Friday night I got drunked up with MM, her boy JL, and a bunch of the kids from her firm. Then my pal Jazz showed up and we headed over to the SAE house on the Millsaps campus. Dear Lord, I wish I were kidding, but oh! Those halycon days of Nat Ice in the can and Pearl Jam covers—reclaimed!
I was almost recovered the next morning in time for MM + JL to pick me up to go grab some furniture she’d bought. Of course an old friend drove by as I was sitting on the tailgate of the El, swigging juice out of a two-liter bottle. At least I was obviously, you know, hungover.
After we got the couches, and State lost—but didn’t get beat, I am careful to point out—I headed up North to meet a friend. The trip was your standard highway blur.
We wanted to stay here but it was nixed—great sign, but the room smelled, uh, not good. At our next stop we saw a small sign for . . . the Esqueda Bros. Circus Extravaganza! Yes, complete with Ninja Snake Charmer, as discussed above. We did score this great space unicorn.
After the circus we chowed down at El Portal, where the server had a baby on her hip the whole time, said baby’s playpen being located handily close to the bar. Then we met a bunch of Irish’s roommates at at bar named Woody’s, complete with buckets of peanuts and ’Bama smacking the hell out of Ole Miss!! Whoo!
The next day we made a quick jaunt to Carrollton, just out of curiousity. Right in the middle of a neighborhood, next to some train tracks, we found this place. We had to go in, where we were faced with some sort of mystery machine. I still gots no idea what it is; Irish says it’s a cotton gin. Anyone know?
Then back to Jax. All in all, it was a totally jordache weekend.
Eli “Google” Whitney says it’s defintely a gin:
http://media.duc.auburn.edu/media/881789658531.jpg
Boy, Carrollton has an eerie past:
http://www.vaiden.net/carrollton_massacre.html
I heart the unicorn.
ceo, are you a father yet?
Gorjus: your couch looks rad in these pictures! At first I thought all those beer bottles were on Joey, and I was about to start screaming.
i’ve seen the unicorn in person. it’s a doozy—definitely the best blow-up-poly-vinyl toy i’ve seen since i lost my fred flinstone (flintstone?) water wings back in the days of yore (i.e. right after i learned to swim like a big kid).
Can’t wait for the cartoon. Love the pictures in the text. definately need a similar journal setup. Fantastic weekend.
Good god, my first sexual encounter was with an SAE at Millsaps. I just had the most horrifying flashback. Glad to hear the place hasn’t changed much in the past decade or so.
note how Montgomery county is spelled in that circus ad.
ninja snake charmers! haw haw haw! hey bake, that’s what you are!
i don’t mean to be a bitch, but that unicorn sucks. it freaks me out.
jazz has really cute hair, though!
so do they get around copyright law w/ sponge bob there on the ticket by claiming that a “special guest impersonator” would be there? haw!
oh, and jesus man…i guess you can tell who didn’t come from the delta. that’s a cotton gin! actually in the picture w/ you looking up you can see part of the vaccume pipe that sucked the cotton out of the trailer outside and into the machine…at least that MAY be what it is from this angle.
i like how you elude to shacking up but don’t come out and say it! haw haw haw!
It is because I am a gentleman.
jazz is hot for a blurry chick.
hot for a barely legal blurry chick…
I just noticed your superfluous Us…screw off.
Actually, North Carrolton /JZ George high were HUGE rivals of Weir….and the county, while sketchy…HAS A HUGE CONGLOMERATE OF DEMOCRATS
What in the world were you doing there?
And, I cared if you were alive, I just stopped checking since you are too busy for the peasants.
Gorjus: where can i get one of those magical changing t-shirts you model in your comic?
also, you never bothered to read my ‘embarassing’ entry about you on CTTU (09.10.04) did you? You don’t love me anymore.
Oh goodness. The rendering of [Irish?] in the last panel is one for the ages. Yet another gorjus drawing I desperately need on a t-shirt, and that right soon.
And the changing t-shirt thing rules. Reminds me of that Semisonic video (Singing in My Sleep?) where the singer’s shirt features a different and nonlinear time (“4:20,” “4:07,”) every few frames. Magic!
I like the square-jawed Gorjus in panel 3. Very, uh, un-Gorjus.
are you saying that i’m not a stoic and heroic type, woodroe? perish the thought!
t/z, you goober, you haven’t looked at yr own blog! my records show i commented on the 13th.
i love the changing t-shirt conceit. originally i was wearing my brand-new & awexxome “ski mississippi” shirt, but it was a) hard to draw and b) too repetitive. so i was just going to wear a star but then thought it would be fun to keep going . . . i need to have xj-9 “catoptric” shirts made up, anyway.
fuck that shirt…did you go through PUBERTY from pannel 1 through pannel 3? haw haw haw
i’d wear an XJ-9 shirt.
damn i need to get that “Polly & the Mooch” TV show’s opening credits done. anyone know how to do flash animation?