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Tuesday, August 19, 2003
 
Thursday at 4:15pm, all I could think was: thank god I don't have to write something funny today. No, not really. I was thinking: Hospital. I should go to a hospital and complain of some kind of horrible yet invisible trauma. Saint Vincent's is good, and I bet their backup power systems will keep the city's morphine pumps gushing 'til judgment day.
     But no: no relief for the agonized. I just walked downtown with a couple million citizens, all of us cursing into cell phones and indiscriminately spreading rumors about the extent of the blackout. "Detroit... All of New England... I heard China, even... Shut up!... Florida?... Gabble babble babble!" I was left with sore feet and a great honking dearth of Good Blackout Stories. (Unlike, e.g., Robin, who made me smile real big.)
     That's right, you asshats. NOTHING HAPPENED. Without electricity, nothing can happen. It is a wonder to me that people were ever able to start wars, or invent books, or generally do anything that History teaches us people did before electricity. I stargazed and smoked and soaked my shirt with sweat and tried to soothe the paranoid freaks I met who were convinced that "Mang, as soon as the sun goes down, people gon' go crazy. Gonna be mad looting. I guarantee it," and that "it's totally terrorists. I don't care what they say. Yeah, sure, [air quotes] the 'grid' went down. [close air quotes] What. Evarr. [makes that derisive laughing snort noise intended to imply the stupidity of everyone but the snorter]"
     Which is pretty much my reaction to everything these days: "What. Evarr." The blackout was impossible to experience the way old blackouts were experienced, as will every future blackout be impossible to experience like this one. Several lessons were learned, most notably: life before electricity, in addition to smelling like shit, was boring as shit. At 3am I was ready to try listening to Abbey Road on the old portable Fisher Price record player, but who's got extra D-cells kicking around in the oh-three? Damn. Shouldn't have sold my Victrola on eBay. Shouldn't have bought all them pork fingers-- but they was on sale, Paw! Shouldn't have burned up all my candles in that Wiccan virginity-restoration ritual that, even if it worked, how would I know?

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DISALLOWED FOREVER

"I could tell you, but then I'd have to kill you!"
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"from whence"
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"...the exception that proves the rule"
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any use of the question "spit or swallow?"
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the phrase "drop trou"
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fake-o reviewer verbs:
"penned" for wrote
"helmed" for directed
"lensed" for whatever
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"expat"
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the euphemism
"passed away"
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pronouncing merci beaucoup as "mercy buckets!"
(see also: "grassy-ass!")



PET PEEVES

"confinscated"
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trying children "as adults"
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"drownded"
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misuse of reflexive pronouns, as when someone says "Please talk to Bob or myself." Come on people now. "Myself" is not just a fancy version of "me"! LEARN IT.
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tattoos in the Courier font
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any use of Comic Sans