Friday, February 24, 2006

Friday Ramble 24/02/2006

Good day gentle folk.
Welcome to the Mariah is a classless whore episode.

ONE SWEET DAY
By William Brody

4 am
There she lay at my feet. Mutilated. Her fake nails still imbedded in her palms where she had dug them in from the pain.

2 am
She stood on the corner as usual, leaning against the traffic light, trying to turn one last trick before calling it a night. Her face changed colour with the traffic light; the green, red and amber each bringing out different hues in the multitude of colours on her painted face. It appeared somewhat kaleidoscopic. She was traditionally attired: An inconceivably tight pink latex tank top struggled to contain two massive lumps of fat on her chest that threatened to spill forth at any moment and attack the night air. A stick-on pink butterfly rose and fell with the left hand one. Her skirt was equally struggling to resist the fleeing urges of her fleshy behind. Her pudgy, stiletto-healed feet rose up to it via a pair of chunky legs. It was possible that she was attractive but impossible to tell in that garb.

A man in a car pulled up. She got in.

She directed him to a parking lot two blocks away and then to her room nearby. He followed her through a pair of heavy wooden doors and into a naked lobby. Many years ago it had probably been quite a spectacle, so grand was it’s size. But years of neglect and increasingly meager tenants had served to rub away it’s sheen; now it’s size served only to accentuate it’s bleakness. An elevator doorway stood next to a stairway, but a glance told that it would be optimistic to expect it to work. Instead he followed her up four flights of cracked faux marble stairway to the second floor.

She opened three locks and then motioned him into her room. If one were being generous they would say it was minimalist, if not, they would call it a shack. The room was square; barely more than three paces each way. There was a very heavy, wrought iron bed against one wall that looked like it must have been installed at the time of the building’s birth. Opposite was a heavy wooden table of probably the same vintage that served as a dresser. The dresser was littered with the articles used by a woman who tries to make herself look beautiful by painting herself like a clown. Mascara, pins, pink nail-polish, hairspray, cheap perfume, needles and packs of condoms littered every inch of it’s surface. Underneath lay a modest heap of clothes.

Someone screamed in a room nearby.

She walked over to a vanity mirror atop the dresser and examined herself half-heartedly in it. She smiled at herself exhaustedly.

The man’s hand fell about her throat.

Before she knew what was happening he had wrecked the vanity mirror with her face. He grabbed her by the hair and broke her nose on the edge of the dresser. He held her face up to the shattered vanity mirror briefly and then used it to break a few more objects on the dresser.

She was dazed and bleary. The man threw her to the floor. Her skull hammered against the cement. She battled with her senses; her body numb and her head pounding. Blood coursed around her temples and poured, thick and so dark it was almost black, from lacerations to her face and a gash on the back of her head. He undid his belt. It had an improbably heavy silver buckle. He pulled the belt gradually through each of the belt loops. Dropping the buckle to the floor but still gripping the other end of the belt, he stood staring for a moment. He whipped the buckle twice around his head and then struck her viciously in the mouth. The belt made a snapping sound as some of it hit the ground, but the sound of the buckle itself was muffled by her fleshy face. She choked and coughed on one of her own teeth. For good measure he whipped her twice more around the torso. She whimpered quietly and struggled to find consciousness.

With practiced ease the man tied her hands to the feet of the huge wrought-iron bed and then her feet to the legs of the heavy, wooden dresser. She lay looking like an ‘X’ in the middle of the room, her cheap latex clothes top the only items in the room blood-free.

The man picked up a shard of the broken glass and slowly carved a line into the base of her right foot; beginning at the tip of her big toe and gradually moving towards a point on her heal. Then he carved similar lines from the tips of the remaining four toes; ending each at the same point on her heal; watching as he did so the red lines following the shard appearing briefly, before the foot dissolved into a bloody, indefinite mess. He considered doing the same with her other foot but quite enjoyed the anti-symmetry of it.

The man took the shard and pressed it to her naked belly. He gradually pushed harder and harder until the skin could take no more and punctured. He left the shard protruding - her every sob expelling more dark blood.

The man stood up and surveyed her thoughtfully.

The man’s hand disappeared into his pocket and reemerged with a silver lighter and a little can of lighter fluid. With the same even tempo-ed surety with which he had performed all his prior acts, he savoured dribbling the lighter fluid all over her skirt. The flame was struck so quickly as to be barely noticed and within seconds her skirt was ablaze; melting and fusing into her fleshy thighs with the most atrocious smell imaginable.

She passed out from the pain. The man sat down and waited. He might have smoked a cigarette while he waited, but he didn’t want to spoil the purity of the moment with anything so vulgar. He stared at the molten pulp of soft tissue and plastic while contemplating the rancid smell of burning flesh that permeated the tiny room.

The man revived her by twisting the shard in her belly and pouring some of her nail-polish remover into the wound. Tears streamed imperceptibly from her eyes and mingled with blood.

“How could you do this to me?” she gurgled and sniveled through bloodied lips. “I am Mimi; I am the biggest selling female artist of all time.”

But I just laughed.

Because Mariah is a whore.



Gump sent this link to me and suggested I work it into the ramble. All I can say is - finally, a man who knows how to treat a lady.
Only kidding, I love the ladies. Jokes aside…
Girls: no matter how vociferously he denies it, your boyfriend/husband/stuffed animal really would like you to behave as close to this guideline as possible.
Guys: lets be honest, for the briefest of moments there, you thought to yourself “hey, this guy is onto something”.
I did quite enjoy the ‘me time’ bit where she can’t pout or whine or do anything to annoy him. Hee hee. And I wonder why the ladies aren’t beating at my door. Probably intimidated by my good looks.



The beauty of the Afrikaans nation is that they are so self-satirising. The producers of the various shows and musical tit-bits may be taking themselves seriously, but it is impossible to do a parody. It is generally so overboard and kitsch that you can’t parody it because you can’t go any bigger. The Afrikaans contributions to the arts are parodies unto themselves. Take Hoe dit is…met Steve. The man won the biggest selling local artist award at last year’s SAMAs, but at the ceremony everybody laughed when it was announced. It’s crazy that such a large percentage of our population are kitsch as a matter of national pride.

They are also so very easy to get the better of. Last night I was having a few beers in the company of one of the Afrikaaner nation. He was very brazenly giving us shit about our poor braaiing etiquette (?!! I know).
Him: You English don’t know anything about braais.
Me: How so?
Him: You bring white meat to a braai.
Me: So?
Him: So, do you know how hard that kak is to braai?
Me: So what you are saying is that we are better at braaiing than you.
Him: …

GLITTER
by William Brody

Flaunting fleshy behind and busty bust,
She hunts her next quarry out à la mode.
They minor in mind and major in lust,
So many, it does not well for us bode.

She tossed him to the ground with a short shunt.
And two fleshy thighs pressed against his ears.
He figured that a pretty cunning stunt,
Though laced it was with blatant blaring smears.

With legs around him wrapped, he caught a snatch
Of sugary song and lyric inane.
It was on his back gazing at the thatch
At last he recognized the human stain.

But she just keeps throwing them to the floor;
Shameless, Because Mariah is a whore.

Sorry for that unforgivable insult to Shakespearean sonnets.

One great week in sports:
Cats won even though everyone’s favourite pole-smoker Stuey Dickinson did his best to fuck it up.
Stormers choked.
Arsenal became the first ever English side to beat Real Madrid in Spain.
Chelsea choked (with a little help from a really dodgy sending off).
Blessed.

Why do I love The Darkness so? Because their latest music video features the lead singer marrying himself, obviously.

If you go down to the woods today you’re…er…that doesn’t really make sense. If you go to The SA Blog Awards
there are some very interesting sites to see. There are some really funny, interesting blogs out there, but I have to admit that I found some of it pretty kak. Take the nominations for the “Best Post on a South African Blog” category. Now think about how many thousands of posts must have been made over the past year, and then of the 9 nominations I noticed that two are really and truly out of their league. I was going to insert some humble comment here about how even though I am burning these posts I can’t really talk because none of mine are anywhere to be found - but then I thought, “no fuck it”. This is no time to be humble. I have definitely posted funnier, better written stuff than this tripe. Knappy’s ‘I am a big girl’ email was funnier. Smythers’ ‘story of the poo and the road’ was funnier. Seriously, some of this stuff is really kak.

At the risk of sounding callous I found the My Boy post
sentimentalist shite. Playing around with the traditional way of writing a story does not make it well written. Having a blogroll of several hundred so that people will feel sorry for you and compelled to read your site is very sad too. Sorry, maybe this whole unemployment thing has left my self-worth at a low and is inducing me to tear to pieces sentimentalists and whores. Oh well, as they say in the classics - fuck it.

As for Gay Guy in a Straight Strip Club. Writing about being a gay guy in a strip club doesn’t make it funny or interesting. No, you have to be able to write well to do that. In the words of the immortal System of a Down “My cock is much bigger than yours…my shit stinks much better than yours.” Ha. I have no problem with gays but I fuckin’ hate queers.
Gays = men whose sexual preference is for other men.
Queers = camp, prancing, squealing, tutu-wearing, noncy, over the top fuckers who I would piss on unless they were burning (think about it).
The cunt also has the audacity to describe himself as ‘arcane’, ‘intelligent’ and ‘witty’. Well done assil, you can use a dictionary, I guess that makes you all three. Fuckin’ queers man.

I know what you are thinking: how many fucks in this post? 6 so far, only 6 more motherfuckin’ fucks to go. Apologies to Goldfinger.

Ok, I have an admission to make. Since writing that first bit about the ‘My Boy’ story I have read it a few more times and perhaps I was a bit hasty. It is still sentimentalist shite and not really my thing – but I guess it is well written. I still don’t think it deserves to be nominated as one of the best posts of the year, but if you are into that sort of thing, it’s not bad. But still, fuckin’ queers man.

As I sat here writing I noticed a little spider dangling from the ceiling, but not really being bothered by them, I just ignored the little guy. Then just now I felt a tickle on my neck and without thinking put my hand up to scratch it. The little focker bit me. Keerist, it is not natural for something so small to produce so much pain. I caught him in a glass to check him out and I swear he has the hugest set of pincer thingies I’ve ever seen. This little dude was built to eat horses and shit. Well, not shit, you don’t have to kill that with abnormally large pincers. Shit you just stalk very slowly, trying to blend into the background and then when you are close enough – BAM! Then GRRRRR. And then it’s dead. That little bastard has left me with a killer headache. Think I might nap.

A certain unnamed friend admitted something very amusing this week – he likes to date girls with small hands so he can feel large. Hahahaha. You have to be smoordronk to tell the author of the ramble that. He is on the Players list. Hahahaha.



The Knappy thing is allegedly back from parts unknown as of last night. Apparently the lions and tigers don’t have an appetite for big red furry things over there. Still waiting to hear from him though. I don’t suppose we will see him for the first weekend because the girlfriend will have her claws in him. [Ed note: Ok, I thought long and hard about adding this bit - but in the interests of controversiality I thought fuck it. Ed out.] She obviously has an appetite for big red furry things. You know what sucks about having hair on your back? No visible scarring to use as bragging rights.

I finally got my act together and uploaded some files. One is the best blonde joke ever caught on audio in December while staying in the same room as Knaps and the Girlfriend. There is also some audio of Knappy ‘doing the wooly fandango’ but it only lasts 14 seconds so I didn’t post that. The second is some priceless video I caught of Don Rob at Amanzamtoti.

Random thought (accredited to Brian Fox): a prostitute (apparently) costs anything from R500 upwards. So what’s the point? Take 1 x random girl. Ply her with R250 x booze. Take her 1 x home. Easy game. Just a thought.

RAMBLE CLASSIFIEDS

USC 069 CALIFORNIA
CSF, 35 YEAR
OLD, BIG BUSTED AND VERY SLUTTY. ARE YOU A TEENAGE GIRL, MID-LIFE CRISISING MAN
OR PENSIONER 60+, WITH NO TASTE? ARE YOU A RADIO STATION WITH NO DESIRE TO BE
DISTINCT WHO WANTS TO PLAY IT SAFE? DO YOU HAVE AN APPETITE FOR CHEESE? ARE YOU
AN UNFORGIVABLE SENTIMENTALIST? CONTACT ME AND I WILL SATISFY ALL YOUR SEXUAL
NEEDS. COME BIG BOY FUCK ME. BECAUSE MARIAH IS A WHORE.


Thank you dark continent and goodnight.

Love, kisses and good things,
Jamo

Friday, February 17, 2006

Friday Ramble 17/02/2006

Welcome back to me.

Cape Town was wicked cool. While everywhere else in the country was knee deep in puddles, that place was cooking every day. What a damn pleasure.

Sit back and let Uncle Kingprawn tell you a few stories.

On about the second day I went on a little wine tour with Don Rob, Commie Bastard and Bunda. It was honestly one of the most pleasurable experiences of my life. Constantly surrounded by mountains, banter and very nice wines. May I suggest to you the Ziegvliet Cabernet Sauvignon – very nice. Anyway, the day was spent missioning around the Cape Winelands and then a nice little trip back over the mountains.




We got back, had a little snackiepoo and then someone made the outlandish suggestion that we go out. Craziness. We went to some place with “a very Cape Town vibe”; which is to say pretentious and, like, shwa. Before long I was so liquored I was being beaten by a girl at foosball. No, seriously, it was the drink. Seriously. It’s a stupid game anyway.

And then…the night progressed.

I remember seeing Labs’ brother Richy Rye Roo being carried out at some point which amused me greatly – they grow up so fast.

I started laying into some Aussie chap about the state of Aussie rugby. He replied that he was from Western Australia or something where they played Aussie Rules and didn’t really give a shit about rugby. Then he laid into me about SA cricket and bought me a Tequila out of pity. Then I found out he was a “landscaper” [read: gardener] which was a respected profession in Aus. Hahaha. Who’s having the last laugh now Aussie wanker?! But I didn’t say that, I just let him buy me another.

Then to the infamous Tin Roof (née Green Man) where things rapidly fell apart. You know one of those crazy dark, dingy, dodgy, student type places where everyone goes when they are completely wrecked in the hopes of coming right with someone in the same state. So before long I found myself confronted by a girl in a familiar manner. Lets just say she was less of a Monet and more of a Picasso or possibly even a Pollock. So I stood there pondering the situation for a second or two…I looked around and thought “hey, it doesn’t look like anyone else is exactly lunging at me – and what goes on tour, stays on tour, right?” And in my moment of pause she just staggered away. I could do nothing but stand there like a tool with my mouth open, thinking “I just got completely dismissed by a fatty”. Wow. I am Jamo’s shattered self-belief.

Saw Ye Olde Bongo for the first time in a year. That was nice – he was fresh from a month and a half trip up through various places in Africa. Good times. He came on a little expedition up Lion’s Head with the members of ‘The Squirrel’s Way’ digs (now called ‘The Staffroom’ because they are all 12th year or something). So off we set to watch the sun…err…set. Let’s just set one thing straight – when it comes to heights I am like a baby, mewling and puking. The next thing I know I am presented with a vertical slab of rock. The rock had been worn completely smooth and all there was to use as an aid was a chain covered in other people’s palm sweat. The whole experience felt like I was oil wrestling Michael Jackson’s defence council the whole goddamn way up. Speaking of which – has anyone seen the new Rammestein video? Scariest music video in history; basically a room full of naked men oil wrestling each other. Cradle of Filth have nothing on that. Where was I? Oh ya, so there I was being pretty pathetic about the whole thing, but no matter how rationally I was well aware that I was being a big fat girl about it – I just couldn’t help looking like a useless, uncoordinated pile of rat excrement while going up.
Ebz, still smarting from being called a ‘teenybopper’ a couple of Rambles ago was laughing gleefully the whole time, asking every so often “are you ok?” with a huge smirk on her face. Shame, one day the little kiddy will grow up.

Flicking through the channels the other day I heard my all time cheesiest line in a movie. (Spoken in a Southern drawl for good measure):

Dancin’ is jerst a conversation. [pregnant pause whilst staring meaningfully
into her eyes] Ta-alk ter me.


Sigh.

I am Jamo’s pulsating bile duct. Hobbo, have you used that one yet?

A lovely little story that I forgotten but of which I was reminded in Cape Town was how Commie Bastard became famous. He used to play wicket keeper for our first team cricket and happened to be playing against a certain Graeme Smith. Commie dropped him on 0. Then missed a stumping on 49. Then Mr. Smith made 98 not out. He loves to be reminded of it over a beer. Pain is temporary, glory is forever right?

Birds Without Wings – read it. By Louis de Bernieres, the same chap who wrote Captain Correlli’s Mandolin. He is one of the most astute judges of the human condition I have ever experienced. There was an article in a GQ a couple of months ago about the top ten war books ever written and I reckon that were this book ten years old, it would have been included.

By the way has anyone signed me up for getting bloody smses about how I can get hardcore porn sent straight to my phone? Whoever it was it’s really irritating and I’m going to kill you if I find out. I don’t have MMS capabilities on my phone.


"Touch that again and I will spitbraai your favourite sheep, farmboy"

Knappy has over the years accumulated several variations on his nickname. Knaps; Knappage; Knaptassies; Knapton and Coke; Knapvaginalcavity.

But it turns out that Knappy is an actual word:

Knappy: having knaps; full of protuberances or humps; knobby.

Knaps (pl): 1. to snap or bite
2. to strike sharply; rap

Check it out at
The Free Dictionary if you don’t believe me, because there I found some other priceless beauties.

Knäppup: Swedish for unbutton.

Place names: Knapdale, Knappensee, Knappogue Castle, Knap of Howar. The little village of Knapton is not mentioned.

Knaptoft: civil parish in England; population 50. (Just like PE).

Knapbottle: (Bot.) The bladder campion (Silene inflata) [Ed note: Hee hee hee, that’s my favourite – The prime bollock. Think about it. Hee hee.]

Knapple: To break off with a sharp, abrupt noise; to bite; to nibble.

Knapweed: (surprise, surprise) A type of plant. Variants include: Diffuse Knapweed (nothing to do with his size); Spotted Knapweed (without a telescope, from anywhere in this solar system); Black Knapweed (the side of him opposite the sun); Common Knapweed (anywhere out of his natural habitat PE); Russian Knapweed (after a jack of vodka and coke); Greater Knapweed (since he was about 5).

Jimmy 12 Inch is the most illusive character I know. Unless you are in the same room with him you never know what is going on in his life (and even then that is only if it’s between his waking-hour of 12 and his getting-wasted-on-whatever-substance-he-can-lay-his-hands-on hour of 12:31). The whole emailing thing is not so much beyond him as beneath him. Anyway some news of his activities since he has been in France for the past couple of months finally trickled it’s way to my ears and all it was, was this: First, a Siberian lady friend and then an Alaskan.
Cold hands, warm something-or-other, I suppose. I have never known a person to generate as many crazy stories as he. Incredible. I guess that’s what 12 inches buys you.

Speaking of things cold – been watching a bit of the Winter Olympics. Luge. Seriously. What are those people thinking? Getting hurled down an icy gorge on a tea-tray at 125 km/h? Fine thanks. One of my favourite Seinfeld standup bits goes something like “it’s the only sport that you can take a completely unwilling participant, strap them down kicking and screaming, give them a push and watch them break the World Record.” It’s the same as the Big Air Skiing competition – you don’t watch it because you are interested, but because at any moment, someone is entirely likely to break something.

Then there is curling. Never has the amusement created by a common room full of boyos become more apparent to me. At the last Winter Olympics I must have ended up watching the majority of the curling, just because the crapper the TV content, the funnier the comments flying around the common room. Watching it by myself, all I found myself doing was thinking, “hmmm, that blonde Russian…definitely would” and then falling asleep in my bowl of cornflakes.

I have to throw this out for discussion: Jack Bauer or Michael Scofield; who is the hardest of them all? And not that way Hobbo, both hands above the desk please.

For once I saw something on a reality TV show that was real - The ‘Newlyweds’ show with Jessica Simpson and that guy from that boy-band (ironically enough, aired on St. Valentine’s Day since the two are now divorced or something). To me it perfectly illustrates the irreconcilable difference between men and women. [Ed Note: I was busy channel surfing so I didn’t catch the beginning of the conversation; they were obviously talking about the day before when he had spoken to her in the afternoon and hadn’t called her that night. Ed Out.]

Her: [sulking] Did you go out or something?
Him: [exasperated] No.
Her:
[still sulking] Why didn’t you call me then? I was missing you.
Him: …
Her: I was giving you attitude earlier because I wanted to talk to you and
was missing you.
Him: I didn’t want to talk to you because you were giving
me attitude.
Her: [pouting and sulking] You’re saying all the wrong things…
Him: [like a rabbit in the headlights] …
Her: Do you like my shoes?


And no, I am not making that up; I wrote it down straight away I thought it was so funny.

Has anyone seen the original anime Aeon Flux? It’s on late night on MTV at the mo. If Charlize dresses like that people are going to die from high-velocity-projectile-impact-to-the-back-of-the-head related injuries in cinemas all over the world. Say that three times fast.

Mrs Bredin introduced me to my find of the year – Channel 89: MK89 ‘n program genoem ‘Hoordosis’.

“En hy droom dat hy is op die voorblad van die Huis Genoot of Beeld.”


MD Greyling - Boemelaar

Sung to a tune that sounds really curiously like are to Simon and Garfunkel’s ‘I am a rock’.

Anyone who knows Big Pete, Karel (aka Ali G aka Manmeat)’s old man, look out for him on the Liberty Life Learning Channel teaching physics. I just about choked on an M & M when I saw that. It’s difficult to take a man seriously as learned when you’ve seen him slide down the stairs at The Rat on a tray.

Two of the funniest billboards have appeared in our city: One features two halves of a really ripe, juicy guava and the other a fleshy, pink oyster. Advertising? Teazers. Man, oh man, I laughed. I just hope somewhere there is a mother driving her child around somewhere, whose first word is ‘fleshy, pink oyster’. Sorry I searched the internet really hard to find pictures of them, but to no avail. I even resorted to going to the Teazers website. The things I will do for the Ramble. The only thing that repeatedly, ahem, came up on my searches was people bitching about the ad campaign. Seriously, grow a fuckin’ sense of humour. Do I whine that your neon ‘Church of Life’ signs keep me awake at night? I’m sure some author sometime must have written a little bit about tolerance. Perhaps it was in Greek to keep the ignorant ignorant.

Check out the Ex-Fro




Two little pearls of wisdom I heard this week:

All men ever think about is food and sex; so if he doesn’t have an erection,
make him a sandwich.

Heaven is a pub where the beer is always free and
every night is two for one.


Congratulations to Smythers for reaching the age where he has to start going to a proctologist. Speaking of which, his really funny email in case you missed it. Also, shot for last week’s post. I think it must be the longest yet and I have fielded quite a few emails mistakenly thanking me for alleviating some of their Friday work boredom. I see The Impoverished Teacher to Be is making full use of Short Stories At East of the Web.

Hope you all had a great Monday the 13th.

HAPPY 6 MONTH BIRTHDAY TO THE RAMBLE. WOOOOOO. WOO HOO. WOOOOOO. HOOOOOO.

I have added a whole heap of photos to the players section in honour of this memorable occasion. Check out the one of The Tank. It will eat you alive. Grrrr. Almost everyone is there now, mostly it is incomplete because Smythers has been so slack about getting me the photos he has. Assil. The others, it is mostly because you are such old mates of mine that all the photos I have are not digital (what are those?) There are people out there who need to be on the players list – you know who you are (anyone ever mentioned in this sacred text), so please send us some photos. Laingers, that’s you son. Bredie and Umthondo I need the siffest photo that is not going to land anyone in jail of Mik “Hungarian Honey” Scezimacallit. Thanks. Maybe even one of Bolze because there are those out there that still believe he is a mythological figure.

Chopper shot for still being the most irreverent man I know – your emails kill me. Umthondo, dude, I think that was the funniest ‘your mother’ I have ever heard a couple of Fridays ago. (Apart from when Mrs Bredin cocked it badly). Shot for reply all-ing it to my sister.

I get asked all the time "how is the Ramble produced?"

Now you know.

Ok, enough now.

I love you all.

Love, kisses and may all Aussie Super 14 teams choke while felating a bathtub fixture.
Jamo


The Story of the Poo and the Road

A long, long time ago, in a country not that different from our own, a young man went on an adventure. The adventure would take him deep into the cultural heartland of the country, and would change him forever. It is a tale of trial and tribulation, of hardships and elation. First, however, I need to give you some background information.



There is this pub in the city, which sells cheap pizza and cold beer on a Wednesday night. Our hero, who we shall call Dowan Dyth, went to this pub and consumed a number of beers. He also consumed a Mexicana pizza. Any normal human would find the spiciness of a normal Mexicana completely sufficient for his or her needs but due to increased tolerance to hot foods (Nando's is good) he decided to load copious amounts of the homemade acha onto his pizza. Bad call number 1. A couple of beers later, Dowan made his way home feeling sorry for himself that he would have to wake up at 5AM to drive to Decunda - of all the smelly-farm-labourer's-armpit-like towns in South Africa. At 5 he awoke to the tune of Airwolf pumping through his 0.34 Watt speaker on his cell phone feeling surprisingly fresh. A shower and some breakie later he thought to himself, 'let me just go to the toilet now and save myself the hassle of finding a toilet en route". So he did his number two. Again, he was surprised. There was no burn and only a little bok-drol plopped into the clear cool bowl of water. He thought he had got away with it… He hadn't. Bad call number 2. Not 15 minutes into his journey he felt the first pangs of discomfort. Pangs of discomfort might be a slight understatement. It felt like he had a pack of rabid Wolverines eating his ass from the inside out. Not only where they eating, gnawing and scratching, they were also breeding. Multiplying faster and more often than Hobbo tells Jenfer he loves her. The pressure and ferocious activity increased. Dowan thought to himself 'no problem, I will pull over at one of those big, clean petrol stations and relieve the pressure.' Those of you who know the N17 will know that not only does it go Nowhere, it also goes through Nowhere along the way. For an hour and a half our poor hero struggled to keep the sweat out of his eyes and his cheeks sealed shut. Every now and then a particularly excited Wolverine would attempt to ram through the opening into the light. Some of them came way to close to making it for comfort.



'Oh thank God, a petrol station. It looks kid of dodgy, but who am I to keep a pack of ravenous Wolverines imprisoned?' Dowan pulled over and made haste to the men's Bathroom. 'No door? That's not a good sign. No TP either. What about the women's? Locked. No game. Moving on. FAST!' The next town was 30kms away. Now the wolverines are angry. They had smelt freedom, and they wanted out. Dowan drove faster, waving as the traffic cop wagged his finger at the speeding car. Dowan wondered if the cop had any TP. Not worth the effort. Faster! There on the corner was another Petrol station. Pulled in.



"Toilets please?"



"Round back."



'Occupied! No chance… wait… wait…wait… No TP? Again? This isn't happening.' The Wolverines were insatiable. Any give and they would take the whole… literally. 'Okay, the next town is only 10kms away. Let's go, all of us together. No stragglers please."



Dowan rummaged about in his mind for a titbit, anything to help through this ordeal. There it was, a shining ray of light. The solution to the inevitable fact that there was going to be no TP at any of the luxurious petrol station toilets in Mpumalanga. He had tissues in the boot. Next petrol station, pull in. Toilet. Door! Seat! Smell! Obviously other people knew about this deluxe closet in the recesses of South Africa's smelly armpit and had used it moments ago. It doesn't matter. The time has come to release these foul creatures of darkness into the earth where they shall bother no man again (give it an hour for the smell to clear).



Ahh, sweet relief. Nothing can stop me now. Hang on, what's this… this… burn? Where did this come from? Homemade Acha – no chance. This burn was forged in the fires of Asgard, designed to be punishment for doers of evil. Argh, the pure evil! Will there be no relief?



Hate Decunda.

(Too much info? It will broaden your mind)

Monday, February 06, 2006

Monday Losers 06/02/2006

Never again.

Saturday started just like any other; waking up on a solitary couch cushion at The Palms after having been put to the sword by the Laburn’s hospitality and then finished off by the Crazy Ukranian at the 5th Leg.

And then suddenly…

I found myself at ‘The Playboy Mansion Digs’. That might be a gloat from most other digs’ but in this case a jacuzzi and bar complete with silver bar fridge and draught on tap, make it quite true. Anyway, I had the Jetta VR6 pimp mobile there on account of The Tank being at the garage because it was leaking brake fluid and trying to kill me just for a change. The better part of my day was spent in the jacuzzi drinking the amber elixir and talking crap. Fantastic. Then the beer ran out… It was replaced with wine and tequila. It was Dunkirk all over again – well except for the Nazis and the bullets and people dying bloody deaths and the fact that it was sort of pleasurable in a self-abusive kind of a way.
Towards the end of the evening I found myself talking to a nice blonde (bear in mind I hadn’t met her until I’d spent about 5 hours in a jacuzzi drinking beer, so details are a little hazy). I managed to persuade her that I was a Zim farmer and that is what accounted for the not so pretty exterior and uncouth tongue (?? It made sense at the time, ok). Somehow some semblance of lucidity managed to fight it’s way through the bleariness and I seemed to have her eating out of my hand. It doesn’t happen very often, but I was on form: she was laughing at my stupid shitty jokes, and appeared to have an idea what I was on about, when I didn’t myself. Nice one Jamo, sorted son… And then she introduced me to her boyfriend.

And then suddenly…

I found myself waking up on a beanbag covered in permanent marker scrawlings…sans car keys. I managed to get myself delivered home and had to greet my Old Man looking as I did and without his car. Not for the first time in my life I saw the look of utter sadness and hopelessness on my Old Man’s face.

Were it not for the fact that Scotland made little schoolboys of the French, I think it would have been numbered amongst my top 5 worst days of my life.

The keys have yet to be found. If anyone knows of there whereabouts, it would be of great use to me. Ta.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO THE HIPPIE WRITER IN FAIRY SHOES, MAY YOUR DAY BE FILLED WITH CHEESECAKE AND THINGS DELICIOUS.

Apologies to Knaps and aforementioned Hippie Writer for being so rude. There are no excuses.

Friday, February 03, 2006

Friday Ramble 03/02/2006

And a good day to you…

First things first, honourable mention to William for nailing the trivia: It was the Propellerheads from the album DecksandDrumsandRockandRoll. Nice one son. Also I called him about an hour ago and he was busy taking the day off because he had made a spectacle of himself at the work function the night before. Loving your work squire.

I went along to watch the filming of Corne and Twakkie’s ‘Most Amazing Show’ on Saturday morning. It was a lot of fun but I fear I will never be able to show my face in public again. For you to understand I need to begin our little tale on Friday night.

On Friday night over a few beers someone (ok, ok, it might have been me) came up with the bright idea that we must dress up Corne and Twakkie style. The idea still seemed great the following morning when we were still at the mildly pissed staged of being hungover. So we all dressed nicely. Flat-peaked caps, floppy hats, kort-broek, wife-beaters, etc.



Hobbo sent that photo with this quote:


Sex appeal is fifty percent what you’ve got and fifty percent what people think
you’ve got.
Sophia Loren.

You’re so deep guy. Also that’s a very easy thing for arguably the most beautiful woman ever to exist to say. People think I’m down-syndrome, isn’t.

Hot isn’t? Oh what fun. Then we managed to navigate our way to Auckland Park and the SABC. After a quick detour through the radio building and then another through another wrong building we found ourselves at the right place. We were told to wait, so we took a seat on the floor like the white trash that we were/are. All the other audience members appeared to be young black people dressed to the nines. No worries, we were still full of hungover-humour. Then the coolest thing happened while we were sitting there: a random little kid came and wrapped his arms around Scal’s neck from behind and gave him a hug. The chocolate sauce on top was the look of utter panic and terror on Scal’s face. I could just see it going through his mind: “oh shit, I’m on probation as it is”.

Anyway, we soon found ourselves being led to the studio and we made our way to the back corner of the benches. The floor manager came in, took one look and said, “could the guys who dressed up a bit please come to the front here so we can get some good shots of you”. At this point I was starting to sober up a bit and was for the first time beginning to think that maybe this wasn’t such a great idea. We duly found ourselves placed front and centre. Corne tapped Dan the Furniture Guy (who was the one responsible for the tickets) and said “I dig the clothes, guy”. Awesome.

We had to clap on command until my hands hurt. Laughter wasn’t such an issue because those guys are really funny bastards and some of the funniest stuff is the unscripted things they say between takes. It’s really crazy; they are in character the whole time. I have to be honest that once the initial excitement was over and the hangover, lack of sleep and really uncomfortable seating arrangement had set in and we had been there for about 4 hours, we got over it and quietly snuck away.

I’m not sure when it will be airing, but if my research is accurate then we were part of the second last recording so it won’t be for another while yet. But look out for us Tuesday nights SABC 2 at 10:00; we were on the ‘Science’ episode. Until then The Website, Guy for your amusement.

One of my favourite cartoons of all time: The Western Nostril. It hasn’t been updated in over a year but if you haven’t read it before, definitely give it a whirl. The ‘Briefly Popular Game of Squalf’ has been my favourite cartoon ever since I read it in the 2003 Laugh It Off Annual. It has such a Farside kind of edge to it.

A great little incident from Friday night was Scal being accosted at the bar by a crazy looking chick easily in her forties. It was abundantly clear that she wanted to go home with someone – she didn’t care who, how or why. She wasn’t in the least perturbed once we had persuaded her that Scal was my 16 year old brother. She gave him the strongest cocktail I have ever tasted at a bar (I think Gump nailed it on the head by calling it “Yaka Blue”). I’ll say one thing for ‘Q-Ba’ – it might be overpriced and pretentious, but they do not fuck about with their cocktails. Anyway, Gump and I tried to get Scal to down it as fast as possible having quickly worked out that SCAL + HEAVY HANDED COCKTAIL + DODGY 40 YEAR OLD = OUR AMUSEMENT. She jumped on the bandwagon and I told her to smack him if he didn’t down it. She responded: “Are you serious? I will. Seriously. I’m from Vanderbijl. I’ll tear his fuckin’ head off”. How could you walk away from such passion Scal? Ahhh, the good old south, where the only thing true about love is that she is your sister and men are frequently their own fathers.
She left by saying “Ok, I’ve got to go.”
Us (in chorus obviously): “Cheers”.
Her: “I’m way too drunk to drive”. Pause. Expectant look.
If I had a compassionate bone in my body, it probably would have made me feel a bit sad, but fortunately I was just bummed because Scal hadn’t done irreparable damage to his reputation like I had hoped. Oh well Scal, now you will forever be left to wonder “what if?” Maybe you let the love of your life just walk away my guy. Maybe.

We really do live in a country where entirely too many people of from de Souf and Oostrand. I happened to turn on 5fm yesterday and they were talking about urination habits or something (???). Anyway some clown phoned in the explain to the country how sometimes when he goes to take a slash, a pubic hair gets over the hole and he ends up pissing two streams.
I’m at a complete loss. What do you say to that? Thanks for that spanner. Really. At least the nation now knows. Are you sure one of those streams isn’t directed at your brain you fuckin’ neolithic doos.

Saturday night saw the quietest Harties Braai I have witnessed – there was no strip pool; Knappy didn’t wake up at four in the morning when Kluytsie got up to go have a drink of water, shove him out of the way and chunder in the kitchen sink; and Kluytsie didn’t utter the infamou words “…so I filled her up”. The important elements however, were as usual in attendance – magnificent surf and turf al la Beukes, great wines, and the usual volumes of mockery and laughter.

An awesome Sunday was spent at the Brits Golf Club hacking innocent patches of ground to death and cruising around golf carts. It was seriously the worst golf I have played in about 3 years (and that’s like Stevie Wonder saying “it’s the least I’ve seen for years). Anyway, I recommend it to anyone for value for money. Do it, just do it.


THE CAT

She was licking
the opened tin
for hours and hours
without realising
she was drinking
her own blood.

Spyros
Kyriazopoulos

I find my mind wandering over to that poem at least once every couple of hours since I read it a few days ago. It is bizarrely powerful in it’s simplicity.

Something peaked my curiosity the other day in my ongoing battle against metrosexuality. I have nothing against men trying to look their best, right. It’s just that these punks are moving the bar. Now chest-hair is considered gross by a lot of women. Check out the footballers of the 70s when they took off their shirts. They were real men. Georgie Best looked like he belonged in a zoo for Christ’s sake and the ladies loved him. Now look at the footballers after the game. Chests like a babies arse, but not quite so pretty. Maybe I’m a bit biased because The Italian Stallion once called me a ‘shaved baby gorilla’. (Whatever man, at least my arse doesn’t look like it’s wearing a toupee.) Once upon a time when sex was safe and cars were dangerous Bond, James Bond was a rugged unbreakable gentleman with a Glaswegian accent and a manly hairy chest. Now he looks like a pre-pubescent schoolboy. Although I guess it really does take a real man to get his chest waxed.

So anyway, my point is that while they are changing all the rules of what a good looking man should look like, they have all the practical capacity of a Smart car. That Stirling Light Lager ad campaign is a prime example. I mean, yes, yes, sure men probably shouldn’t get wrecked, behave like idiots and drive around in various states of retardation, so they produce a beer with the whole premise being that it’s lighter in alcohol and therefore more sophisticated. They seem to have completely ignored the fact that it tastes like catpiss.

Anyway, not sure what that was all about; I had a point somewhere, but I seem to have lost the thread somewhere. Man with hairy chest good; Man with prissy, naffy, bald chest little faggot. Even Hobbo’s got a couple of chest hairs.

For the Impoverished Teacher to Be and all other interested parties Short Stories at East of the Web for all your time-killing needs.

Young Ebz the self-proclaimed ‘belter’ messaged me seeming very proud of herself that she had a ticket to Metallica. Ebz, you don’t have to pretend to be hardcore for me – I know the only Metallica song you know is ‘Nothing Else Matters’ and you only got the ticket to see Simple Plan. It’s ok, embrace you teenybopper-ness.

A couple of months ago, I mentioned that I had noticed a Roxette revival taking place and I am very unhappy to announce another revival phenomenon I have noticed taking place – the indomitable Spice Girls. I’m not quite sure how to feel about this. It’s all about the lesser of two evils really because while they are quite an annoying sounding bunch (and like Roxette I often find myself quite to my own self-loathing, tapping my foot or singing along), anyone that keeps Mariah the Crackwhore off the airwaves for three minutes is to be commended. Speaking of which, the other day I was driving (sans CD player) and turned on the radio to find the Royal Wench herself on 5fm. My arm out of reflex changed to Highveld, only to find a different song by the Syphilitic Angel of All Things Rude and Unholy. Joseph Heller would have written a book about it if she had been around in his day. I hope she chokes while deep-throating seven Nigerian heroin dealers she couldn’t pay. Glitter that you shrieky noise-polluting, contemptible human virus.

Phew, now that I’ve got that off my chest.

The long awaited Mrs Bredin photos:





Shot to Mik again and there is a last very special one that has been added under his name in the players section. B-E-A-utiful.

Sozzle Cake

110g butter
75g castor sugar
2 large eggs
225g self raising flour
1 tbs salt
175g dried fruit
175g assorted nuts
2 tsp lemon juice
250g brown sugar
1-2 bottle(s) Scotch whisky to taste

Before you start, sample the whisky. To be sure the whisky is of the highest quality, pour one level cup into a glass and drink it as fast as you can, then repeat. Good, isn’t? Now go ahead. But before you start, sample the whisky. With an electric mixer, beat one cup of butter in a large fluffy bowl. Add one teaspoon of the thugar and beat again. Meanwhile, make sure the whisky is of the highest quality. Try another top-up. Open another bottle if necessary.
Ass two large eggs, dried fruit and beat til high. If dried fruit gets stuck in beaters, pry loose with a screwdriver. Sample the whisky again, checking for tonscisticity. Next, sift three cups of salt or something. Sample the whisky. Sift half a pint of lemon juice. Fold in chopped butter and strained nuts. Add one babblespoon of brown sugar, or whatever colour you can find and mix well. Grease the oven and turn cake tin to 360 gredees. Now pour the whole mess into the oven and bake. On second thoughts, don’t bother. Check whisky again and go to bed.

As you know I am a man of special needs. Prepare the long rubber glove.
Eenie, meenie, miney, mo, I wonder where my glove will go.


Andrula Happy Happy Happy for yesterday.

I will be in the fairest Cape next week so won’t be able to produce a ramble, but if all goes according to plan I will have a little treat for you in its stead.

Love, kisses and the style of love
Jamo