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And in the order they were received, no less

It was the middle of the longest lecture on apiculture Charles Mingus had ever sat through and he was beginning to regret giving up his bass, a jazz career overflowing with accolades, and all the money, women, and excitement that came with it. Jazz was a ruritania now that he was mired in the minutiae of “fixed-frame hives” and “smokers”.

In his disclosure of his wishes to the president of the North American Jazz Association for Jazz in America (NAJAJA) to pursue a life in beekeeping he expressed his desire for change. Mingus chuckled as he thought back to writing that going from jazz to bees would be “vicissitudinal to his spirit, his lifestyle, and his artistry.”

“What a magnificent douchebag I was,” thought Mingus, “to use an archaic version of the adjective form of ‘vicissitude’. I must have just thrown it in there because I’m a stupid cockface.”

Mingus contemplated further his life decisions and all the women he could have porked as the speaker droned on about the need to concatenate hive structures and the benefits of the new singular hive designs shaped like an upside-down uvula. Back then any woman would have jumped at the chance to be his penis holster: to have his purple-headed womb-ferret wriggling within their loins.

But now that he’d left jazz women looked at him with eyes full of arsenic.

“‘Irregardless’,” Mingus thought, “that’s a douchey word too. Why do I keep using such utterly pointless words? I am a cock.”

He cleared the phlegm from his throat and ruminated again on the career he abandoned because he worried about being the jazz bassist who had shark-jumped his craft.

At the front of the room slide after slide of oblong, squamous beehives filled the audience with glee. Mingus saw the mostly-male crowd was unaware of their vaginality: their eyes were moist at the sight of beehives! These men were children, really, better suited to playing tag and wiping their boogers on each other. They had no place in the real world. He could take it no longer.

“Listen up, cats, we’re talkin’ ’bout bees! Yeah, they make that sweet honey, but they don’t make the world spin. Let’s cool out on the bees a while, huh?”

His shibboleth was palpable. A crowd of angry, confused, and irritated faces drove him out of the room, and he was happy to go, revealing his callipygian side as he turned to leave. As he reached the door the room heard a malevolent borborygmus, and though Mingus knew it was coming it was so violent and explosive that when it burst from him he pronked.

Paper in the lecture room blew everywhere, and the cockbag at the podium was knocked over by the bowel-blowout. As if by prestidigitation Mingus produced a full upright bass from inside his vest and made his exit from beekeeping forever, leaving a room full of arsemongers and a life of tomfoolery behind.

He was barely out the door when he felt a hand on his shoulder. The shitcock from the lecture was forcibly turning Mingus to face him.

Now that Mingus and the speaker were face to face, Mingus could tell from the speaker’s comb-over and threadbare suit that he was a parsimonious little twat who had long ago nerfed himself through years of coddling and penissockery. He lived a life bereft of adventure.

Mingus bellowed, “Get you hands off of me! Your life is a monument to floccinaucinihilipilification, you shit-faced dildo-sandwich!”

“Why, I’ve never met anyone so ribald…”

“Ribald? I’m the living transubstantiation of emotion into music! Sometimes it gets a little raunchy, but that’s what life’s about. You’re too busy studying insects to notice you anal-riffic meat-wallet!”

“… S..sir,” said the speaker trembling with rage, “I’d thank you to leave our conference now.”

“No, I think it’s time for you to leave you little cock-carnageous bug-fucker!”

And with that Mingus defenestrated the speaker. He then stooped over, gathered up his bass, and free from the inanity of the beekeeping world went on to write a song about the silliness of antidisestablishmentarianism on the bus ride back to his condo, chuckling all the while at the day’s douchebaggery.

And what, bitches? - ACW

P.S. Felching.

Drawing a blank

I’ve got nothing. Did you see that post from yesterday? What a pile of washed up shit THAT was. I can’t believe you even read it and then didn’t try to track me down to beat me up for having written something so completely boring. Ugh. It made pablum look like banality incarnate.

So because I’m so lazy I’m going to throw it out to the internetstertubestersuperterhighwayternets. Leave me a single word in the comments and I’ll make a post using those words tomorrow.

Sorry for phoning it in today, but you get what you pay for around here.

Yeah, sort of about Guitar Hero again

To say that the game has devoured me is only half true. Having played before I knew going into it that I’d be presented with the intense feedback I so desperately crave from things I purportedly refer to as “fun”.

Not only am I concerned with what percent of the song I complete without error, but I can also dig deep into the song itself and find out exactly which subsection of which chorus gave me the most trouble, and with a brain wired like mine is, that can be equally enthralling and terrifying.

Every song that starts with a 50 note streak is the potential for my first perfect score. Every 100 note streak brings me closer still. 200 note streaks pretty much make me wet my pants with unbridled glee coupled with a snarling shred-face with prominent lip-curl. Like Elvis on meth. Then I try to successfully execute a coupling of the power of the stars with the terrestrial burdens of the ever-moving conveyor belt of notes and either screw up profoundly or initiate star power successfully, only to be so excited that I did it successfully that I fail to pay attention and again miss notes.

So, as you can see, not only has the game devoured me, but I have devoured the game as well, like some sort of recursive double Ouroboros, both of us deadlocked in a battle of wills to see who will blink first.

All the while Sherlock sits in the corner thinking, “Jesus fucking Christ is this magnificent douchebag ever going to play with me again? I’m over here, up to my hairballs in toys and that gigantic cock doesn’t even notice. Well fuck that.”

And with that Sherlock climbed into the massive (and embarrassing) basket we have that is full of “cat toys” with “cat toys” being anything we think they might have fun with and/or have already played with and shown some level of amusement. For example, some of the “toys” that you might be surprised to see are an old hat, the cardboard structural center from an old roll of duct tape, Happy Meal toys from McDonald’s, as well as any number of assorted toys that jingle, blink, have feathers, or simply have their various crevices crammed with catnip.

Last night, in the middle of trying to duel the end boss, Sherlock went to the basket, got a jingle ball out all by himself, and started playing with it right in front of me as if to say, “You see that you douchebag? Huh? Do you see it? You’ve ignored me so much that I have to play by myself. You are a bad cat owner, and I hate you, even if you do feed me.”

Seeing him half-heartedly scramble around on the floor with a toy he had picked out by himself so he could play by himself kind of broke my heart a little bit, so I turned off the Wii and played with my cat.

As soon as I finished the song.

It’s three more things, but that third one is kind of weak

1) I woke up this morning to a cacophony of noise. I’ll wait while you go look that up.

Reaching for something in the distance
So close you can almost taste it
Release your innovations
Feel the rain on your skin
No one else can feel it for you
Only you can let it in
No one else, no one else…

Oh, you’re back. Didn’t see you there. Anyway, when I woke up there was a helicopter hovering overhead; the apartment complex next door had the landscaping people out to mow the non-existent grass; my Roomba, Roombie, was vacuuming and caroming around the house; and Sherlock and Wookie were tear-assing around the house in a game I like to call, “I will punch you each in the goddamned cat-colon if you don’t settle the fuck down.”

The irony is, this is the first day of my winter vacation*, and my first chance to sleep in has already been ruined. I forsee cats chained to litter boxes in the near future.

2) A conversation recently had by my brothers and I about our new extended-family email list; a list created exclusively for news, planning, and information, and not idiotic email forwards. My uncle is the offender I’m referring to in this case.

Me: So which one of you guys is going to lay the smacketh down for this? I know you’re thinking, “Oh, it’s Christmas, it’ll be fine.” And I’m thinking the same thing. But by March our inboxes will be overflowing
with urban legends about email causing cancer, animated jpegs of the baby Jesus, and every other unfunny piece of nonsense that clogs up the ‘tubes.

Desk Job: [sends regulating email to entire family]

Desk Job: [to me and Mokie] Hope the whole family doesn’t hate me now.

Me: I think you’re fine. You did a pretty good job of putting it diplomatically. Plus, if they give you any trouble you can just shove (your two and a half week old son)** in their face and they’ll settle down.

Mokie: Alternatively, if you need to get some distance, just throw him like a football. I bet that little guy makes a pretty good spiral.

Me: Mokie! That is uncalled for! He is a baby. Do you have any sense? You don’t throw babies. You punt them.

Desk Job: You’re both a bunch of jerks. If you punt a baby he’ll get hurt. If you throw a baby, someone will probably catch him, and the spiral of baby vomit will hit lots of bystandards.

Mokie: I really hope your spelling of “bystandards” was an intentional mashing-together of “bystander” and “retard.” I nominate it for word of the year.

Desk Job: Uh, yeah, that’s it. Shut up.

3) Wookie just jumped in my lap and put her butt in my face, and it smelled like kibbles. Not like butt. Not like butt and kibbles. Just kibbles. Somehow, that was more horrifying.

*As such, blogging will be light from now to January 2, but I’ll be sure to pop in from time to time. If you had an RSS reader, this wouldn’t be such a big deal.

**Yeah, my older brother be-nephewed me a few weeks ago. No, I don’t tell you everything because it’s not necessarily any of your goddamned business.

Emails with my brother

I wasn’t even going to post anything today, but then this one wrote itself.

ACW wrote:
The FDA says it’s fine for the meat industry to spray meat with carbon dioxide so that the red color of meat lasts longer, in some cases long past the shelf life of the meat. So how can you tell if the meat is bad or not? Buy it, take it home, open up the package and smell it. Thanks meat industry!
http://tinyurl.com/23qnpa

Mokie wrote:
Or, on the other hand:

“Since then, food retailers Giant, Safeway Inc and Tyson Foods Inc have stopped the practice.
On Tuesday, discount retailer Target Corp asked USDA for approval to add a warning to the label of meat that has been treated with carbon monoxide sold in its stores.”
So pretty much as long as you shop at a reputable store you’re going to continue to get decent beef.
Or you could just save all of that hassle and just buy organic.

ACW wrote:
I’m not shopping at Gunt or Slaveway.

Mokie wrote:
YOU ARE A GUNT

ACW wrote:
YOU ARE THE ONE WHO IS A GUNT. FURTHER, I SUSPECT YOUR GUNT MAKES ITS OWN GRAVY AND YOU EAT THAT GRAVY SLATHERED OVER DEEP-FRIED BROWN SUGAR, THUS INCREASING THE SIZE OF YOUR GUNT AND SUBSEQUENT GUNT-GRAVY OUTPUT.

Mokie wrote:
YOU ARE THE ONE WHO IS A GUNT AND IT IS NOT ME WHO IS THE GUNT. SAID GUNTITUDE AND GRAVYMAKING APPLIES STRICTLY TO YOURSELF AND NOT TO ME.

ACW wrote:
GUNTLY GRAVYSMITHING IS IN TOTALITY AND PERPETUITY WITHIN YOUR GUNTISH PURVIEW. AFOREMENTIONED GUNTITUDE BY YOU, HERETOFORE AND FORTHWITH REFERRED TO AS GUNTOSAURUS, CANNOT BE APPLIED TO ME.

ACW: 1
Guntosaurus: 0

My absurdly boring life as haiku

Winter is coming
I can tell by less cat hair
Bunched in the Roomba

Swish flop swish flop swish
Windshield wiper is broken
Swish flop swish flop swish

Car starting is a fight
One hundred dollars: new starter
Real problem? Battery

Homework all the time
Never any time for fun
Free time is extinct

Staining a deck sucks
Hurts my back, smell is horrid
Deck stink still lingers

This is what happens when you allow MBAs to make up new words

I was recently in an all-day meeting with some human resources and marketing folks from another company. Having garnered all the information I could possibly need from their website in 5 minutes the day before the meeting, I spent the rest of the day bored out of my skull. After some time I realized that I should probably make an attempt to do something constructive, but I was absolutely unable to think of anything I could do that would make my life easier, so I instead started writing down all the words and phrases that I hate to hear in business meetings. These terms are typically developed to make something sound much better, or much more important than it actually is. To make the whole event a bit more fun for myself I made a rule that I could only write a word down once one of the human resources or marketing douches actually said it. Here’s what they came up with:

metrics
deliverables
systems integration
business unit
interfacing
leverage
due diligence
value-added
best practices
core competencies
synergy
paradigm
cutting edge
leading edge
bleeding edge
edge of the edge
ping
incent

45 seconds later I was tired of playing this game. Any words or terms you hate to hear at work?

You put the Hot Pocket between the Pop Tarts then dip the whole thing in YooHoo

Well, that was an exciting bunch of day off. Quite a few people (one) asked me if there was a particular reason I was taking some time off, and the reason was actually pretty simple: I was tired of the Internet.

“Tired of the Internet?!” you scream, elbow deep in a bag of Cheetos, corona of orange dust encircling your mouth and eerily highlighted by the glow of the monitor in your mother’s basement, “How could you be tired of the Internet?!” you bellow at the keyboard, smearing the keys a deeper hue of orange before stomping up to the kitchen to make yourself your seventh Pop Tart and Hot Pocket sandwich of the day which you’ll lazily dunk in a warm tumbler of YooHoo before drifting off, genitals in hand, in front of a Star Trek/Debbie Does Dallas mash-up on YouTube. I know YOU people will never tire of the Internet; but I did.

The class I was taking focused heavily on the social nature of the Internet, and after spending all day reading, writing, and researching the topics of communities, technology, Internet culture, etc., I had no interest in actually using the Internet. I was figuratively full of Internet. The tubes were stuffed up my ass and Ted Stevens was cramming them with even more Internet.

And my job pretty much requires that I hang out on the Internet all day, so something had to give, and the blog was cut loose. I didn’t really miss the blogging per se. What I missed was the opportunities blogging affords me. Opportunities to make a long, semi-nonsensical run-on sentence like the one in the second paragraph. Opportunities to find new and more disgusting ways to talk about poo poo, pee pee, wieners, vajayjays, and grundles. Opportunities to find new ways to swear. Anyone can say “fuck” but I like to think it takes a little talent to say “nut-juggling cock-monger”.

I missed those opportunities.

I can hear you now:

“I can’t believe I put on pants for this.”

91

I got a fucking 91 on my final. I pretty much have 36 boners right now, I’m so elated. I’m clown-punchingly happy.

Not only did I beat my previous highest exam score for this semester by 15 points (a 76 for the lazy among us), but I also scored 2 points higher than the class average. And because the homework points amounted to about 2 more exams, and because I did so well on the homework, I ended the semester with a solid B; 85%.

Fuck yes! I am so fucking happy! Coming from a background in English, this class was really hard. Last semester wasn’t too bad because we were learning about research methodology, and in the end my writing could support whatever argument I was trying to make. Granted, the style is much different, but being able to put two thoughts together in a single sentence goes a long way towards making things easier for the reader, and when the reader is issuing you a grade, making things easy on them is key.

However, this semester, there was no argument to be made. The answers were right or wrong. Sometimes (frequently) astoundingly wrong. I know I’m pretty much giving myself a reach-around by saying this, but I’m proud that I was able to transition from the sissified world of English, where everything is the right answer, to the black and white world of statistics, where rounding too early can fuck up an election.

Yes! I am the fucking balls!

[Congratulatory gifts for ACW can be purchased with the Amazon link to the right. Thanks. - The Management]

Giggle at the man with the potty mouth

I’ve been laughing at this video all day.

The sound makes it watchable, but is completely not safe for work.

What had me in stitches was, “Who the fuck builds a castle like this with no floors?! And this invisible block technology, who the fuck came up with that? I gotta get some of that.”




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