Thursday, December 29, 2011

The Lottery of Love

A wise man once told me "If you stick your dick where it doesn't belong, you're gonna get herpes." He also told me "A hole is a hole in the dark" and "If there's grass on the field you can always play in the mud," so he probably knew what he was talking about, or he was good at making up stories and sounding funny while hammered.

This man also encouraged me to spread my wings and start "fucking bitches." This was years ago, when I was still a steadfast virgin so I countered that I was waiting for that "special someone," you know, that "perfect girl." To this he gave me a piece of wisdom I wish I would have taken for granted then, instead of hindering myself by being unnecessarily picky and introverted.

Here is the advice that he gave me:
"If your goal is to get married, remember that 99.9% of your relationships are going to fail before you get married. You're only going to meet one that is worth it. You might as well have fun with the rest."

Of course this is a more eloquent version of what he was attempting to get across. The original version was loaded with much more drunken slurring and profanity. But this advice is excellent advice. And anyone who does not take it to heart in some way, shape or form is merely stunting themselves socially and emotionally.

Now to be fair I will give you a disclaimer before we continue.

1) My ("love") life has been described as "a Parade of Whores" by more than one of my friends...

 [Erm, exactly like this. Yep. All the time.]
The elusive 5 some is likely, given my spiral of drunken exploits, inevitable.


2) Given that I am likely emotionally incapable of experiencing love for the time being, any pontification on love that I offer or make should be treated with a grain of salt.

[Or a whole mine's worth of Salt]
On second thought, that might not be enough. Just sayin'

3) I'm still dumb enough to believe it's possible and that someone perfect will sweep me off my feet again.

[Someone like her. Bullets, Booze and Sex Appeal. Only thing missing is a Burrito]
There's probably a Burrito/Soft Taco joke in here somewhere...wait, what do you mean my priorities are way beyond fucked up?


Let's take a step back to our wise man's declaration: That 99.9% of all relationships you experience will fail. That number, assuming that it's an accurate number and not rounded off in anyway shape or form, indicates that your odds are 1 in 1,000 for finding a deep, meaningful and life long lasting relationship. Hmm... 1 in 1000 chance of winning per play... this almost sounds... familiar. Too familiar...

[Clicking on this picture causes an Ohio state employee to break in your house and steal your wallet]
He's actually doing you a favor. He's saving you time, effort and the undue stress of slowly spiraling into bankruptcy

Let us assume every person you've ever fucked senseless, or simply just taken out on a date is a shot at this lottery. Doing the math, unless you're a raging manwhore...erm... well, unless you're a long term raging manwhore... oh...

Look. Point is that chances are you're not going to blow through 1,000 people in your dating life, which has a reasonable span of 16-50. Sure if you go on a date with a single person once a week for the rest of your life you'll blow through a thousand in 20 years. But what happens when you get bogged down with dating someone for a few years. (You will likely do this more than once) Or if you get bogged down dating someone for a few months. (You will pretty much invariably do this more than once) you're hindering your dating experiences. Further from 16-20 your dating life is High School bullshit or standard College bullshit. Once you hit 35-40 you're not going to be pulling in dates because you're getting hideously old. And don't forget, if you do get married, and it ends up wrong, you didn't really cash out... its sort of looking at your ticket, getting 2 out of 3 numbers, thinking you won, then having the lottery attendant call you retarded for not knowing how to count.

Now everyone who knows me, knows that my life style of working too much, fucking too much and drinking too much is self-medication, mainly since they figured it out before I did. But upon further reflection, I think I'm trying something else. I wonder if I throw myself into the fire because I'm trying to pull a human wave style assault on the lottery of love. Much how lottery addicts will play twice as much as they win because they play so many numbers, I have elected to throw as much into the fire as possible, much like the Germans and the Soviets did to each other in Stalingrad.


[It's just like my love and Sex Life, only mine has more titties and (sadly) fewer Tanks]
The amount of vodka consumed might be the same though

Or maybe, I just like drinking and fucking and I want a somewhat socially acceptable reason to justify my drunken debauchery. Sweet, adorable, romantically idealistic guy behind a shell of hardened and bitter manliness or just a dick? Possibly a middle ground? You decide.

 
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There's like at least one other way to do the Stalingrad picture. So here's shit I picked up from the cutting room floor:

[The broken, remaining shells of these buildings are like my self-medicated soul]
No, there isn't black eyeliner being smudged down my face by my deliciously salty tears right now, why do you ask?

[That smoke; the stench of burnt flesh, oil and the cries of patriots is almost as dark as my soul]
It's blindingly so. Just like the double set of bangs covering my eyes, which are the windows to my blackened soul.

Wait, I've got one more and it's not completely emo parody bullshit. (Okay, yeah it is)

[The previous outcome of my love lottery. Sure I won, but at what cost?]
The Soviets just traded the Nazis for the Stalin. Just like my last relationship. OH SNAP HISTORICAL EX JOKE HAHA FUNNY.

Shit I could go all day with this. I just thought of like 50 more emo + Stalingrad jokes, but I'll spare you.

We now return you to your irregularly scheduled, 
debaucherous asshat blogging away on the internet.

They say you can't win if you don't play. But unfortunately, the game of love isn't the lottery, there are consequences for winning. When you play the lottery, you bet $1.00 (or .50 if you so desire). You will either "Hit" and turn a profit of 40x or 500x or not hit and you're out $1.00. Sure in the long run, you'll lose more than you make but the only gain or loss is monetary.

In the lottery of love, you can win on your first try. In fact if you're young enough and both of you are inexperienced enough, you'll even trick each other into thinking you won. There's no maliciousness, it just one of those things about young love. Or you can never win. Sometimes winning is only delaying misery. Huh. That's not funny at all. Also, the losses are way more than monetary. Last terrible relationship cost me about $15,000 all expenses told, but the way it played out was what really stuck with me...

Which is why I can do anything I want, without second guessing myself. My experience with a meaningful relationship ended up like Stalingrad ended up for the Soviets, (Really, I'm not letting this analogy go, its a fucking gold mine) but the end game taught me something: Nothing worse can happen to me. Why worry? So as I type this out from the top of my head, I guess I really DID win the lottery of love. Sure there may not be a soul mate, but there are plenty of playmates. 

[Why get used to only one set of eyes getting ready to jump your bones in the morning?]
Half of my readers are going "FUCK YEAH" and the other half are going "Fuck you" Either way, I'm still going to get laid

So what's my overarching story? My special lesson? I don't really know. When I started writing this it was supposed to be a few herpes jokes, a few drinking jokes and making fun of people who play the lottery. Instead my idea mutated on me. It is quite possible my own blog has turned against me, much like... dare I say it?

 [Yeah, I went there. Hope you're prepared for the robot apocalypse]
So long as they all look like Summer Glau, I for one, will welcome our future robot overlords

I guess the moral is this: Love can be the best or the worst thing on the planet. Sometimes both. But for the time being, it's not for me. Not until I meet that scantily clad blonde with a bottle of Jack surrounded by bullet casings. Or a cute, sane chick that's cool with me being a bit of a (READ: Total) nerd and doesn't mind me working all the damn time. I guess I could settle for that, Maybe. 

Until next time, my fellow gamblers, try to keep the odds in your favor. Or at least gamble away when you're piss drunk so you have an excuse. That works too. Oh yeah, and try not to vomit in his or her bed or on him/her. I can't tell for sure, but I'm fairly confident that's disgusting. 



Monday, December 19, 2011

Super Powers and Subjective Reality: Part II. The Reckoning. This time It's personal.

Throw in some anvil sound effects after "Part II" and "This time It's personal." Wait. What?

Those of you poor bastards who were crazy, stupid, or somehow amused enough to filter through the entirety of my last post were possibly aware that I was stating that rampant alcohol usage grants you really lame superpowers. Sure, they're lame as fuck, but they're still fucking superpowers. I too have superpowers. Possibly from rampant alcohol use or perhaps from subtle Illuminati tampering with my genetic code in order to utilize me decades down the line for the future takeover of society.

 [I never asked for this. PS: haha, spoilers]
SPOILERS: I am a huge fucking nerd

What are my secret super powers you ask? An Iron Liver and the ability to reject reality and replace it with my own subjective version of life. Only the latter ability is one I have little to no control of.

[Kinda like this, but nowhere near as awesome]
But holy shit those dinosaurs are shooting each other with pew pew lasers,  holy fuck that's awesome!

Origin Story: Iron Liver Man
It's a dark and stormy night.[Thunder sfx] Betrayal! [Anvil sfx] Action! [Stock footage] Sex! [Live action Demonstration? (Please?)]

One day when getting some routine tests after an unfortunate brush with some medication which resulted in hospital time (Implied understatements anyone?) my doctor discovered that my liver filtered the crap out of my system ridiculously fast. So fast that I probably didn't need a hospital trip worth several thousand dollars at all. I was amused. My wallet was pissed. My liver wanted booze and couldn't have it anyway to "play it safe" for a few weeks. Needless to say this made me as pissed off as my wallet. I started smoking more.

Holy fuck that was a lame origin story. Oh well. The break down is I can drink a whole fuckton without worrying about the long term ramifications. At least for now. No possible way this could have a negative effect on me in the future.

[Nope. No negative consequences whatsoever... What the fuck is Cirrhosis?]
If my coffin is this tacky I will come back from the dead and start biting people in the face


Origin Story: Subjective Reality Man
It was a sunny day in peaceful suburbia. Then... Action! [Stock Footage, whip sfx] Gun Fights! [Machinegun sfx] Drunken Sex! [ohmygodbeckylookatherbutt sfx]

One day, my heart rate was likely exceeding three times normal seeing as I was hopped up on half a pack of smokes and four energy drinks. Naturally, energy drinks make you have to piss like a fucking racehorse, so I did the abnormal thing and decided to head to the nearest bathroom instead of just signing my name in yellow on the nearest corner. Normally I like to expand my territory but I decided I might risk enraging the Germans if I did. (Wait, what?)

I was in my University's Commuter Lounge which should give away a few things about me:
1) I was a commuter for atleast part of my College Career
2) I have at least some College under my belt
3) I have a bladder
4) I have no problem with engaging in homicide to harvest spare replacement organs... erm... I mean...

The closest bathroom is located in the Gay/Lesbian/Bisexual support lounge which is directly above the Commuter Lounge. Unfortunately both of the bathrooms there were occupied, in what I hope was really hot gay sex. (Cuz I know I sure as hell didn't get laid that day, so someone better have been getting some.)

So instead of just whipping it out and taking a leak on the bathroom doors (Possibly because I wasn't drunk enough [READ: At all] at 3:00pm) like a well adjusted but mildly impatient human being would do, I walked about 50-70 yards across the building to a hallway which just happened to support two bathroom entrances. Now while a bottle of booze and a drunken dare may have resulted in me entering the wrong bathroom "by accident" and engaging in some water sports, I happened to have priorities --


[Logic Conflict Error: Implication that Sex and/or Booze is not a Prioritized Function]
Rebooting...

...


[Priorities re-established]
Are those bullet casings? I think I'm in love

  Okay so wait, what were we talking about? Booze, having to pee, water sports... oh! Right! So I walk down this hallway and make it to the door labeled "Men" which was right after the convenient water fountain.

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Sometimes when Drinking from water fountains near bathrooms I wonder if they share the same water as the toilets. Then the water starts to taste funny. Sort of like licking a 9volt battery.
[It tastes the same as some Vaginas]
Do you smell a conspiracy? Fish? Eh fuck it, I'm gonna go watch porn

We now return you to your irregularly scheduled, 
debaucherous asshat blogging away on the internet.

Anyway, I reach what's almost the end of the hallway, when I see it. Can you guess what it is? You get four guesses. (Remember it's noteworthy enough that I'm putting it up on this blog in hopes of entertaining you)

If you guessed a $10.00 bill, then you've been drinking too much with me, or you've pooped in my bed. (Not cool, by the way)
If you guessed a bottle of Jack hidden behind the Radiator, you're reading my mind, but you're wrong.
If you guessed two hot lesbians making out in the end of the hallway, you've been reading my mind when I masturbate, but you're wrong.
If you guessed an AK-47 that fires 3and1/2inch magnum 12ga shotgun shells on full automatic, you've also been reading my mind when I masturbate, but you're still wrong.


If you guessed a display case, then ring-a-ding ding, you're right! Wait. What? Yeah, that's right this whole story has been leading up to a display case. Why? Because the moment I see this display case the following thought process occurs in my head:

1) If I duck down, I'll go into sneak mode
2) If I'm in sneak mode, then I can lock pick the case without being detected
3) If I can lockpick the case, which is probably only a novice skill level lock, then I can probably get enough experience to level up my lockpicking
4) I'll probably level up if I do this

How the fuck did I ever get laid the first time? I mean for shit's sake, I was sober. How the fuck do I STILL get laid? 

When I am left alone in other people's places I start looking through their stuff. Yes, invasion of privacy etc, but I never have and never will steal anything. I'm just satiating my natural curiosity. Plus people have cool shit and generally like compliments so I tend to compliment them on something that I found legitimately cool. Social engineering at its second finest.

Recently I was waiting for my friend to take a shower while in his room. He's one of the managers at a local restaurant. As I'm looking over the stuff on his dresser the following thought process goes through my head:

1) Wooden Coins... (Local restaurant uses these as in house dollars to encourage people to return to the bar and spend more than the $3 they're worth)  .. wait a minute, when did he visit Redding?
2) I could totally swipe that lighter right now... but I'd loose Karma 
3) I literally got an image in my head of an aiming reticule and text by it in read that said "Lighter. Steal" in red, indicating that the item in question was owned by someone else.

But WAIT. There's more. I was in an awesome location called Champagne Bar.

[This is actually a picture of the location in question]
This line of text is not a joke. Or is it? LOL META HUMOR


The Decor strikes me as this retro, 30's/40's/50's feel. Much like say... Rapture meets the casinos in New Vegas. Now normally this isn't too nerdy of a reaction, especially to go "Oh hey, this feels like Rapture," since Bioshock as a whole was an excellent piece of fiction that will stay with an observant player for a long time. However, here is where my subjective reality gets reamed by murphy's law.

As I'm sitting at the bar trying to get a shot of Jack and a beer to chase it down with when someone taps me on the back. I assume it was one of my friends, but instead it was a moderately attractive brunette sitting on the bench behind me. She introduced herself and her friend, who was visiting from new york. There was a bunch of flirting, and she made it clear she had her own hotel room. Fuck yes. Then: 

"Hey do you know where BarRoom is?"
"Yeah, it's right down the street next to Cadillac Ranch"
"Is it far?"
"Nope, not at all."
"Could you take us there?"

[QUEST ACCEPTED]
Wait. I fucking HATE escort quests. 

About 5-10 min later we arrive outside BarRoom.
"You should come in and dance with us!"
"Uhhh..."
[Choose your reward]
-Get drunk, dance and fuck the brunette, Leaving your friends stuck in Downtown Cleveland (Negative Karma)
-Return to your friends, and don't get laid. (Massive Karma boost)


Seeing as how I was my friend's ride I elected to go with the Karma boost as it would have -- I suddenly (like as I was typing my last sentence suddenly) just realized a solution that would have made sure my friends would have gotten home okay and I would have gotten laid.

Fuck. So until next time Planeteers, remember that if you only use 4 out of the 5 rings to summon Captain Planet, you'll get Cthulhu. And nobody wants Cthulhu.

Friday, December 16, 2011

Super Powers and Subjective Reality

Today I'm going to regale you with stories from my time as an unlicensed surgeon. Or just stories about how I drink and fuck too much. You know, whatever floats your boat.

As with someone who is open about his sexcapades and in about two minutes, rampant alcohol consumption, it's probably not a surprise that one of my jobs is near minimum wage at a liquor store. (Oh, so fucking classy, right?) However, while at this liquor store, I have learned three things:

First: I'm getting paid $8.00 an hour not to go on a murderous shooting rampage.

 [Actually, fuck the eight bucks. This plus a bottle of Jack sounds like a good Friday night.]
Apparently I will spontaneously grow a Vagina, Soviet Flag and questionable trigger discipline before murdering everyone in sight.

Second: If you take a shit for 12min a day, every day, every week you will be getting paid for an hours worth of pooping. I call this Paid to Poop, Dollars for Dumps, Salary for Shit and Cash for Crap. Sure I'm not pooping gold, but I am pooping -- Guano for Green. Yeah, I knew I had another one in there.

Third: Alcoholics have amazing super powers. They can twist and bend reality to their subjective liking and ignore everything else.

For example, they have the ability to hear the door to the liquor store open from more than two blocks away. Apparently when your liver starts failing, doors start sounding like dog whistles, because they will come like locusts.

Rampant alcoholism also apparently ruins your perceptions of reality. For example: As you might guess I was opening the liquor store. The tiles are linoleum and it was raining outside. I have to get to the alarm to turn it off, but I'm not going to fucking run and crack my head open just so some impatient asshole can get his pint of Kamchatka. As you can guess, the alarm went off, which is not all that unexpected.

Here is what is unexpected: Four... erm, upstanding members of society, standing around the front door of the liquor store looking confused and dazed. Mind you the Alarm, as in the burglar alarm, had been turned off not more than ten seconds ago. You know, the alarm that summons the police. But rather than do the not mentally deficient thing and wait outside for someone to give you the okay to come in, these fucking morons decided to walk into a store that had no lights on and a ringing burglar alarm. Then got dazed and confused because the lights weren't on.

"Yo mang, why ain't the lights on?"
I looked at him in shock. "The open sign isn't on either, but the alarm is."
"I needa pint of "SheerRock"
I ignored him and proceeded to walk around the store turning the lights on. About ten seconds later, half way through turning on all the lights in the store: "Yo! Hurry up! Whats taking you so long?"
"Don't worry sir, I'm sure your liver still has some of yesterday's pint in it. You'll get your booze in a minute."
No response. Another twenty seconds later I was done, walked to the counter, turned on the rest of the lights, grabbed a pint of Ciroc (Luxury Vodka) scanned it and:
"Naw man, that's too much. I need somethin' like a shorty"
"You mean a half-pint, sir?"
"Naw man a shorty."
What the fuck is shorty you god damned waste of flesh. Whatever. I got him the fucking half pint and rang it up.
"One half pint of Ciroc, [whatever the price was]"
"Good lookin' triple OG."
Yes, by ignoring him, calling him an alcoholic, and being generally rude, I was instantly elevated to status of Original Gangster, not once, not twice, but THREE TIMES. Sadly "Original Gangasta" is considered a compliment by these people.

The next degenerate wants a pint of Kamchatka, possibly the most horrendous excuse for "vodka" ever created. It's American brewed, despite being named for the peninsula in eastern most Russia. PROBLEM: We don't have any Kamchatka, all the other drunk assholes bought them all, and the truck isn't coming for a few days.

Wait a minute. SOLUTION:
We have CHEAPER vodka which actually sucks mildly less. Considering a large percentage of our customers attempt to use their "Ohio Directions" [Food Stamps] card or WIC [Women Infants and Children], special money given to women with infants and children so they can buy them nutritious food...

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[The "TV Pretty" version of the average booze buying WIC card Holder]
Can we bring back the Chick with the AK? Please?


...



 [And everything went better than expected!]
Now add a bottle of Jack and we've got an excellent thirsty Thursday


We now return you to your irregularly scheduled, 
debaucherous asshat blogging away on the internet.


So where were we? Right.
-No Kamchatka
-Slightly better and Cheaper vodka is available
-Customer base attempts to pay with food stamps
-Customer base is highly uneducated

The solution should be simple, right? Just offer them the cheaper vodka and they should be glad to save the 15 cents. If anything you might help bring some joy to a drunkards life and save them a bit of money. Right? Fuck no, dude, this is a liquor store overrun with dumb shit drunks and hood rats. Sometimes with some people getting overlap in both categories. No logic here, son.


"We're out of Kamchatka pints right now, but we've got McCormick vodka, and it's 15 cents cheaper"
"Naw, I don't drink dat shit, it's ROTGUT!"

Wait. What? Mother fucker please. You're able to get drunk off a pint of day because your liver's filtering capacity is do deteriorated from years of excessive drinking...

 [Anyone else get a chill down their spine?]
I was sure there was a lesson I'm supposed to learn here, but my conference with the 3 wise men tells me no

"You know, Kamchatka is rotgut too, ma'am."
"Yeah but that stuff gives me a headache!"

Erm... right. Different cheap shit, barely filtered vodkas are going to give you different effects? No. That's not how science works. It just means you were too stupid to drink any water while you were wasting your day drunk on a pint. PS: drinking tip for all of my reader... readers? Whatever. Water is your friend. It's the fuel for breaking down the ethyl alcohol in your system that your liver needs.

Anyway, there WAS supposed to be a part two to this, mainly about subjective realities and nerdery, but I'm getting bored writing this post, so that means whoever is reading it is probably already bored of reading it. So, until next time, young future socialists, remember to support gun control: Know where you're aiming at all times!