Greg's Blurty

It's Friday, You Bastards
Hi and welcome to the Depression. Well, it isn't officially here yet and the biggest scam ever yet concocted has been put on hold but I have full faith and confidence in President Bush. I believe he can overcome these obstacles and fully ruin everything he hasn't already fully ruined, including the economy.

Not that any illiterate cowboy from Texas couldn't do it at this point because it's very nearly there now but don't forget who got it to this point in the first place. Give Dubya his due. And you gotta admire the artistry of the death blow. He's not only finishing off the economy but getting us closer to the ultimate tyranny he started with the Patriot Act.

All at the expense of the victims who can't afford it. The arsonists are sending us the bill to put out the fire, even though they really aren't putting it out at all and at the same time are telling us that we are too careless with matches so they are taking our matches away and meanwhile they are still playing with flamethrowers and gasoline.

Can we officially yet say that George Bush never really gave up drugs and alcohol? Or do we still need more evidence? And have we learned anything from this? Are we ever again (If the country does indeed survive and that is a huge IF at this point) going to allow Dennis The Menace to run the country just because he rigged the election after his father stacked the Supreme Court?

Or are we going to be a lot more careful about examining election results? I'm not all that worried about it because I'm over forty and that means I'll probably only be stuck here for another week or so but you younger people might want to do a bit of worrying about it. Do that later, though, on your own time, because it's Friday Night and that means we have to get the Weekly Party Rolling.

And the really good news this week is that the Theme Committee deadlocked. One faction wanted the theme to be the 1930's to commemorate the coming bad times and the other faction wanted it to the 1920's to commemorate the good times that led to the bad times that drove lots of people to jump out of windows.

So, ladies, that means you can come dressed in a flapper outfit OR you can wear just a barrel. It's up to you. Try to remember your Tommy Gun, though, because it's appropriate to both decades. Guys, I really don't care what you wear and no one else does either...well, I take that back. Liberace is going to be here and he just might care about what you're wearing, so if you want to impress him, wear whatever you think might do the job.

Lee really doesn't fit into the theme because he didn't make it big till the 1950's but we needed another piano player and he's really good at it. The rest of the guest list, though...and Miss Bunni, my Executive Vice President In Charge Of Mystical Affairs and Head Astrologer. has been working overtime because just about everyone who is appropriate to the theme decades is deceased...for the most part were really big parts of that era.

Bix Beiderbecke, Charlie Chaplin, Babe Ruth, the Algonquin Round Table, FDR, Bing Crosby, Bob Hope and well, I could list them all but if you're familiar with that time period, you already know them and no introductions are necessary and if you're not familiar with it, the names won't mean anything to you anyway, so just start mingling and find out just how fun and interesting people who died decades before you were born can be.

Either way, it saves me lots of typing and I'm grateful for that. That leaves me more time to have more of these, the drink that Fifi created for tonight:

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Dying Economy

Ingredients:

* 1 oz Brandy
* 1 oz Gin
* 1 oz Rum
* 1/2 oz Lime juice
* 1 dash Bitters
* 1 oz Ginger ale
* Ice

Mixing instructions:

Place all ingredients into a glass, stir, and drink.

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Actually, I'm going to be having Heineken. And even if I did I like horrible tasting drinks with cool names, I'd still drink beer anyway because I don't need to hear any disparaging remarks from Ernie (He was a writer, he still is, as a matter of fact, ask him to show you the galleys for his latest novel, The Torrents Of Autumn...OK, it is a sequel and the critics say he's running out of ideas but take a look at it anyway and be nice, you know what delicate egos writers have) about men who drink suspect drinks.

I guess that's about it. Oh, one last thing. Make sure you save room for dessert. We're having pie and you're gonna love it because we're leaving all the serving to tonight's Special Guest Waiters: Moe, Larry and Curly.

Current Mood: depressed
Current Music: Coast To Coast AM----Thursday September 25th, 2008