The Second Coming

All of us have watched the History Channel enough to know that angels and demons and God and Jesus and Tom Hanks are really just code for aliens. Those ancient folks didn’t have airplanes or I-pod Shuffles or Shrek 3D, so they were too stupid to realize that those were just space ships coming down to pick up earth humans and run scientific tests on them and have an ancient alien-on-human fuck sesh. Once you squeeze this inarguable truth into your brain factory, you’re ready for a little reality I’m about to drop: Jesus already came back. It was in 1982. Thanks to the genius of Steven Spielberg, the Jew with the baseball cap, and a certain young actress who would later dazzle us in such classics like Mad Love with Chris O’Donnell, Fever Pitch, Freddie Got Fingered, and Batman Forever with Chris O’Donnell. I’m talkin’ Barrymore people. Drew “Give Us More” Barrymore. Allow me to lay it all out scientific like:

1) Glowing Heart- check. Not only does E.T. have a heart comparable to the old Jesus but E.T.’s heart is immortalized in song. Neil Diamond wrote the powerful ballad “Turn On Your Heart Light” after watching the Spielberg’s award-winning documentary “E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial.” Is Neil a prophet? A disciple? Probably. To my knowledge the old Jesus doesn’t have any songs about him or his heart. 

2) Healing Powers- check. Remember all that shit about Old Jeezy healing blind folks and curing STD’s or whatever? E.T. could heal flowers and could get Elliot vicariously drunk. That’s pretty good for a little guy. Considering E.T.’s height, he probably has more healing powers per capita than Jesus. Jus’ sayin.

3) Came back from the dead- check. Too easy.

4) Floaty Powers- check. Jesus Christ (of Nazareth, not to be confused with the guy who trims my lawn) rose up to heaven after being mudered by a bunch of people who were mad because he liked to feed homeless people. He could also walk on top of water. While not as impressive, still notable. Mother fucking E.T.? Lil guy sitting in the basket of a bicycle making Elliot and his older brother’s group of stooges fly around, creating a memorable silhouette with the moon as a backdrop. Again, per capita, shit ain’t too shabby.

So when these Christian nutbags start talking about the Apocalypse and the fact that the Heebie Jeebie man is coming back, you tell them that Jesus already came. In the form of one cute little alien who changed the hearts and minds of all Americans and, in that respect, the entire world. I got two copies on LaserDisc. I’ll let you borrow one tonight so you know what I mean.

White People Do This, Black People Do That.

Errybody and their greasy granny with holes in her panties knows that the best comedians are the ones that harp on racial differences AT ALL TIMES. Black, White, Asian, Mexican, Japanese, whatever. If you bring attention to peoples’ cultural differences, it’s like a guaranteed home run. It’s outta there, baby. Like Babe Ruth style. The Babe. The Big Blue Ox.  You’ve got to understand, rule #1 of comedy: It’s funny because it’s true, you guys. Whether you are talking about how Mexicans can grow mustaches at the age of four or how Asians talk like a bunch of pots and pans banging together- “ching chong cling clang duck sauce,” you are going to get big laughs. T-rust me. So we’ve prepared a little brainstorm session to help get your racial juices flowing. Today’s focal point is the classic group: blackies and whities. They’ve been going at it for years, like when white folks enslaved all those black folks or when black folks decided they wanted to go to school. I mean, that constant back and forth is hilarious! Here’s a few difference between black-asses and white-asses to help with your racial humor:

1) Shoes: Black people wear basketball shoes (Adidas and Nike, not FILA, FILA is for Asian soccer moms), white people wear penny loafers and flip flops. White people like penny loafers because they are total gay wads. They like to wear them with linen shorts and without socks, so that they can show off they sleek sexy milky white ankles while they play croquet in the yard and drink Shirley Temples. Same with the flops. It’s all about the bare ankles with white folks. You would never NEVER catch a black person wearing flip flops. Feel me? They have to constantly wear closed-toe shoes so that they can run from the police or start a pick up game of sports. They are very good at sports. Waaay better than the white people who invented them. Black folks like the brands Nike and Adidas because they like Michael Jordan and Run DMC, respectfully. Interestingly, while Air Jordans are known universally as “fly mother fucking feet condoms,” blacks folks have not taken to Hanes products, which #23 also endorses. In fact, black people don’t usually wear underwear. It slows them down in case they want to run from the police or play sports. And let’s face facts, errybody- M.J., whitey, blackey, the Jews- errybody like Citrus Cooler Gatorade best. Which reminds me of my favorite thing I like to say while I’m belly buttton deep in a badass bitch: “Is it in you?”

2) Pablo Picasso: White people prefer Picasso’s Blue Period (1901-1904) , Black people prefer his Cubism stuff (1909-1912). White folks identify with the somber subject matter and austere use of color. Plus, they generally like blue shit: Avatar, Blue Man Group, swimming pools, Blue Oyster Cult. They love it. They. Loooove. It. However, black folks like how Picasso deconstructed and reconstructed shape, highlighting the subjectivity of the perceiver, during his cubist period. They are also big fans of the 1997 Horror Sci-Fi film Cube.  In this film, a diverse group of strangers have to work together to escape the mysterious and dangerous giant cube they are trapped in. Black people generally like stories of teamwork (might be why they like sports?).

3) White people are serial killers. Black people generally don’t go on murder sprees. (Except all rappers and O.J. Simpson).  Think of all the serial killers throughout history. Dahmer. Gacy. Bundy. Reagan. They were all white as fuck. They were whiter than Anne Hathaway fucking an all white unicorn in a snowstorm. Black folks ain’t never hurt nobody. They were too busy learning how to dance and play sports better than whitey to get mixed up in all this “my dog told me to rape, then eat, my entire family” business.  Think Rose Parks said it best, “can’t we all just get along?”

4) White people like gondola rides. Black people LOVE gondola rides. There’s something about sitting in the back of a gondola, gently drifting down the canals of Venice, sipping red wine, starring into the eyes of the woman you love while a mustacheod gondolier serenades you with  traditional Italian love songs in a throaty baritone. You and your lover’s lips meet. Your olfactory senses tingle with the smell of freshly baked bread, of the flower vendors of Calle Specchieri, and of course the lingering scent of your lover’s saturated panties. Your hand slowly slides under her dress while you whisper into her ear.”Facciamo l’amore.” Two fingers ease into her sweet honey pot.  She winces in ecstasy. She grabs onto your arm, begging for more. You get wrist deep in dat shit, daaaawg, plunging  with a vengeance. Die Hard 3 style. She begins howling like a New World monkey with banana fever but you don’t stop until you feel a snag. What’s all this? You pull out your slimey fist only to find that your watch has gone  missing. “That’s a four-hundred dollar watch you swallowed up you fucking bitch!” you shout. You rear back your hand, about to show her face how much stronger you are than her, when you realize that the gondola is gaining a lot of water. Your lover had been juicing like a punctured Capri Sun during the fisting conference and the gondola is going down fast. There’s nothing you can do, you’ve got to abandon ship but you’re scared. You wait until the last possible moment, fill your lungs with air, and jump over board.

If these suggestions don’t get your proverbial comedic pussy dripping like a roast beef sammie soaked with Au Jus, we suggest growing your hair out, dying it red, perm that shit, go to the gym and work out until you’re swoll like a freckly gorilla, then just make some funny props. Like a walker with a Viagra dispenser and tube o’ lube on it. Get it? For old people? Cuz they can’t keep their dicks hard or their pussies sufficiently lubricated or whatever? Everybody loves that shit.

Faulkner’s Lost Short Story

I remember that summer with Quinnie. The sun came up early and hot and got damn near oppressive around noon time. When it got real hot, Pa would let me break. I’d go down and climb that lazy, sugar magnolia with Quinnie, just low enough to let those big umbrella leaves give us shade, but just high enough to feel the breeze come racing in every four or five minutes. I remember how her hair would wave in the breeze, like everything was in slow motion.

Some days, the afternoon rain would let up just soon enough to enjoy the cool evening air. Everything smelled sweeter when the honeysuckles were in bloom. Smell of damp honeysuckles after an afternoon shower still makes me think of Quinnie and her hair and how it would blow in the wind, like the entire world was in slow motion.

I remember some afternoons, stealing some of Pa’s sippin’ whiskey and putting it into Coke cans and going with Quinnie down to the creek. We’d talk about this tree and that one, and laugh and toss peanuts in for the fish. Her hair moved in slow motion. I’d roll up my pants and put my feet in, the water just cold enough for me to whince, but not cold enough to stop me from dipping my feet in to the ankles. Once the drinks were all drank and the sun had sunk down real low, we’d go skinny dipping. Then we would fuck on the shore of that creek like two beached sea turtles eager to get inside and move around in each others sea-pussies. I’d smush her face real hard down into that clay creekbed, so hard that it got all in her teeth. I don’t know why I did that. Then I’d pull out just in time, or so I thought, and splooge all over her back, rubbing in some clay, just for good measure.

I remember after a couple weeks, Quinnie came into the stable crying. She told me she was pregnant and that Pa said he didn’t want her anywhere around me anymore. She said that this was goodbye and cried some more. Little Jessie was born in March of the following year. He was retarded as an armadillo. Had teeth coming out of his mouth looking like barnacles or something. His spine was on the outside. It’s not supposed to be like that. I ‘spose it was because me and Quinnie were brother and sister and that our Ma and Pa were brother and sister and their Ma and Pa too, going back about 5 generations. Probably also explains why my eyes are so far apart and why Quinnie’s got two club feet.

We were all sippin’ Pa’s sippin’ whiskey one night after Jessie was born and just left him outside like on accident. ‘Spect the coyotes got him.

Sometimes on moonless summer nights, I lay awake and think of Little Jesse, all hunched backed, with his one good hand waving at me in slow motion, as if to say “Pa, it’s ok. We all get a little shitfaced on Pa’s good sippin’ whiskey, fuck our sisters, and end up losing our deformed little armadillo retard babies.” And seeing that makes me feel like I can take comfort in the fact that, at the end of this life, when I’m buried beside the very creek I used to play by, that I was a good man at heart and that I tried my very hardest each and every damn day to do the right thing. Now I’m going to go rape Quinnie and get drunk.