I Like To Think Of Myself As An Unique Fruit Flavor Experience....

I was sure I had something I really wanted to write about today...But I sit down to do it, and I got nothin'. Nothin'!

  So, what do you want to talk about?

 I'm listening to some Grateful Dead from their Spring Tour in 1990...man, I wish had gone to see them more often. I'm currently working on a short story about a show I attended in 1989...I'm struggling a little bit with finding the voice for it, we'll see what happens. Just writing that sentence I had a pretty good idea for how I might be able to try and tie some of my short stories together into a semi- coherent collection(or at least the book ends to the collection)....That's fairly exciting for me.

   Now I remember what I wanted to write about...Twin Peaks!! Not remotely prepared to do that right now, that will have to happen later in the week. Alas, and alack, perhaps you could have some coffee and cherry pie whilst you are waiting.

  so I bought this new flavor of Wrigley 5 gum called React. It bills itself as a "unique fruit flavor experience". I'm not exactly sure what that means....I can't quite put my finger on what the taste is, si I guess that does make it "unique". It's tasty alright, that I do know.Plus, it's this weird dark slate grey color, and that's pretty unique for gum, too.

  I was just struck by a memory....Does anyone else remember this gum that had a clown on the package, and it came in vanilla, chocolate and strawberry flavors? I think it was supposed to be like ice cream, maybe? Okay, i just did a search on the Tubes, and I found this picture:

  There they are in the middle on the left. man, that was some good gum.You know what else I just thought about? Razzles. Started as candy, but turned into gum...Man, that was good too.Those still exist, I've seen them recently.
  Okay, lots of other gums are coming flooding back to me now...I think this might be worthy of its' own blog post. As much as I loved candy as a kid, I think I always loved gum more.

  Alright, I gotta go. Smell ya later, dillweeds(I have also decided that dillweed is a criminally underused word, so I'm gonna amp up my usage).

This Happened....

Let me set the scene: I had just gotten out of the shower after getting all hot and sweaty mowing the lawn(settle down,ladies). My Special Lady had taken the girls on a play date. I sat down to relax for a moment or two, and catch up on some TiVO watching. I will be honest, I don't remember what it was that I had decided to watch, but it doesn't really matter anyway.

 The important thing here, is that I get to the part where I tell you that I decided to have a snack: So, I decided to have a snack. I looked in the cabinet(I was gonna write cupboard there, but cabinet just felt more REAL, you know ?) and I saw that we had some still in the shell peanuts. SCORE!! I put some in a bowl, grabbed another bowl for the discarded shells, a cold Coke Zero, and returned to the couch.

 Is at there for a while, shelling peanuts, eating them, all the while watching some tee vee.I was not paying much attention to the bowl of peanuts. No need to, right ? Just a bowl of peanuts, in their shells, waiting to be cracked open and devoured by a fat bastard watching some tee vee. Makes sense.+That's certainly what the fat bastard thought. That's until I reached into the bowl and pulled out something that definitely did not feel like a peanut. I turned my gaze towards my hand, and found this between my fingers:

Let me reiterate that. I found THIS:

 in my bag of peanuts. What the FUCK?!?!?!

  I assume it's some sort of machine part. I really don't know. I'm just glad that I wasn't eating something that I would just shovel down my gullet, or I may have actually tried to eat the damn thing!!

  So, there's something that happened.

M & M Weirdness

Paticus as an M & M!!!!

Evil Post & Weird, Wild Stuff...

This is my 666th post...(cue eerie music)...

So, I was taking a shower the other day, here in my Mom's house in New Jersey...And I grabbed the bottle of Pert Plus that was on the side of the bathtub and applied some to my beard...And I was suddenly overcome by a weird tingling sensation in my beard...I was, to tell you the truth, kind of freaked out...I naturally assumed that it was some sort of poison, put into the shampoo/conditioner by one of my enemies, so I grabbed the bottle to investigate...And that's when I saw the source of the tingle....The Pert Plus has MENTHOL in it !!! How fucking wild is THAT ?