Archive for June, 2006

A Nation Full of Criminals: Dance Puppet, Dance!

Posted by Chronic on June 11th, 2006

A recent study among american high school students found that roughly 43% drank alcohol in the past month and roughly 20% smoked the ganja in the past 30 days.It also stated that over 20% smoked cigarettes, and an alarming 18.5% of students admitted to having carried a weapon like a knife or gun in the past 4 weeks. While I’m sure there is some overlap among these groups participating in assorted illegal activities, I think it’s a safe statement to say that over half of American teenagers are in fact criminals… I think the number is waaaaayyy higher than 50%, but that’s what we get from the statistics available to us.

We take for granted that all of our elected or appointed officials are criminals. We all constantly assert on television and in magazines and newspapers that big business owners and officials are criminals … Our on-screen heroes are Scarface, Tony Soprano and Darth Vader… While some people will argue that people are shaped by the media, I think the opposite is true and that the media is only a mirror on society. Accordingly, our fascination with criminal behavior in entertainment is rooted in our real understanding of the criminal element in society… And since we’re all criminals, it’s not hard to see.

How large of a segment of soeciety must be deemed criminal before the laws are adjusted to reflect our values? If 50% of all high schoolers are criminals, that’s roughly 8 million criminals there. Then we consider that roughly 20% of america’s adult population has smoked pot, there’s another roughly 15 million… Add in DUIs and there are another 10-15 million (stats are iffy on this because of “diversion laws”)… Then you’ve got your prescription drug abusers at what, 5 million or so? … this puts us somewhere in the range of 38-43 million criminals in the US… Then of course you have to account for actual violent offenders… they make up another 14 million people, so we’re at 52-57million criminals living here… But then we have to consider that there are what, 12 million illegals immigrants living here? so we’re now at 64-69 million criminals in the US.

While I’d love to stop at 69 because it’s a great number and all, I’ve gotta keep going. How many million people have illegally downloaded music? Let’s go further than that, how many people snuck into R rated movies as children? Do you only cross the street at a crosswalk? Ever tossed a wrapper out your car window? Left your trash on the subway, the el, or the bus?

Our entire society is composed of criminals, but we’re all so afraid of being recognized for what we are that we continue to allow the ruling class to drive wedges between us separating us into the pill-popping, drunk-drivers versus the pot-smoking slackers. It’s obvious both groups are unhappy with the current situation, but we’re too busy dancing for the puppeteer to do anything about it.

“I smoke pot to make you seem more interesting.”

Posted by Chronic on June 7th, 2006

Based on the myspace messages and e-mails I get, people seem to want to “get to know me”… and I’m eager to indulge, so here are some of the questions people have asked and my responses:

Question: Why are you so grouchy?

Answer: Because people are so stupid.

Question: Why do you smoke so much pot?

Answer: I smoke pot because it makes all of you seem more interesting, entertaining and intelligent.

Question: What kinds of long-term goals do you have?

Answer: World Domination

Question: If you could be any animal what would it be?

Answer: I’m content as a hedgehog. We’re spikey and we sleep half the year.

Question: Do you have any pets?

Answer: Not currently. My old roommate (who digs ponds in rich folks yards for a living) brought home some baby moles he’d dug up one day after accidentally killing their mother with a trenching machine. He bought a bunch of nightcrawlers at a bait shop and was feeding the 3 moles about 3 worms a day each…. after a few days there were only 2 moles… after another day there was one mole… after 2 more days there were no moles. (if you ever decide to try to keep moles as pets, they need to eat 3 times their body weight every day… just a heads up.

Question: Who do you think will be the next president of the US?

Answer: Truthfully? I’m not sure we’ll ever have another president. I really wouldn’t be surprised to find out that Karl Rove is Darth Sidious and he has the US reorganized into the First American Federation.

Question: Do you really know the guy who was charged with intentionally spreading HIV in Lawrence Kansas?

Answer: He used to post on The Church Of Lazlo Forums. I hung out with the guy once at “On The Border” in Leawood. He seemed like a pretty cool guy when I met him… I’m kind of surprised by the whole thing.

I’ll be happy to answer more questions if you (re)send them, but that’s all I’ve got for now.

Thinking your way to Retardation

Posted by Ask A Pothead on June 6th, 2006

Okay, you “deep thinkers” out there, pay attention. You’re fucking retarded.

I don’t need to hear some shit like, “In the face of adversity, I persevere because I must. It’s inner strength, a born trait, and only the strong –” blah, blah, motherfucking blah. Melodramatic presentation of bullshit philosphy — which is, by the way, rehashed seven ways from Sunday (a saying that NEVER made sense) — makes my anus bleed.

Understand something: I’m not attacking people who truly are deep thinkers, only those melodramatic, quote’s-a-plenty, balls-in-a-basket fucktards who are know-it-alls with a bit of knowledge, and a slightly enhanced vocabulary. And might I add, these types tend to use the words they know incorrectly, leading me to all kinds of giggles.

The reason I’m bitching about it is because of late, I’ve had to endure this shit on a consistent basis. I don’t think that I’m a beacon of pholosophical musings, but God damn it, I’m no slouch in the brains department, and I know wise when I hear it. However, I’ve been on the listening end of a wiseASS who’s wind is longer than an elephants dick.

All of you know the type, too. I know you do. They’re the ones who give the unsolicited (and ultimately useless) advice, in that condescending tone with that shit-eating grin, while you’re sitting there with your mouth slightly open, drooling. You’re not wowed into silence by their insight; rather, you’re a few points lower on the ol’ intelligence quotient for having listened to their nonsensical droning. Not only that, but your self-esteem is in the shitter because THESE are your peers. Guilt by association, after all.

Here’s a little pep-talk for the rest of us: Let the shit roll, and don’t listen. Or listen, for a laugh.

It’s those who revel in silence who tend to have the most to say.

Written by Fuzzball

The Interdimensional Past, Present, and Future

Posted by Ask A Pothead on June 4th, 2006

Past: Defied the Third dimension. Stomped a mudhole in the Fourth.

Present: Entered the Fifth. A place of utter comedic chaos. Dreams are born here. Nightmares are tortured also. The place smells vaguely of burnt sulphur and sugar; “A Dream Deferred” by Langston Hughes cologne for men. This is where Jesus came from. Buddha pasts through on a regular basis. The deity, the creator, Master and Commander, brought forth the very notion of an idea– From this place. Feel it’s energy; it wraps around you like a warm black velvet glove around your body and then with one grasp of the neck it makes you it’s slave. See how it conquers you, makes you give in to it’s very desire as you thrust into the electrical outlet of pure thought. Rocket charged orgasmic neurons flood your brain at the speed of a Evil Knievel enema! This is where the artist was born my friends. This is where you make your mark. Very few people hit this level in their lifetimes. Jim Morrison did. So has Willy Nelson. Outkast was berthed in this dimension. Pink Floyd structured it. The closest way to describe these surroundings is to picture it looking like a Bugs Bunny or Warner Brothers cartoons. There are episodes where the characters disappear into books or paintings and the world is topsy turvy; or maybe like Wacky World in Tiny Toon Adventures. There’s a floating animated Dhali painting, lights and colors flash everywhere, and a hand is walking along the ground. No body. Just a walking hand; like Thing from The Addams Family.

Is this where we get our essence from? Did we receive our ideas from this place? I used to believe that there really were no ideas. Any ideas that we formed as new were really the ghosts of our predecessors whispering in our ear. “Hybrid Cars…Professional Wrestling…Dude, Where’s my Car?…Spider-Man…Johnny Depp…Martin Scorsese movies….Nickalodeon…Cellphones…Commerative Plates…infomercials…The Crucible…These beings were the Guardian Angels of Art and if we were lucky and put forth their ideas, than when we died we be able to join the pantheon and whisper in the ears of of our successors. Now I think they come from this place–or maybe it’s both. The very idea of that, came from this place; and therefore, it is true. Since I have cast this idea into the ether and have proclaimed this piece as my Art it is true. After all, it came from the Fifth, and who’s to say someone wasn’t speaking through me now? CAN YOU DENY IT!!!! No. You can’t. Never deny the power of influence. Influence can make you wet enough to touch yourself by sheer command or raise a fist in mutiny to take down tyranny. Revolution fucked “The Man,” for the first time–Here. The Man put down The Revolution six months later. They have had a never ending battle ever since Time was a zygote. Yesirree. Constant cycle of fucking shit up and getting fucked up; don’t get truer than that. In no way shape or form is this the last dimension; there isn’t a last dimension. You only go up or down. The levels never end. Not even Death is the last level, you transcend that. Through Art, Influence, Experience, Conquest, Passion, we transcend Death, because you are a part of life. This place, is an expression of that.

Future: Be a while until I can get through the Fifth and on to the Sixth. I hear it’s a racial parody of the “Wizard of Oz” but with winged Klansmen instead of monkies. I want to take pictures. Send them to the folks back home. If you need me, I hear there’s a Toxic Avenger marathon at the nearby theater. Might sit in front of the TV for an eight hour marathon of All-You-Can-Mayonnaise. Make sure to come through some time. Keep me company.

Alexandre

The Jesus Christ of Space Funk

and Leader of The Revolution

Written by Alexandre