Friday, Aug. 17, 2007 - 7:03 p.m.
Partying with the Enemy ************************* I haven't seen the Scarlet Avenger all day he will usually pop in mid afternoon check his food and see what I'm doing and then slip back outside but not today
I wonder if he is over yonder - at the four alarm drunk fest its gonna bbe full of animals by dark the people on the next street over are getting ready for their annual huge loud drunken back yard party Its only once a year and in afree country you should be able to do anything you want on occassion The shift workers don;t care and the old people just turn up their TVs everybody else is either at the party or ay another party somewhere else our little town was completely out of i ce and mixers by 4 pm I think this weekend is gonna be an alcohlic shangra la all afternoon long the amplified sound of check- 1-2-3-4 check 1-2-3-4 for their grown up sons' cover band- last year they did old TV show theme songs as fdrunken revellers hooted in recognition I wonder if they will do great TV commercials from the 80s and 90s this year ? something normal people can recognise ance drunk to and remember some of the words to- The party people's house is the most duded up outside light display at Christmas for 100 miles they are trying to make a statement twice a year I could smell them starting the Bar B Q early to feed the prep team as they set up
rumour says they have either a whole pig to roast or a side of beef the size of a four year old child the simile of choice: free meat the size of a preschooler and if the last two years parties are any indicator , more beer wine and weed wiull be available than normalacy vcan account for Right now the air is alive with noise good natiured yelling tent pegs being hammered in cars honking- dogs barking and the smell of meat roasting joins the aromascape of my neibours freshly varnished deck oh- someone drunk is singing into a microphone at ground zero unaccompanyioed by any other music most of the performance is fuzzy but I can pick out the chorus "Oh baby" very clearly from two blocks away maybe Jinky is over there - if he is he is old enough to drink whatever he is offered and fight dogs for hot dog scraps the drunk soloist still without a band to smother his offkey crooning has started to sing " Rocky Racoon " that old beatles song 38 years old ! If Rocky racoon shows up here and starts to wreck my kitchen I will paddle his striped ass with a broom and to think I got a cat to protect me from racoons and here he is at a party with them on a perfect Friday evening in August
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