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A Shameless Plug, Verging On Whorish OR The Tie-Dye Is Cast

Enthusiasts, I do not prefer my ties dyed. To my way of thinking, clothes are like wide receivers: They need a very good excuse not to be black.

HOLD THE FUCK UP, MUCHACHO.

Too far?

Too far, too much, too everything.

I would like to blame my actions on my health condition. I don’t know if you’ve heard–

Jesus, dude.

–but I have a wee touch of the cancer.

Y’know, you’re milking it.

Did you just accuse me of milking my cancer?

Like an aggressive farmhand. 

IT’S CANCER.

Some suffer silently.

I’ve never done anything silently. I even snore, so I can still raise a dumbfuck racket while I sleep. I’m a squawky nitwit and I don’t see it changing.

Uh-huh. But maybe your decrepitation doesn’t need to be the prime focus of the site. Remember when this was about the Grateful Dead?

Who?

Then you inflicted your fiction on the nice people. 

They deserved it.

And now you’re doing your imitation of Bob Hope in Road To Hospice. It’s depressing. Can’t you die more cheerfully?

I cannot.

Try. Slap a smile on, 

It hurts to smile because the poison gave me thrush.

RIGHT THERE. That’s the morbid shit I’m talking about. Stow it, buster.

Don’t you talk to me that way. I’m a brave battler! My fight is courageous! I will slay the dragon of pestilence, chase it from my body! I battle bravely!

Please don’t say–

TOTD STRONG!

TotD…wow.

I wear my bad luck like a crown.

Y’sure do, champ. Why did you start typing this time?

Oh, right: I was gonna plug. A lovely Enthusiast, generous and giving of heart, sent me a tie-dye; it is a pleasing garment in red, white, and blue, and it was made by hand, which means there is no shirt like it anywhere in the world, not even locations where many hippies gather. My shirt is sui generis, and so is the candana*. Again: I am pleased.

So if you’re a tie-dye guy or an earthen mama, pay a visit to the Firefly Shirt Company on Facebook or at their Etsy store. Not only will you be procuring yourself a quality piece of clothing, but they ship via the USPS, so you’d also literally be saving America from fascism. Be a hero and buy some merch.

Point of order.

You’re still here?

I never left. I have a point of order.

Whaaaaaaat?

How come this merits a plug? Plenty of kind Enthusiasts sent you stuff.

Plenty of kind Enthusiasts sent me weed. And, you know: that’s still technically a crime. You don’t plug crimes.

You should offer a plug, though.

You’re right. Anyone who wants to be thanked publicly for committing a federal offense, please e-mail me. Or say something in the Comment Section.

Has this attitude ever helped you?

Not once.

I admire your tenacity.

You should. It’s awesome.

 

 

 

 

*I have accumulated a passel of new Twitter followers of late; some may be encountering the word “candana” for the first time. It is a portmanteau of “cancer” and “bandana,” and refers to the chemo du-rag.

Didn’t I tell you to cool it with the cancer?

YOU CAN’T FOLLOW ME TO THE ASTERISKIAL ZONE! THIS IS MY TERRITORY!

Oh, jam it up your ass.

 

 

To Tie-Dye For

brooklyn-tie-dye-shop

Brother and Sister-in-Law on the Dead (BotD and SiLotD) live in Brooklyn. It’s not their fault; they both majored in Gentrification in college, so this was the only work they could get. On weekends, they do very authentic things, and this past Sunday, they wandered into the Starhawk Design Studio in Greenpoint, which by all accounts flashes in and out of reality at different locations on a regular basis.

(Anyone who has ever read a book or watched a movie should know better than to trust the mysterious shop that you could swear wasn’t there last time you checked, but looks like it’s been there forever. The proprietor is secretly God or the Devil, or all the stock is cursed, or you’re going to leave the store to find you’re in 1944 and you’ve got to save your grandpa’s life so he can come back home and fuck your grandma. Do not go in the mysterious shop that you could swear wasn’t there last time.)

Mainly, this post is a pre-confession. BotD made a joke about getting me one of these rainbow abortions for Christmas, so if he winds up dead on the 25th, then what happened was he actually bought me one, and then I murdered him with a spatula. I truly believe that my skin would start burning if I put one of these on, especially the chimera that is not a Dancing Bear in the upper right.