03.15 NUMB THUMB

I don’t own a comb. In fact all that’s in my bathroom is a bar of soap and a $0.79 bottle of shampoo; you know, the cheap stuff that could probably dye your hair orange if you weren’t careful. I keep my hair short enough where I never have to use any hair products. You have to consider the ratio on time spent grooming your hair to getting laid. After five minutes it’s diminishing marginal utility, probably the only term I remember from college level Economics. The reason I sport a 1/8” long buzz cut is that I love to roll out of bed and look like a million bucks (well, maybe a thousand bucks). Anyone with a Mohawk is trying too hard. Once your mohawk gets longer than 10”, it becomes impractical. Every girl wants to touch it, you have to duck under door jams, and your hair gel expense report rivals my drinking tab.

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If there was a song that played when you walked into the room with your mohawk, it should be some Indian tribal shit in an effort to remind you that mohawk2back in the 1700’s, Native Americans didn’t have hair gel, they used cured fat from dead animals to lather in their hair. I mean why else do you think they lived in teepees? They needed to vent all that rotting smell upward towards the atmosphere.

I’ve been bitten by a dog twice. The first time isn’t really story-worthy, because my friend’s dog just plain bit me. That’s seriously the entirety of the story, there’s no potential for embellishing.

The second time I got bitten by a dog I watched a homeless guy get hit by a Nissan Sentra in front of the grocery store. I dragged him over to the curb and his mongrel quickly latched onto my forearm. After kicking it senseless in the head (solely for good measures) the firemen came and lawyers leaped out from the bushes unleashing a flurry of business cards. But they didn’t introduce themselves to me: apparently I wasn’t a victim. Looking back on that day, a lawsuit could only get me possession of his grocery cart full of bottles and cans for a grand total of $2.35. The firemen provided some alcohol swabs for my puncture wounds and a bottle of Aquafina (which they bottle in a smelly chemical plant in Latham, NY. I know this because I lived 5 minutes away from it).

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Even though I’ve been bitten twice, there’s just one dog I’m afraid of. The only truly vicious, heartless, brutal dog was in that Zelda GameBoy game. It was always chained to a fence and would lash out at you if you came within two button pushes of a carpel tunnel syndrome. zelda

That reminds me, what’s with all the DJ’s mixing fucking video game music into their tracks? Yea hearing Super Mario is going to get me some ass; I get flashbacks of blowing dust out from the back of a grey Nintendo cartridge in 9th grade thinking about that hot chick in Honors Math class. God I was a fucking loser in high school, I don’t think I got laid once. Then I went to college, grew some facial hair and “looked like that guy from Incubus.” What? Get the fuck out of here you acoustic-piece-of-groupie-shit. I resorted to carrying stray guitar picks and managed to sleep with a handful of sluts, but it wasn’t from going within 50 feet of a video game console, I can guarantee you that. The most intense video game mashup I heard recently is the theme song to Zelda: Link’s Awakening (OG GameBoy edition). It gave me painful memories of walking through the beginner level village with my dinky sword hacking away at the bushes and hoping to find some of those rupees to buy a bow and arrow from the general store. Of course I never had enough patience to accumulate a sufficient amount of rupees, but there was a secret glitch where if you tried walking out the door ~75 times, you could steal the bow and arrow, but forever be banned from the general store, get electrocuted the next time you walk in, or get maimed by the rabid dog.

The main character had an insane haircut. It resembled a blowout with a little green elf hat perched on top. How he never had to take a break during zelda2the middle of a battle sequence to maintain that perfectly groomed coif still escapes me.gel If Zelda lived in the real world, he’d spend all his rupees on hair gel, and become a kleptomaniac stealing shit from the drug store, ultimately leading into a downward spiral of drugs and alcohol; realistically he’d probably just drink the hair gel. How much alcohol content does that shit have? 1.5%? I just realized that by reliving my teenage glory years, I’ve been playing this fucking game for over 3 hours… I can’t feel my thumbs.

01.24 FRANNY

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NICOLE about to end Franny’s life photographed by Ben DeCamp

01.19 NOT WET YET

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Quality testing of the Moisture Meter photographed by Ben DeCamp

01.15 CALL ME

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200+ phone #’s that girls wrote down on cocktail napkins at bars. Scanned and arranged.

01.13 ENGLISH BREAKFAST

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ANDREA from Mongolia, eating chocolate raspberry cake at The Living Room in La Jolla

01.01 HAPPY NEW YEARS

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SHARONA in San Diego at the penthouse photographed by Ben DeCamp

12.14 FUCK FIESTA

All of a sudden using the word fuck is cool again. Popular websites like LookatThisFuckingHipster, TheFuckingWeather, and FuckMyLife are more rampant than The Salvation Army ringing bells and panhandling outside of department stores.

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The first and definitely last time my mother heard me say fuck, we were in the parking lot of the San Diego Zoo. I didn’t want to see the zoo because I was hungry and the caged elephant made me sad. Don’t get me wrong, I’m no advocate for animal rights by any means; I consume meat like it’s going out of style. I just hate the smell of stale urine in a cramped environment while little kids on a sugar high bump into my legs. Take that same swarm of children in India, and I would’ve had my wallet stolen and succumbed to identity theft before I even got out of the car.

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More so than losing a credit card, I have an irrational fear of losing a winning lottery ticket. In Lake George, NY during the summer of 2002, a man won the Powerball jackpot of an unprecedented $389 million at the same convenience store my Dad and I bought a ticket 20 minutes prior. Clearly ours was not the winner because I wouldn’t be writing this blog and I’d be living on some island in the fucking Mediterranean Sea while dark-haired sluts fed me aged cheese and performed fellatio at predetermined intervals. Dad was always pissed off about that, not the lack of aged cheese, but about not winning the lotto. “We came so close!” He vowed to never gamble again.

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I used to collect and save my fortunes from fortune cookies. You know those one-liners that are more obscure than an astrology reading in the newspaper? Yea, those. I tried playing the digits on the back as my lotto numbers for several years. I would rarely hit two or three numbers, but nothing more. I think the distribution company closed because on the back of the fortune the writing changed from my lucky numbers to, “Learn how to Speak Chinese.” Where’s my lucky numbers? FUCK YOU FORTUNE COOKIE WRITER YOU MOTHERFUCKER does it look like I’m travelling to Beijing to try to seduce some well-mannered and docile Asian chick with the ass of a 10-yr old boy?!? NO.

pam36-23-36. At first glance that seems like a random 3-digit combo that might win big in that quick play 3 number game. Actually they’re the measurements of a recent girl I slept with, or should I say “fucked” in Manhattan. Yea, that sounds cooler, might earn 5 bonus street cred/hipster points by writing fuck. The only reason these digits are relevant is because Pamela Anderson’s body measurements in her prime were 36-24-36, so basically this girl had a 1” skinnier waist which made her ass look an inch bigger than Pam’s. Her face wasn’t that great, but once I realized the mathematical similarities there was no turning back. It was as close as I was ever going to get to having sex with Pamela Anderson. I tried to get her to wear a red bathing suit, but she wasn’t having it. Pam’s ass was pretty good, but the TV show was always about her bouncing tits. Baywatch rarely featured her running down the beach away from the camera, just towards it. I heard she recently auctioned off that red buoy she carried around on set. Not that I’d buy it, but shouldn’t it be donated to the National Lifeguarding Museum?

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Besides reminiscing about my delusional sex life and a near decade of losing the lottery, next time I’ll talk more about going to the zoo with Mom and the tortoise who threw up a piece of banana. Maybe I’ll touch upon the fact that I sported khakis and collared shirts in public school till I was a teenager because I aspired to be successful like my father. By the way, that trip to the San Diego zoo… was when I was 4 years old and I just learned how to swear. Mom spanked me so hard, even she cried. But c’mon give me a break, at that age I just wanted to dress and talk like Dad, help him rake leaves, wash the car, mow the lawn, and do everything and anything that he did because it was cool. By the time I reached high school, I remember saying to myself, “Fuck that.”

12.6 SOFT LIGHT

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12.3 PLEATHER

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VICKI in BUSHWICK photographed by Ben DeCamp

12.2 LOCAL WILDLIFE

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