Friday, May 28, 2004  

My Civilized Veneer Crumbles

At 1:21 a.m. this morning, I found myself peeing on a junction box outside a strip club in the middle of an oil refinery in Everett, listening to Tim Kaelin complain, "Goddammit! I wish this place was open. They have the ugliest girls!"

Then we loaded back into his car of indeterminate make and took a long, looping route back to my house. Kaelin turned off the car.

"Got any beer in there?" he asked.

"Nope," I said. "I think I have some Sambuca, though."

"Fuck you," he snarled as he turned the ignition and lit up a Paliament. "You should keep some beer in the house."

Then he was off, and I walked through the back door and heard the gentle whirring of the VCR, and it dawned on me that I was getting home too late to make sure that the TV was turned to the right channel - the channel specified in the very clear instructions my wife had left me - and that instead of Morrissey's performance on the Craig Kilborn show, she was in all likelihood getting an hour of whatever the hell Noggin shows at 12:30 at night.

Morning came too soon, and I have one of those very low-guage beer hangovers, a bona fide head full of zombies. No one in at the day job, thank Christ, so I can plot Kaelin's assassination in peace.

Jody Ake

My good friend and photographer Jody Ake is in a photo contest. Please vote for him.

Under the Milky Way Tonight...

(To be sung like The Church...)

Tonight at the Milky Way, I host Eskunder Boyd, Janet Cormier, Alana Devich, The Walsh Brothers, John Curtin, Eric Riley Moore (on pain pills) at 8:00. Should be a blast and a half.

Note To Self

Louisa May Alcott joke funny on blog.
Louisa May Alcott joke not funny at Spectators Sports Bar in Sanford, Maine.