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24 April 2006
Wussup Sistren & Bredren? Just sayin' hello.
That's all.
Ah, crap. Good to hear you're up and about. You should come to Astoria next time jonmc & pips and I (and whoever else wants to come) hit the Remote Sports Bar. Good times.
My college buddy, [Colonel Mustard], grew up in a broken-down van across from his mom's trailer in [the Catskills], poor and black and dyslexic and hyperactive. He ended up at a Quaker boarding school, but before that he and his mom would set out in the summers, traveling to artist's communities here and there, or to relatives' places to squat.
So one time they went down to Jamaica to stay with [Colonel Mustard]'s father's family ([Colonel Mustard] was a child of love, not wedlock), and were put up in a shack on the side of the mountain.
Now, I love this guy like a brother, and I like his mom, though I'm wise to her freeloading ways. I can understand how someone else might have more trouble putting up with her, particularly if she was once "the other woman," you know?
So anyway, after a couple months, or I should say a month or so after she wore out their welcome, they found a dead horse floating in their cistern, recognized that it didn't climb up there on its own, and decided it was time to leave Jamaica.
Maybe we can get Divine_Wino to make the cross-borough connection, too. Shit, I'd even split that mothafockah's carfare home, I would. Calling all Vikings!