Jackson Jambalaya

Allegedly someone was Pervin in Purvis!

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I'm hearing that Italo-Disco-Retro song, by Mirko Hirsch: 'Christina'. It was big among the Russians on the pricey end of Great Neck, the year we owned there (It's about the trafficking, back-home, which propelled some of them into the Oligarchy and out of Odessa. They probably found 'Christina' ironic and funny). And the words fit today's situation. How did that dead-eyed girl get lured into that world? Did wearing eyeglasses make her vulnerable, so that one day, when some big ginger hunk told her, "You're interesting as HELL!", she went with the flow, and found herself addicted to the drug he gave her, that ONE TIME he poked her? Is that what happened?

I had two tenants, once, in a furnished condo. One was a model-skinny blonde, from a South Mississippi Lumber Baron family. The other was a pudgy non-blonde, whose father's business predated Amway, but was not much different. They were supposed to be at Millsaps, as were many of our tenants.

Both girls, post-lease-signing, became hooked on drugs, and the dumpy one had a tall ginger hunk of a "boyfriend" - way too good for her - lookswise, anyway. I was in the apartment, inventorying the crystal (Polish - hand-blown - whisper-thin and hard to replace - and they'd already broken half of it: I charged them full retail, even though I'd bought at 80% off), and lamenting the condition of the Italian gold leaf on the bathroom mirrors. That's when the "boyfriend" told ME: "I find you interesting as HELL!" Only the fact that I had somebody bigger and better at home, stopped me from letting him do me. Getting the landlady hooked on drugs, would have been a coup, and a cash cow, for him. You can see how easy it is, for those Judas Goats to lead lambs to the slaughter.

He probably said that to all the girls. Did someone say that to this depraved, dead-eyed Christina? How many years ago? And where did she get those glasses? And WHY? Were they marked-down so much, they'd been marked-out-of-stock, and that's why she chose THOSE? Do the thrifts carry eyewear?

No mention of Meth? I've heard for a decade or more that NIKNAR is the state capital of meth production and consumption. Have I been lied to?

Alcohol Fetal Syndrome kids?

And the lady from Fargo said: “And for what? A little bit of money.”

Is 2:40 having a stroke? Or am I? I can't tell.

Apparently, there's a book, called, '1001 Snappy Comebacks for Druggie Losers'. 3:50 appears to have just used one of those comebacks.

But where are such books sold? In the checkout aisles at the grocery store? Do the long-suffering moms of Gamer/Vape-enthusiast types buy those at the grocery, in the hopes that their young live-at-home 40-year-old sons will have something FRESH to say, to replace what they learned as underachieving 14-year-olds?

I mean, the fiftieth time a boy overhears, "But I CAN'T throw him out on the street! He might do something foolish!" ...followed by, "But Thelma! Wouldn't it be a RELIEF - really? You'd have your life back. You could come to church, again, without having to worry that he's out pawning your good china - again - so he can buy some o' that vape." ...the 40-year-old adolescent boy needs something NEW and witty to yell through the crack under his bedroom door.

And put yourself in the shoes of the 90-year-old widow, who called that hot muscledude on TV, to come line (with hygenic white plastic) the crawlspace under her '50s split-level in Leftover/Lo-ho. At first, she thought she was hearing voices. Then, she realized that a neighbor's 50-year-old great-grandson was under there, doing drugs and talking on his cell phone. "He was saying the same old things, every day, to his mom and his parole officer and his priest/counselor. I got so tired of hearing the same material, day-in, day-out! But then, on the TV, I saw this ad, for '1001 Snappy Comebacks for Druggie Losers'. I got my daughter to order it for me, and got my yard man to chuck it up under the house! And it's made all the difference in my life! NOW, that boy says feisty NEW things!"

Thank you, 3:50, for dropping-in, every day, to share each new zinger with us!

How many uniformed LEO are there in Pelahatchie? Two?

Meanwhile: Post of the month to 3:50! My wife is asking me what the hell I'm laughing at. I closed the bedroom door so she can't hear me.