Sunday, March 15, 2009

High Post 5: Smoke Green Like It Was St. Patrick's Day

Yay, Ireland. Yay, yay, yay, Ireland. It is your day of celebration. You lift up your songs to the Creator of your country. And you say, yay, yay, yay.

I am very stoned right now, more stoned than I've been in a long time. I went to dinner with two friends, and then one of the two friends came with me to this party, where all the dudes were trashed because they'd been drinking since 7AM, and they were wearing green Mardi Gras beads and green tee shirts with green Afros and green dildos, and one of them was like, "Yo, dude. Dude. Dude. Dude. First of all, Yay, Ireland."

Then other dudes at the party in chorus went, "Yay, Ireland!"

"Second of all," he said. "We have guests, dude." Heads spun around slowly at me and my friend, revealing, for the first time, their half-shut-because-we've-been-drinking-since-7AM eyes.

Then the other dudes were like, "Well, let 'em hit the bowl!"

But of course they neglected to tell us that not only was there weed in the bowl, but that there was also hash, which is why, after taking the hit, I was coughing my goddamn lungs out.

I was walking home with my friend, who decided not to take a hit in the end (and I took his for him), and even though he was talking like a regular human being, he seemed, to my ears, to be speaking in this hypersonic dialect that only people in the future or on Koldova 9 (a new planet I just made up) could understand.

I kept quiet, for fear of revealing that I was not a fellow Koldova 9er. All I remembered was to use that familiar Koldovan 9 phrase as we parted ways in the middle of the street, which was, "Good night, dude."

It was shortly after this that I sat down in front of the computer and a cat miraculously leapt onto my shoulders out of thin air and started writing everything you've just read. Yes, that's him up there. Arrest him!

Aaaaarrrrresssst hiiiiiim!!!!!!!!!!

Wednesday, March 11, 2009

A Negro Speaks of Blizzards

I've known blizzards:

I've known blizzards as cold as nads, colder than the
Sweet flow of cookie dough and vanilla in a DQ Blizzard (TM).

Cold and snowy. (Did I mention cold?)
I've known blizzards.

I have gone sleeveless in Atlanta
Last Christmas, on my front porch, when it was in the low fifties.
I have gotten away with going out to bars
In only a hoodie and jeans on temperate
January evenings in Little Five Points.

But now I live in Syracuse, New York. Why did I come here?
It is because someone who probably won't stay my girlfriend
Told me it would be "April all year round."
And that the biggest Dairy Queen in America was being built here.
Because she knows I love Blizzards(TM).
Those were the cruelest jokes.

So now I know blizzards.
My soul has grown cold like a blizzard.

I wish I did not know blizzards.

Fuck blizzards.

Monday, March 09, 2009

A Little Number

Oh, shit!

Again!

My fiction fragment "The Mortgensens" is up over at Monkeybicycle.net, a great little journal and website. If you have a second between doing whatever unseemly things you do, please check it out. It'll be on their home page this week, and in the archives after that. Thanks!

Thursday, March 05, 2009

MikSweeney's

Oh, shit!

I have a piece up at McSweeney's Internet Tendency this week (under my government name), which is a huge deal for me. Not that I used my government name, but that I have something up at McSweeney's, which I've been reading since before I knew how to read. Anyway, check it out! Or if you don't get around to it this week, peep it in the archives here.