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Who the f*** does he think he is?- a rebuttal by Mr. Know-It-All

13 Nov

from September 17, 2007

Mr. Know-It-All here. What THE HELL is wrong withthe so-called Mr. Blog AKA  Barry “Horton Rotnac”? Rotnac???? He named himself after a weirdo with a furry hat????? And I happen to know that his middle name is NOT “Horton.”

Look at what he’s been writing lately. I’m usually in no condition to read, but I’ve been a little more sober lately and that just pisses me off. Being sober too. Some shit about Dracula movies and ant farms. Who has an ant farm? What do they grow on fucking ant farms? Ants? Or do the ants grow crops, I dunno, like little farmers with mandibles, whatever. Are there ant cowboys? What the fuck? It’s his freakin’ unreality. “The Ambien went straight to my sleep centers,” he wrote, like it’s the damn pill making him write all that crap. Shit, I take four Ambien with my coffee in the morning and you don’t hear me complaining. Try shooting up a highball in your testicles, that’ll go to your head, believe me.

Then he wrote about pets. Don’t listen to him. Pets are a waste of time. You have to feed them- and you can’t feed them pizza or beer, stuff you’d like to eat too. No, pets make you spend money. Money that would be better spent on Colt 45 and hookers. And pets make you clean up after them. There was time I woke up after a couple of days, or maybe a week, I don’t remember so good, but there was this cat, wherever I was, and the cat had shit all over the place, all over me, all over itself. The cat was crazy. I’ll tell you what pets are good for- FOOD. Damn straight. Let’s say you are stuck in a cellar for a few days because some drug dealer thinks maybe you owe him some money and he’s gonna starve you for a while. And let’s say you had a Golden Labrador Retriever, Mr. Bugglesworth. Here’s what you do- eat the dog. (Yeah, that example would have worked on a desert island too, but Mr. Know-It-All usually finds himself in strange cellars, not islands.) And if you have a guinea pig or a gerbil, here’s the real advice- keep it out of your ass, for god’s sake!

What is wrong with that guy? Barry “Horton Rotnac” watched some movies and wrote some so-called reviews. I’ll be honest- I was stoned every single time Grease came on the television, just by coincidence, so maybe his reviews were good, but why the fuck not review something somebody might have seen in this century? OK, so he did that Ratatalata movie, but it was a cartoon for kids. And what did he do? Turned it all messed up and homosexual. He might have messed up more kid’s psyches than I did when I drove a bus and started “kiss the driver’s lap day.”

This guy is some sort of stalker. He spent way too much time writing about weirdoes in his area. You know what? HE’S THE WEIRDO! Spending all day, peeking around, probably, with his binoculars peeking at everybody. Go back and read his crap- I’ll put it simply: HE IS OBSESSED WITH A LITTLE OLD MAN FROM HONG KONG. I have never been so drunk as to be obsessed with little old men that way he has. I’ve woken up with a couple, but I blame that on the booze. Yeah, the booze.

All you kids out there, listen to your friend Mr. Know-It-All: this fool doesn’t know what the hell he’s doing. He had the nerve to read other people’s bogs and make fun of them. THEY SHOULD MAKE FUN OF HIS CRAP! And he has the nerve to insult Lisa Marie Presley, daughter of The King????? I may not have had an erection since 1997 but she sure makes my Mr. Limpy dribble. Leave Elvis’s daughter alone!

I have no idea why anybody reads that stuff, like when he spent a month writing about some gorilla films he just made up. Maybe if he put that effort into getting laid there would be less shit about “The Master Hong Kong Tailor.” OK, I’ll give him credit for one thing- he was right about that 6,000-pound woman fat wet t-shirt contest. I was almost scared straight, but instead I went straight to the coke. (And when is the next party, anyway?)

HE IS A NUT! I can’t be anymore direct- there is something very wrong, all the nonsense with arrows, and parentheses, and brackets. I think he has some kind of OCD where he has to do fucked-up shit or else he thinks the house will burn down or he’ll die of leprosy or something like that.

I have given a lot of advice in the past. When I’m sober, I even try to write an advice column you might have read, so here is the advice of a professional advice guy- get this man the help he needs. His bogs read like the ravings of a man craving attention from one of his split personalities. He needs serious meds, fast. Intervene, now. Do it for his own good.

Pets

13 Nov

from September 6, 2007

Pets. Everyone has them.

Teachers have teacher’s pets. You know, the kids who, even when the rest of the class is stoned or asleep, they’ll have an answer and keep you from yelling at everyone else. You like those kids. (Except when those Junior Mr.-Know-It-Alls Don’t stop asking annoying questions. Then you want to kill them.)

Congressmen have pet projects. They’re those pork-barrel filled legislations designed to put a lot of money in the pockets of some powerful lobby, not to mention the Congressmen, that have no use at all except to waste budget money that could be spent on better things, like a committee to determine whether pro-wrestlers use steroids. (Well duh.)

Most of us have pet peeves, those little things that bug the shit out of us until we want to rip our hair out or drop a piano on someone or claim the dingoes ate the baby. (Yeah, like that happened.) One of my numerous pet peeves is the expression “could care less.” UGH!!!!! Let me explain. If you could care less, then there is a certain level of caring present, which could conceivably dip even lower. What you mean (and yes, I’m talking to you!) to say is “I couldn’t care less.” Because if you could not care less, that’s it. You can’t get any lower. It’s rock bottom. So stop saying it or I’ll sic the dingoes on you.

However, what I’m talking about today are actual pets. You know, those little living things with fur or fins or feathers, scales, whatever. Or if you’re lucky enough to own a chimera, fur and feathers.

Before we get started, let’s make it clear- there are some bad pets out there, things that should not be pets under any circumstances. Here is a brief list:

GOOD PETS                                                  BAD PETS
Dog                                                                 Mongoose

Cat                                                                   Buffalo
Fish                                                                 Swine
Bird                                                                 Condor
Hamster                                                        Chupacabra

Here is an example of why it is a bad idea to keep a pet buffalo, taken straight from one of my favorite news sources, News of the Weird:

In Salem, Wisconsin, an 1800-pound bull that had been treated as a pet killed its owner as he tried to take it to slaughter one day after the bull trampled a farmhand to death. Said the grieving owner, “You can’t trust a buffalo.”

Indeed. Words to live by.

“But,” you ask, “what kind of pet is right for me?” Thanks for the question. I love it when people leave the important questions of their life to me. It makes me feel like a big man.

The pet that’s right for you is a very subjective question. In general, if you are allergic to cats, don’t get a cat. If you sleep late and never go out, don’t get a dog. If you have friends who think its fun to dump beer into the fish tank, then by God don’t get fish.

What you should get depends on your needs. Why are you getting the pet? Want a companion? Get a dog. Want to keep a box of poop-filled sand in your house? Get a cat. Want to be annoyed by seeds tossed all over the room? Get a bird. Want a pet you can flush? A fish is right for you.

When I was a kid my brother and I had two turtles. We loved them. We’d take them out of the tanks and watch them crawl around on the floor. We’d take out our toys and pretend the trucks were racing the turtles. We loved them. We were kids. We were stupid. Turtles are bad pets. They don’t do anything. They are slow and you can’t pet them- they can’t feel it though their shells. And they live forever so you are stuck with them, unless you drop them down the sewer to fend for themselves, uh, like I heard people do. Not that I did that with my turtle.

I had a cat named Spencer when I was young. She was great and I loved her. She developed a tumor on her spine and she was put to sleep. It was very traumatic. Let’s move on.

After Spencer I had a dog named McDuff. Don’t know why we named him that, it just sounded good. We had fun with him, we walked him, we took great care of him, but ultimately we had to give him away. There were two little problems.

1-     McDuff would bark and howl when he was alone. We did whatever we could. We left the TV on, we left the radio on, we left recordings of us talking on, we played a tape in the VCR of us when we were out. Nothing worked. Of course, this wasn’t a problem for us. The barking was all when we were out. McDuff was pretty silent when we were there, but the neighbors had a little problem.

2-     We could not housebreak McDuff. We’d walk him for hours and hours, stop at every tree, every hydrant, watch him sniff everything in existence, and still the dog would crap on the rug as soon as he got upstairs. We read all the books, talked to the vets, nothing worked. This was a problem.

Eventually the combination of noise and crap got to be too much and he had to go. (For the same reasons, some of my students will have to go too.)

I also used to have a fish tank. Fish are calming and nice to look at, provided you buy interesting fish. I had some very beautiful fish and they were nice in their tank, until they got the Ick. I am not making that up. Ick is a fish disease and it is short for icthyosomethingIdon’tknow. It is some kind of fungus that looks like white spots on the fish, and once it gets in your tank forget it. I lost all my fish and had to sterilize the tank and everything in it. I never knew how it got started but I was sure I ended it. Until the next group of fish caught the Ick. So the tank went out in the trash.

Pets are wonderful for so many reasons. In fact, there are so many reasons that I won’t list them here- they’re just too obvious and it would be beneath you to read them.

Just remember that having a pet is a big responsibility. If you don’t pay your phone bill it’ll get cut off, but you can still get it turned back on. If you don’t feed your pet it will die, and there is no coming back from that. (Unless your pet is a Buddhist.) And frankly, a dead pet is more trouble than a live pet. They smell. They attract flies. They have to be dumped on someone’s doorstep and then what about the money you wasted on the leash, bowl, and getting the thing spayed? Take it from me; it is a good idea to keep your pets alive.