Pataphors (335 hits)
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Submitted by CATAL (View user info) at 2007-01-10 05:21:56 EST
When I've been up for a long time I feel as if I'm walking through someone's dream. I see hallucinatory faces bleeding grey and blue from their faces and eyes and orange lights flash and dance around my swirling thoughts to the point where I no longer recognize my existance.
His name is Jack and he's a pharmacist. He hates his job and works nights, but he doesn't hate his job because he works nights. He hates his job because he just hates it. He sleeps during the day. That's all he does. He sleeps, eats, and works.
But when he sleeps and I suffer from insomnia I slip into an amnesiactic stupor and stumble upon these tangential, absurdist plays acted out by imaginary actors and actresses who work in dirt poor theaters in the slums of Warhol's Mecca and barely scrape a living and suffer from scurvy because their diet consists of pot of noodles and mac and cheese, but they do it because they love art and love the theater.
I'm indifferent to the theater which is only a jumble of chinese characters that I can't make any sense of because Jack can't read chinese, or speak it for that matter, but that's not really important because no one's talking. Just the heavy drone of Charlie Brown's parents taking through a megaphone louder than the Heavy Metal concert that Jack went to on his night off.
Jack went alone, not because he has no friends, he does have some (though not many), but because he wanted to go alone. He wanted to see no faces, only be overwhelmed by the intensity and volume of the noise blaring out the speakers just feet from his head as he screamed his throat hoarse despite the fact he couldn't hear it. He could hardly speak for a week. Incidently, the band he saw that night was Chaocophony.
Before he went to sleep that morning, around 5 am, Jack walked into his bedroom and pulled out a shoebox. He walked back into his bathroom (out of which he had just come) and set it on the counter beside the sink. He turned on the water full hot and out of the shoebox he produced a dirty cloth. He unwrapped what the cloth was covering and slid out his grandfather's luger that he had inherited when he had died of syphilus. Fully loaded he raised the gun and as the steam rose from the torrent of water erupting from the faucet, a fire hydrant with the caps wrenched off in the 1930s tenement neighborhoods of Chicago during the hot summer days when and where Timmy and Tony grew up, fogging up the glass, Jack squeezed the trigger and shards of the mirror scattered around him and his hands. He then turned off the faucet, much to Timmy and Tony's chagrin, placed the gun on the tank of the toliet and walked back to his bedroom. He pulled off his T-shirt, a Chaocophony tour t-shirt, and his sneakers and socks, flopped face down on his dirty mattres and promptly fell asleep.
That's when I woke up and prepared myself unconsciously for the bizarre happenstances that would be sure to occur within Jack's subconscious, knowing full well that I would not be dreaming, because, afterall, I wondered if I was...
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Submitted by kuroneko_sama (user info) at 2007-01-11 00:02:12 EST (#)
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i prefer the little chocolate covered, bite sized, cake ones
Submitted by JonnyX (user info) at 2007-01-10 16:33:07 EST (#)
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Submitted by Beano312003 (user info) at 2007-01-10 13:26:18 (#)
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Submitted by Axolotl (user info) at 2007-01-10 13:06:55 (#)
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Submitted by Beano312003 (user info) at 2007-01-10 13:05:37 (#)
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http://www.ubersite.com/m/58798
Rad got a +1, you get a 0... next person who does this get a -1!
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And Method got a +2?
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who the fuck is Method?
Submitted by darko (user info) at 2007-01-10 11:57:45 EST (#)
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Submitted by 8track (user info) at 2007-01-10 05:57:49 EST (#)
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This is even more painful than it looks.
-- Homer Simpson
Brother from the Same Planet
Submitted by Can_Always_Trust_A_Liar (user info) at 2007-01-10 05:45:22 EST (#)
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Ha! I didn't even make that connection when I was writing this. Fuck man, that actually pisses me off a little bit.
Submitted by Snare (user info) at 2007-01-10 05:42:41 EST (#)
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Someone's just read Fight Club.