Archive for March, 2007
Posting Drunk Wasn’t The Worst Of It
by beehive on Mar.31, 2007, under Uncategorized
Last night when I got home drunk, and wrote up a post that probably didn’t make sense to everyone, and this wasn’t the worst thing that happened. I’ll brief the actual night until the big screw up, and the big screw up will be another post.
The night went well, and I didn’t even nap as a warm up to it.
I got to see a bunch of people that I hadn’t seen in years, some with new fiancee’s and such.
A good portion of our crowd was drinking double fisted, literally.
I got to see one of my childhood friends out a the bar, he just happened to be there, and it was honestly the first time we ever were at a bar together, which is odd considering we grew up together, and still live in the same neighborhood.
I got to see the large crowd for the going away guy get drunker as the night progressed, and as I was leaving someone in our group had just dropped his drink all over the floor, so he went to the bar and bought two more - they were all “sex on the beach”.
Then came the drunk post.
The “Daria” person that I was writing about, was in reference to my none stop laughter at seeing this guy who I’m calling “Daria” on here to protect his identity.
See, I first meet Daria when I was 16, and he was 20. He was big into skateboarding, didn’t have a job, and spent all of his time tagging up all over the city while getting drunk and high if not skateboarding.
He even had a life plan that involved enlisting into the army or navy to play on their football team, and because he knew he was “so good” he would get drafted into he NFL, and be out of the armed services. When he found out that this wasn’t how people played for the army or navy football teams he was crushed.
This guy was a complete burnout.
He finally ended up going back to college, and he even got a steady job - as a officer in the NYPD. That’s right, Daria the burnout, is a cop!
So when he showed up last night I couldn’t contain my smiles and laughter at this. I wasn’t making fun of his, I just couldn’t get over the fact that this guy who is still on the far opposite end is being the best or the brightest, is now a cop.
It’s just funny to envision him wearing the uniform, gun in hand, and trying to respectfully contain any sort of situation.
Scene: Three armed men just robbed a bank, they are all holding hostages, they have just killed Daria’s partner, and there is no backup on the way.
Daria: Yo! (Yes, he says Yo! alot) that’s not cool, yo!
Armed Robber #1: Die copper!
Daria: Seriously, what did you do that for?
Armed Robber #1 shoots at Daria, all the bullets fly overhead, then something catches Daria’s eye. It’s an old tag of his.
Daria: Dude! (giggling) I wrote that, yo!
Anyways, Daria is now a 30 year old cop, and I really just found it to be a barrel of laughs, okay? And I figured that any typo that I had would be just as funny as picturing him apprehend a criminal.
Stupid thing post to come.
Tonight Was Fun
by beehive on Mar.31, 2007, under Uncategorized
Drunk blogging with the Cheese laughing behind me on the Tony Bennett Room’s loveseat. Yeup, tonight wasn’t bad at all, all the worrying for nothing. Four drinks later and I’m still up without a nap, and now, off the bed, and I’m not talking about the sleeping kind.
*Wink Wink.
P.S. I think my alcohol filled mind has spelled checked this entie post, so, if it is not, I’ll laugh about it in the morning as if is is “Daria” the male burnout NYPD cop.
For My Readers In China
by beehive on Mar.30, 2007, under Uncategorized
I must begin by informing you that your current lack of readership is concerning me, it’s been disconcerting all week, and most of all it has been a daily disappointment. All of you have allowed your personal lives to take precedence over the reading of my little blog on even a weekly basis.
To this, I say, hogwash…HOGWASH!
You’ve become so careless that you’ve allowed Canada to out read you, and I’m pretty sure that they are just looking at pictures.
This is for you, my Canadian readers.
Due to your readership base in the China homeland declining in such a tech boom fallout I have given some serious thought to ending this weekly segment of mine that addresses the friendships that both of our countries need to build, and instead post pictures for those fine Canadians.
Here you go, Canadians.
At this point in time as much as I want to give up on all of you readers in China, I know that right now isn’t the proper time. We need each other.
Without my being here to allow both of our countries to understand one another just a little better, I fear that I would be doing a disservice to the world, and that we might not survive in a world without a mutual understanding of one another.
Canada, once again, for you.
So, China readers, ole’ buddies of mine, do us all the favor and return to the place where you’re always welcome, my blog.
China, this youtube video is for you.
Let’s be friends like these nice children.
Craigslist
by beehive on Mar.29, 2007, under Uncategorized
A couple of years ago craigslist burst into my world as a place that magic could happen. It was a place that I could get just about anything I wanted, should I really
Now that CL is no longer the newest thing since sliced bread and since I have a steady Cheese and we’re in an ltr, CL is completely not appealing anymore for certain things that I may or may not have used it for in the past - I’m talking tail here, folks.
Anyways, people who used CL were able to find tail at all hours of the day, and be able to make plans to meet within minutes.
I know this to be true based on this particular true-life experience.
See, my friend who I need to call “Jenny” in this read to protect her identity had two dates lined up for one weekend a couple of years ago. One was a date with a dude, and one was with a hot lipstick lesbian, both were with people that she plucked and planned with off of the glorious CL website while she was wasting time at her day job.
Her dude date was for a Saturday night, and it didn’t go well. The two of them just didn’t click; he was too awkward for her to deal with, so she ended up going home alone that night.
This didn’t seem so bad to her at the time because she was highly anticipating her Sunday afternoon date with that hot lipstick lesbian.
Doesn’t that sound good? It just rolls of the tongue - hot lipstick lesbian.
Anyways, her CL female date ended up calling her and canceling that Sunday morning.
Jenny was bummed out at the prospect of her weekend appearing as though it would end up being a bust, and she text messaged me to say how bad it sucked.
I ended up calling her up to cheer her up, and thought she should place a new add up on CL to find some new easy tail. To this, she informed me that she only had access to the internet at her day job.
I wasn’t going to allow my friends internet access situation keep her down. So, while on the phone with her, and without her knowledge I placed an ad up on CL’s “Casual Encounters” which at the time was like a bucket of horned up bunny rabbits overflowing - I imagine that it still is.
The ads title was “My Friend Jenny Needs To Get Laid!!!!”
And the content of the ad basically gave no knowledge of her as a person, other than she had one bad date the night before, had a late cancellation to her afternoon date, and well, that she really want lots of sex before the weekend was up.
After it was placed, I informed Jenny of what I had done, and was curious to see if she was game for my judgment on which anonymous person would be a good match for her. She laughed and was game for it in a heartbeat.
Within ten minutes I had over 70 emails from men, women, and couples that were very interested in Jenny.
Most people sent photos; it was this day that I realized that lots of men think that sending a pic of their manhood is a great way for them to land a date, even if the ad specifically said that I was a dude helping out my female friend.
Some of the men and couples looked promising (she was not interested in dealing with another woman that day after the late cancellation) and I emailed them back while describing them to Jenny.
Keep in mind that I did not have a photo of Jenny to show anyone, so it’s fair for me to assume that all of these people that responded were ready to have sex with a wooden chair if I placed a wig and a dress on it while calling it Jenny - I mean they were really horned up, and this gave me a weird vibe from most of them.
Then I came across a guy who didn’t send a photo, and wrote only something along the lines of “Hi, my name is John, I’m 28, and I have a 14 inch johnson.”
That was all that he wrote, and for some reason this short email without a photo seemed to speak volumes of truth to me - despite this nearly mythic touting of his having a 14-inch member.
I told Jenny about the good feeling in the hunch that I had about this 14-inch guy, and she asked for more about him. A few emails later Jenny was telling me to send him her phone number.
Within 30 seconds of sending it, I heard Jenny’s landline ringing, and she muffled her cell that had me on, this way she could keep her pre-coital conversing a mystery to me.
After nearly ten minutes of me desperately trying to hear their conversation Jenny came back on my line, she told me that the guy didn’t seem crazy, and that she had set up a date for 4PM at the Sketchers store in Times Square.
I let her get off the phone to prep for her “date”, wished her luck, and reminded her to stay safe.
The next day at work I got a thank you email from her, which informed me that she had a great time with the guy. I had to call her to get the details of her date, and see if he was telling the truth about the 14 inches.
The summation of her date to me was something along the lines of:
“He was waiting in the store for me, we walked around pretending to be looking at sneakers, and then after 20 minutes we got on the subway and went back to Queens and did lots of sexin in my bed.”
Her statement immediately left my question open, so I excitedly asked, and her response was, “I didn’t measure it, but it was huge, and I am no longer afraid of having sex with a black man, or “Macho Ralph”. Macho Ralph was a guy that she took home twice before but couldn’t go all the way with him out of fear of his huge size.
This made me shriek with laughter, and I was very happy that it all worked out for her, and it made me even more happy knowing that my intuition on a one sentence email sans photo would be a good match for my friend Jenny.
Discount Store Stories
by beehive on Mar.28, 2007, under Uncategorized
I used to work at a discount store in Brooklyn – cause that’s how Brooklyn I am. It was/is a small mom and pop type of place that sells pretty much everything that you’d find in a Duane Reade or Rite Aid, only without a pharmacist.
The stores customer base was/is mainly local residents, and people that moved away but still drove an hour to do all of their shopping in Bay Ridge, freaks. Given that, if you work there long enough you recognize many of the regular faces easily.
One familiar customer face in particular was a white man in his 60s, soft-spoken, and always polite without being overly friendly in an annoying sort of way – let’s call him Mr. F.
Mr. F. enjoyed doing all of his shopping on Saturday afternoons around 5PM, or Sunday afternoons around 3PM – yes, I worked there a long time.
One particular Sunday in the heat of one particular steamy, hot, August, Mr. F. came in with a whole laundry list of things that he needed. These were all things that he didn’t normally purchase, and he asked for my help in making sure that he got all of the exact things written on his paper since all of the items were “doctor recommended†as he said.
At the top of Mr. F’s list I was able to see that there were instructions on prepping the body for a colonoscopy. With the list below consisting of exact quantities needed of the following Fleet Enemas, Glycerin Suppositories, Phospho-Soda, and Pain Relief Pre-Moistened Anorectal Pads.
Mr. F. got all of the required written items, then stood there for a moment thinking to himself, and then took an extra twin pack of enemas, he said, “Just in case.†As if this amount of internal combustion materials being bought by one person for his or her single usage was a normal thing (it wasn’t normal).
Ewww…
In case you don’t know what all of the above items are, they are over the counter products that help you get lots of bowel a flowing, except for the wipes. The wipes are to try and keep your anus from getting hurt or sore on all of the toilet paper you would have to use when taking any one of those products.
Then after his basket was nearly overflowing with Fleet products, he informed me that he had a colonoscopy scheduled for the upcoming Tuesday, and that he needed to “clear himself out†prior to this appointment.
A week went by, I hadn’t seen Mr. F. since he was normally a weekend shopper, but I had thought about how many times he must have had to race to a restroom from all of the over the counter junk that he had to ingest, or squirt, and or place with effort inside his body. To this I giggled to no end about.
Then the very next Sunday Mr. F. came in, and asked me if we had a particular Biore scrub – sadly, he didn’t mention how his colonoscopy went, even sadder he didn’t mention what all of the Fleet products did to his stomach or his toilet.
Back to this Biore product, I knew exactly what he was looking for, and knew the exact shape and design of this product. I walked him over to the fourth aisle, to show him this product, that’s when I ran into a problem – we had just rearranged almost the entire fourth aisle’s product placement, and I couldn’t find the Biore tube.
As we stood there by ourselves looking for this product I was overcome by a retched, awful, nasty smell of a fart that seemed to be able to burn my retina’s and peel the paint off of the ceiling at the same time.
Mr. F. and I were the only two people out in the store on the floor, and since it wasn’t me, it had to be him.
I momentarily tried to pretend that I didn’t notice his flatulence, while I kept looking for the Biore with one held breathe, and at this exact time Mr. F. took seven giant spaces backwards away from me. Then, he said in the most calm and serious of all manners, this,
“I just farted…â€
I didn’t want to make him feel uncomfortable, so I didn’t laugh in his face, and I couldn’t breathe much longer so my reply was,
“Heeeey, no problem, it happens to all of us†and then attempted to change the subject with “Now I know the Biore should be over here…..???â€
Mr. F. didn’t want to hear any of it, and politely asked, and I swear to God these were his exact words here,
“Could you please leave? I need to do some more.â€
W…T…F?!?!?!
I couldn’t dare laugh in his face, because he had always been so respectful and a nice guy to all of us that worked in the store, so I told him, “okay†and went to go behind the counter to tell the cashiers and the manager what just happened so we could all laugh together behind his back.
As I walked down the third aisle towards the counter, he called me back to his location, and when I got there again he said, “Please, don’t tell anyone about this.â€
I flat out lied to his face with, “Oh, I won’t tell anyone about this.†Then proceeded back to the counter with a huge grin and a barely contained laugh.
When I got behind the counter I had to sit down and whispered the entire story to everyone, then we all laughed, and laughed, and laughed until we cried – Mr. F. was none the wiser, and kept shopping there on a regular basis until he informed us that he was retiring down to Florida a couple of years later.
A Bakers Dozen Awful Ways To Wake Up In NYC
by beehive on Mar.28, 2007, under Uncategorized
1) Getting a phone call from anyone telling you to turn on the Today Show.
2) You wake up from an announcement that the N train you have been riding is at the last stop in Coney Island, when you live off the R line.
3) There is a garbage truck picking up three tons of garbage up off the curb from the restaurant below some chicks bedroom that you had drunkenly accepted the offer into the night before.
4) A bird is sitting outside your bedroom window chirping “THREE! THREE! THREE! THREE! THREE!†none stop for ten minutes. (This one has gotten me three days in a row now.)
5) The police are knocking on your apartment door to see if the woman without identification who just beat up a woman in her 50s directly in front of the local city councilman’s office is indeed your 83-year old grandmother.
6) You awake from a massive amount of horniness building in your shorts and find yourself in an empty bed.
7) Due to his lack of memory, your other boss calls you worried because you didn’t show up to work that day, this, after you already spoke with him two hours earlier to inform him that you were “too sick†(glug glug) to go into work that day.
Your fat neighbor is boasting in an extremely loud fashion to his wife that he “looks so good and fit after losing only five pounds†bleeds through the walls of your bedroom.
9) Your stomach decides to tell you at 4AM that the buffalo chicken wings you ate during a few drinks seven hours earlier was not a good idea.
10) A middle aged Trinidadian woman slips a piece of paper in your mouth while asleep on the D train during an evening commute home.
11) You find that you’re in your cubicle or windowless office, and it’s only 10:45AM.
12) Your dates drunken fumbling with their bedroom doorknob awakes you in time to watch her give up on her attempts of opening the door, and then actively decides that their bedroom floor is just as good as a toilet.
13) You fall out of bed like a four year old.
Shredding Is No Laughing Matter
by beehive on Mar.27, 2007, under Uncategorized
Today, right before lunchtime one of the admins on my floor was trying to peek into the large conference room that I knew for a fact to be empty. She had a meeting in less than five minutes and needed to get in. I offered up my knowledge that it was indeed empty (despite her firm belief that someone was locked inside napping) and informed her who had the key to let her in.
She asked if I could keep an eye on her meetings materials, and left it on top of a wooden lock box that collects the floors confidential papers to be shredded. She asked with the firm statement of “Please do not let anyone dump my papers inside the shred box.â€
I obliged.
Then I heard an unfamiliar voice come from near where the admin left all of her paperwork saying, “Oh, is all this paperwork to be shredded?â€
My initial comment was going to be an “Absolutely not!†and as the “absolutely†was coming out of my mouth I saw that it was creepy Missouri girl asking in a joking manner, so I changed my “not†into a “go for itâ€, and then we had a short smile laugh.
It was the first time she ever spoke to me other than her quiet monotone “excuse me†she’d say if I was in her way by a set of cabinets, despite that we are cube neighbors – never once a hello.
I would never have been able to tell from her monotone voice that she had been joking, thankfully I saw that she had a big grin on her face, it was a laughing grin, so I knew that she had to be joking.
Needless to say, she broke out her Fire Marshall Bill face, since that’s exactly what and whom she looks like when laughing.
This marks the second time I’ve seen her make this face, and I think it’s just great.
New Laptop Troubles
by beehive on Mar.26, 2007, under Uncategorized
So I went out and purchased a new laptop this evening, and besides the hit to my credit card, I am taking a hit to my brain.
For instance, where the hell are the buttons that allow me to use the features that I know for a fact to be in this notebook?
With all of the manuals consisting of either a) troubleshooting notes on things that would make me want to pour gasoline on the notebook, or b) contain advertisements of things that I would never in my life buy. The only things that I seem to find are the easily displayed “uninstall” buttons, which ever so eaily delete all of the beautiful features that I just purchased.
Maybe it’s because I have been living happily at home with my 1999 Compaq Presario, where everything definately ran slowly, however, at least it was all clearly labeled.
Even the control panel is conpletely different.
What happened to everything in this world.
I now know what “Brooks” from the Shawshank Redemption must have gone through when he left prison and went to live in that halfway house.
Reign Over Me
by beehive on Mar.26, 2007, under Uncategorized
I caught the Don Cheadle movie over the weekend with the Cheese. I call it a Don Cheadle movie simply because saying that a good drama is an Adam Sandler movie sounds like an oxymoron to me.
Go see this movie, great storyline, great acting, and it is by far the best movie to feature NYC as the background in a very long time, quite possibly the best ever.
It could be one those out of the blue released at a weird time Oscar movie type of movie, but I doubt that it would get a nomination for two reasons, a) due to its release time, and b) Adam Sandler is a lead.
Don’t get me wrong, Sandler does great in this movie, and will shock most people after seeing this movie. He’s come a long way from Billy Madison.
I’d say more, but I wouldn’t want to be a spoiler, so let me leave you with this about Reign Over Me - I can only hope that I one day write something as good as this script.
For My Faithful Readers From China
by beehive on Mar.23, 2007, under Uncategorized
Where have you been all week? Only one of you stopped by, is there a widespread flu that has kept most of you from coming on? Gosh I hope not.
You know what happens when you don’t swing by much for a week, right? No? Okay, well it gives the Canadians time and room to grow in their loyal readership.
Maybe I should start writing Friday afternoon blogs to help promote good friendships between the U.S. and Canada soon, after all, the Canadian readership consists of all two households in Canada that have internet access having been consistently loyal to this very blog.
With this in mind, China readers, this guy busking for money is doing a great job, and I think that our two nations could learn a lot from him.
What do you guys think?
Greatest Song/Band Ever?!?!
by beehive on Mar.22, 2007, under Uncategorized
Last night as I waited inside my local pizzeria for my cheese calzone, that semi new to within the past four months Dixie Chicks song that goes something like “I’m not ready to back down, I’m not ready to give upâ€, or something like that, came on the radio inside the pizza place, and I found myself internally sings what I think were the words to this song.
Not only was I internally singing it, but I was finding the song to be really really beautiful, it was very simple, without too much complications to be meaningless. This had me thinking that I really must like the Dixie Chicks, and I don’t care if they’re labeled into the Country genre, I really like them.
Then the pizza guy said $12.50 (I was getting more than a calzone) and I was in such my own world from this song it took him saying $12.50 three times for me to understand what it was he was talking about.
Yeup, the Dixie Chicks they’ll do that to you when you’re on their cloud, they rock.
P.S. I never said that I had the greatest taste in music.
A Park In Brooklyn
by beehive on Mar.21, 2007, under Uncategorized
Somehow I forgot to relay this story in my blog. Two Sundays ago it we had a warm Spring-like day with temperatures in the 60s.
It was a great day, so the Cheese and I went down by the water to toss the football around, we both really enjoy this, and I got to do some “Action Jackson†moves. “Action Jackson†moves are named after the movie, and basically consist of running and doing some sort of pansy type of jump while saying “Action Jackson†– I grew up tossing the football like this with friends, and continue the AC tradition for some odd reason.
Anyways after we were done with our game of catch we went for a long stroll back to my place, and then ended up taking a detour to swing on the swings in John Carty Park under the Verrazano Bridge. This particular park has always had its own distinct feel to it that no other park in NYC has, at least to me.
Part of this is due to it being located at the bottom of hill, with the bridge ramps going alongside, up and over its entire length, another part is it is located next to an Army Base so that blocks other residents from using the park – army kids usually play inside the base grounds on their own much cooler parks – we used to sneak in as a kid, and lastly and more importantly this particular park tends to draw much more of the old school creepy Brooklynite type of person – at least that’s how it was when I grew up.
So as we entered the gates to this park that are about 50 feet past the last support posts in the picture – you might recognize this park from the movie Saturday Night Fever. Anyways, as we entered we spotted a guy with a fat rabbit sitting at a bench and table. To be more particular it was a creepy looking middle aged, fat, sweaty, bald guy, sporting a goat tee, who hit a 10 out of 10 on the Beehive Perv Scale petting a fat rabbit sitting at a park table.
As the Cheese and I swung happily until I got motion sickness, which was a first for swings, we watched the pervy rabbit guy sit and watch the kids, and had hoped that at least one of the half dozen or so kids running around were his offspring. I doubt that any of them were his; as it quickly appeared to me that pervy rabbit man was at the park with only his rabbit, his eyes, and the desire for close contact with children. While the Cheese didn’t want to believe this, I am 99% certain that he was.
Scene: Child walking through park sees a pet rabbit, wants to touch pet rabbit, and ask questions about pet rabbit. This is all very innocent since children are by nature curious. Throw in sweaty forehead of pathetic looking fat guy with rabbit and you have a scene of an after school movie.
So as the Cheese and I sat around crashing into each other on swings, a group of ten boys that I appeared to be around the 5th, 6th, or 7th grades came into the park with a basketball. Eight of them were white as can be, two of them were black – one was light skinned black, and the other dark skinned black. At first it appeared that the group of boys flocked to the pervy dude with the rabbit, then as the seconds went by it became apparent that the dark skinned black kid knew what was up and kept walking, while the others all stayed there for minutes playing with the rabbit while pervy looking guy was entirely too close to them for my comfort.
Was the dark skinned black kid the only one taught the “Don’t talk the strangers routine� I doubt it. Was he the only one that was not into seeing a rabbit up close? Probably not; I’m not sure what exactly it was that made that one kid keep walking, but whatever it was it was definite street smarts, and I was glad that at least one kid had some, yet at the same time it gave me a good laugh to see the irony of the entire creepy situation.
(Photo was found on forgotten-ny.com which is a great site about NYC)






