Just a few of the names I'm considering using as aliases:

  • Skinflint Perez
  • Walt Frisco
  • Captain Shinebox
  • J.R. Hoohah
  • Yanni Osbourne
  • Bette Hitler
  • Corbijn Ratso
  • Whatnot Nittygritty
  • Frank O'Cranko
  • Reuben The Swede
  • Nipsy Kringle
  • Amadeus J. Wonka
  • Giaccomo Longitude
  • Prince Pipesweat
  • Cornelius Corncutter
  • Grover Clovenfoot
  • Abraham Fumar

You ever notice how toward the end of his life, Miles Davis looked exactly like the Zuni fetish doll from the film Trilogy of Terror?

"More volume on the fucking monitor, Teo!"


Coolio is the Zsa Zsa Gabor of the 21st century: He doesn't do shit but he's always hangin' around.

I ride the train every weekday. I reverse commute, so I'm usually the only dude in the car. And every morning, the same creepy conductor saunters over and stands expressionless, waitng for me to show him my monthly pass. I know who he is and he knows who I am. He knows damn well that I have a monthly pass. This used to piss me off, but now I play a game in my mind wherein he's the Vampire Lord, and I, the vampire killer, turn him away with my holy monthly-pass crucifix.



Billion Dollar Idea: The YARD-long corndog



If I had my wish, ESPN would run a program showing the highlights of juvenille delinquents keying SUVs and making their owners cry.

I hold the door open for you and you say "Thank you." No problem. I make it to the next set of doors and hold the door open for you again. This time you don't say anything. What the fuck is that?

My favorite salty bar snacks:

  • Stroh's Beer-Filled Meatstrip
  • Chewy Salt Losenges with Liquid MSG Center
  • "The Sack of Fat," a Delicious, Non-Descript Salty Snack and Engine Lubricant
  • Salty Wands of Deepfried Pork Gristle
  • Cheeze-In-A-Tube
  • Rocksalt Encrusted Beef Lard on an Edible Salt Stick
  • A Big Bowl of All that Shit They Scrape Off the Grill at the Outback Steakhouse at the End of the Night
  • Ye Olde Salt-Crust Cake of Buttery Leather
  • Melted Butter Served in a Wonderbra

More films need to end like Midnight Express. You know, like, maybe 15 minutes into Julia Roberts' next film, someone could headbutt her character in the chest and impale HER head on a wooden peg. Roll credits.

The movie I'd like to see on the Lifetime television network: The 5-hour dramatic courtroom epic about a mentally retarded woman who inherits 12 billion dollars and blows the whole fucking wad on milk and packing foam.

The song "Loveshack" makes me need to set something on fire.

Right now is the quiet time before the new popsong is broadcast wall-to-wall nationwide and inside your skull for the very first time.

Talking toys are more interesting when the batteries are low.

Barry White should get a royalty check everytime a baby is conceived.

I am absolutely convinced that somewhere in this world, there's a guy with a music collection composed exclusively of tape recordings of the transitional music used on NPR.


Just one time, I'd like to eat in a so-called "hip" restaurant which brags about how it serves only "the freshest and finest authentic Canadian cuisine."



Few things are as pitiful as the missed messages on the answering machine about the thing you just came home from, especially when the thing you just came home from was totally lame.



I am absolutely convinced that somewhere in this world, there is a person who sustains his or herself exclusively on food that is sold door-to-door by children who are trying to raise money for their school or church or whatever.

Scene from a film that doesn't exist: In a dim, musky basement of a decrepit highrise, a creepy, little gray hand reaches out of a tiny hole from within a walled-off, cinderblock room. It opens its palm to reveal some surringes.

Billion-Dollar Idea: A television program that features bleeding, screaming, swearing robots that stomp the shit out of one another. Stick with me on this. You see, the point is not simply to win, but to win with the coolest, goriest, most bizarre robot imaginable. Try to picture The Presidents Hall of Fame at Disneyworld combined with Mardis Gras combined with Battlebots combined with the last 30 minutes of the film Dead Alive. Tune in and see an anatomically correct Abraham Lincoln use his hydrolic axe-fists to chop into a 15-foot tall, acid-belching robot mongoose.

I am absolutely convinced that somewhere in this world, there's a guy who has all of his bowel movements on videotape.

Greg Allman, for the love of God, cut your fucking hair!

Set list from Stevie Wonder's recent benefit performance for people with an adolescent sense of humor:

  • "Your Dress Smells Beautiful"
  • "I Only Have Eyes For You"
  • "Isn't She Lovely? (Seriously, I'd Like to Know)"
  • "Love at First Feel"
  • "Eyes Without a Face"
  • "Double Vision"
  • "I Can See For Miles"
  • "I Can See Clearly"
  • "She Blinded Me With Science"

Scene from a film that doesn't exist: At the Greek restaurant, some ugly kid keeps peeking at our hero over the back of the booth. He gets tired of this distraction and suddenly tosses the rest of his coffee at the kid.

Sometimes the heat makes the make-up on a woman's face look like silly putty.

The music the couple purchased together matches their couch perfectly.

My all-time favorite themepark attractions:

  • Carol Channing's Adventure Spectacular
  • Tom Snyder's Weekend in Nebraska
  • The Tilt-o-Cripple
  • The Marriage-Go-Round
  • Yukon Jack's Watercloset
  • The Fantastic Spastic
  • The Backstabbing Blonde Ball-Buster
  • The Christian Thriller
  • Sweatshop Hyjinx Island
  • Crispy Rick's Grease Fire Splashdown
  • The Brother's Karamazov: The Ride

I don't wanna spoil the magic, but I'd be interested to hear the story parents will have to cook up to explain Santa's Christmas Eve trek 500 years from now when all the kids and their families are spread throughout the entire friggin' solar system.

People say that after they've had a big cup of coffee, their whiz smells like coffee. I think it smells more like Popeye Puffed Wheat breakfast cereal.


It would certainly be fascinating if George Thorogood was diagnosed with osteoporosis.



Whenever I hear Barry Manilow's song "I Write the Songs," I imagine Barry snorting coke off a 17-year old male model's naked ass in a mirrored room.



Topic for a High School mid-term exam: Please compare and contrast the many and varied ways in which George W. Bush resembles the character "Greg Stillson," the political hothead who would bring about the apocalypse, as portrayed by Martin Sheen in the David Cronenberg film, The Dead Zone.

I don't believe in hell, but sometimes I wish I did. I totally sympathize with the dude who dreamed that shit up.

True story: I was eating some soup at a Panera Bread "cafe" when I noticed the following: the man over there was simultaneously talking on his cell phone and politely yet sternly complaining to the spanish-speaking employee about the abscence of the pickle he had requested. The soundtrack overhead which accompanied this drama was a smooth-jazz, muzak interpretation of Bob Marley's popular call to self-empowerment, "Get Up Stand Up."

Which of our three contestants do you think will win Marlon Brando's 11th Annual Celebrity Pie Eating Contest: Ann Wilson, Aretha Franklin, or Linda Ronstadt?

3 visions of hell which I find more terrifying than the Biblical description:

  • I'm trapped for all of eternity in a pitch-black concrete cell that's a little too warm and a little too humid. The air smells like the inside of a Burger King, and broadcasting from all directions is a blarring, endless sound loop of the brass section from The Village People's "YMCA" butted against the brass section of Paul Simon's "Call Me Al."
  • I spend all of eternity trapped inside a Toys R Us, sustaining myself at a level right around starving on whatever nutrients I can find in the checkout aisles. And, no, I can't just starve myself to a different version of hell. Why not? Because I can't. I just can't.
  • I'm stuck inside a television ad for Old Navy. Take your pick-- they're all equally terrifying. And before you start saying, "Wow! That would be great, spending all of eternity fucking an immortal Morgan Fairchild!" remember that all of the standard FCC regulations apply to this particular vision of hell. All you get is sexual tension, self-aware ironic nostalgia, and soulless, mannequin-esque beautiful people with the personality of a dishwasher.

The trouble with people in the city using hands-free things with their cell phones is that I can no longer quickly distinguish between the people who are just walking around, making plans for the weekend and the people who are just plain fucking nuts.

I'd pay good money to see Lou Ferigno and Arnold Schwarzenegger faceoff in a spelling bee.

Remember back in the early days of Wheel of Fortune when a contestant would win a round, and then he or she would be forced to quickly blow the cash on a load of overpriced crap spinning around on the revolving platter of prizes? I used to watch and hope that some crazy person would get in there and jack around with all the prizes before the taping of the show: "Alright, Pat, let's see. I'll take the framed photo of Robin Gibb's dental records for $300, the palette of World War Two era canned corned beef for $1530, and... um... um... let's see... um... oh, and the dandruff-lined stocking cap from the Union Station lost and found for $750."

Teach the animals to scream and plead for their lives and the humans will stop eating them.

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