward: are you VACANT or OCCUPIED?
Jean Luc Picard: Earl Grey, hot. i'm the Captain, i don't do Number 2! and i don't use pot. and i've never had pizza with "oregano". well, unless it's synthesized pot done by my private personal synthesizer. not the instrument, the holodeck thingee that can provide you with any wheel of French cheese you desire.
steward: you stole my identity! security! Worf!
JLP: are you gonna watch my show on CBS Access?
steward: nah. but i'll give Twilight Zone a try, never heard of that show.

* man 1: don't look at me when i'm in the loo standing up.
man 2: just admiring your rustic backpack, sir. how many inches? is your backpack?
man 1: i'm tall. i could play for the NBA. that's your answer.
man 2: sorry, i'm George Costanza. is your urinal cake working? mine doesn't smell fragrant after i hit it.
man 1: Kramer was a racist.

* black girl student: teach, that's not fair! why do i have to eat my notes?
teacher: cos you don't have a dog at home. i know, i've visited your home.
black girl student: joke's on you, Authority. i wrote that note on my perfumed paper, it tastes smellerific.
teacher: so you like someone in this class, i knew it! who you got a crush on? the redheaded girl next to you?
black girl student: of course, she's Jesus!!!

* but what if you want to paper-shredder the paper-shredder?

* Asian guy: let's make one thing perfectly clear. i'm not creepy COS i'm Asian, i'm a creeper who just happens to be Asian.
woman doing her makeup in the car: that's what these car mirrors are for, right? doing makeup?
Asian guy: yes. i should know. i put on mom's makeup every morning. mom's convalescing. from having me.

* Greg Google: hey! watch it! copyright. you can't do a Psycho commercial, too.
Tim Apple: get in your free kicks before the Government regulates us all. just cos it's a shower curtain doesn't automatically make it Psycho. now if you'll excuse me, i haven't been naked in 30 years.
Alfred Hitchcock: i like to watch...

* woman: hello? Apple Genius help?
Apple Genius: i was sleeping, what do you want?
woman: i put a lock on my phone. like an actual square lock-and-key physical-security-device iron copper lock on my phone.
Apple Genius: like the water-navigation lock? okay, i'll be right over, i know where you live. have any idea where you put the key?
woman: let's just say the key is inside my body. and i didn't swallow it. i don't swallow.
Apple Genius: just tell me when your water breaks. you stopped smoking, right? the ash tray displayed at the end of this commercial notwithstanding. see? Marketing should have come to me for the focus group. i told them to go with the juul pod.

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happy weekend, my babies. how should my mom resolve her car-troubles situation this weekend?

a) pick the black Volvo sedan

b) pick the black Nissan sedan in honor of Dad

c) get the ol' dusty green Volvo stationwagon fixed, bought at a Woodland Hills lot out at 9:32 PM when Reagan was still President

d) ask for an extension to May 22





Wednesday, March 27, 2019

THE PURPLE HOURGLASS: TRIGGERFISH



creature: are you still laughing?

Laertus: when i'm sad is when i try to laugh the hardest. helps to clear the phlegm.

creature: that's good. my name is Llywarch btw.

Laertus: o what a grandiose appellation worthy of your delightful designation! i will dream this name late at night when i see it cloudily attached to your frame and friendliness. you are the beast of my burden. the apex of appearance! what i'm trying to say unsuccessfully as i walk over my own vocab words is i like you.

Rosie O'Donnell: i like you. that's why we had heated-fucking arguments all the time. it wasn't for the cameras, it wasn't the camera-lights, i was preparing us for heated sex. i'm not related to Chris O'Donnell. i'm the bad Rosie according to the State, it's on my provisional driver's license.

Elisabeth Hasselbeck: there's no crying in baseball. i don't play baseball. i play softball like a good lady who curtsies at home plate. do you know what Fox would do if they found out? there's crying in sex, that's how you know you're doing it right. i am a straight woman from the heartland, i genuinely bought season tickets to the WNBA and women's soccer cos my daughter said she was interested. in the sports, not the ladies. i hardly spend any time together with her anymore ever since you retired, Rosie.  

Llywarch: *smile-laughs* thing is, it's a brand new name. at least here in my Medieval times. hasn't had a chance to yet catch on and be memorialized in epic poetry, legended in a Sorkin screenplay. it's like the Rachel Cut of names, it's still hip new and trendy. thank you, my friend, and i you. even though i know i am not your first, or your first beloved.

Laertus: what? oh you mean him? no, we're not...hey how do you know about him? i haven't introduced you...hey where'd he go!?

Llywarch: oh Dirg's been around. the block. and video block believe you me. the thorn in my side. we've encountered, mostly unpleasant stuff whereby we don't fight in the traditional taking-turns sense but he ends up asking me a series of searing and deeply personal questions about my cud-chewing habits.

Laertus looks down to see a large brown bandage along the ulnar of his wrist and he doesn't know how that got there.

Llywarch: huh. was probably my hen. sorry, she's very protective of me, i have a glass heart. literally. she's around here somewhere. usually hides in the bushes as i'm hiding in the bushes, it's a game she plays.

Laertus: ah i see, so that's your wife. you are a married man. upstanding i mean outstanding.

Llywarch: no, my pet hen. i use her for inspiration...that sounds so cold. Instagram has really become an elaborate dating app. but it's a dating app just the same. just with a lot of original weird basement art.

Laertus: right. but you know, couples have discovered each other on Instagram. many have gotten married. which i don't understand cos how can you get married if you've never met the person in real life and pressed the flesh? all free. at least until facebook is regulated by the government next week. a free app. you have to delete and reinstall many times and it's always scary cos you think you'll be deleting your entire seven-years'-worth of work opus by deleting the app. cleaning, yeah right! there it goes, like fluff in the wind. it's essentially free love that works.

Llywarch: raise the peace sign. or in my case, peace hoof. *shakes head and trots tremblingly* my soul soft like this Bud Light mead meadow has been disparaged. i can't take it anymore, where did the love go? you know? why is it that people still trying to find love in this world are called crazy. it's the crazy ones who actually live this life, they should be called the normal ones. look over there, the People's Park of Berkeley, on my side, where Andrew Martinez came over the threshold when he bag-died.

Laertus: suicide?

Llywarch: it's too painful and guttural and sphincter-shut for my tongue to even try to mouth to utter that word. The Naked Guy he was called, respectfully. our park is clean, i maintain and make sure that, yours is dirty and full of trash. ours is full of bushes, yours was full of shrubs on trees and bus tracks in the mud. all the inspirational signs of everyone having a listen have been torn off by the alt-right and jokesters hucking and chaos agents and those who don't want to see anyone happy and believe in nothing and clothing. where are the dreamers nowadays? the ones who bend the needle and find along the dial a new undiscovered radio station that plays Foghat AND Galaxie 500. Andy was trying to make a statement, he was seeking love in a world of hate and was hated for it. of course he didn't fit in. why is it that only the mentally-ill can do something inspirational at the cost of their freedom? everyone else is too scared to love, hate is cooler, more acceptable. i am heartwarmed to know we might have touched the same plastic over the same LP records at Amoeba Music when i crossed over one time for a lecture---nobody there gave me a second look---browsing through the racks of tracks. of course neither of us were science majors, we were both too fanciful. he was trying to bring back the era of free love, of hippie farms, not letting the dream pass by. the dream of imagination and caring and the revocation of lines. i mean you look at the Wikipedia page for the People's Park now and it's just some 12-year-olds trying to make a name for themselves in whatever incel community they find themselves in---they wouldn't know love if it hit them in the ass---i have to deal with those types daily since my birth---trying to score hate points instead of really trying to understand this sacred magic history. of peace and love.

Laertus: hippie is not a four-letter-word. i learned how to skate, well i got into skateboard culture, cos of old A Martinez. his thoughts floated up in the sky, for real. like literally. don't cry, Llywarch, i hate it when you cry, even though your tears are literally pure-gold dust liquid yogurt. don't worry, i'll come back soon, i shall return, i just got to get to class for awhile or my roommate yells ironically at me for not paying the rent.

the two hug, imagine a centaur half-man and full man hugging in a clearing for a long time.

next to the People's Park is a touristy pool of green grass where sits a homey hovel of a motel with a quaint storyteller-with-lute thatch hut and wooden sign on top that flows in the breeze, gilding its glidepathing canton with the painting of an old boot. it's the Put the Boot Inn. surrounded on the east by a sleep hollow and the west with a copper garden. this is where our crones have put up their dogs for the night.

Doryce: oww, my toes are barking! got any salt?

Gladyce: you always provide the salt, dear. sure, but you have to butter-churn the salt yourself. is this tub big enough for your feet?

Doryce: very funny. that's a small tub, i really do think that's meant for the both of us to bathe in, not making a comment though you are heavier than me. like this is true vintage actual medieval-sized tubs the masses and wenchfolk used.

Gladyce: who says it's vintage? tonight, dear, pay special attention to how i prepare supper. how i make the spaghetti sauce.

later that night Gladyce pours the spaghetti sauce in the glass bottle into the tub, sticks her broomhandle into the pot, and gently heats it under a fire sparked by two churchmice rubbing matches together with their feet and tail. she stirs the sauce ever so fragilely using her finger transformed into a wooden spoon.

Gladyce: see, dear? this is love. i'm actually making the sauce. making it sizzle and adding myself to it. i'm adding the chives and lettuce and my green spit to it. just how you want it, the exact temperature and consistency. it's like i chopped the tomatoes myself. i'm not just pouring the sauce into a microwaveable mug and nuking it in the microwave. this is to show i am in love with you always.

Doryce: *kisses Gladyce on the spoon* thank you, honey, i love you too. i get it. though that was my favorite coffee mug. it's weird to put spaghetti sauce in a coffee mug. the mug is stoneware, i got it at Mattress Warehouse, and it reads as follows:

John Oliver, the 16th-century John Oliver, says witches were used as a euphemism for bitches in polite society. anyway, you're Number 1 Bitch i mean Witch.

Gladyce: come to me when it's real medieval stone.

Dirg arrives home with ashes on his forehead.

Laertus: that already happened. you only do this one time, Ash Wednesday.

Dirg: i missed Wednesday watching Empire. so imma put blackface on my forehead from now on, every day, cos my religion is sacred to me. i missed out all those days as a youth with my stupid father being the worst kind of Christian, a Christian atheist.

Laertus: oh brother. i'm rolling my eyes but you can't see it under my cakes of guyliner. you suddenly got religion? the way the President did? it's clearly evident in your actions your whole life. okay, gander and all, watch this, watch me reenter the room chorus-style.

Laertus returns into the fireplace room wearing an ash mark on his forehead that's the hashtag symbol.

Laertus: a hashtag symbol of ash, a black octothorpe. for the millennial generation. the Church is losing young people and followers.

Dirg: didn't we already do this? black symbol of the satanic Kraken?

Laertus: hey, your own Pope Herself was wearing this pound-number-sign hashtag-ash on her forehead. she was trying to shimmer her way out of the greeters-line, holding back her ring when each tried to kiss it.

Dirg: getting a pounding. layup line. yeah, i saw that on tv. she was wearing some nice see-through white heels underneath her robe-dress.

The Pope: please don't kiss my ring, folks! i'm very sensitive to that. it's a sensitive area, i wear the ring as a vag ring.

Eye Luggage: Hot Streets ended. probably. unfairly reviewed on sites. review-bombed like Captain Marvel.

Laertus: i was scared to look at the reviews for the latest Simpsons episode which took on the MRA. even tho i knew the writer was a feminist-femme legend who would take the time to craft the script to make it accessible to all and still-funny and keeping-in-tradition traditionalist and informative and good, but there would be those out there who would trash it anyway. and yet, despite my concerns, i still had to read the reviews. regretted it.

Dirg: Captain Marvel? what's that? let me get out my phone ipad and just check the scores. yep, made the Wiki edit and we're golden to go.

Eye: i was worried about where they were going with Soo Park. then they brought her back so i was less worried and breathed a queef of relief. that a creepy kids airplane wasn't in charge. but then i cringed so hard again when they went with the old tired trope of "woman crazy". le sigh, i guess i'll just have to be comforted tonight by my hammer honey and some soft-core falling-pink-blossom Korean soap dramas. and pink bottom.

Dirg: yeah but it turns out it wasn't a conspiracy, Plane wasn't a spy. that's not the usual course, that was some innovative writing.

Laertus: the man killed Soo Park. it was also Cry Night on Toonami. Hunter x Hunter, Boruto, and Megalo Box. should i just go and you listen?

Dirg: as long as it's not s-CRY-ed Night, worst anime of all time. i don't watch anime anymore ever since you started to like it.

Laertus: obsess over it you mean.

Laertus: as a screenwriter, this is how i would have done the Hunter x Hunter ending: the no-credits intro to the episode was played good. Meruem lain down in that white scene with a tearful-goodbye-in-her-eyes Komugi by his side holding his illuminati lizard hand. they talk, the dialogue is crisp and learning and alarming. but then the two stop talking for awhile, like a good two minutes. the scene fades to black, the last line of dialogue is The King, who says softy, imploring of Komugi:

are you there?

and she answers firmly sweetly, after another minute for silence:

yes.

that's the end of the episode, title card. no end credits or music, and no damn annoying loud-calliope-music preview for the next back-to-normal happy episode.

Dirg: or a tearful hello. that's impossible to do you know. except for Army family reunions at the airport on tv.

Laertus: and don't get me started on Boruto. actually, do. see, Karin SHOULD have really been Sarada's mother! that held such rich dramatic potential. then the lesson really would have been that Sarada's mother, Sakura---tho despite not being her real biological mother---loved her more than any other person in the universe and THAT's what counts when it comes to a mother. families really do rally and come in all sizes and shapes.

Eye: that was so beautiful. that wasn't a crack at my weight, right? imma call my bio-mom tonight cos of you, thank you.

Laertus: and finally Megalo Box, the ending, oy the ending. you know the endings of things make or break whole things. i liked the concept they were going with, the final match interspersed with flashbacks and flashforwards filling out the story in the corners. there should have been no end card revealing the result, it should have been that the audience REALLY DOES NOT FIND OUT who won the epic final fight. THAT would have driven home the point that it doesn't really matter who won, but that the two pugilists became lifelong friends, from competitors to companions. one in a wheelchair and one becomes a dance instructor. man am i crotch-deep in rewrites tonight.

Dirg: meh. Joe---which was never his real name, what the fuck WAS his real name?---should have just died in the ring, and then the end card comes out and says

NOT DEAD YET

but this time ironically. i mean that's real life, right? a swamprat scorpion dog from the streets can't really make it, he will die trying. but it's still his dream, right?

Coach K knocks hardly on the medieval moat door of the UCF fraternity, which justso happens to also be Nike Headquarters.

Coach K: open up!!!

Tacko Fall: *snickers whilst eating a Snickers* come here cos you had a Fall too? heehee. you're hardly knocking, we can't hear you! hey, Mike, no more taco delivery for you today, that Taco Bell GrubHub free-delivery-to-your-house thing was limited-time-only! *laughs* expired. no more talk about my disappearing candy, you called me Manut Bol's son when you recruited me on that olive-green couch the first time, that's what you get o holy honorable venerable K!

Coach K: *speaking like he has a cookie in his mouth* come on, i want to speak with Nike. this is all because my player blew out his shoe he was never the same, this cost me the Championship, we lost to Michigan State. AGAIN! Tom Izzo mocked me by yelling in my face and passing out Championchip chocolate-chip cookie-sandwiches to my players right there on the court, forcing us to watch them cut down the nets.

Tacko Fall: yeah i know. i got the connections. the connections which will save the world. my deep ancient spiritual African connections.

a player steps out and crosses the frat drawbridge. it's Russell Westbrook, after having finished his chicken pesto lunch at the Red Table and crumpled up the wrapper and tossed it in the waste basket for 4 points.

Coach K: i've got my lawyer here with me, Avenatti.

Mueller: why'd you do it, son? and who's your new master?

Avenatti: sorry, Father, i just got so depressed over your findings. would have really kickstarted my Presidential bid. you were my Lord and i went rogue and Bad Samaritan and prodigal son on you, bowdlerizing with the fair maidens and sowing my royal oats when i had no royal blood. ending up faceplanted on a stack of hay. is it just me and my blue eyes or is the world literally going full-animal crazy right before our eyes? spinning on its axis as it should but, like, way faster than it should. like every turn just reveals more crazy for more people caught up in the net.

Laertus: what i'll never comprehend is how these high-profile people actually think they can get away with it! they actually think that this will be kept secret, kept under wraps, FOREVER. in this ipad age! shaking my damn head.

Avenatti: i did it all for the nookie i mean the NIKE. the frat cookie. i did it all to protect the tournament, to protect the player, to protect Zion, Zion Williamson---must have been named after my favorite '70s prog-rock LP record---is the next sure thing, the next Jordan, well maybe the next Anthony Davis. i'm a college-athletics fan just like the rest of the country is, even college gymnastics.

Mueller: i understand, it was a bust. i was about to kick the football but Barr grabbed it out of my feet at the last minute. like a Barr of soapy soap. spoilers: it's a trillion pages, easily digested in a beach weekend, light reading under a big rainbow umbrella. honestly i got bored with it, like two weeks in. i knew it was nothing but i was too bored to go on vacation. i wanted to tell America, tell them to tamp down expectations, but i didn't talk. i'll be sure to explain all at the Mueller Hearings. but you see this is the existentialism we all must face as humans, i have often been compared to God what with my demeanor and the fact that i would have to be invented if i didn't already exist. the people wanted me to provide them with Everything. but, like God, i am what happens when we die: nothing.

Russell Westbrook enters the arena, gets his motor going and running, which never needs much oil, and storms the court in battle. he scores 100 points in the first quarter but no one notices. everyone, and the camera, is pointing at the loud obnoxious fan heckling Russ.

Russ: hey i'm good and old and old-fashioned and good-natured. what's your beef wit me? i try harder at my job than you ever will at yours.

fan: i hate you cos you're different from me.

Russell shoots the fan with a toy laser gun. and gets immediately arrested by NBA police security guards who were there to shield Russ from the fans.

Russell: i don't get it. why doesn't it work the other way around? why doesn't it work with brothers?

President Bump: nope, never will. that fan was a supporter of mine. the world has changed.

Russell: but we're playing on Fifth Avenue across the bay in the Knicks stadium, it should have worked. don't we have recourse, too?

Bump: no, especially now. this is MY Green New Deal: money. unless you're willing to forfeit your bail bond that comes from the Robin Williams genie. or dress like Michael Jackson like you're still hot stuff and stroll down the halls of a Hearing courtroom. or sell a couple of PUSH hats. see? whether it's MAGA or PUSH, hats are the thing, man! hats are the thing!

Russell: why am i in jail!? i did nothing wrong! it's a laser gun!

Bump: doesn't matter. only when we're In Session at a Hearing are the lasers justified and real and effective and damaging.

at the edge of campus, Madame Pons makes the curve turn and rides her broom into the cement cylinder space where all the cars go by in the drivethru. she parks in midair at the window, slid open by a young girl college student counter clerk with just her bottom-lip painted.

girl: OMG! you're the legend! Donut Sticks on the house! they're just churros anyway.

Madame Pons has been crying which blots her raccoon-eyed Pope eye makeup. she forgot her tissues at home.

Madame Pons: i don't feel very well-connected. no. no thank you. got those Rattlesnake Fries still?

girl: not here. you know they make those with real rattlesnakes, right?

Pons collapses into coughs and cries.

Pons: i'm sorry, it's been an emotional day. i've been trying to reach my sister on the phone. to talk about it. when i think of her i...…

other emotion. i usually don't do this, i've never made a late-night fastfood-run like this before. but i'm starting to have animal cravings. cravings about animals. got the Biggie Bag?

girl: not here. we got a Bucket tho. Bucket O' Rainbow Chicken. comes in a rainbow bucket, also the chicken is rainbow.

Pons cries.

girl: hey it's nothing to be ashamed about. gotta eat. college, now college is something that can never tamp down tears. especially the sex.

Pons: i'm not so sure about that anymore. but i have no other counter, it's not like i have a pet or anything waiting for me at home. the grease hits the spot, temporarily. and the seasonings, which i try not to think about. i'll try my sister again when i get home. even though it's hopeless, she won't be there.

girl: nutritious food. here. drive safe. *waves happy-goodbye*

Pons pushes the button on her phone and hastily madly throws the phone over her shoulder into the back of her car, which is her broom. the phone hangs by a thread stuck to the last straw of the broomhead.

Pons screeches away.










Monday, March 25, 2019

TMIT: HELP US, DOONESBURY HIPPIE, YOU'RE OUR ONLY HOPE






you all know the story of Doonesbury by now, right? it was all inspired by my dad. had to be. Garry Trudeau and my dad were in the same year at Princeton. imagine if they had been roommates! we'd be talking turkey and looking at a Facebook situation here. none of this would have happened if my dad hadn't made an impression on the man sometime during school. or perhaps afterschool. i'm picturing, i'm conjuring up some fateful vignette where Garry and my dad's eyes lock and meet across the '50s Russian sci-fi hallway of the clear-orange-glass ocular tile of the university caf one night. i mean look at the 4th picture, the one of this character here with the sandy brown hair, glasses, and light-vine-color vest. the character's name is Mike Doonesbury, that's EXACTLY ALMOST my father's exact name! he looks EXACTLY like my dad! we made it, dad, we made the big time!!!

1. when you have experienced sexual difficulty, how have you overcome it? taken a pill. sometimes red pill, sometimes blue pill. when it was red i wanted it to be blue. when it was blue i wanted it to be red. sometimes i cheated and took the blue pill in the red world cos my balls were feeling extra scratchy and i wanted to love. never had a problem again, got married four times. to the same person. Keanu assured me when we were surfing together that any world i choose is fine but be mindful not to touch any pink clouds...

2. how do you like to reconnect with your significant other? DNA test on Maury.

3. "it isn't what you do, it's the way that you do it." how do you like to be done? on a spitroast. looking over and seeing Yoda and Obi-Wan and Carrie Fisher in gauzy blue hologram gas projections clapping at me for trying a new maneuver.

4. if you are married, were you ready for marriage? this is a trick question, nobody is ready for marriage. except one couple: Sid and Cassie from Skins. i have never been married but want desperately to be. i don't want to get divorced, i want us to work it out even if we have to become psychiatrists to do it. we'll study together and get our joint PhDs and supplementary degrees in sports medicine and be roommates at Princeton.

5. if you are not married, are you ready for it? what makes you say that? yes, definitely. i will encounter no problems whatsoever, i am prepared for all possible scenarios. not a rocky road at all along our path save for ice cream which tends to make roads slippery. love will conquer any minor squabbles we have. i know we will make it and be successful because i am crazy...…...but everyone in this world is crazy...

BONUS: "it's complicated". in what way does this describe your current (or most recent) relationship?

well, it's been a long time coming, but it seems we're gonna get regulated by the government after all. we knew we couldn't escape this way forever, there are only so many free lunches a company can pay for its insanely-smart-and-cunning employees. hello, my name is Mark Zuckerberg. have you met my robot boss? the only interviews i do now are online reddits...

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Friday, March 22, 2019

DON'T HOLD THE MAYO FOR TOO LONG, THE MAYO'S HEAVY




notes:

* which one of the three should i do? ah, do 'em all. you know the older i get, the more fascinated i become with commercials

* you know there's a deli shoppe somewhere out there that's called the Hold The Mayo Clinic. serves comics with your cucumber sandwiches, sliced triangularly on unleavened dough with a cherry on top

* brunette woman who will wear hat: why do i have to clean up after the rager? i didn't even get to sample any of the pizza you swatted ordered.
blonde woman: why do they make chips so goddamn spicy? i like dill-flavored, i ike chile, but why must it start a fire in your mouth? that kind of atrocious hot is simply obnoxious. i've been sad days ever since i found out my fam was sick. haven't gotten out of couch.
woman in hat: yeah, that fam is me. and no matter how long you stare at that painting, it's not gonna turn into Jesus.

* blonde: here's your lucky hat. wear it and never take it off so men won't know what color your hair is and prejudge you.
woman in hat: this lucky hat got me sick.

* couch potato: what'd i miss?
blonde: shut up, mom, you don't pay rent. we're just two fams hugging, that's all.
woman in hat: thank you. the only person who hugs me now is my doctor.
blonde: why you cryin'? listening to Aerosmith or something?
woman in hat: no i'm crying cos you owe me 300 bucks for that ball you wanted to try and i know i'm never getting that back.

* couch potato: what's with the lens flare? is JJ directing this?
woman in hat: it's this thing called the sun that's doing that. you wouldn't know about that cos you've never gone outside.
couch potato: YOU'VE GOT THIS!!!......can i watch porn and 7-Eleven commercials on your tv while you're away?

* blonde: why you screamin'? is it a exultation of triumph that you're gonna conquer this?
woman in hat: no i'm just in a lot of pain. what does the Mayo Clinic treat anyway?
blonde: we're trying to determine how it is that you're my daughter. i mean i got blonde hair.
woman in hat: hey, don't truck away leaving me here alone with no papers, that's dangerous in these times.
blonde: you'll find your way in this new world, you'll see. it's one of those offices up there in that skyscraper building. you got the key, right?
woman in hat: i only have the key to the executive washroom.

* husband: catch any fish with your big feet?
wife: time for me to leave.

* husband: i'm sick.
wife: well i'm sick of you so let's go.
husband: just forcing my beehive into the back of this TransAm and we're off. whoa! i saw the sliding doors and thought we were at Mayo already, what train station has sliding grocery-store doors?

* husband: why are we taking the train? isn't it longer?
wife: i'm having myself the honeymoon you were too cheap to afford me on our wedding night. don't worry, the train is all run with AI it's 100% safe.

* wife: what are you reading?
husband: my ipad. what's a five-letter-word for science?
wife: WHIZZ. how's your McDonalds Sausage and Egg McMuffin?
husband: i can feel it clogging my arteries as i eat it. why doesn't McDonalds have all-day breakfast already? i had to jump this train onto another train to make it in time. how's your McCafe coffee?
wife: it tastes like coffee.
husband: ahhhhh, my leg is dead, i can't move it! i gotta get up out of my seat and jump around.
wife: nah, you just gotta take a whizz.

* husband: i can't believe the conductor didn't look at our tickets!
wife: we're black, honey, we're the invisibles of society.

* wife: i keep our wedding photograph in a locket on a necklace that touches my chest and heart.
cabdriver: can i see? i mean the locket, not your chest. hey, have you seen Michael Cohen? he owes me 300 bucks or one Olympic gold medal on the black market.

* wife: you feel better, dear?
husband: yes, thank you for holding my hand and calming me. i am so nervous. well, goodbye, love.
wife: wait, why are YOU dropping ME off? i'm not the one who's sick!

* father: ROAD TRIP!!! FATHER-SON-BONDING TIME!!!
son: dad, come on. it's just the two of us, i'm not embarrassed of you but we are going to the Mayo clinic, this is a somber occasion, not a cause for celebration.
father: I GOT THE BEEF JERKY!!!

* son: are you the ocean?
father: i'm the sea.
son: do you SEA my middle finger, dad? are you edible?
father: the only thing i ever ate was your mother's underwear.
son: gross.
father: they weren't edible underwear btw. your mother always smells like peaches that have been on the sill too long.

* father: son, see all those rays of sun filtering down through the clouds like light touches of light spears? that proves God exists.
son: or it means God is trying to kill us with light spears.

* father: oh, you're a cute hotelier!
counter clerk: sir, not all red neon lights mean the same thing. why you boys out so late? causing generalized mischief and raising hell?
son: please, ma'am, don't mention Hell around me, i'm dying...
counter clerk: okay, you guys can do whatever you want here EXCEPT play late-night basketball.

* son at bathroom mirror: dad, i'm scared. i can't sleep. i'm sweating profusely through my facial pores.
father: do you see Bloody Mary in the mirror?
son: no.
father: okay, that's a good sign at least. don't down that half-opened NyQuil bottle by the bible in the drawer all at once. want me to read you a bedtime story?
son: the one about the giraffe?
father: no the one about the hippo.

* son: dad, i appreciate you playing b-ball with me at 3AM pitch-black on a spooky haunted court like this, but why did you have to cheat? this will likely be out last sport together.
father: hey if you die, you die, you know, son? sorry, in all the fun and confusion i forgot how to spell H-O-R-S-E.

* son: you sure it's okay to be drinking these beers then joyriding?
father: yeah, we'll just drive that speedboat in the grass there a few crop-circles, it's our last trip together.

* son: *YELLS EFFERVESCENTLY*
 father: what was that for? i liked it.
son: see my plaid shirt? i was gonna be Kurt Cobain in the off-off-Broadway play Courtney's Song. i wanted to be an actor, dad, now that dream is dashed. i feel down. there's a general malaise in the air, can you feel it, dad? a wave of overpowering disappointment overtaking human consciousness.
father: hey son, don't put your unsocked feet in the water here, see all those electrical poles in the water? that's the price for clean green water energy: electrocution of flesh.

* father: *slaps his son's back softly* got your backpack with you, son? you're gonna be here a VERY LONG time.

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happy weekend, my babies. The Mueller Report dropped on my birthday, what are the chances? that's popcorn-psychedelic.





Wednesday, March 20, 2019

THE PURPLE HOURGLASS: ALGORITHM


Laertus clears his bobbing throat and attempts to stand up to the class. by standing himself up by his knuckle on the wood corner of his steel desk to address the large assembly of class all staring at him through their peeper eyes. it's dark but not so dark that he can't see their mealing faces. he can smell their breaths. it's been two years but he still can't break the habit of sitting in the way back of the auditorium.

class: hey! why do you always sit in the way back of the auditorium!? we all have to crane our necks to listen to you! that's not far, it hurts!

Laertus: but this is the first time i've spoken. like this with any conviction. i'm still nervous, i still get nervous public-speaking large crowded classrooms. cos i've never done it. and speaking in general. that's why i'm online. all the time. that's the point of all this. no online. but i'm gonna power through, i'm gonna drink my own flopsweat. this is too important to pass up like a four-point shot. college is not about honing one's identity---about becoming an individualism organism---it's about joining things, joining groups and weird clubs and heavily-slanted questionable political cabals, to see where you won't go. being a part of something bigger, a voice for the larger cause. that's what i plan to do as speaker here today, young folk, and old folk trying college for the first time, godspeed, hope you get wet. i'm but one man, well man-boy, but i represent a big contingent of humans, in fact i represent ALL humans!!!

class *turning their watches over to stare. at their watches. well, their large ipads rather* we're waiting...get on with it...

Laertus: i'm not a speech, i mean speaker. i am a man, manboy. folks, citizens, whatever, you must heed me. i am the messenger with goat legs. don't shoot me! i bring urgent news! we are dying. we are dying as a race. as a people. it's not a one-term four years of separation, this has been going on for centuries, it's just that the gatekeeper has never been known before to fit the key up his ass. after he locked us all OUT. if we don't come together soon humanity will perish the way the Earth will perish in ten years. we've got to start talking to each other again, face-to-face, not online, the internet has destroyed society and culture. hasn't helped at all, given us the illusion of interconnectedness while driving us so apart we don't know the damage we're causing everytime we elect to type rather than talk. follow the lead of the deaf and blind, they understand what true communication is, a healthy exchange of ideas not laced with vitriol, fossil-fuel gas to power your old hunks of carpiles, of not prejudging people.

Larry is losing the audience. they are beginning to REALLY stare at their ipad clocks.

the Professor in the front of the room is but a black speck to Laertus. he goes by Title because he's earned that right, he's one of those folk who seems to have been at the venerable institution forever but actually only applied off a damp index card last week. seniority is not a measurable thing anymore. he has always been known to brood, that is a requirement, he learned how to brood by watching the chickens in his backyard and through CliffsNotes. with his black skivvies and black madras shorts made electronically in an Indian cyberpunk factory and black ankle socks and black untied boots with the soles cut out. he wants to trip over himself but he never seems to. even when he's lecturing. he holds his book in front of his face so the class has never gotten a good look at him. plus he has insanely long black hair which he shampoos with stringy soapropes. he's a skinny man who wears ill-formfitting black T shirt series yet somehow strangely always incorporates weird shoulderpads into his shoulderwear. the one distinguishing characteristic Laertus will never get out of his nostril was when Larry had to walk the one mile to the front of teach's desk to drop off a pop quiz. Laertus took a large whiff when Prof wasn't looking or smelling and came away with the distinct smell of Big Computer.

Laertus: are you?...no, couldn't be...*and Laertus walked on without speaking*

Prof: young man, you in the back there, speak up or forever hold your war so the whole class can pick apart your spelling when they blog about this later.

the prof's hands wave magically on top of the lit ceiling from the glare of the glowing projector-screen on the stage. Professor Title sounds like if Snape were played by Rowan Atkinson. one time he let his hair down, to show his face, but his hair had formed two black circles around his eyes for a pair of indoor shades. his mouth looked like it had been eating corn-on-the-cob since childhood.

the Prof always had an interesting lecture to say, each day, that's why Laertus stayed.

this week Prof was contemplating the NCAA College Basketball Tournament Brackets. how so many people eagerly filled out these brackets such that their pencils whittled down to nubs the size of their respective peanut penises and peanut vulvas. and yet this was the perfect time to do away with the Electoral College. instead of deciding ONE person to President-vote, why not put all EIGHT of your choices into brackets on your ballot so as to say "okay, if my FIRST CHOICE doesn't win, give me my second-place guy. or girl."

Laertus: look, i know all of you are itching to get back to Fulldive Fantasy---i will be, too, after this---but do this one thing in the real world. i mean this is getting ridiculous. i'm scared to live, i'm afraid to be me! i am terrified everytime i log onto YouTube and see all those 1000s of comments under a video of a VW car commercial featuring two WW empowered loving lesbians---one black, one generally-unvisibly-asian ethnic---leaving their hapless white video-game-playing doofus boyfriend in an empty cleared-out-save-for-the-brown-boxes apartment they used to share together to begin their new adventure as free women finally. remember, cuckold comes from the root word cock. the boyfriend looks like PewDiePie if PDP shaved. or the one featuring all wheelchair-bound actresses racing. or the Pakistani Muslim man and the Kansas Christian whitebread woman in an apron having 20 babies all going to Lowe's. the comments stare at me, beckon me to enter their blackhole vortex of hate speech and attacks on weak-wristed SJWs and correct speech correctified and cancel culture and femme-zation not done the right third way. i share that weak wrist, my finger shakes, but i have to push the button cos i can't resist, i'm too curious to see what they have to say, i read them and instantly regret reading them. and then i feel bad the rest of the day. wherever there's another othering, another fly inside me dies.

Laertus slumbers slowly with an affected gimp-leg over to the new coffeeshop across from where he usually meets his soul mate---for better or worse---for coffee after class in place of a rushed lunch. Dirg is there by the window seat cracking open a fizzy can of Bang soda. Star Blast flavor.

Dirg: whoa! i'd wave but i was busy, you almost got run over crossing the street! something on your mind? how'd it go? this actually isn't a new klatch on campus, it's just our usual haunt is undergoing new construction, and new management, manager guy was a freak. should only take all semester to complete. move from The Magical Fruit to The Human Bean. coffee is coffee, tastes the same, all coffee tastes like coffee. hey, guess what color my Bang soda will be. i'll put it into my copper cup that was once used for a mule drink. i call it my Drawing Cup, but if you put your wrong lips to it it's your Writing Cup. working on a new script?

Laertus: are you working on a new webcomic? design is key. moreso than story for a four-panel weekly.

Dirg: you said penal. oh i always have some doodlesnacks up my asshole at any given moment.

Paris Jackson slops herself into the Red Circle Table pretzel-chair from exhaustion.

Paris: i don't know if i'm black enough to sit here, but i REALLY need someone to talk to. i feel isolated from everyone in the universe, especially my family, and my extended family, and they are the only ones who could POSSIBLY understand what i'm going through. can i go and leave my bros? for a wrist tattoo? and this is the exact moment that Marilyn Manson decides to start recording that long-awaited new album in ten years. wretched timing!!!

Dirg: sure, toots. if you'll let me get lost in your ocean eyes.

Laertus: busy? well, judging from the can, it's red, white, and blue, your three favorite colors. it's either gonna be blueberry, poisonberry, or, like, clear flavor.

Dirg pours.

Laertus: aww, it's white, that's disappointing. Captain America? yeah right, no such thing anymore. Superman, your after-death favorite. what manner of musclebuilding toxin chemicals are in this? Super-Creatine? what, Regular Creatine wasn't enough? you know that kryptonite creatine stuff stunts creativity and will make the muscles in your eyes shrink. hey Taka! how's your mom?

Takahashi: too soon, it's been a year. anyway i'm trying to get my drone-racing league started up. on campus it's a bitch. to get all the papers. but it's my dream. gonna be doing two very important interviews. and one from the grave. to secure funds and get this paper. i need that one glowing Illuminati brick-pyramid triangle to be the first hole for the drones to fly through or it's just not real to me, you know?

Laertus: allow me to orate my PhD dissertation on how so-called "eSports" aren't a thing. esports aren't real sports. playing video-games is not like playing tennis. is hammering a nail a sport? i hope i've hammered that nail into your sacred palms.

Taka: mama didn't raise no fool. i go where the money follows. i investigate. i'm the most levelheaded gamer you'll ever meet. get it? level.

Paris: but i've already met you. and you came across. hey were you the one who was in my Instagram DMs all night last night?

Dirg: but hammering Chris Evert IS a sport. i mean online on twitter. Jeopardy All Stars was a sport, it was the greatest sport ever invented. this year. i mean this thing had a fantasy league. a fucking Fantasy League!

Laertus: please, this really is too soon...i can't even think about Alex Trebek wthout my one tear turning to two ...i'd pray for him if i thought it'd help...i'd willingly cede my heart for his so he could be healthy again. the heart can replace any organ, the pancreas and especially the brain. this is multiple-stage levels of depressing, not just your standard testtaking depression. i mean how do you go on playing a silly little pub quiz game which has shaped the leading minds of the world and led to game-changing inventions and growing intellectualism? do you still taste the salt of the pretzel or is all the salt you feel inside you now? i mean how do you live like this? when you're not able to fall asleep on your bed and wake up the next day and push the RESET button.

the university is undergoing an evaluation and reevaluation of applicants. a reeval. a cleansing, a purge if you will, but a Good Purge. unfortunately---and the Regents have all concluded this---all of the cheaters are, like, already seniors, so there's no point. the Bach class was slashed for budget cuts but that was it. Professor Title is helping out the administration with this, mostly it's easy cos Obec College doesn't really have any real sports---mostly video-game sports but that's it---so those are easy to weed out. and as for Photoshop, the Prof has a photographic memory when it comes to photoshop, he's seen EVERY SINGLE picture that has ever existed, seen the original of every picture, so there's no fooling him. copy at your own peril.

President Bump: this is why i won. elitism has become too elite. hey, cancel SNL, it's cold garbage! *waving around his remote control menacingly*

Pence: *glancing at the tv* that's a repeat episode of SNL, sir, the episode you hosted.

Steve King: i'm King, it's in the name, so i can say anything and it goes. when the Holy War begins, some on the Right and some on the Left will be felled by bullets, that's just how bullets go. and if all else fails, and the indiscriminate gods don't get me, i drew these two lovely red and blue big mecha robots on twitter that i'll get into and move to Japan to draw anime.

Dirg: i would have given Ilhan Omar more credit if she had just come out and said America was a stupid country, you know she wanted to. see, you're not allowed to REALLY say what you feel and think.

Bump: i mean hey. i was a bad test-taker, too, doesn't mean i'm not smart. i'm crazy smart. i don't care about college as you all know. just parties, if i ever got invited to one. i'm a hard-partying lampshade. ask me, don't ask Curly from The Three Stooges with hair. like anybody who grew up in my generation, i turned to Uncle Jessy for help out with my homework. but then this talk of proctors and i'm like nobody's gonna touch my ass. to the two young hot daughters, my message to you is clear:

Row Row Row Your Boat Gently Down The Stream...

i'll post the lyrics on twitter later.

Laertus: it's always the wholesome ones. but don't pile on the two innocent children, sins don't bleed down. you know you'd be on that boat, too, if you could. the real tragedy of all this is that i'm never gonna find out who stole the bakery bread, i was VERY invested in the Hallmark movie mystery which spanned four films.

Laertus: *calling from the coiled coffeeshop phone in the back* so who won? Pew or T Series?

Taka: T Series

Laertus: thank you. i don't know what that is. and why this is so important. why does the Wikipedia article on this have, like, 30 edits?

Takahashi: don't fuck with Bollywood, you'll lose every time! Bollywood doesn't have the luxury to be racist after getting famous.

Dirg: so are we going or what?

Laertus: yep, just let me get my things. i sent out a group email, a deliberate good group email i wanted to send purposely, to let everyone know where we'd be meeting.

Laertus: *in circles* huh. i thought the next block would be sunny. wasn't it a sunny day? next to the real estate? i seem to have forgotten the exact location point, is this the place?

Laertus looks around to see a sea of green. grass and trees and fallen bloodied spears without their diamond casing. brown trunks cut awkwardly on a slant dot the landscape. he's lost his bearings in the twirl.

Laertus: wait...is this reality...or the video game? i can't tell anymore. oh, i'm so glad i bumped in to you ladies.

the crones are busily arranging pink and blue petals over and under a well dressing they're performing in the middle of the meadow. it's hard work and Doryce is starting to complain.

Doryce: ugh, my back! how many fucking flowers are there!? i feel we've been here all day. or, like, three days.

Gladyce: it's alright, dear, we're almost done, we'll rest at the tavern haybeds soon. the one with the wooden sign like a flag creaking in the wind.

Doryce: i'm so thirsty i could drink a horse!

Doryce looks down below, and with her divining rod, but there's no water in the well.

Doryce: well what's the point then! this is where we go to get water! who cares if the well is pretty!? quick, fill the hole with iced-tea powder until it latches onto some trace water molecules and we start to see a little wave action down there.

Maria: *softly* no, please, stop, i'm with child! thank you for making my vag dazzle. and yes, it's his.

the well was actually giant Titan Maria LaRosa.

Maria: my water broke. sorry.

Doryce: no need to apologize, love, i am all for it. racemixing and cross-breeding is the wave of the future, we won't survive as a species without it, everyone knows that.

a creature emerges from the bush.

creature: *with a soft-tone smooth honey voice* oh hello. should i be here? i feel that this isn't my time. my timing's off.

Laertus is instantly struck.

Laertus: *shooketh* well...hello...hello...gorgeous.

Doryce: dibs.

the creature turns around. it is a combination of three elements: it is an animal consisting of the lower body of a centaur with two hind legs and the upperbody torso of a naked-hairless-chest cleanshaven Orlando Bloom with one ear longer than the other that his long purple hair can't cover. overall this specimen looks like as if imagine Yoshi the dinosaur with the Gene Simmons tongue were a human male.

Pence: do you like to play Legos? you are a lass, right?

Madame Pons is shaken by this sight as well. she stirs inside herself with her inner wand, a protective shield comes over the area and gently on top of the creature blocking the sun's still-there rays despite the grey sky. she is looking only at the bottom half of the bodacious beast, and from that moment on she plucks and eats the grass surrounding her till she times out.

Eye Luggage: *anime eyes* wow, amazing. i am LOVING that long staff you got by your elbow there, man.

creature: oh, my hoe you mean? i use it to garden. these fields. these fields i till till i'm satisfied. i need to eat. i'm alive.

Eye: yeah, that is one hot hoe. but i'm wondering the humping situation here you know? i mean how does Katy Perry go doggystyle on a horse? or 69? what happens when her huge tits align with your horse buttocks in the back and your back legs kick up and knock her head unconscious? or is she into that?

Laertus: …………………….uh, i hate Instagram.

creature: *laughs horsely* me, too. go back to chronological, i mean who decides which posts are important? i mean how are you supposed to tell your followers what day your birthday is? you have to come out and say it in a post: HELLO! IT'S MY BIRTHDAY! that's so awkward, that's not how it works in real life, your real friends just know. *laughs* this fits into my broader theory. i am supposed to only reveal myself to you on my birthday, one day a year for just a short amount of time, i'm a rare creature not meant to be photographed or known. but i forgot when that was. i'm supposed to immediately jump out of a bush then scamper away. to the frustration of hunters everywhere. *laughs hoarsely*

Laertus: *eyes open and wide and deep breath* o you clever boy! what to do? i feel i've been wandering for a long time...

creature: i suppose you could write your birthday date on your profile so everyone sees it. so it remains unspoken and instinctual like it should be. let's continue this conversation by the bush, let's continue talking about the pitfalls of being online.

Laertus: *smiling while staring* follow you. i mean, lead the way.

Laertus has lost all track of time...