Tuesday

Always Eat Your Carrots

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Landscaping

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Newt shuts the door. “Look, I can’t do this. It’s just too heartless.”

“An he’s cryin like a sissy,” says Bush, wincing. “I told you not to cancel his decoder ring yet!”

“Look,” says Newt. “Everyone makes mistakes. Both Clinton and Bush admitted to some rather nefarious ‘youthful indiscretions'. The media went nuts.“

“Ooo, I love stories!" says Bush. "Then what happened?”

“What we’re gonna do,” says Rush, “is ask him to be a spy Democrat.”

“We wouldn't even have to wait for Jesus to kill him," exclaims Bush. "That’s geniusness!”

“We could even make him report to somebody,” gloats Newt.

“I vote my gardener,” says Rush, raising his hand.

“Aw,” complains Bush. “Your gardener is already handling Social Security. It’s my turn to have a kewl gardener.”

Monday

Night in the Ruts

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[LOBO]

The blindfold comes off, and I’m sitting in a small room.

Around me –left to right-- is Newt Gingrich, Rush Limbaugh, and President George Bush.

“Word up, homie!” I says to Bush, who artfully avoids my conspicuous 'High Five'.

“LOBO,” says Newt. “We have to talk. In your first week as a Republican, you’ve enraged senior citizens, published smutty innuendoes, and insulted maybe every religion on the face of the Earth.”

I look around, and I can read it in their eyes.

I’m being kicked out.

“Look,” says Rush, puffing a stogie. “Not everyone is cut out to be a Republican. We think you should join the Democratic Party." He taps his ash, "We've already cancelled your decoder ring."

I'm Sorry

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[LOBO]

All you cranky seniors sending me hate mail and downing me in the blog ratings because you were offended by that last post should probably "cool your jets" for a minute.

Firstly, this is an adult site. This sophomoric humor, while brilliant and intrinsically vital to Humankind as a whole, should under no circumstances ever be viewed by children or cranky old bastards like you.

But on a personal level – thereby infinitely more important-- anyone that reads this blog for any length of time knows that no one in it gets spoofed harder than me.

Period.

So what can I say to all that, other than I only hope your sorry, miserable mirthlessness will one day soon be extinguished in a swift and merciful way?

I, conversely, choose laughter.

Saturday

Smitten

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[LOBO]

I didn’t have my door locked, and Babs ‘an six big guys in matching jumpsuits just come right in.

The jumpsuited glandular freaks are carrying furniture.

What the fuck?

“Good,” she says. “I’m glad you’re here. I’ve decided I’m moving in.”

“Here?”

“Yes.”

“Why?”

“What do you mean why? You might’ve squirmed out of that marriage business for now, but you’re still my bitch.”

“But we were getting along so well not seeing or talking to each other,” I reason.

“Yes, well all that’s changing.”

“Ma’am?” says a mover. “There isn’t going to be room for the china hutch.”

“The hell there isn’t,” she scowls, circling the house. Decidedly, she stops and points. “Get rid of that.”

“My big screen television!?” I says. “Look here, sister. What in the hell makes you think you can just walk right in here and start throwing out my stuff?”

“I can bend parking meters with my thighs.”

“What kind of china is it?”

Friday

Sugar Rush

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[LOBO]

Please stop emailing me and asking me to run for President again.

Despite my $516 "Vote for LOBO Cuz Those Other Guys Suck!" media blitz, I didn't make a dent in the 2006 Elections; frankly, I wasn't even on the damned ballot.

The fact of the matter is I've got what politicians refer to as "baggage".

I used to be a Jolly Rancher whore.

Before I found God, I might've had a hard time talking about my "problem" this openly. But back when I was single --and before rehab-- if you were a hot chick with Jolly Ranchers, I would do anything.

It started off innocently enough; a hot chick offers me an Apple STIX, and then I 'top off' with a Wild Berry Fruit --you know, just to be social and fun.

But before long, I was doing Double and Sourbolt Blasts --you know, the heavy stuff-- and "servicing" three or four hot chicks at a time.

All this has all changed since I've found God, the Republican Party, and a girlfriend that would cut my nuts off for ever eating any Jolly Ranchers again.

So please stop asking me to run for President.

Thursday

Kyle Sampson is a Big Fat Lying Poo-Poo Head

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[LOBO]

It’s jerks like that that completely ruin our ability to enjoy this Zenith of Republican Enlightenment. Look around you! There are no wars, taxes, or poverty. Everyone is free to worship Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ as much as they choose, and the streets are safe because anyone able to hold a gun, does.

And the spinach will definitely not kill you.

All you alarmist liberal hippies and pinko-commies should put down your hookahs and catch a boat back to whatever other country kicked you out for treason.

Move along. There's nothing to see here America; go about your business.

Everything’s just fine.

Wednesday

Cured

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[LOBO]

“You’re finished with your Penance already my son?” asks a skeptical Father Fritz.

“10,000 ‘Hail Marys’?” I says. “Not a chance.”

“Well then what are you doing here?”

“It’s a Miracle,” I says excitedly. “I’m no longer a pyromaniac, nymphomaniac, or hypocondriac. And my claustrophobia, necrophobia, xylophobia, spectrophobia, bolshephobia, agateophobia, phthiriophobia, syngenesophobia, coimetrophobia, sophophobia, virginitiphobia, agrophobia, russophobia, spacephobia, myrmecophobia, phasmophobia, and phobophobia? Gone. Gone! And best of all, my sinuses decompressed for the first time in weeks.”

“Really?”

“Yeah. Who would’ve thought chemically-treated pallets would smell so good.”

“Pallets?” says Fritz. “Where exactly were you saying those ‘Hail Marys’?”

“At the music studio.”

“You have pallets at a music studio?”

“No, no. I was at the warehouse.”

“I’m not following you.”

“Well, I did like ten or fifteen of them but it was getting really tedious. So I made a recording of saying it, and set it on a loop. According to my calculatrons, by this time next Wednesday I’ll have said like 50,000 of them!”

“I don’t think you understand the concept of Penance,” chided Fritz.

“Sure I do,” I says. “Even after I added drums and guitar, it’s totally mind-numbing after a while. You know, with billions of people doing that every day, I would bet God is ready to blow his brains out.”

“You’re supposed to suffer through it in a show of Faith and Discipline, in hopes that the Saints will prepare your way to Heaven!”

“Aw, but all those guys are dead! Can’t I just smite some pagans or something? I know tons of Protestants just begging to be smoted.”

“Penance isn’t supposed to be fun!”

“We have a gay guy at work. What if I go into Jimmy Orlando’s office once a day, and, like, shuffle all his papers up while he’s a lunch? Or maybe burn his house down?”

“Jimmy Orlando?” says Fritz. “How do you know Jimmy Orlando?”

“I dunno. We met him a year or so ago,” I says. “He claims to work part-time as a pool boy for some hotshot bigwig in Miami.”

“What is Jimmy doing working as a pool boy?”

“I dunno," I shrug. "We checked it out. This guy ain’t got no pool."

Tuesday

Salsa

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[LOBO]

I'm looking down through the trees, and there she is.

And I'm wanting to wave, but I realize she is undressing quickly, and not aware that I can see her undressing; she slides her shorts down over her curvy hips, and in moments she's not even wearing a thong. And then the shirt; a brief and tantalizing silhouette of those magnificent breasts--

"Look," says Father Fritz. "Fine, you're a Republican now. But this isn't therapy, it's Confession --"

"But then she starts rubbing down with this tanning lotion... "

Father Fritz scowls, "Now you're just bragging."

Bittersweet

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[LOBO]

I don't tell you this often, so when I say explicitly "this is a true story," this is a True Story. My mom, given the opportunity, will confirm it.

And neither one of us recall me as a toddler being a particularly fussy eater.

But when introduced to Brussels's sprouts, it was on.

I still hate those innocuous-looking vile little hellspawned biological perversions.

Oh, sure mom issued the S.O.P. 'Miranda Rights' for a kid: "No desert 'til you clean your plate!" --generally this heralded "GAME OVER"; it was a matter of time before I would capitulate.

Except this time; even after a cascading portfolio of ice cream and Popsicles, I would not budge.

Dad said "Fine," and put me in the high chair. "No desert at all then. Yell for us when you're done."

And then they left for the living room.

They turned the lights off, and the television on.

... My god, these people aren't bluffing.


***


Around 9:30, I was kaput.

And I had no ideas.

I made an audible sound, acknowledging tiredly 'I give up!'. The living room stirred to life in that flickering pale blue light of the television amongst giggles like, "Well, I was starting to think he was never going to cave in."

It was at that exact moment, as they so smugly gloated, that I stuffed those vile green horrible objects into my cheeks.

And I waited.


***


6:30 the next morning was routine: I get deposited in the bathroom momentarily while mom gathers the diaper change and my daily threads.

But just starting to scuttle and crawl, I've got some surprising mobility, and right at that Single Perfect Moment I drag myself of the side of the toilet bowl, and spit those hateful sprouts from last night directly in the toilet.

It was the perfect crime.

Except I didn't know how to flush yet.