Wednesday, March 22, 2006

There's Horror In Every Corner...

And, just to let everyone rest assured that my search for it, which is almost always guaranteed to be followed by my extreme and somewhat frightening fascination with it, has not ceased, this little story from last night's outting, which will be told through images that should, if one can manage it, be "synthesized" in the mind so as to conjure up a mental picture of what these four figures would look like if they were, in some sort of bizarre and parallel hell, to merge. (Wow what an insanely ridiculous and unnecessarily long sentence!!! Nicholas, I hope you're not hyperventilating.)

Hyped up on loads of carbs and cheese, Jd and I decided to go out for our usual "gin tonic digestivo." After several minutes at the bar and observing all the usual suspects in their usual places, I set my eyes on a creature that left me somewhere between stupified, horrified, and amazed! It looked exactly like the monstrous yet (perhaps) gentle lovechild of the four following figures, all from popular American culture (in no particular order):

The emperor

Jaws (Roger Moore's worst enemy)

Jerry Blank

Honey

EEEggggggdddd. (Shivers, cold, cold shivers.) I think it was female. But then again, I was so fixated on the teeth, that all of the other deliciously horrific details and mysteries about the creature were lost.

6 Comments:

Blogger Nicholas Theisen said...

Don't worry about me, Pacchan, I had my inhaler sitting nearby.

I couldn't help but read that like a four panel strip or (in my best snooty-patooty voice) "like the finest 12th century haikai."

1-2 link via the expression in the eyes, 2-3 link via the mouths, and 3-4 link via the hair. The movement, then, is eyes-mouth-hair, which, according to what I know of the "theory of other minds," corresponds nicely to the progression of the gaze.

P.S. I have no idea what that means, cuz I'm hopped up on dilaters now.

10:13 PM  
Blogger Jon Snyder said...

patty isn't exaggerating here, people.

i shook a stick at the beast and it snarled back. the poor woman must have fallen out of the ugly tree where, apparently, four said characters were engaged in some nasty DNA swapping.

11:18 AM  
Blogger Mass Death Momma said...

But the real question is: did jon still try to sleep with her?

1:30 PM  
Blogger Michael K. said...

Hey Jon, that stick you shook at the beast, would that happen to be the same "ugly stick" you got beat with as a kid?

Cheap, I know, but an easy bet.

10:37 PM  
Blogger Jon Snyder said...

need i remind everyone that as a child i was first beaten with the fat club, and *then* with the ugly stick.

yeah, patty, i want to hear about your inspiration with the photos. especially because i don't see you at least once a day...

(no, really, i'd like to hear about them.)

4:43 AM  
Blogger Patty said...

hey thanks to everyone for comments! i'm glad that the emperor-jaws-jerryblank-honey matrix triggered such a response from so many!!

re: photography. i'll try to post a little diddy sometime soon about some of the stuff i've been working on. i actually have been writing about it a bit, so i'll venture and share...between waking up at noon and taking my daily siesta at 3, i'll *try* to find the time to blog. (dramatic sigh) life is just so, so hard here sometimes. (teeheehe)

5:11 AM  

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