Elevator Diaries

“Elevator Going Up”

You’re never more alone than when standing in a crowded elevator.

My eyes were fixed firmly on my feet. In moments like these I keep them under the strictest regulation.  No sidewards glances. No eye contact. No acknowledgement that I was sharing this confined space with 5 other lifeforms. Head down. Staring at my shoes. Dems the rules.

Then I felt a twinge of electricity. A pang of something magical brewing in my nethers. First it started in my toes. Then I crinkled my nose. Wherever it goes, I always know: I was about to chub out.

I felt my pleated stain-resistant khakis tighten around my thighs and firmly latch onto my clinched fanny parts. My pupils dilated, their focus climbing up to the emerging lump in my lap. It began to grow in slow motion like an ash snake lit on the 4th of July. Beads of sweat began to aggregate on my brow and I could feel the blood pumping into the sleeping behemoth. Pulsating. Thriving like a hearty turnip.

By the time we reached the 12th floor, my humble erection was at a 45 degree angle, glaring straight into the eyes of my fellow elevateurs like a shackled cyclops- drooling and veiny.

The trembling young nipper next to me clung to her mother’s dress, shielding her eyes from my rock hard dick. An old Babushka clutched her rosary beads and murmered low and quick for her God to save her. The Chinaman pointed and shouted at my cocksicle as if Mothra was setting the city ablaze with his laser vision. After making eye contact with my throbbing member, a young businessman nervously reached into his briefcase. Rifling through his stock reports, he retrieved a pistol. In an instant his lips were wrapped around the barrel like it was Pete Wentz’s cock and he was a valued customer at Hot Topic. Swallowing that metaphorical load, his brain matter painted each wall of the elevator. The Chinaman, stunned, said nothing slowly backing into one corner. The Babushka dropped to her knees, threw up her hands and began to weep. The mother put the back of her hand to her forehead and fainted, collapsing into the pool of blood, brain, and business papers that had amalgamated on the the elevator floor; her young daughter standing there, motionless, not knowing what came next. Our eyes met, then like two kittens following a laser pointer, slowly panned down to the unreceding mound of flesh pulsating the button-fly of my khakis. A small grin appeared, then somewhere in the distance, a bell rang.

Ain’t nothing but my Bone-Daddy, y’all!

The Urge to Kill Myself

Sometimes I get the strong urge to kill myself. Not because I’m depressed or mentally unstable or my life sucks or anything like that. It’s just because I’m lazy. Some days, it seems like it would just be easier to kill myself than to get up at be at work by 9:00 and pretend to be returning emails for 3 hours while I google news articles about domesticated animals attacking their owners. Like, some days I would rather just kill myself than have to go to Dillard’s to buy a new pantsuit because I left my Uniball in the pocket when I washed them and it bled everywhere. Tom from Accounting was like “Anyone ever heard of pocket protector?”  And I was like “Fuck you Tom. The last thing I need is for you to give me shit right now. I have enough going on. Mr. Peterson has been up my ass lately about these M-93′s and I would seriously rather kill myself than sit here and listen to your bullshit. Plus, a pocket protector wouldn’t stop me from washing my pen, you cleft-lipped faggot.” Then he whispered something to Pudding Dickenson in the cubicle next to me. That really burned me up. I’ve had a super-mega-huge crush on Pud ever since I started working here. I know that he’s engaged and I’ve actually met his fiancé Sharon, who is a really nice lady. Too nice if you ask me. Seems like she’s hiding something. Just saying. I’m not saying I would do anything to break them up. I don’t want to complicate me and Pud’s relationship like that. He just gets me. Ya know?

Listen to me! I’m sorry. Back to the topic at hand. Sometimes I would prefer to just off myself than deal with all that jiz-unk. Like, I would rather kill myself than have to call the guy to come fix my garbage disposal, then wait around for him to show up to fix the garbage disposal, and then maintain small talk with him until he’s finished fixing my garbage disposal. Uuuuuuuuuuugggggggh! That’s the sound I make when I get the urge to kill myself. Gotta wash my clothes? Uuugh. Gotta put air in my tires? Uuugh. Gotta go around getting my neighbors to sign these sexual predator forms? Uuugh. I honestly would rather end it all. I have this feeling almost every time I have to do something I don’t want to do.

This often leads me to think, how would I choose to kill myself? Obviously I would lean towards something that doesn’t require a lot of energy or set up. I would rather kill myself than have to set up some elaborate means of commiting suicide. I want something quick and easy. I’m not trying to make any big statement or anything and I don’t have time to set up some Rube Goldberg suicide machine, where I get my shirt ironed, an egg fried, my ficus watered, and dozen poison darts fired at my face. I think one of the best ways to kill myself would be to let a domesticated animal kill me. I’ve done a lot research on the google and found that it has several distinct advantages:

1) It’s effortless. All you have to do is hold still. Just let your domesticated animal do all the work, whether it is a chimp, elephant, pitbull, or whatever. It doesn’t get any easier than that, unless you choose to starve yourself to death but that takes such a long time. You’ll end up just sitting around for days waiting for it to kick in. And as far as I’m concerned, I would rather kill myself than have to wait on myself to starve to death. Whereas with the domesticated animal route, it could take as long as a couple seconds.

2) No clean up. Especially if you are working with a domesticated tiger or something. Chances are, if you give them enough time, they will eat you entirely. In fact, they will buff and polish the floor with their sandpapery cat tongues to get every last bit of your tasty remains. Considering that people don’t prefer to buy the apartment where some guy was just mauled and devoured by an animal, the shiny floors might actually help the resale value.

3) Circle of life, bro. It’s mother fucking nature. And I, myself, am I huge Elton John fan, so I would consider this kind of a dedication to his songwriting. You guys remember that scene in Almost Famous when they sing Benny and The Jets in the airplane? Classic.

Ugh, I don’t feel like writing anymore. I would rather kill myself than keep writing this blog piece. Seriously.

The Break-up Letter

Dear Sharon,

Hey babe. This whole situation is a little awkward, so I decided to write you this letter. I felt it would be easier for me to really get out all my feelings without anyone saying something that they would really regret. I don’t want us to hold any grudges.

The truth is, I met someone. Her name is BoQueefa. We met at Borders in Santa Monica. She was in the cafe reading The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand with chai tea coming out of her nose because she couldn’t stop laughing. I noticed her from the magazine rack where I was catching up on last month’s issue of Tits and Machete Magazine.  I heard that bird song of a snort, and I knew it. We were in love. And I’m pretty sure it’s the real deal. We’ve got this deep bond. Like we knew each other in a past life or something. Possibly as a pair of gay Spanish conquistadors, sneaking away from the judgmental eyes of our Capitán in the twilight hour to have explosive anal sex below deck. I mean, I’ve never felt like this about anyone. I’m so sorry that it had to happen this way. You know that I never wanted to hurt you.  That was never my intention. But I don’t think either of us can be too surprised that something like this happened. I mean, honestly, if you’d have opened you’re fucking eyes and looked around, you would have seen this coming. We don’t have anything in common. Things just haven’t been connecting – particularly our genitalia. You’re always on your period and acting like a cunt. And you know how you thought my inability to maintain an erection was because I was secretly gay? No, It’s because you’ve gained like 3o lbs since we started dating and you look like a dumpy bag of trash.

But I don’t want you to think this is because of you. I’ve got no hard feelings. In the long run, I will always look back on our relationship with the warmest of feelings and fondest of memories. Man, we sure did have some good times. Remember that time that we went to your Unlce Ron’s house in the barrio and got so lit on candy corn and sake that we covered my dick in maple syrup and tried to find the nearest ant bed? Maybe, in another time and in another place, we could give it another shot. Maybe even in a couple weeks after things fizzle out with BoQueefa, me and you could meet up for lattes and do it in the bathroom of the Coffee Bean. Get some of that thick cream in your coffee, if you know what I mean, and I think that you do.  I’ve realized that breaking up with you, earlier in this letter, was the biggest mistake I’ve ever made in my life. And since I wrote all that a few minutes ago, I’ve really grown a lot and had some time to think about who I am and what I really want in this short period of time we get on this planet. And it just hit me,  it’s me and you, Sharon. That’s all that matters and I see that now.

That whole thing with BoQueefa could have never worked. She didn’t know the real me, not like you do, and it was like I was always trying to live up to some impossible standard with her. We were from two different worlds. Me, a hardened ex-weed slanger from the ghettos of East Atlanta with a gimpy leg and male-pattern baldness, and her, a suburban beauty queen born with a silver spoon in her mouth and pair of tits like two Beauty Rest body pillows. Plus, she said I was ill-equipped to satisfy her primal sexual needs. She really is an animal in the sack. I’m begging you Sharon, you’ve got to take me back. I’ve been a mess ever since earlier in this letter, when I called you a cunt. I didn’t mean that. I was just reacting out of fear. Fear of losing the one thing in this shit life that makes me happier than my gay cousin, Topher, at a Britney Spears concert.  Please, baby. I’ll do anything. I swear to god Sharon, if I can’t be with you then I’ve got no reason to live. I’m not fucking around this time, Sharon. If you don’t take me back, and I mean right now, I will end it. I will eat 15 beans of sexctasy, go Merengue dancing, meet a lovely Puerto Rican sensation named Antonio, take him back to my villa on the coast, make the hardest, spiciest of sex with him, and pass out. And all without ever taking a sip of water. Is that what you want? Do you want me to de-hydrate and die? Like a shriveled worm on a sidewalk?! Do you?! Heartless bitch.

Love,

Pudding Dickenson

My First Suicide Note

The following is a copy of my first suicide note from April 24, 2007. That was a really dark time in my life, 2007, like Omar from The Wire dark. But my analyst, Dr. Werner Lipschwitz says that it would be good for me to share my experience. Ya know, for catharsis. And since it’s the holiday season it seemed fitting.

Dear Cruel Cunt World,

When are the Cranberries going to come out with another fucking album already?!? Seriously. I get it, you’re on hiatus and want to pursue side projects. That’s fine. I’m sure that’s some great stuff or whatever but don’t neglect the fans that made you who you are. Fans like me. Jerry from Printing is also into “The Sauce.” Give us the real stuff: The Cranberries. Zombie. Linger. All the hits. Shit’s so awesome.

I mean, it’s 2007. They have cameras on phones now.Let’s get that new-new Cran-Cran. Fa really doe. Gotsta has it.

God. Fuck it. I can’t do this anymore. The Cranberries are never going to make a new album. I’m going to off myself. I’m going to off myself so fucking hard.

Love,

Pudding Dickenson

Obviously this suicide attempt was unsuccessful. But, not to fret, because it wouldn’t be my last. Heck, I eat a bottle of my gandmother’s prescription painkillers that she had for her bad knee every time they leave pickles on my chicken sammich from the Chik-Fil-A, when I said clear as day “if there are any goddamn pickles on my motherfucking chicken sammy, I will cut your fucking dick off, shove it in my mouth,  and then put a loaded shotgun to my forehead.”

Lipschwitz was right on the money. That felt pretty good.