Tag Archives: drunkenness

charlie the methadone man

So the microphone in your new cell phone isn’t working and the people you call can’t hear you very well. You’re going to have to take advantage of that one-year warranty. You are an empowered consumer.
A few tips to make your experience a pleasant one:

You bought it at Wal-Mart? Return it at Wal-Mart. Don’t come [...]

ride a painted pony

The saddest thing about the drunk guy leaning on the mall’s most popular one-dollar plastic pony ride and nodding off every few minutes is that he’s doing exactly what I do here five days a week, but I get paid nearly a living wage for it and he’ll probably be escorted from the mall by [...]

instrumental

It’s been an eventful couple of weeks.
Christmas came and went with its attendant flurry of chaotic consumption and forced family merry-making. The Red Polar Threat left offerings under the family X-mas stick to persuade me not to come after him and make him pay (in blood and pain) for the damage his toy factories have [...]