Gin & Tonic
31Jan/10

A Neat Party Trick

By: Scott Sousa
  1. Tell an acquaintance that if a twenty dollar bill is folded a certain way an image of the Twin Towers on fire will appear.
  2. They may have seen the trick before and think it's stupid or have never seen it before. Come up with something clever to say like, "No, seriously, it's pretty crazy. If you have a twenty I'll show you."
  3. Once the bill is in your hand, run like hell!
Filed under: Instructions, Party Tricks
13Jan/10

JubJubTheRhino – All American Rhino

By: Scott Sousa
JubJubTheRhino - All American Rhino

JubJubTheRhino - All American Rhino

JubJubTheRhino is back with some more tunes to dish out for free! This EP is titled All American Rhino and it fuckin' rocks so check it out and blow him a kiss. Download.

Here's a taste:

JubJubTheRhino - Serious Talk

Tracklisting:

1. Drink of Choice
2. Ummm...
3. Serious Talk
4. Raymond Carver
5. Mary Ann

Filed under: JubJubTheRhino, Music
13Jan/10

Rich Bitch

By: Scott Sousa

Can you imagine? The thought of you (yes, you) and I trapped together on a desert island for all eternity simply disgusts me. The taste of vomit in my mouth is more pleasant.

You would obviously cave within hours and attempt to thrust your Irish 'breakfast' (it's probably not more than a nibble, I imagine) in me but I am a woman of class. My cunt does not drip for drooling baboons such as yourself. It, even with its primal urges and pubic hair, is far too sophisticated for a vagabond. It  is invited to all the best parties. Of course it always RSVPs with a plus one (I'm the plus one) because it does not want to come off as some mangled moose head that can be bought and sold with the snap of a finger.

So go ahead, stare at my heaving breasts. You will never touch or see them in the nude. Not even if I die. They would self-destruct, you slobbering jammie dodger. I may be close to thirty-five (forty) but they do not look a day over seventeen. That is unlike your spaghetti and meatballs. The probably look so run down an old Sicilian wench would shriek at its sight but gobble it reluctantly in an attempt to cure her insatiable appetite for crème de la twit.

My men ARE class. Their salaries match their smiles. Of course salaries still matter when you're trapped on a desert island with a man! How else would you pay your way out? With hopes and dreams while you dangle your nauseating flaccid steak and potatoes in one hand and hold an overdrawn debit card in the other?

You! You odious man! I bet you take public transportation. Riding around, tongue draped over your chin, whistling and groping at night walkers and good Christian women. If you ever dared to touch me I would scream! The thought of you in general is revolting and I ought to report you to the authorities out of principle you filthy pocket pool-playing man you.

Filed under: Class, Death, Fixations, Food, Men, Money, Prose, Women
9Jan/10

Man on the Moon, Part Two

By: Scott Sousa

Diego parked the cab in front of a café and punched a number into his cell phone. I didn't understand a word of what he said. My high school Spanish teacher with big tits failed me.

There were two men sitting outside watching us. Normally I don't like to stare but my eyes locked with theirs' and there was no turning back.

"They are ready for you," Diego said. "Go inside and order to espressos. You will be escorted from there."

Carl paid him and we walked in the café. It was a dirty place but much nicer than some of the other places we have found ourselves in. The cigarette smoke smelled more expensive. We picked a table near a window and sat down.

"This is it," Carl said.

An overweight man with a curly mustache came to take our order.

"Two espressos, please."

"Si señor," said the overweight man and he motioned for us to follow him. He led us through a door in the back, down a dimly lit stairway.

A hand came out of the darkness and got Carl, and another got me. A rag went over my mouth and the sweetness of chloroform filled my lungs. The dreams began almost immediately.

Lilacs and whiskey in an extravagant hotel suite in Las Vegas. I was on top of the world but no matter how much I begged could not get room service to bring me a glass of whole milk.

Panic set in. I ran out into the desert but my legs melted in the heat. I became a puddle, stationary, looking up at the sky. A kitten sat next to me, purring, staring at me with a curiosity only a kitten could possess. It began to lap me up. I was the milk...

Filed under: Dreams, Drugs, Mexico, Prose
8Jan/10

Man on the Moon, Part One

By: Scott Sousa

The alarm rang and we slowly peeled our skin from the bed sheets. It was hot and our balls were sweaty but that didn't matter much because we were in Mexico City and there everyone's balls were sweaty; The place stank like it, anyway.

Carl had dragged me to Mexico to help him pick up pain killers. He had never done anything like this before. "On T.V. they make it look so simple," he said, "You just cross the border and go to the pharmacy half a block away." Half a block turned into over 1,000 miles into the heart of this perverse jungle of modern badlanders, farmers and uninteresting villages where you could never quite tell if everyone was happy or sad. Our day trip had lasted well over a week at this point. No body's got the quantity Carl wants to buy, so they tell us to keep going south.

We hailed a cab. "You speak English?" Carl asked.

"Of course, meester," the cabbie said.

We got in and took off.

"Where you headed?"

"Do you know anyone with pain killers?" Carl asked.

"Pain killers?"

"Yeah, vicodins, percocets. Pain killers."

"Oh sure, I know someone who can help you," the cabbie said smiling.

"I want to buy a lot, can this person handle that?"

"Sure, sure. Diego can get you however much of whatever it is that you want."

Carl smiled at me.

"Okay. Great. I have a prescription a doctor wro-"

"You won't need a prescription. Nothing requires anything in Mexico, meester."

"Fair enough. What's your name?"

"Me? I'm Cesar."

"Pleasure to meet you, Cesar. I'm Carl, and my friend here is Davis."

I met his eyes in the rear view mirror and said, "Howyahdoin."

"It's going to be a long ride, get comfortable," Cesar said.

He nailed the accelerator, zig-zagging down narrow city streets, racing red lights and yellow at anyone within earshot of the cab who might have been thinking of getting in our way. We were finally making progress and after today we could go home.

Filed under: Drugs, Mexico, Prose
7Jan/10

The Usual, Please, and Thank You

By: Scott Sousa

I opened the door and Cego was standing, staring at me from across the room. I stopped and stared back, wondering why I was being challenged in this way. I crept toward him, shutting the door behind me. His eyes remained fixed, stone cold. I was perplexed. I felt like saying something but anything I could have come up with would have sounded dumb so I kept quiet, examining the situation. I stopped.

Was he even looking at me? Maybe he was transfixed by something behind me. But I couldn't look away. If he was indeed challenging me then I would lose. I've already lost thirty bucks on scratch tickets in the past week. I could at least try and win this. I was good at this sort of thing.

Cego opened his mouth slightly. Was he ready to speak? No, he sat there, silent, with a dumbfounded look. At any moment he would begin to drool and it would all be over. He seemed to have caught himself and pursed his lips. I slowly moved to the left. His eyes remained fix on the door. I could blink again. I looked at the door. It was certainly a beautiful door but he has lived in this same house for years and to stare at it in awe today?
Cego turned around and sat at his desk.

I walked up behind him. "The hell is wrong with you?"

Astonished, he turned around. "Paul! When did you get here?"

"I walked in the door and you stared at me for almost five minutes."

"Really?" He scratched at his beard and smiled. "I guess we're all a bit anosognosic at times. Would you like something to drink?"

Filed under: Alcohol, Fixations, Prose