Showing posts with label Partying. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Partying. Show all posts

Thursday, November 4, 2010

This Is How Uncool I Am

Does this look cool to you?

I cannot imagine why it would ever be something to do, but apparently in England people like to get together and consume spoonfuls of powdered caffeine at parties.

Huh? Wha?

Recognize:
Last week, according to AOL Health, it came to light that Michael Lee Bedford, [a] British man, died after consuming "spoonfuls" of caffeine powder at a party with friends. AOL Health reports that Bedford had the equivalent of 70 energy drinks in his system at the time of his death in April. According to Dr. Eric Braverman, a lethal dose of caffeine would be about 10,000 milligrams — or 100 cups of coffee — the website reports. 
(courtesy Time.com)

I'm gonna go out on a limb here and bet there were no girls at this "party" and the guys were desperately trying to work up the 'caffeine courage' to fuck their pet robots in front of each other all night while they play videogames and laugh in high-pitched voices.
Either that or I guess I'm just not that cool anymore and it was not only a bitchin' party, but caffeine is also a breathtaking high I've been a stranger to for way too long.
Might be worth the experiment--I'll order a 60-gallon drum and see what happens. If it's empty in two weeks, break through my window, shoot me with a tranquilizer dart, strap me to a comfortable couch, and let me ride out the withdrawal til I'm back down among the mortals. A ride like that should be one you can walk away from.

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Wednesday, December 16, 2009

What a Shame--She Was So Old and Full of Despair


That wasn't exercise HRH Obama was doing by moonlight in the swamp outside DC at four o'clock this morning--that was good ole-fashioned body-burying.

HeyHUH?

Yes--it appears that the White House desperately needs a new event planner, after snafus number one and two this past month resulted in the last one (wait for it...NOW!) never being seen again, crammed into an airtight 55-gallon drum ten feet under the ground, a hundred staggers from the big tree with the snake on it, already deader than the Pope's discolored, diseased excuse for a penis.

Water under the bridge. It so happens, Monsieur Obama et al, that event planning is one of my specialties--any interest in hiring the best?

I promise nobody not on the official list will get inside your house--or you'll have the balls of the guy(s) who fucked-up sitting atop your Threat Matrix the next morning, along with a glass of fresh-squeezed real California orange juice (not from concentrate, untouched by non-Hispanic hands until it cascades down your bourgeois throat) and a NYTimes crossword puzzle with all the hard ones already filled-in so people who go through your trash will think you're really smart. And we'll have some totally funky music playing at all times, to get you in the mood and keep you there, as well as a dirt-cheap-but-lifepartner-loyal bartender/shoeshiner/masseuse/Sherpa/ottoman to make everything okay always.

Much like the increasingly-creepy Men's Wearhouse dude...


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Wednesday, August 22, 2007

Gestapo Redux

08/20/07

So, last night, some bitch taped a sign to my friend’s door that said “we don’t appreciate your late night parties.” I know it was a bitch, and not a prick, due to the overtly feminine turn of the pen. The admonishment, written in fuschia Crayola marker, also informed us that “curfew is at 10pm.”

We were thrilled with the level of communication; who would have thought it’s possible to carry on a dialogue with “The Neighborhood” so easily, so effectively? Yes, the bitch cowardly signed this bold communiqué “The Neighborhood” and, yes, the same stupid bitch also thinks we live in Nazi Germany. I mean, in her defense, we are ruled by a de facto dictator bent on global domination, but last I heard, the citizens of our fair land are not subject to a curfew. Yet.

In all fairness to “The Neighborhood,” the 1933-themed birthday/housewarming party the night before was hella loud--I was pumping a 3400Watt amplifier through some giant Yamaha club speakers--and did run mad late--I finally entered Sleepville (pop.1) around 7:30am--but these facts are also misleading. Around 3:30am, the Napoleonic City Councilman, who lives two houses away, personally supervised an inspection of the premises by three confused police officers expecting a crazy party fraught with “suspicious activities,” as a departing friend later told us he overheard the Councilman shout into his phone when he called the police from his front porch. At this point in the evening, there were about eight people left--7 girls and me.

The cops were sweet as peaches, suggested we turn the music down, close the doors and windows, and carry on. They said they only came over because the vigilant Councilman had been calling their Commander all night long and they finally felt the need to appease. When my friend told the officers that she had spoken to the Councilman that day about the party--and even, infamously, gave him an awkward goodbye hug she’ll never be able to wash off--they silenced her immediately, with the best of intentions, by informing her that he was standing out in the street watching them. And he was. The cops laughed--“usually it’s not just all girls”-- looked tempted to stay, but bade us goodnight. I resisted the urge to inform him that I was not a girl; it wasn't worth it.

The next four hours were spent trying to kick out a 22 year-old actress whom I would classify as a borderline ‘harmless psychopath.’ She tried to steal a friend’s effortfully broken-in Birkenstocks and then wandered around the house looking for non-existent remaining party-animal guests as if the victim of a cruel hide-and-seek practical joke. Although she was certainly more than a handful of crazy, the saddest thing is I don't even think she was drunk. Unable to convince her to leave, my friend and I finally went to bed and just hoped she wouldn't steal anything on her eventual way out. Silly us--she ended up sleeping on the couch and we found her the next morning (well, 3 hours later) covered in blood and mumbling something in Latin.

Kidding. It was even creepier. Sort of. We came upstairs to find her in the kitchen, leaning on the sink, staring out the window, as if in a trance, daydreaming about fairies or something. She claimed to have been cleaning up, “just to help out,” but the place looked exactly as messy as it did when I went to bed. Some friends came over to join the slumber-party crew for an afterparty champagne brunch and, thankfully, one of these friends drove the evil spirit from our midst and down to her car, since she claimed it was too far to walk. Her car was thirty feet from the front door, downhill.

Ten hours later, one of our departing friends found the aforementioned epistle affixed to the front door like so many Theses. Drunk on champagne, scotch, bourbon, vodka, and wine, happily engrossed in Planet Earth on HD-DVD, I was certainly not in the mood to flip through the phone book looking for ‘Neighborhood, The,’ so we could place a thank-you call for the constructive wrist-slapping. Or offer up a communal bitch-slap, more like.

Instead, we just gaped incredulously, laughed, took a couple chill pills, and decorated the downstairs fridge with the lovely letter--a badge of honor for a couple of Silver Lake’s most notorious, and sexiest, rebels.