Psychobabble IV
Let the Battle Begin!
 
By Gustavo Belotta and Simeon Johnson

 Some people argue about some things, while other people argue about other things.  It almost seems pointless to see so many people arguing so many different things when there is only one true topic to argue about: Was Lewis Carrol or was Lewis Carrol not a pedophile?  I brought up this topic of conversation while I was getting my clothes laminated at a nearby copy shop.  I laminate my clothes so that the coffee I spill on them can just be wiped right off, thus preventing stains on my avante garde-esque garb, not to mention what it does for my posture.  I believe that when I have children I'm going to have them laminated too.  It will cut down on unnecessary water usage, thereby keeping our water supplies secure for future plastic generation.  And while we're laminating, for yes, you are all involved in my little plastic vision of the future, why not vacuum seal too?  Keep it fresh, baby, keep it fresh.  That's the way I like things.  Fresh.  Except my women.  I like my women to be a bit on the decomposed side.  Not too dry (I hate dating a flake), but not mouthy and opinionated, either.  Right in between is where they should be, and I like it when their second toe is bigger than their first toe.  That really gets me going.  Not obese-type big, but shall we say a masculine second toe, perhaps.  Which isn't to say that I have any odd or sick toe fetish, mind you...unless there's anyone out there who's interested, that is...
 Speaking of sick fetishes, what about that Lewis Carrol fellow?  You know the guy: Wrote Alice in Wonderland and whatnot.  The history books say Carrol was a shy but kindly man with a speech impediment who really only wanted to be a preacher.  So he wrote cute little acid dreams for little children.  Little female children.  Was he a sick man?  Do you believe that the worlds he dreamt were innocent of debauchery and sin?  Do you really believe that it was a kinder, gentler place?  Puh-leaze!!  The man was sick.  He thought a lot about what Alice's toes were like, I'll wager.  And of course the I bring this up is that I wonder, I just wonder, what the hell is the big deal about Beavis and Butthead?  I have a really good idea about how to eliminate the demented followers of these two generalized images of today's youth.  I would like to create a Beavis and Butthead animated feature film.  After about 3 to 5 minutes of mindless animation, the poisonous gas begins to seep into the theater, catching all those poor excuses for human beings in mid guffaw, sending them off to Never Never Land...Not that I have a problem with the future generations...well, not all of them, just most of them.  They seem to be so good at being different that they haven't a clue who they really are.  "Aunty Em, Aunty Em, I just had the most wonderful dream.  It was Beavis and Butthead versus the Terminator, and the Terminator cut them into little pieces with a machine gun, and everyone else lived happily ever after.  And then the tasmanian Devil showed up and ate Vanilla Ice, only he got sick from it and puked him up, and Mr. Ice's appearance was greatly improved by the whole ordeal, and then Barney the Dinosaur got attacked by an Alien face-hugger and it laid an egg in him and it hatched and blew out of his chest.  There was purple ichor everywhere and Aunty Em, it was beautiful."
November 28, 1993 3:40 a.m.

Dear Diary,
Today I met a really interesting girl.  She says that she is the Devil's Mistress and that she would like to sacrifice me to her lord and master.  I don't know if I'm going to do it yet.  She's really nice and all, but that is a pretty big commitment.  What if it doesn't work out?  I could just end up getting hurt from the whole experience.  Maybe I should get to know her better first, but in getting to know her better what happens if after a while I feel as thought we're only staying together for the sake of the little pagans we've brought into this world?  Well, I'm getting way ahead of myself.  I'll just let the chips fall where they may.  I just hope I don't miss out on a truly rewarding experience.

November 28, 1993 3:58 a.m.

Dear Diary,
Disregard that last entry.  I've just met the most wonderful girl in the world.  She's studying to be a sadist, and she wants to use me as a model to enhance her studies.  I'm not really sure what the job entails yet, but it sounds so exciting!  She really seems to be into leather, which would make Christmas shopping less of a chore, and I've noticed that she wears handcuffs as accessories.  I can't wait to bring her home to mom!  She gave me her address and told me to come by tomorrow for our first session.  I am so excited!  Also, she asked me to bring a set of jumper cables.  Funny, her car seems to be running fine.  Wonder why she wants me to bring the jumper cables?  I'm so curious.  Guess I'll find out tomorrow.

November 28, 1993 3:59:28 a.m.

Dear Diary,
I have now found the most fantastic example of the female gender.  She's beautiful, she's intelligent, she's responsible, we believe in the same things, we enjoy the same hobbies.  I do believe that I could honestly spend the rest of my days with this woman.  So I hit her real hard, called her a bunch of ugly names, and I feel much safer now.  It's good to be the King...

November 28, 1993 4:14 a.m.

Dear Diary,
How many licks does it take to get to the center of a Toostie Roll Pop?  I would really like to meet a girl named Tootsie Roll Pop and find out for myself.  And if George Washington really did die of Syphilis, where did he get it?  They didn't have sex back then as we all know, so where did he get such a disease?  I have a theory.  Syphilis originated in Africa (as do all major diseases) from the bark of a tree known by the common man as the Syphilis Tree.  The bark of the tree is hard, yet easy to shape, making it ideal for carving miniatures and masks and such.  Well, one of George Washington's slaves brought some of that bark with him when he was dragged here from his native Africa.  This slave, whose name was Dennis, grew to love Mr. Washington, and when Mr. Washington began losing teeth, Dennis felt very sorry for him and carved a set of dentures from the bark of the Syphilis Tree..  Now, the Africans were immune to this disease, from many years of using it.  However, white people were not immune to it because they were assholes back then.  It was a karmic retribution type of thing.  Anyway, Dennis felt very badly afterward when it was discovered that Georgey died of stick in mouth disease.  Ah, that's history for ya.

November 28, 1993 4:37 a.m.
 

Dear Diary,
Have you ever watched a friend of the opposite sex urinate in front of you?  It's an interesting experience.  It just happened to me.  I wasn't expecting it, I didn't want it, and before I could say anything about it, it happened.  This was a friend whom I respected not only as a human being but as an example of what I considered to be truly feminine, as well.  That is until I saw her pull down her pants and tinkle in front of me.  Now I sometimes find it difficult to look her in the,,,uhm...eye.  Is that wrong?  What should I do?  All my life I've been led to believe that women did not have any bodily functions other than menstruation, which was explained to me as "a monthly cleansing of the magical baby factory."  All of my beliefs about the female physiology have been dashed upon the jagged rocks of live by this one act, and now I feel lost.  I mean what's next?  Will women be telling us that they fart, too?  I believe that equality has gone too far when women can experience bodily functions in public, unless they experience these said functions vicariously through someone belonging to my own gender, or unless it involves sex.  Now a lot of women might argue the point that this is a sexist attitude, and they might be right, but then again they asked to be treated as "equals" which in political circles means "I'm a social minority.  Please persecute me."  I believe that women should be considered superior just for the fact that they can have children.  Especially male children.

November 28, 1993 5:17 a.m.

Dear Diary,
I'm now suffering a large contusion of my upper anatomy because a female friend took my last entry too much to heart.  Not that I blame her.  I seem to make a lot of girls angry at me for my personal social beliefs.  Oh well.  She was a frigid bitch anyway.  I love her to death, but she was a frigid bitch.  Even more so now, I imagine.  I had to chop her into little bitty pieces and stuff her in my freezer.  Hey, like I said, I like my women a little on the decomposed side.  And it always pays to have a spare in the fridge.

November 28, 1993 5:31 a.m.

Dear Diary,
All of the girls have left.  Was it something I said?  I suppose they didn't much appreciate either my words or my actions, for I seem to have made quite a mess with the frigid bitch bit.  Oh well, I suppose there's something to be said for a person who can use his personality as a form of birth control.  Now that the girls are gone and there's no one left to offend, I might as well move on to another topic of discussion.  Family values.  How much is a family worth these days?  Who believes they live in a well-adjusted family, anyway, and why would something as unimportant as family values have anything to do with who is going to run this great country of ours?  Clinton may be a hell of a guy, but would you really want him to raise your kids?  The man can barely keep from being lampooned by the newspapers, and this is the man you're going to trust to take care of little Johnny?  I think that anyone who can't feed everybody probably isn't going to be showing up at many P.T.A. meetings, but I admire the guy because it takes a special breed of man to ruin his life by becoming the scape-goat for every red-blooded American out there.  Let's face it, we are a tough crowd to please, and almost all of us have access to firearms.  You wanna be President?  You better duck and weave real good.  Speaking of Family Values, I think that mankind should be equipped with a post-active abortion button.  That way you can have a kid, let it hang around for a few years, decide if you like it, and if not, BAM.  Gone.  And you get a rain-check for all that time you wasted raising the little shit.  And the best part is; no guilt!  Let's face it.  You wouldn't buy a pair of shoes unless you tried them on first, would you?  I believe that the status quo of normal families has become the dysfunctional family.  If the dysfunctional family is the norm, then that would make the functional family abnormal.  I don't know anyone who comes from a "functional" family, unless of course the members of said family avoid any kind of contact with each other whatsoever, but that's a sucker of a different flavor.  Most families today are split by divorce, alcohol, abuse (both mental and physical), and, of course, arguments.  Which brings us back full circle to the concept that began this drivel, Lewis Carrol's sexual quirks.  I don't think that having a sexual quirk or two is bad, I've been known to have a few myself, and I don't specifically mind what Lewis Carrol fantasized about.  Hell, even then it was legal to fantasize as long as you kept it in your pants, so to speak.  The discussion that a friend and I were having was balanced on the certain point that even though you may be good writer, or a good role model, or a good model airplane, it really doesn't matter, because someone somewhere is going to think of you as a sick, demented pervert of some variety (for there are at least 57 to chose from).  Just remember that the only disgusting things in the world are the things you wouldn't do.  There are some reindeer games best left unplayed.  Did Lewis Carrol like Christmas?  Did he like little girls?  What's the difference?  So to this friend with whom I had this discussion in regards to the purity or impurity of Mr. Carrol, I would just like to say this:  Mali Kaliki Maka, Feliz Navidad, Happy Chanukkah, Merry Christmas, and all that other happy bullshit which in essence boils down to two words.  Two words that explain everything you ever wanted to know about anything you ever thought might possibly be important to your life.  Two words that can start any argument and possibly prolong it eternally, and, more importantly, the answer to the Lewis Carrol riddle: WAS TOO!
 

 
 
 
  
 
 
 
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