It's Only Gonna Get Worse
Regardless of your faith, race, or gender, the holidays are a heartwarming break from hardships of life. The season brings couples closer, families tighter, and establishes a stronger bond between children and parents. The holidays aren’t about presents or parties -- the holidays are about sharing your love with those who love you.
Perhaps I lashed out prematurely at the religious right in my last editorial. As I trudge through the years, my unchristian ways have found me increasingly estranged from my family and their clean American values. I am not on bad terms with my family, but our lives have just gone in opposite directions. My parents are conservative, upstanding, hardworking, sober people, whereas I am a convicted felon, smut peddler, and heavy substance abuser.
Maybe that’s why Christmas turned out this way…
On Christmas Eve, everything shut down early with the exception of our favorite / least favorite local dive bar (which was recently voted CitySearch’s “Easiest Place to Score a Gram”. It was here that I, Dan, and a friend who runs a Russian mail-order bride service gathered on Christmas Eve in an attempt to construct some semblance of a dysfunctional family.
We sat at the table numbing the loneliness with Bud Light and Jagermeister, when we were joined by two psychotic women. Now, when I say psychotic, I don’t mean the normal garden-variety way all chicks are psychotic – I’m talking two angst-filled, bipolar, Lithium-sucking nutjobs. One of these loonies claimed she had “dated” me in the past. To say we dated really glamorizes the whole affair -- I contend that I had played a quick game of “hide the salami” on one occasion while tripping my face off on acid, and spent the next few months dodging her repeated phones calls. She opens up the conversation by telling me her boyfriend was about to be released from prison and was going to kill me.
“Good to see you, and Happy Holidays you fucking--”
Ok, it’s Christmas – I’ve got to be nice, so I make a few jokes and offer her a drink in an attempt at some levity. After a while, the girl loosens up and regales me with a story about her intensive probation in multiple counties, a vicious needle habit, and how a lawyer had somehow rigged (no pun intended) things up to where each county thinks she is in a rehab clinic somewhere else, so she is free to walk the streets and annoy us.
Thanks God for lawyers…
Eventually, the conversation turns to DVDA (double vaginal / double anal). She claims to have seen double vaginal / triple anal – in person! Dan calls her bluff. A double vaginal / triple anal would be completely impossible, if for no other reason than the sheer logistics of it. She insists the girl in question had an asshole the circumference of a telephone pole which made this possible, but that line of reasoning still doesn’t explain how the mish-mash of arms, legs, and pelvises would be arranged to accommodate such a gaping rectum. Many minutes are spent discussing the necessary sizes of the men’s genitalia, the inclusion of midgets, positions, and the absolute gayness of such an event. (The gangbanger’s mantra: It’s all good fun, ‘til the balls touch.) We concluded that it was completely impossible to perform a double vaginal / triple anal, but she refused to back down from her claims. We countered with, “If you saw it, then how was it done -- illustrate it.”
She agrees, and with the help of a few bar patrons, we attempt a fully clothed re-creation of the act, and, unsurprisingly, find it impossible. Of course, I snapped a picture of the proceedings for my blog, and at this the 3ADV (triple anal/ double vaginal - keep up!) girl became completely unglued, and threatened us, saying if I used the picture we would be sued until we died, then resurrected, and sued again. Dan argued that we were in a public place, and she has no grounds to sue us, but that this is America, and anyone can try to sue for anything -- and so, the showdown began:
The girl picks up her phone, points to her attorney’s number, and says she’ll have us destitute and incarcerated if we continued. I respond by pointing out we have a few attorneys numbers on our phones as well – yes, another classic “who has the most attorneys on their phone?” pissing contest.
It turns out: I have six lawyers’ numbers; Mrs. Thorazine has four; and Dan, the clear victor, has a total of nine.
Backpedaling, she points out that it isn’t the number of lawyers on one’s phone, it’s whose lawyer will take your call at this hour (4 AM)? Cell phones are drawn, we each dial a lawyer, and switch phones -- whoever gets their council to pick up is the victor. Ring one, ring two, ring three, and before the fourth ring the girl chickens out and takes her phone back -- the showdown ends without litigation. (A confession: I bluffed and called my voicemail.) This year, I’ve already racked up enough billable hours to make Kobe Bryant blush – I can’t afford even a pro-rated 15 minutes of $300/hour for such silliness. After the duel is over, the girl finally meanders off, I go home, drop a few Xanax, and fall asleep watching Monty Python. Wise move, because the next day was Christmas Day, and we had big plans…
THE FIRST ANNUAL PINK PONY ALL DAY CHISTMAS DRINK-A-THON: It was an all-day epic standoff at one of Jersey's finest shoe shows: The Pink Pony. I don’t write this blog for the money, the glory, or the avalanche of star struck sluts – about the only perk is the occasional bartender who hooks me up with free drinks to have some quasi-celeb like me frequenting their establishment. We arrived at 6:30 PM and the Jagermeister started flowing hard and fast. The plan was to drink until the 4AM closing, but at the hands of the merciless, quadruple Jagermeister shot-pouring bartendress, Jessica, it became obvious that we wouldn’t be able to hold it together until last call. As the evening wore on, some friends joined us, but by the time reinforcements showed, it was too late -- our gooses were cooked. Before we redecorated the inside of the club in a sea of half-digested, purple taco remnants, we ducked out.
Everything after that is a haze. I woke up the next morning to find half-a-dozen eggs smashed all over my kitchen floor, and my stereo stuck on a repeat of “The Eggman” by the Beastie Boys. For the record, I have no idea what happened -- I don’t even BUY eggs. It’s a funny thing, blacking out -- it’s probably your brain trying to protect itself from storing such retarded memories.
Hard to believe, in not even twenty years I’ve gone from a bright eyed young boy, waiting to hear Santa slide down the chimney to a smut peddling, egg molesting deviant, arguing with litigious needle junkies over the number of dicks you can fit in a bitch’s asshole. Yeah, it’s sad but true, but I suspect as the years go on…
It’s only gonna get worse.
