As you drag those cans to the curb
Think about the box of albums in the basement. You know, the one covered up by a pile of rags so the wife doesn’t accidentally stumble onto it. The box with the Lionel Ritchie album. The Hall & Oates album. What were you thinking? Clay Aikin? What in the HELL were you thinking? Dan Fogelburg? Foghat? What the FUCK WERE YOU THINKING?
Pull a chunk of spoiled meat out of the trash and slap yourself around with it a little.
Now think about the mailboy. The one who pushes the little cart all around the building delivering people’s mail. The one who wears his pants nice and tight so all the girls can get a god look at his package. Even though his package would shame a medium sized chipmunk. What was he thinking? And Sue, in Marketing, who calls the building maintenance man four times a week in to her office to change the location of pictures so she can watch him stretch those big, tattooed biceps up over his head while she rides her stapler until her chair is soaked. What was she thinking?
As you go through your day, think about all the people who have deserved that ceremonial slap in the face, and realize that as much as you’d like to deliver it personally, for the time being, leave that punishment to The Lord.
of course he’s gonna be busy with Zarqawi for a couple weeks. There’s a guy needs some industrial strength bitchslapping.

I ‘speck he gonna get it, too.
M
S’pose they’re gonna line up 72 virgins? With cattle prods? S’pose the virgins will be virginal but incredibly horny thorn-cocked demons?
So they’re sure they got him? I just heard about it.
You hide your albums too?
He threw out my cheap stereo with the turntable but he ain’t gettin’ NEAR my albums. It’s been 10 years and I still haven’t replaced the turntable but SOMEDAY I’m gonna. Really!
And, YEAH, the news about Zarqawi ROCKS!
And to the lady at work (who I barely know) who made me *perfect* the “nod and smile” today (No eye contact. Definitely no eye contact.) by telling me ALL about how unhappy she is in her marriage, how she raises guinea pigs in the spare room of her rental house, and how much she wanted to boink the M.O.
What was she thinking? Ugh.
But hey, Zarqawi’s dead. It’s a good day.
I think they’ve got it wrong, I think it’s really 72 Virginians.
Foghat.
I had a 67 Plymouth Catalina that I used to drive home from Eagle, Colorado (30 m west of Vail) to Aurora (east side of Denver) every weekend in the summer and fall of 1975. I had mounted an 8-track and had oh about 4 tapes to listen to on that long drive. One was by Foghat. It had been thrown out by some scumbag friend of my brother, who ran with a rough crowd at the time. That tape was a good rocker.
I close my eyes and wonder how long it’s gonna be,
I know I’ve got to travel, but the highway’s killing me.
Ride the stapler? Jeez Og, now I will have that image in my head all day.