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Monday, October 29, 2001
Linkage!
posted by Erlend Larsen on 19:18

Sunday, October 28, 2001
47 Rules we wish all women were aware of
  1. If you think that you are fat, you probably are. Stop bothering us about it all the time!
  2. Learn the complete toilet-lid procedure. If it's up, then put it down. That's how simple it is.
  3. Birthdays, Valentines Day and anniversaries are not created so that we can find the perfect gift........again
  4. If you ask a question you don't want to know the answer to, at least be prepared for an answer you don't want to hear
  5. There are certain moments when I'm not thinking of you. Deal with it.
  6. Don't ask me what I'm thinking of unless you're prepared to discuss navel fluff, football and ferrari.
  7. Dogs are better than cats. Case closed.
  8. Sunday equals football. This is an unavoidable event, like the high tide or the full moon. Accept it.
  9. Shopping is not a sport.
  10. You look great, no matter what you wear. No, it's true.
  11. Crying is blackmail. Cry if you have to, but don't expect us to like it.
  12. Your brother is a moron, your ex-boyfriend was a moron and your daddy is most likely a moron too.
  13. Ask for what you want. Subtle hints doesn't work.
  14. No, I don't know what's special about today. I didn't know, I don't know, and I will never know. Mark the special days in the calender
  15. You have enough clothes.
  16. You have too many shoes.
  17. It's much harder to pee when you're standing than when you're sitting. You can't expect us to aim right every time.
  18. Most men owns two or three pairs of shoes, so why do you think we're qualified to find the one of your thirty pairs of shoes that goes the best with your evening dress?
  19. "yes" and "no" are perfectly acceptable answers.
  20. A headache that lasts every night for seventeen months is a medical problem. Go see a doctor!
  21. Your mother doesn't have to be our best friend
  22. Don't fake orgasms. We'd rather be inefficient than disceived.
  23. What we said seven or eight months ago in a discussion is no longer acceptable in a discussion today. Anything we say is declared null and void after seven days.
  24. If you don't like the women in Playboy and Penthouse, don't expect us to like the dudes in the Soap Operas you're watching.
  25. If anything that we said can be understood in two different ways, and one of those will make you cry, you can bet we actually meant it the other way.
  26. Let us look. If you don't allow us to look at other women, how are we going to appreciate how beautiful you are?
  27. You can ask us to perform a task. You can also tell us how to do it. These two things are non-combinable.
  28. Our relation will never be as it was during the first two months.
  29. Christopher Columbus never had to stop and ask for directions, and neither shall we.
  30. Only come to us with a problem if you want it solved. That's what men do. We leave the sympathy thing for your friends.
  31. Check the oil!
  32. It's never in our best interest to take a test together
  33. No, it doesn't matter what kind of test it is.
  34. Don't rub the lamp if you don't want the Genie to come out.
  35. Women wearing push-up bras and garments that displays huge cleavage have invalidated their rights to complain about us staring.
  36. More women should wear push-up bras and garments that displays huge cleavage. We like looking at titties.
  37. Men can only differenciate 16 colours, more or less the Windows standard palette.
  38. Apricot is a fruit, not a colour.
  39. If it scratches, we have to scratch it.
  40. Beer is just as exciting to us as hand bags are to you.
  41. We are not mind-readers and will never be so. Our inaptitude in reading your minds does not mean that we don't care about you.
  42. If we ask what's wrong and you answer "nothing", we will take your word for it. We know you're lying, but we figure it's not worth the trouble.
  43. If we are reminded of a former girlfriend, we will, briefly, fantasise about having sex with her. No worries, however, the fantasy will include both YOU and HER together.
  44. What the fuck are decoration plates for?
  45. Reading in the toilet is an unalienable right
  46. Pink walls in the bedroom gives us nightmares.
  47. Salad is not food.
posted by Erlend Larsen on 12:52

It's 10:32 EST, 4:32 AM EST, 0:32 AM PST. It's time to rock, for all of you morning birds and drug fiends online at this precise point in time.

Featuring the fine bands of:

I just finished watching Fight Club. Do not fuck with me. My adrenaline and testosterone is peaking, and I am ready to make soap at the slightest provocation.

posted by Erlend Larsen on 10:31

Saturday, October 27, 2001
Cult Fiction

Do you like literature that is different from the mainstream? You might like the following writers:

  • Kathy Acker
  • Nelson Algren
  • J G Ballard
  • Iain Banks
  • John Barth
  • Poppy Z Brite
  • Charles Bukowski
  • Anthony Burgess
  • William S Burroughs
  • Albert Camus
  • Angela Carter
  • Nik Cohn
  • Colette
  • Dennis Cooper
  • Douglas Coupland
  • Don DeLillo
  • Philip K Dick
  • Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Bret Easton Ellis
  • Harlan Ellison
  • James Ellroy
  • William Faulkner
  • John Fowles
  • William Gibson
  • Andre Gide
  • William Golding
  • Alasdair Gray
  • Radclyffe Hall
  • Knut Hamsun
  • Jim Harrison
  • Joseph Heller
  • Herman Hesse
  • Carl Hiaasen
  • S E Hinton
  • Nick Hornby
  • Aldous Huxley
  • John Irving
  • Erica Jong
  • James Joyce
  • Franz Kafka
  • Jack Kerouac
  • Ken Kesey
  • John King
  • Stephen King
  • Milan Kundera
  • Hanif Kureishi
  • Harper Lee
  • Elmore Leonard
  • Doris Lessing
  • Mark Leyner
  • H P Lovecraft
  • Carson McCullers
  • Ian McEwan
  • Patrick McGrath
  • Jay McInerney
  • Colin MacInnes
  • Norman Mailer
  • Henry Miller
  • Yukio Mishima
  • Michael Moorcock
  • Seth Morgan
  • Walter Mosley
  • Vladimir Nabokov
  • Anais Nin
  • Jeff Noon
  • Flannery O'Connor
  • Joyce Carol Oates
  • Chuck Palahniuk
  • Mervyn Peake
  • Sylvia Plath
  • Richard Price
  • Thomas Pynchon
  • Ayn Rand
  • John Rechy
  • Luke Rhinehart
  • Anne Rice
  • Tom Robbins
  • Marquis de Sade
  • J D Salinger
  • Jean Paul Sartre
  • Hubert Selby
  • Will Self
  • Iain Sinclair
  • Terry Southern
  • Bruce Sterling
  • Robert Stone
  • D M Thomas
  • Hunter S Thompson
  • Jim Thompson
  • Gore Vidal
  • Kurt Vonnegut Jr
  • Irvine Welsh
  • Jeanette Winterson
  • Tom Wolfe
posted by Erlend Larsen on 07:30

Wednesday, October 24, 2001
Oxymorons

From the Merriam-Websters Online Dictionary.
Main Entry: ox'y'mo'ron
Pronunciation: "§k-si-'mOr-"§n, -'mor-
Function: noun
Inflected Form(s): plural ox+y+mo+ra /-'mOr-, -'mor-/
Etymology: Late Greek oxymOron, from neuter of oxymOros pointedly f oolish, from Greek oxys sharp, keen + mOros foolish
Date: 1657
: a combination of contradictory or incongruous words (as cruel kindness)


  • Now, then ...
  • Act naturally
  • Advanced BASIC
  • Airline food
  • Almost exactly
  • Alone together
  • British fashion
  • Business ethics
  • Butt head
  • California culture
  • Childproof
  • Christian Scientists
  • Clearly misunderstood
  • Computer jock
  • Computer security
  • Definite maybe
  • Diet ice cream
  • Exact estimate
  • Found missing
  • Genuine imitation
  • Good grief
  • Government organization
  • Legally drunk
  • Living dead
  • Microsoft Works
  • Military intelligence
  • New classic
  • Passive aggression
  • Peace force
  • Plastic glasses
  • Political science
  • Pretty ugly
  • Rap music
  • Resident alien
  • Safe sex
  • Same difference
  • Sanitary landfill
  • Silent scream
  • Small crowd
  • Soft rock
  • Software documentation
  • Sweet sorrow
  • Synthetic natural gas
  • Taped live
  • Temporary tax increase
  • Terribly pleased
  • Tight slacks
  • Toronto Life
  • Twelve-ounce pound cake
  • Working vacation
posted by Erlend Larsen on 21:37

Worst analogies ever
These are the winners of the "worst analogies ever written in a high school essay" contest run by the Washington Post:

posted by Erlend Larsen on 19:04

The Computer business is at an all-time low.
posted by Erlend Larsen on 00:51

Monday, October 22, 2001
By David Moser

Posted by Erlend Larsen. This is the second sentence in this posting, unless you were of course to count the title, in which case it would be the third. But as the title contains neither verbs nor proper nouns, it is not a proper sentence. Therefore, the setence I claimed was the second sentence is of course truthfully the second sentence of this review, and not the third, as dissentive voices might claim. This is the sentence that I put here to remind me that I am writing far too long sentences, and I should try to use far more points instead of commas, as I am prone to doing, but I don't know, I kind of like commas and very long sentences, it must be something that I carry over from my german syntax. Note to self: The last sentence, that I wrote to remind me that my sentences are too long, was too long.

This is the first line in the second paragraph. Unless the title is a paragraph of its own, in which case it would be the first line in the third paragraph, but I think we've settled the argument that the title is merely a title, and neither a sentence nor a paragraph, and therefore, the point is moot. This is a link. This is a sentence to remind you that the last sentence was a link that will take you to the story that I wrote this posting for, in order to show you what it was that I wanted you to see. The previous sentence was the tenth sentence in this posting, disregarding the title. This is the last sentence, unless you of course count with the signature, but since it contains neither verbs nor proper nouns, we won't.

posted by Erlend Larsen on 00:43

Sunday, October 21, 2001
When I wasn't searching for Porn....

I came across the following things that I think will give you pleasure...

Fanfic

MusicThulsa Doom

Animated SeriesAeon Flux

Online Comics

posted by Erlend Larsen on 19:30

SWAT!

No, calm down. You're whether stupid, not hip enough nor out of the loop. We don't know what SWAT is supposed to mean, either.

People have come to me and asked "was that dude for real", "was it a boy or a girl", "when did it happen" and "what the hell does SWAT" mean. Let me try to answer those questions....Yes, you see how that time stamp on the posting says 5:43. Well, that was one minute after I finished that last www.stopasl.com. The whole ordeal took about 7 - 8 minutes.Remarkable how the refusal of even the simplest things brings weak humans to their KNEES! MWHAHAHAHhahahahah. (Okay, I've been watching too much Invader Zim by Jhonen Vasquez lately, sue me). Anyways, I've come to refer to the person as.......it (strong cases can be made as to whether it was male or female. Honestly, I couldn't give a....SWAT!)

Which is a nice link-over to what the actual theme of this posting is. SWAT. You've heard it before, I've heard it before. Sounds cool. Nice little one syllabic, four-lettered words. Sharp diphtongs. But Derogatory? Naaaaaaaaaaaaah. Let's look at our options to see what it might have been trying to convay, using this simple word.

1) A Transitive Verb
Inflected Form(s): swat+ted; swat+ting
Etymology: English dialect, to squat, alteration of English squat
Date: circa 1796
: to hit with a sharp slapping blow usually with an instrument (as a bat or swatter)

2) A noun
Date: circa 1800
1 : a powerful or crushing blow
2 : a long hit in baseball; especially : HOME RUN

3) A River
Usage: geographical name
river 400 miles (644 kilometers) Pakistan flowing into Kabul River

4) Police Force
Function: abbreviation
Special Weapons and Tactics

5) A Skate Brand
http://www.swatskates.com
Allright, now we're entering the land of hypothese. It is possible that this brand is particularly disliked in certain skate-circles, and therefore has progressed into a der ogatory term? From the colours used in these skates, I think that's a probable factor indeed.

5) A hyper-vocabulary
Thesis! Is it possible that in closed quarters, the english language have degenerated into a language more tufted on gestures and mimics than vocabulary of grammar? I am not bashing the splendors of the ebonic language here, I am merely drawing attention to this over-fixation of unnecessary abbreviation that is inconceivably popular everywhere on the net, specially of those either to synaptical challenged or plain lazy to write in coherent plain english. You're means "You ARE" and Your is a possessive noun. U will never mean YOU as long as I have any say in it, and R is a letter, not a verb. Now then, in this debauchery of language that actually exists, is it possible that they are in fact giving up on proper vocabulary, and attempt to replace nearly a million different words with a small number of hyper-vocabulary, whose meanings can be anything, depending on how they are used ? Let me give an example. "FUCK" is a hyper-vocabulary. It's a verb, a noun, an expression....It can replace any given word of a particular sentence, without that sentence losing it's inherent meaning.

"You are a nice man" becomes "You are a nice fuck" or "You fucking nice."

SWAT, therefore, could be a hyper-vocabulary aswell, I presume.

"You are a nice man" becomes "SWAT!"

"We come in peace, do not shoot us, great powerful master" becomes "SWAT! FUCK SWAT!"

"I want to have thorough carnal knowledge with you all the way through tonight until I have to get home to my husband tomorrow afternoon" naturally becomes "SWAT!"

The completion of this highly interesting mindgame is left as an excercise to the reader.

Oh, and remember.

SWAT!

posted by Erlend Larsen on 04:56

Saturday, October 20, 2001
Let's rid the world of ASL

I've had it up to here with underage ASL-squatters, who message you out of the blue, be that in MIRC, AIM or any other given method the Internet has developed for communication. I've had it, and I'm not going to fall for their dirty tricks again. I have indeed seen the light. Read the transcript and see the light for yourself. WARNING: If you decide to AIM me just for the hell of it, I'm not going to take it laying down. As in this particular case. God have mercy on sk8airmat and his/hers stubborn propensity in persuing a disclosure of my true personae. Some people never learn, do they?


sk8airmat: a/s/l
Jolt4300: www.stopasl.com
sk8airmat: a/s/l
sk8airmat: ?
Jolt4300: dude, www.stopasl.com
sk8airmat: ok
sk8airmat: i'll listen to the page
sk8airmat: Hi
Jolt4300: hello
sk8airmat: how old r u
Jolt4300: why, that's a sneaky one....mwhahaha.. www.stopasl.com
sk8airmat: wat is your age????????????
Jolt4300: nope
sk8airmat: wat???????
Jolt4300: exactly.
sk8airmat: HOW OLD R U?
Jolt4300: Typing in bigger fonts doesn't make me more susceptible to answer
sk8airmat: OK
sk8airmat: how old r u
sk8airmat: please tell me
Jolt4300: www.stopasl.com
sk8airmat: just tell me your age
sk8airmat: PPLEASEE
Jolt4300: nope
Jolt4300: But thanks for caring
sk8airmat: WHY?
Jolt4300: I'm inclined that way
sk8airmat: oh please
Jolt4300: no, thank you
sk8airmat: i'm beggin u ere
sk8airmat: r u over 20
Jolt4300: and why is that? Is your whole life existance purely based on the fact of knowing my proper age or not?
sk8airmat: please tell me !!!!!!!!!!!!!
Jolt4300: You know you had almost as many exclamation points as proper letters in that last line?
sk8airmat: god u little SWAT
Jolt4300: www.stopasl.com
sk8airmat: GOD!!! U R REALLY ANNOYING ME!!!!!!!!
sk8airmat: HHHHHHHHHOOOOOOOOOOOWWWWWWWWWOLD R U
Jolt4300: Why should I? Do I remove your joy in life by refusing to give my credentials?
sk8airmat: U R REALLY WIERD
sk8airmat: SWAT SWAT SWAT SWAT SWAT SWAT
Jolt4300: To my peers, you are the weird one, I'm afraid.
sk8airmat: U R GAY
Jolt4300: At least, I have the decency to enunciate my words
Jolt4300: How can you know I'm gay if you can't even tell my sex?
sk8airmat: U R OBVIOSLY A BOY
Jolt4300: Is that so obvious? What if I had two tits and a cunt? Wouldn't you feel pretty stupid then?
sk8airmat: OH YEAH WAT DOES ENUNCIATE MEAN
sk8airmat: NOPE
sk8airmat: DO U
Jolt4300: www.stopasl.com
posted by Erlend Larsen on 17:43

Friday, October 19, 2001
Apex Twin -Drukqs
CD#01CD#02
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02. Vordhosbn [4:51] 02. Btoum-Roumada [1:58]
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04. Omgyjya Switch7 [4:52] 04. Plenty Harmonium [1:27]
05. Strotha Tynhe [2:12] 05. Meltphace 6 [6:24]
06. Gwely Mernans [5:08] 06. Bit4 [0:25]
07. Bbydhyonchord [2:33] 07. Prep Gwarlek 3b [1:19]
08. Cock-ver10 [5:18] 08. Father [0:57]
09. Avril 14th [2:05] 09. Taking Control [7:14]
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11. Gwarek2 [6:46] 11. Ruglen Holon [1:49]
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Listen to all tracks on this excellent album HERE!

posted by Erlend Larsen on 18:15

Friday, October 19, 2001
Excerpt from Choke by Chuck Palahniuk

It's dark and starting to rain when I get to the church, and Nico's waiting for somebody to unlock the side door, hugging herself in the cold.

"Hold on to these for me," she says and hands me a warm fistful of silk.

"Just for a couple hours," she says. "I don't have any pockets." She's wearing a jacket made of some fake orange suede with a bright orange fur collar. The skirt of her flower-print dress shows hanging out. No pantyhose. She climbs up the steps to the church door, her feet careful and turned sideways in black spike heels.

What she hands me is warm and damp.

It's her panties. And she smiles.

Inside the glass doors, a woman pushes a mop around. Nico knocks on the glass, then points at her wristwatch. The woman dunks the mop back in a bucket. She lifts the mop and squeezes it. She leans the mop handle near the doorway and then fishes a ring of keys out of her smock pocket. While she's u nlocking the door, the woman shouts through the glass.

"You people are in Room 234 tonight," the woman says. "The Sunday school room."

By now, more people are in the parking lot. People walk up the steps, saying hi, and I stash Nico's panties in my pocket. Behind me, other people hustle the last few steps to catch the door before it swings shut. Believe it or not, you know everybody here.

These people are legends. Every single one of these men and women you've heard about for years.

In the 1950s a leading vacuum cleaner tried a little design improvement. It added a spinning propeller, a razor-sharp blade mounted a few inches inside the end of the vacuum hose. Inrushing air would spin the blade, and the blade would chop up any lint or string or pet hair that might clog the hose.

At least that was the plan.

What happened is a lot of these men raced to the hospital emergency room with their dicks mangled.

At least that's the myth.

That old urban legend about the surprise party for the pretty housewife, how all her friends and family hid in one room, and when they burst out and yelled "Happy birthday" they found her stretched out on the sofa with the family dog licking peanut butter from between her legs . . .

Well, she's real.

The legendary woman who gives head to guys who are driving, only the guy loses control of his car and hits the brakes so hard the woman bites him in half, I know them.

Those men and women, they're all here.

These people are the reason every emergency room has a diamond-tipped drill. For tapping a hole through the thick bottoms of champagne and soda bottles. To relieve the suction.

These are the people who come waddling in from the night, saying they tripped and fell on the zucchini, the lightbulb, the Barbie doll, the billiard balls, the struggling gerbil.

See also: The pool cue.

See also: The teddy bear hamster.

They slipped in the shower and fell, bull's-eye, on a greased shampoo bottle. They' re always being attacked by a person or persons unknown and assaulted with candles, with baseballs, with hard-boiled eggs, flashlights, and screwdrivers that now need removing. Here are the guys who get stuck in the water inlet port of their whirlpool hot tub.

Halfway down the hallway to Room 234, Nico pulls me against the wall. She waits until some people have walked past us and says, "I know a place we can go."

Everybody else is going into the pastel Sunday school room, and Nico smiles after them. She twirls one finger next to her ear, the international sign language for crazy, and she says, "Losers." She pulls me the other way, toward a sign that says Women.

Among the folks in Room 234 is the bogus county health official who calls to quiz fourteen-year-old girls about the appearance of their vagina.

Here's the cheerleader who gets her stomach pumped and they find a pound of sperm. Her name is LouAnn.

The guy in the movie theater with his dick stuck through the bottom of a bo x of popcorn, you can call him Steve, and tonight his sorry ass is sitting around a paint-stained table, squeezed into a child's plastic Sunday school chair.

All these people you think are a big joke. Go ahead and frigging laugh your frigging head off.

These are sexual compulsives.

All these people you thought were urban legends, well, they're human. Complete with names and faces. Jobs and families. College degrees and arrest records.

In the women's room, Nico pulls me down onto the cold tile and squats over my hips, digging me out of my pants. With her other hand, Nico cups the back of my neck and pulls my face, my open mouth, into hers. Her tongue wrestling against my tongue, she's wetting the head of my dog with the pad of her thumb. She's pushing my jeans down off my hips. She lifts the hem of her dress in a curtsey with her eyes closed and her head tilted a little back. She settles her pubes hard against my pubes and says something against the side of my neck.

I say, "God, you're so beautiful," because for the next few minutes I can.

And Nico pulls back to look at me and says, "What's that supposed to mean?"

And I say, "I don't know." I say, "Nothing, I guess." I say, "Never mind."

The tile smells disinfected and feels gritty under my butt. The walls go up to an acoustical tile ceiling and air vents furry with dust and crud. There's that blood smell from the rusty metal box for used napkins.

"Your release form," I say. I snap my fingers. "Did you bring it?"

Nico lifts her hips a little and then drops, lifts and settles herself. Her head still back, her eyes still closed, she fishes inside the neckline of her dress and brings out a folded square of blue paper and drops it on my chest.

I say, "Good girl," and take the pen clipped on my shirt pocket.

A little higher each time, Nico lifts her hips and sits down hard. Grinding a little front to back. With a hand planted on the top of each thigh, she pushes herself up, then drops.

"R ound the world," I say. "Round the world, Nico."

She opens her eyes maybe halfway and looks down at me, and I make a stirring motion with the pen, the way you'd stir a cup of coffee. Even through my clothes, I'm getting the grid of the tile engraved in my back.

"Round the world, now," I say. "Do it for me, baby."

And Nico closes her eyes and gathers her skirt around her waist with both hands. She settles all her weight on my hips and swings one foot over my belly. She swings the other foot around so she's still on me, but facing my feet.

"Good," I say and unfold the blue paper. I spread it flat against her round humped back and sign my name at the bottom, on the blank that says sponsor. Through her dress, you can feel the thick back of her bra, elastic with five or six little wire hooks. You can feel her rib bones under a thick layer of muscle.

Right now, down the hall in Room 234 is the girlfriend of your best friend's cousin, the girl who almost died banging herself on the st ick shift of a Ford Pinto after she ate Spanish fly. Her name is Mandy.

There's the guy who snuck into a clinic in a white coat and gave pelvic exams.

There's the guy who always lies in his motel room, naked on top of the covers with his morning boner, pretending to sleep until the maid walks in.

All those rumored friends of friends of friends of friends . . . they're all here.

The man crippled by the automatic milking machine, his name is Howard.

The girl hanging naked from the shower curtain rod, half dead from autoerotic asphyxiation, she's Paula and she's a sexaholic.

Hello, Paula.

Give me your subway feelers. Your trench coat flashers.

The men mounting cameras inside the lip of some women's room toilet bowl.

The guy rubbing his semen on the flaps of deposit envelopes at automatic tellers.

All the peeping toms. The nymphos. The dirty old men. The restroom lurkers. The handballers.

All these sexual bogeymen and -women your mom warned you a bout. All those scary cautionary tales.

We're all here. Alive and unwell.

This is the twelve-step world of sexual addiction. Compulsive sexual behavior. Every night of the week, they meet in the back room of some church. In some community center conference room. Every night, in every city. You even have virtual meetings on the Internet.

My best friend, Denny, I met him at a sexaholics meeting. Denny had got up to the point where he needed to masturbate fifteen times a day just to break even. Anymore, he could barely make a fist, and he was worried about what all that petroleum jelly might do to him, long term.

He'd considered changing to some lotion, but anything made to soften skin seemed to be counterproductive.

Denny and all these men and women you think are so horrible or funny or pathetic, here's where they all let their hair down. This is where we all go to open up.

Here are prostitutes and sex criminals out on a three-hour release from their minimum-security jail, elbow to elbow with women who love gang bangs and men who give head in adult bookstores. The hooker reunites with the john here. The molester faces the molested.

Nico brings her big white ass almost to the top of my dog and bangs herself down. Up and then down. Riding her guts tight around the length of me. Pistoning up and then slamming down. Pushing off against my thighs, the muscles in her arms get bigger and bigger. My thighs under each of her hands go numb and white.

"Now that we know each other," I say, "Nico? Would you say you liked me?"

She turns to look back over her shoulder at me, "When you're a doctor, you'll be able to write prescriptions for anything, right?"

That's if I ever go back to school. Never underestimate the power of a medical degree for getting you laid. I bring my hands up, each hand open against the stretched smooth underside of each thigh. To help lift her, I figure, and she twines her cool soft fingers through mine.

Sleeved tight around my dog, with out looking back, she says, "My friends bet me money that you're already married."

I hold her smooth white ass in my hands.

"How much?" I say.

I tell Nico that her friends might be right.

The truth is, every son raised by a single mom is pretty much born married. I don't know, but until your mom dies it seems like all the other women in your life can never be more than just your mistress.

In the modern Oedipal story, it's the mother who kills the father and then takes the son.

And it's not as if you can divorce your mother.

Or kill her.

And Nico says, "What do you mean all the other women? Jeez, how many are we talking about?" She says, "I'm glad we used a rubber."

For a complete list of sexual partners, I'd have to check my fourth step. My moral inventory notebook. The complete and relentless history of my addiction.

That's if I ever go back and complete the damn step.

For all those people in Room 234, working on their twelve steps in a sexa holics meeting is a valuable important tool for understanding and recovering from . . . well, you get the idea.

For me, it's a terrific how-to seminar. Tips. Techniques. Strategies for getting laid you never dreamed of. Personal contacts. When they tell their stories, these addict people are frigging brilliant. Plus there's the jail girls out for their three hours of sex addict talk therapy.

Nico included.

Wednesday nights mean Nico. Friday nights mean Tanya. Sundays mean Leeza. Leeza sweats yellow with nicotine. You can almost put your hands around her waist since her abs are rock-hard from coughing. Tanya always smuggles in some rubber sex toy, usually a dildo or a string of latex beads. Some sexual equivalent of the prize in a box of cereal.

The old rule about how a thing of beauty is a joy forever, in my experience, even the most beauteous thing is only a joy for about three hours, tops. After that, she'll want to tell you all about her childhood traumas. Part of meeting these ja il girls is it's so sweet to look at your watch and know she'll be behind bars in half an hour.

It's a Cinderella story, only at midnight she turns back into a fugitive.

It's not that I don't love these women. I love them just as much as you'd love a magazine centerfold, a fuck video, an adult website, and for sure, for a sexaholic that can be buckets of love. And it's not that Nico loves me much, either.

This isn't so much romance as it is opportunity. You put twenty sexaholics around a table, night after night, and don't be surprised.

Plus the sexaholic recovery books they sell here, it's every way you always wanted to get laid but didn't know how. Of course, all this is to help you realize you're a sex junkie. It's delivered in a kind of "if you do any of the following things, you may be an alcoholic" checklist. Their helpful hints include:

Do you cut the lining out of your bathing suit so your genitals show through?

Do you leave your fly or blouse open and pretend to hold conversations in glass telephone booths, standing so your clothes gap open with no underwear inside?

Do you jog without a bra or athletic supporter in order to attract sexual partners?

My answer to all the above is, Well, I do now!

Plus, being a pervert here is not your fault. Compulsive sexual behavior is not about always getting your dick sucked. It's a disease. It's a physical addiction just waiting for the Diagnostic Statistical Manual to give it a code of its own so treatment can be billed to medical insurance.

The story is even Bill Wilson, a founder of Alcoholics Anonymous, couldn't overcome the sex monkey on his back, and spent his sober life cheating on his wife and filled with guilt.

The story is that sex addicts become dependent on a body chemistry created by constant sex. Orgasms flood the body with endorphins that kill pain and tranquilize you. Sex addicts are really addicted to the endorphins, not the sex. Sex addicts have lower natural levels of monoamine ox idase. Sex addicts really crave the peptide phenylethylamine that might be triggered by danger, by infatuation, by risk and fear.

For a sex addict, your tits, your dick, your clit or tongue or asshole is a shot of heroin, always there, always ready to use. Nico and I love each other as much as any junkie loves his fix.

Nico bears down hard, bucking my dog against the front wall of her insides, using two wet fingers on herself.

I say, "What if that cleaning woman walks in?"

And Nico stirs me around inside herself, saying, "Oh yeah. That would be so hot."

Me, I can't help imagining what kind of a big shining butt print we're going to polish into the waxed tile. A row of sinks look down. Fluorescent lights flicker, and reflected in the chrome pipes under each sink you can see Nico's throat is one long straight tube, her head thrown back, eyes closed, her breath panting out at the ceiling. Her big flower-print breasts. Her tongue hangs off to one side. The juice coming off her is s calding hot.

To keep from triggering I say, "What all did you tell your folks about us?"

And Nico says, "They want to meet you."

I think about the perfect thing to say next, but it doesn't really matter. You can say anything here. Enemas, orgies, animals, admit to any obscenity, and nobody is ever surprised.

In Room 234, everybody compares war stories. Everybody takes their turn. That's the first part of the meeting, the check-in part.

After that they'll read the readings, the prayer things, they'll discuss the topic for the night. They'll each work on one of the twelve steps. The first step is to admit you're powerless. You have an addiction, and you can't stop. The first step is to tell your story, all the worst parts. Your lowest lows.

The problem with sex is the same as with any addiction. You're always recovering. You're always backsliding. Acting out. Until you find something to fight for, you settle for something to fight against. All these people who say they want a life free from sexual compulsion, I mean forget it. I mean, what could ever be better than sex?

For sure, even the worst blow job is better than, say, sniffing the best rose . . . watching the greatest sunset. Hearing children laugh.

I think that I shall never see a poem as lovely as a hot-gushing, butt-cramping, gut-hosing orgasm.

Painting a picture, composing an opera, that's just something you do until you find the next willing piece of ass.

The minute something better than sex comes along, you call me. Have me paged.

None of these people in Room 234 are Romeos or Casanovas or Don Juans. These aren't Mata Haris or Salomes. These are people you shake hands with every day. Not ugly, not beautiful. You stand next to these legends on the elevator. They serve you coffee. These mythological creatures tear your ticket stub. They cash your paycheck. They put the Communion wafer on your tongue.

In the women's room, inside Nico, I cross my arms behind my head.

For the n ext I don't know how long, I've got no problems in the world. No mother. No medical bills. No shitty museum job. No jerk-off best friend. Nothing.

I feel nothing.

To make it last, to keep from triggering, I tell Nico's flowered backside how beautiful she is, how sweet she is and how much I need her. Her skin and hair. To make it last. Because this is the only time I can say it. Because the moment this is over, we'll hate each other. The moment we find ourselves cold and sweating on the bathroom floor, the moment after we both come, we won't want to even look at each other.

The only person we'll hate more than each other is ourselves.

These are the only few minutes I can be human.

Just for these minutes, I don't feel lonely.

And riding me up and down, Nico says, "So when do I get to meet your mom?"

And, "Never," I say. "That's impossible, I mean."

And Nico, her whole body clenched and jacking me with her boiling wet insides, she says, "She in prison or a loony bin or something?"

Yeah, for a lot of her life.

Ask any guy about his mom during sex, and you can delay the big blast forever.

And Nico says, "So is she dead now?"

And I say, "Sort of."

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posted by Erlend Larsen on 16:35

Wednesday, October 10, 2001
Where's Waldo?

Ah yes, the latest Internet Craze is over us like venerial diseases on a Congressman in Bangkok, Thailand. What is it this time, you might ask? Are all your bases really history? Will we never hear of them again? Fear not, fear not. AYB will live as long as there are ignorant fools in the world (=forever). Now, to our present fad. In the lieu of the WTC attack, several bleak attempts of humour were made, one of which consisted of a photomanipulation of a tourist, complete with hat and backpack, posing on top of one of the WTC towers, while an aircraft, bearing the colours of American Airlines loomed in the background. The text that was attached to the pic stated that a camera had been found in the wreckage, and this photo was what they saw after developing it. Bullshit, if you couldn't understand that. [ Click here to read the debunking. ] Nontheless, his outer familiarities is strikingly similar to another tourist, namely WALDO, whom we've all come to love and cherish/hate (strike whatever not appropriate). It is therefore I present the to you the best collection of WTC Guy, aka The Tourist, aka Waldo, that I've found.

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[ Tourist Of Death ] [ Touristguy ]
posted by Erlend Larsen on 9:42 PM