Monday, December 31, 2012

Hitler's Twiddle-Diddle


I realize how much time I have on my hands. Take yesterday, for example. I spent all day - and night - looking up random facts. Like really. I went to google and I typed in "random facts." Once I grew tired of this, I switched it up. "Weird facts." Once these got too weird, I tried "Fun Facts." One can learn a lot when they have no social agenda. 

For instance, kangaroos have three vaginas. Maybe evolution thought the male kangaroo deserved a choice in holes - "I feel like a looser hole today for some reason" - or it decided that kangaroos are the perfect specimen for gang bangs, or evolution planned on giving the males three penises and then just fucked up - "I said give 'em three penises, not teach 'em to box!" 

Another useful bit of information I learned was that until the early 1800s, the slang term for "balls" was twiddle-diddles. As in, "Wow! Look at the twiddle-diddle sack on that one!" Alright, people probably didn't use it quite in that context, but the meaning is the same.

Something else that caused me to grow intellectually was that Walt Disney's last written words were "Kurt Russell" and no one knows why. Not even Kurt Russell. I have no comment to follow this one; I think it speaks for itself.

After random facts became disturbing, like the fact that Adolf Hitler only had one testicle, I decided to go to google images.

No. Not to look up Hitler's Twiddle-Diddle.

To look up Oompa Loompas. 

I came across one photo that led me on a quest for more. And here they are.

Nicholas Cage's Face on Other Things
(and I thought I was the one with too much time on my hands)

Yo Five-Head! E = what? It equals Nicholas Cage?


And I never thought the Mona Lisa could possibly get any uglier.


Nicholas Cage stars as Mr. Bigglesworth in Austin Powers 4: The Cat Who May or May Not Have a Nosebleed.


Nicholas Cage stars in Gone in Sixty Seconds 2: How Long it Took to Kill All the Native Americans.

There is nothing thrilling about this.


Oops! That's not Nicholas Cage. I almost had you fooled though, didn't I?

And for the grand finale: the most frightening thing on the Internet.


Saturday, December 29, 2012

The InToxicated Avenger


When I picture a bar fight, I picture Patrick Swayze. Not Ghost Patty or Dirty Dancing Patty and most certainly not Point Break Patty. I'm talking about Road House Patty.

I may have already lost some audience members with that list of cinematic allusions. Damnit. Watch your movies, kiddos. Drink milk. Don't do drugs. And watch your movies.

According to Hollywood, bar fights are supposed to be glamorous. And fun. And hey! No one really gets hurt. Or at the least the guy who does get hurt is never seen again for the rest of the film. So we forget about him, and all is well. 

This is all a lie.

Yes, I know, I'm naive. Thank you for pointing it out. What? Movies aren't like real life? WHAT? Yeah yeah I get it. Leave me alone. 

It just so happens that I was once on the mast of a giant ship holding my arms out like I was flying. Yeah. But I had to end it with that guy because he froze to death in the ocean when the ship struck an iceberg and ---

OKAY OKAY you caught me. That's didn't really happen to me.

But I did build a baseball field and then the ghost of my father ---

OKAY OKAY so my father is still alive. 

However, there was this one time when I was at band camp ---

Yeah. Definitely never went to band camp. You know what, fuck it. I do have movie-like moments but I'm saving those for a day when I have nothing to write about...except that one time when I was a banana...in pajamas...

Sorry. I'll stop.

Gather round kiddies, Aunt Jegina's got some pancakes and a story fer yer lil' ears!
(The pancakes aren't for your ears, they're for...yeah, you got it.)

I'm sitting at a table with two of my friends. We order a mini-pitcher to split. That's one beer each. (Woah...that just shot me back to Algebra II word problems.) We had been granted the pleasure of finding the only table open, which was luckily right next to a group of twelve people who had obviously been drinking for hours. The place was packed to the point of the noise being a dull roar; I could barely hear the juke box overhead.A random girl saunters by with a full-sized pitcher in her hand.

"Hey!" shouts Male Friend. "Right here...right here." He motions his head from her pitcher to his own glass, raising it up and nodding toward it. The universal sign for: put some beer in here.

"No," she says through her half-plugged nostrils. I wanted to tell her that breathing through her mouth is always an option, but I didn't want to seem rude.

"I'm looking to get wasted tonight," she slurs.

My male friend nods and lets it go. My female friend rises from her seat to excuse herself to the restroom, and it was in that short absence that everything begins to escalate. 

A man seated next to us rises from his seat, walks over to our table, picks up my friend’s beer, chugs it, and slams it on the table.

“That’s for touching my girlfriend,” he says. Then he walks away.

Dumbfounded, my friend and I sit there in silence, staring at the Easter-egg-blue-clad frat boy who towered well above six feet. If I were Jack, he wouldn't even be the giant. He'd be the beanstalk. In fact, I wouldn't even be Jack. I'd be the little magic bean. That was the size differentiation, and this guy fucking knew it. I try to whisper to my friend to say something back, but he is too shocked to speak.

“Just let it go,” he tells me.

            It made no sense. My friend had not touched anyone’s girlfriend. I start to yell at The InToxicated Avenger, but three of his companions immediately rush over to me the minute I open my mouth. They look panicked, begging me not to egg him on. They inform me that he had not only been drinking whiskey, but had been mixing it with “god knows what drug,” a drug I had never heard of before, and so I close my lips, clench my teeth, and hold my tongue. If only I had been the one drinking whiskey all night. Damn this Natty Light! Git me liquored up and a hootin' and a hollerin' gawd damnit!

            I keep my eyes on him as he returns to his table and his girlfriend immediately rewards him for his manly behavior with seductive glances and drunken licks to his earlobes. She obviously knows how lucky she is to have a boyfriend who is capable of chugging a stranger’s beer. She keeps looking over at us and smirking, as if she had just gotten some sweet revenge, when neither my friend nor I even knew what the hell was going on. My third companion emerges from the bathroom and takes a seat next to me as I begin telling her what she had just missed in the three minutes she was absent.

            As I was telling her, we both could not help but sporadically glance over at the twig-like figure covered in sequins. She reminded me of Gumby in drag. After we notice that she notices that we noticed her noticing, she rises from her boyfriend’s lap, since chairs just don’t do the job like they used to, and struts over to us.

“You got a fucking problem, bitch? You mean-mugging me?”

            I want to tell her that she shouldn’t use such big words, for the word "got" seems a bit advanced for her taste, but I keep my mouth shut. I don’t go out with friends to fight with strangers.

“You’re the one looking at us,” says my female friend. “Your boyfriend is the one who came over here and chugged our friend’s beer.”

“You got a problem, bitch?”

            I want to inform her that she has already asked this question, but I don't want to make fun of people with short-term memory loss.

“We do have a fucking problem,” my friend says.

“Oh yeah?” Gumby-Girl is yelling now, since sometimes it can be so difficult to hear someone that is an inch from your face.

“Yeah!”

What I expected to be a casual exchange of “fightin’ words” soon turns into much more, for then the girl’s boyfriend rises from his chair and stands behind her. As soon as he places his hand on her back, her fist clenches and her arm projects straight toward my friend’s jaw. In a wild blur of a second, everyone from the girl’s table is standing and throwing punches at us. It is twelve to three, and we have no choice but to try and defend ourselves. By “defend” I mean “duck and cover,” for we all know that we stand no chance against the whiskey-downin’ bitch brigade and their nine male companions who have something to over-compensate for.

“I’m going to kick your fucking ass!” The 6’4” InToxicated Avenger says as he looks directly at me and starts swinging, backing me into the edge of a pool table, pushing me into it repeatedly in hopes to, I don't know, crush my ribs against the corner maybe. He is successful. Who knew it could be so easy for a grown man to shove a 5’3” girl?

In a matter of seconds, a table has been turned upside down, glasses have been thrown and shattered into the wooden floors, some girl manages to project the contents of her pint glass right into my face, and I lose sight of my two other friends. I have three men surrounding me, all throwing fists, and my mission is to cover my head to protect my eyes and teeth and try to escape their perimeter to find my friends. That’s when I catch sight of one of them.

She has one man holding her right arm back, and another man holding her left arm back, as two girls take their turns punching her in the stomach and in the head. The boys are cheering the girls on after each direct hit, and that’s when I know I have to get to her to help.

“DON’T HIT THE GIRLS! JUST DON’T HIT THE GIRLS!” I hear my male friend screaming, but he is nowhere in sight. I bolt to the right and am immediately grabbed and yanked back into the pool table, before another man punches me right in the arm. I dodge left and am propelled back into the wood of the table. I want to cry, I want to scream, I want the muscles of Arnold Schwarzenegger, but none of these things come to me. I catch a glimpse of my friend getting punched in the head four times, and then once in the ear, and I can see her screaming for them to get off of her. I break away from the three guys and manage to run to her side, but then one of the girls sees me and starts my way, kicking at me and yelling profanities. A random stranger steps in and holds her back, and that’s when I give up all hope and grab a chair. Thankfully, that’s when the bouncer steps in.

He breaks up the fight and turns to the three of us. This is the first time I get a clear view of my friends. One has a black eye and a broken pinkie, and the other is crying and shaking and rubbing her head and her stomach. My hands can not stop shaking. Never have I been cornered by a grown man and told that I was about to have my ass kicked. I think the fear will subside, but it lingers as we wait to see what the bouncer will do.

“You three,” he says as he points at us. “Pay your tab and get out.”

What? WHAT? We were not planning on staying, anyway, for our night had been ruined and we were all bruised and beaten, but where is the logic in kicking us out? There were at least twelve people on the three of us, which put us at a ratio of 4:1, which mainly consisted of grown men against two petite women. The bouncer had taken ten minutes to arrive at the fight, and the people who had blindly stepped in to help had all been trying to protect the three of us against the belligerent mob.

As we exited the bar, my friend kept asking why they had kicked us out, and not them. We had not started the fight, and once the brawl ensued, none of us were trying to fight back. All we were doing was trying to protect ourselves. But when he asked this aloud for the fifth time, it struck me. There was no fairness factor in the bouncer’s decision; he had chosen who to kick out based on an economical gain. There were only three of us, who had only ordered a pitcher of Natty Light, whereas the twelve of them, dressed to the nines nonetheless, had been there longer, ordering pitcher after pitcher and an array of liquored-up mixed drinks. The bar would make a greater profit from them in an hour than they would from the three of us all night. The bartenders and waitresses would be tipped heavily and if they were going to lose a customer, they’d rather sacrifice three people than twelve.

Upon visiting the bar's main website, the first thing I noticed was their slogan at the top of the page: The Best Kept Secret in Chattanooga! I found this extremely ironic, and assumed that this “best kept secret” of theirs was the fact that they allowed grown men to beat up women, and after the women have gotten smacked around for ten minutes, they cut in to ask the females to leave.

Their website also has a History tab, where I learned that the bar looks, "to improve the club’s overall image through elimination of the more unsavory customer base and the improvement of club appearance." Do my friends and I qualify as an “unsavory customer base?” Would you then call those men who informed us that they would kick our ass as they shoved us around “savory?” 

I GOT BEAT UP BY AN EASTER EGG. 

I GOT SHIT-TALKED BY GUMBY. 

WHERE IS PATRICK SWAYZE WHEN YOU NEED HIM.

That group learned nothing from their actions, paid no remorse, and suffered from no consequences, whereas the three of us left with our heads bowed, arms bruised, and fingers broken. How unsavory of us.




Friday, December 28, 2012

No Tush Is Warm Enough


Random Rants After Consuming Red Bull

Rant #1

I dared venture down the dark abyss formerly known as Aisle 6. The truth is, Aisle 6 no longer existed. It was more of an Area 51, an enigma to all consciously ignorant consumers, not to be taken lightly and not to be wandered often. As I forced myself to glance upwards at the mysterious void of the top shelf, I discovered there was really no mystery at all. The rumors were all true. 

Twinkies had become extinct.

WHAT THE FUCK.

Rant #2

My mailman has been missing in action for over a week now. Christmas is over, Waldo. Where are you? I'm beginning to grow paranoid that he has died. That was a lie. Really, I'm just paranoid that I won't ever get my fucking mail. Waldo's heart rate is the least of my concerns. If he's about to kick the bucket, he can at least fill the bucket with my damn mail and kick it toward my mailbox.

Breaking News! This just in: 22-year-old chain-smoker murders her mailman. What's that, Susan? Tried to? I'm sorry, folks, I must have read the teleprompter wrong. Ahem.    This just in: 22-year-old Horndog sits on her front porch for nine consecutive days and dies of starvation. Her last words were, "I'm waiting for my mailman. I am going to murder him." Lucky for him, but unlucky for her. I think the lesson here is get off your ass.

Rant #3

Boredom is a dangerous thing. I've decided to never be bored again. I end up looking up things like, "Find Out Your Elf Name!" (Buddy Sparkly-Toes) which then leads me to "Find Out Your Stripper Name!" (Raquelle Heaven-Glitz) which then leads me to a state of panic. Why does my elf name sound more scandalous than my stripper name? Is this some kind of short-joke? Who the fuck runs this shit? Am I being watched? How'd they know that my toes were sparkly? HOW DID THEY KNOW I EVEN HAVE TOES.

This then led me to an article about the worst rapper names in history. I'll give you one: Shorty Shitstain. 

I have come to the conclusion that never again will I say I am bored. I boycotted the "killing time" phrase years ago after my father told me never to kill such a precious thing. I now say I am spending time. My new boycott is that when someone asks me what I am doing, I will no longer respond with, "Not shit." Instead, I will say, "Saving money." Because you know what I'm doing when I'm sitting in my room all day and night? I'm not drinking, that's what I'm doing. Which means I'm saving money. It's more original and more positive - and that's the damn truth.

Rant #4

I cleaned my bathroom for the first time since I moved into my house back in August. My bathroom is so white now. It's really almost too white. It reminds me of an insane asylum. Except when someone takes a shit in the toilet. That adds a bit of color.

Rant #5

I just returned from a dangerous voyage to The Land of Lard, also known as Wal-Mart. In case you didn't get the memo, the entire population is supposed to be present at Wal-Mart everyday. It's a daily e-mail. Goes like this:

To Whom It May Concern: Are you breathing? Then you need to be at Wal-Mart today.

What the memo fails to mention is that there will be mandatory bumper carts for anyone who has at least one arm, and that upon impact with something/someone, you must act oblivious to the damage you just caused. The hurt. The injuries. The medical bills that no one there can afford. The guttural vibration of a fat man's stomach rippling like the waves of a hurricane. 

As soon as I got in, I made it my sole mission to get out. I imagine that's how it was back in 'Nam. You heard me. Wal-Mart is the new Vietnam. I risked my life going in there. I could have been run over by an angry tubby in an easy-go. I could have been vomitted on by a feral child. I could have been permanently blinded by one-too-many velvet-sweatsuit sightings. 

Rant #6

My house has no heat. My roommates and I have space heaters in our bedrooms, but as far as the rest of the house goes, we're living the lives of Eskimos. Without the fish. Because I can't afford fish. Maybe a can of tuna here and there, but that's only on holidays. I do have mayonnaise, though, but you can't really do much with mayonnaise when you don't have eggs, tuna, bread, meat, cheese, or your dignity.

This is how I'll explain how cold my house is: I don't pee. I hold it for hours. Shaking my leg. Putting a pillow under my crotch. Dancing around. Anything to hold it in. Because there is nothing worse than being cold and having to pull your pants down. Actually, there is something worse. What's worse than that is being cold, having to pull your pants down, and then being forced to seat your warm bottom on a freezing bowl. No tush is warm enough to heat that toilet, trust me. Not yours. Not mine. And not Beyonce's.

Rant #7

I'm out of rants.




Saturday, November 3, 2012

To Bean or Not to Bean


We all know that there are a lot of things that don't mix.
  • vinegar and baking soda - Explosion, right? I don't know, I'm not a scientist. Nor am I a baker.
  • Coca-Cola and Pop Rocks - They say that consuming this mixture will make your stomach erupt from the inside. And you will die. But it's not like they can really test this. Here we have all of these perfectly good suicidals, and they're wasting great experimental opportunities by shooting themselves and jumping off buildings and boring everyone. You wanna kill yourself? Eat some Pop Rocks and finish it off with a swig of cane syrup. 
  • toothpaste and orange juice - Have you ever drank a cup of fresh OJ after you've brushed your teeth? It's horrible. I actually have a list of things that taste absolutely disgusting after a good Colgate-clean-up, but none of them are as bad as orange juice. (Also stay away from drinking Red Bull and gasoline.)
  • milk and apple juice - Have you ever mixed milk and apple juice together and drank it? Probably not. But I have. And I don't recommend it.
  • knives and children - I'm running out of ideas here.
  • alcohol and technology - Have you ever gotten drunk and gone on facebook? And started commenting on everyone's status that pops up on your news feed? You try to make jokes but are too drunk to fix your typos so it ends up looking like this: "hahajjjja ywah you know." And then the next day you've forgotten all about your drunken newsfeed rampage until you see a bunch of notifications. "Billy So-and-So also commented on his status." And you're sitting there thinking, "Who's Billy So-and-So?" and so you click on his response and see that he wrote back: "....what?" And you quickly glance up and see that you've not only written an entire paragraph, but you've commented twice in a row. And yet all Billy had to say was "...what?" as in, "...what the fuck? Are you out of your mind? I post about the football game and you've written something about zebra incest?" But you quickly click "Home" because there's no way you're going to sit there and read whatever keys you managed to hit with your belligerent phalangees. 
Those are just a few things that don't mix. We also have ten shots of tequila and ten shots of tequila, Sonny Bono and skiing, and Adam Sandler and good movies after 2004. But I've recently discovered that the worst thing to mix - is beans and cars.

Have you ever been beaned? Yeah well neither have I. I didn't even know that beaning was a thing until two nights ago. Urban Dictionary defines it as the following:

beaned: When you start a video chat session expecting to see a partially (or fully) nude female, but you're greeted with a close-up of some dude's scrotum instead. As in, I met this girl on AOL who said she would flash me. When the video chat started, I saw the hairiest balls ever! I can't believe I got beaned!" 

There were a few other definitions, but none of them defined my own experience. It all started with a phone call.

"Natasha, where are you?"

"Did you guys make it to my house already? Sorry, I'm almost there! We had to stop and get gas real quick."

"Well get here now, your neighbor wants to talk to you and she seems pissed."

"Talk to me about what?"

"I don't know, just get over here!"

Two minutes later, my boyfriend and I pull up to my house to see two of our friends waiting on my porch, and one angry woman waiting on hers.

"NATASHA."
How does she know my name?

"Yes?"
I approach her yard as she extends her arm toward me and points her finger.

"Is that your green car?"

"No, that's my boyfriend's..."

"Well it wasn't until that green car got here that our shit started getting fucked with."

"Excuse me?"

"That car left, and while it was gone, someone fucked with my truck and my bikes. Now I know it was you, so you better stop fucking with my shit or you're gonna pay."

"I'd appreciate it if we could have a calm conversation about this and not curse at each other."

"YOU FUCKED. WITH MY SHIT."

"You are blindly accusing people without any proof ---"

""YOU FUCKED. WITH MY SHIT."

"Can you describe this fucking with your shit?"

"You listen to me!"

"No, it wasn't us and whatever happened ---"

"No, you listen to ME."

"You have no reason to believe it was us! It was Halloween night, this is a college town, it could have been any drunk kid who walked by."

"If you fuck with my shit again, you're gonna get your ass beat."

"Is that a threat?"

"It's not a threat, it's a promise."

"Right, so that's a threat."

"It's a promise. Fuck with my shit again, and I'm gonna beat your ass."

"I have better things to do than mess with your motorcycles ---"

"GET OFF MY LAWN!"
I look down at my feet. I literally have one toe, the big one, on her grass. I look back up at her. She's in her police uniform. I'm being threatened by a cop, in uniform, who wants my toe off of her blade of grass.

"I'm sorry, am I disturbing your blades of grass?"

"We're done with this conversation."

"You need some rest, ma'am."

"No, YOU need to stop FUCKIN' with my SHIT."

"Go take a nappy nap! You need a little nappy. Have a great night!"

Three or four hours later, after playing board games inside and bitching about our crazy neighbors with my roommates and friends, we step outside to drive to get some beer. And that's when we see it.

"Is that puke?"
We step closer to my roommate's car that is parallel parked in front of our house.

"Ew...someone barfed all over their windshield..."

"Why is it so chunky?"

"Holy shit, look!"
We look over at my other roommate's car - which ALSO has chunky, brown vomit all over it. All over the windshield, all over the passenger window, and all over the top of his convertible.

"Someone puked on one car, and then went and puked on the other?"

"Is it on anyone else's car?"

"No, just my roommates' cars..."

"Hold on a second."
We step closer.

"Dude. That's not puke."

"Then what is it?"

"Dude, those are beans."

"Beans???"
We all lean in to the gooey mess.

"Holy shit, those ARE beans!"

"Your roommates got beaned!"

"Beaned?"

"I guess that's what you'd call it. I mean, they dumped beans all over their car."

"I bet it was my fucking neighbors."

"They did just threaten you not three hours ago."

"She did say she was gonna fuck up my shit...with...beans?"

"Beans."

We immediately go inside and tell my roommate's that they'd been beaned - which was a first for me. They rush outside to clean it off, but were unlucky, for the grease from the beans was wedged in the window, so every time they rolled the window up or down after cleaning it, bean grease would show up once again. They called the cops to report it, but of course, the neighbors denied the whole thing. If I were a cop, I would have asked to see if they had any cans of beans, to compare and contrast the two, but I guess police officers don't do that. 

"May I take a look at your beans please?"
Yeah, that'd be a little weird.

Following this night, the War of the Neighbors not only continues, but is giving the world new, creative ways to enjoy revenge.

beaned: To open up cans of beans and pour them on someone's car. An action that typically follows telling this person who were gonna "beat their ass," but instead, you "bean their ass." A cheap way to get revenge. As in, Man, we got no money. But we do got dem beans! Let's bean their ass and give 'em a real beaning!

After committing a beaning, be aware: the beanees will want revenge, as well.