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4/21/2005

What I actually said was...

Here's what actually came out: (couldn't get the mic stand up to my face so I had to take the microphone off. I had a cigarette, a sheet of paper, a lighter and the mic in my hands at one point. After recalibrating and putting stuff down on the stage...) I wanted to come up here last week, but before I could I already had 17 Beam and Cokes coarsing through my system and wound up losing my shirt to a homeless guy playing pool. While I was taking off my shirt some guy says, "I'll trade you some mints for a cigarette." After 17 beam cokes I say "suuurrrrreeee" (in slow motion) Now I don't know if it was the alcohol or the Beam or the alcohol or the Beam. But I watched my hand reach in slow motion toward the tin. As I started putting into my mouth my brain (stutter) looked up (stammer) from its card game and said "what the fuck is he doing. Oh don't tell me he's taking candy from strangers. This is bullshit! What did you think I sat through all those McGruff and Patch the pony films in school. For fun? Well I wasn't laughin. That's it 420 is off for you (note: I performed on 4/20 and was told as I was going up that I had to incorporate a 4/20 joke into my routine). Immediately after putting this into my mouth, my body processed the alcohol in a matter of moments by expelling every ounce of it through the pores in my body. They shot out of me like a paisley shirt and I made a B-line to the door to get to my car in the Fred Meyer parking lot across the street. Once I got to my car, I sat there to ensure I was completely sober. I recalled the Pennsylvania drivers’ manual and went through it step by step: I'm just fasten the seat belt: good. Check the rearview and side mirrors, headlights: on, windshield wipers working: check, turn signals: left and right. Alright, we're just going to turn on Burnside. I was immediately killed. So, I was in heaven waiting to talk to god. And I said, "give me another chance. I didn't get a chance to go onstage this week, I'm just asking for another chance." He said, "Alright, this will be like one of those 'Heaven Can Wait deals, where you have to do me a favor." He said, "I need you to be a prophet, my instrument to deliver series of predictions to tell the people." That's what I'm ultimately here to do tonight. This is for you guys: (I pull this out of my pocket http://www.creativekidsathome.com/activities/activity_34.html and and it takes me forever to get my four fingers into the thing. I begin to ask for numbers and colors from the audience. I only did one.) “In the year 2120 there still will not be a pill on the market to make vagina's smaller.” (I asked for numbers and colors again. The same person yelled out...the only person who was paying attention. When I opened the paper it was the longest prediction which made no sense unless you go through all 10. So I said:) Y'know what, I think I'm going to end it right about now. Thanks

4 comments:

Nealobus said...

Mom? I can't believe I didn't figure it out sooner.

britintheus said...

if you give up now, I will be so disappointed...
There was a little story that I tell both my friends who have failed in everything that they try, and no-one (except me) likes them and they have considered suicide, but are afraid that they will fuck that up too and be an even bigger waste of oxygen...and that was something about Ben Franklin (or was it FDR?) inventing the light bulb. When someone asked him how great it felt to accomplish something and how he was so successful, he said something like he had to fail a couple hundred times first.
Anyway, the point is that I think you should wait for the next lightning storm and go and play with a kite.

Nealobus said...

Point taken.

There was a famous athelete who once said: "I've missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. Twenty-six times I've been trusted to take the game-winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed."

That athelete was Jordan and he worked for a little named company called adidias.

It was adidas, right? Oh, my bad. It was Nike. He worked for Nike. Cause if he worked for adidias, that would have counted as another one of those...

This is why you don't fuck with me.

britintheus said...

I can't believe you would go there. After all the love we have shared. I even fathered yuor child for you during your "out of town" days, and this is how you repay me.
You have not seen the last of me!