Post For A Monday Night

Hello out there!

Hopefully all is going well in your neck of the woods.

I went to a wedding last summer and the newlyweds left during the reception. To consummate their vows, I suppose. (Even though they’d been living together for like five years)…They called it something…can’t recall what…I asked my cousin the cop…He was out having a smoke and I went with him when the newlyweds came out. We jokingly asked where the hell they were going... They said, "We’re ------ing. It’s a tradition." They hopped in a limo and were gone. I looked at my cousin and asked what they said that was called. He said, “That’s fuckin’ bullshit is what that is.” He looked all serious when he said it, and I burst out laughing. We both laughed for a while. He seemed offended by this alleged 'tradition' in some way…but I said, "At least we get to leave now. " I’m the optimistic type sometimes.

My cousin is a pretty cool guy. He always wanted to be a police officer growing up. Since I'm an only child, he was like my older brother. We were together almost every day when we were kids. Once, when a tooth was loose, he took me behind the garage and punched it out for me. We used to play with guns and ride our bikes off ramps. We had cool toys and broke most of them together. There was one toy called Pulsar. He was allegedly indestructible...We managed to destroy him eventually! (Thanks to our dads' tools).

These days, I'm the proud godfather of his cute little daughter. (My cousin's, not Pulsar's). I promised that even though I'm not a religious guy, I will do what's best for her, should the need arise....hopefully it won't.

It's weird the different paths we take as we travel along in our lives. My cuz, 'the fuzz,' recently told me a story about how he had to pull his gun on a guy. We went to school with this fellow growing up, but he took a wrong path somewhere along the line...Anyway, my cousin had his gun aimed at the guy's chest 'cause he was brandishing a baseball bat and kept edging closer. He conveyed to me that he would have dropped this guy without remorse if he didn't stop when told to...and I believe him. Luckily, the guy realized it too and put the bat down. My cousin gave him fair warning and had the trigger pulled to the point where the next click would be lights out for bat boy (to call him Batman, even in jest, is an insult to the dedication it took Bruce Wayne to become Batman)...

My cuz is a pretty tough guy, but I know the little boy that grew up with me is in there too...It's still kinda weird that he woulda killed that guy no problem. The other day at my job, I almost got a pretty bad paper cut clearing a jam in one of the copiers...and then I got out of my chair pretty quickly and got a bit of a head rush...

Anyway...it's time for a...

Pop Quiz, Hotshot!

I saw this quiz on Poody's blog and then on beadinggalinms' blog.

Apparently I'm like Wesley Crusher according to the quiz.

A brilliant learner with a knack for almost everything, you choose to spend your efforts in the pursuit of travels that extend your own potential.

I'd better be on my way now, partners.

My main man, Beatdogg told me about this nonsense Henry Rollins had to deal with. Old Hank hates cops, but I think he'd like my cousin. (Cops made fun of Henry when his best friend was murdered, and joked that they were lovers)...If you're a Rollins fan or into freedom, then this might piss you off a bit...

Henry Rollins is Not an Islamist (click title for source article)

A paranoid passenger seated next to former Black Flag frontman Henry Rollins got nervous on a flight to Brisbane when he saw the rocker reading “Jihad: The Rise of Militant Islam in Central Asia”, a book about Islamic fundamentalists. The passenger contacted the authorities after the plane landed and Henry is now being investigated by the Australian government.

“Days later I received an e-mail from a woman who I guess figured out who I was and found me,” Rollins told PAGE SIX after his spoken-word show at Town Hall the other night. “I had been named a ‘person of interest.’ Basically, they get calls like this every five minutes, and I’m probably on the ‘who cares’ list, in that they’ll probably let me into the country again. But the fact that this guy could be that ignorant and call me in on this for a book . . . I was angry. Because of the fact that the guy wouldn’t confront me. I like confrontation. If I’ve offended you, let me know. Don’t call it in and not leave your name. I just think it’s pretty weak.”

Henry Rollins has several books and CDs out there. Personally, I like his spoken word and his books more than his music. He was also in the films "Johnny Mnemonic" , "Heat" and "Lost Highway"...

Beatdogg and I saw him do a spoken word performance in Waterloo (Ontario, Canada) and he changed our lives...for a few minutes anyway...

So remember to eat your vitamins and you too can be big and strong like Henry.

Take care out there.

Your Pal,

Zambo.