October 14, 2004
creeeeepy
With Halloween coming up, I do believe it is my duty to write about creepy things.
Thing one:
I've purchased this bag full of treasures for BellyRub. I was eating lunch with Florette a week or two ago and there they were! Disgusting jokes having to do with the GI tract. Perfect!
He has truly earned a present. He wrote to me after I wrote the entry entitled, "one toke over the line, sweet jesus." He said that he couldn't get the song out of his head. Happily, it was the version that I was thinking of. What version is that? The one from Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.
"Holy Jesus, what are these goddamn animals?"
Dr. Gonzo, the Samoan lawyer, was singing a song. If I could write the way he sang it, the words would look something like this:
Wun toke over the lyi-I-ine. Sewoogh digkj wrail way stashin wun toke over the lyi ii ine Swieet Swieet Mary, Swieet Swieet Mary.
Otherwise it would look like, "One toke over the line. mumble rail way station, one toke over the line. Sweet sweet Mary, Sweet sweet Mary!"
And when I think of the way he sings it, it makes me laugh. And when I think of BellyRub thinking of the way he sings it, I laugh then, too. So I called him at work. I wanted very badly to have him answer so I could sing, "Sweet sweet Mary! Sweet sweet Mary!" But when he answered I tried to sing it but I was giggling and it sounded like a prank phone call so I said, after trying two times to sing it, "Hey. It's Dotty. I called to sing, 'Sweet sweet Mary.'"
Of course, by then I could almost sing it all the way through, except for the end because I was laughing again. We are very good singers. I think he and I should go to an event where there's some kind of open microphone action. Then we'll sing together. La la la!
So he deserves some Halloween candy. The extra yummy kind.
To continue the absurdity, and to give an early Halloween treat, here's one of BellyRub's favorite quotes--
Raoul Duke: There's a machine in the sky, some sort of electric snake.
Dr. Gonzo: Shoot it!
RD: Not yet. I want to study its habits.
just as creepy
Thing two:
I got the New Yorker today. The cover looked normal enough until BE pointed out the shadow.
I suppose it's appropriate for Halloween in the old fashioned sense--the scary, evil, bad-things roaming around sense.
I don't like that kind. It's hard to sleep when scary things might climb in the windows.
I'm not sure how much longer this Halloween is going to last. I'll let you know within five weeks after November second.
Posted by dotty at October 14, 2004 05:45 PM