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Thursday, April 15, 2004
 
My friend Chat just called me from Washington Square Park, where apparently a bunch of NYU students are having a major collaborative freakout at the spring-like temperatures. Chat was just trying to get back to work from her lunch break, when, like her namesake, she got distracted by something shiny:
     "Damn, what is the... is that Madonna?" she said.
     "Madonna's in the park?" I asked. "That doesn't make any--"
     "No, there's like, this... paddy wagon... with Madonna... blaring from some speakers? Huh wha?"
     "Wait," I said, "like there's a black maria playing "Borderline?""
     "Whazza? I. Do. Not. Understand." she mumbled.
     But I did understand. I know exactly what's going on: it's got to be RaverTrap 2k4, a new police initiative to sweep student populations for Extasy user/dealers. They drive into clots of reveling students, play something dancy, and hope that blissed-out ravers with pockets full of MDMA will just, like, dance up a Spy Hunter-style ramp into the back of the van, at which point they club them with Maglite-sized glow sticks.
     Of course, being cops, they pick hopelessly outdated music, and except for an obscure Kruder & Dorfmeister remix of "Things That Make You Go Hmmm" that's actually pretty hot, their entrapment disc doesn't have anything good enough to tempt pie-pupilled clubkids into their stupid truck. So the forces of freedom live to dance another day!

Now: something about receptionists. I used to be one, so I know what I'm talking about. Receptionists are a vital part of any business because they're the first face a visitor sees, and the first voice a caller hears. The receptionist in my office is totally awesome, and will always warn me if an angry caller is a woman so I can put on my deep sexy voice, which you would not believe how many mad bitches get INSTANTLY chilled out by a Barry White purr. The receptionist knows everyone's extension -- by heart! What?! You heard me: by fucking heart. Also, she flirts with the mailman so nobody else has to. On the upside, she gets to flirt with the FedEx and UPS guys.
     But there is a darker side to the job, which I think merits hazard pay: the receptionist is always the first to die if a crazed gunman or a vengeful druglord with a score to settle comes barging into the office. Other people, if they're savvy, may have a chance to duck under their desks or hide in file cabinets at the sound of the first shots, but it's always the girl up front who's like: "Hey, you can't -- GLEEP!" as the bad guy raises his arm, and without even really looking at her, shoots her right in the sternum.
     I tell you, that possibility haunted me every day when I was a receptionist. Every time the buzzer buzzed, I was like "Is this it? Is this the one? Sweet lord, forgive me my trespasses and all that shit etc., I'm ready to go if'n you call me," at which point I'd buzz them in and it was almost always some delivery guy with whom I was vocationally obliged to flirt. After three months of daily paranoia, I was a quivering wreck, eating Klompers like Tic-Tacs and sweating so much that I looked like I'd just stepped out of a pool. And what was my hazard pay for this? SWEET FUCK-ALL.

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"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:
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"helmed" for directed
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"expat"
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"passed away"
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pronouncing merci beaucoup as "mercy buckets!"
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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