Wednesday, May 10, 2006

the nasonex bee

Is this bee high?


It's the Nasonex bee. He's usually flying around flowers and just acting what I would assume would be bee-like, although he has some odd hispanic undertones. In the commercials, he says things like, "I have returned, a changed bee."

He's always smiling and get's great enjoyment when the giant nasonex bottle sprays allergy inhalents all about. Maybe I'm wrong. It's just an observation.

But what a weird ass motherfucking logo, huh?

Wednesday, May 3, 2006

Damn my Tri-holed keys!

Why does every key on earth look like this now?

I literally have about 15 keys on my keychain that look exactly like this. In fact, I would bet that you do as well. Like me, you probably only remember what each of them is for in sheer relation to what order thay're in on the rings... and this, my friends, can no longer stand.
I want to know why this design is so great. I mean, is it that you have 3 holes in which to choose to add painfully to your keyrings? That said, you're likely going to go for the middle hole because it has greater depth and allows the key to be seperated from the ring a little farther. Well, if all keys produced on earth will now look like this, I'm going to rebel and start putting the rings through one of the holes to the left or right.
When somebody goes to give me a key to something, I'm already betting in my head (before I even see the key) that it's going to look like that. I'm already agonizing on how the fuck I'm going to remember that particular key for whatever function it might be for. The simple fact that it might say "Wal-Mart" or "kwikset" is not enough for me to keep it seperate. I need more.
And why that design? Really... In your decision to have a key made, what made you decide to go for that one? You might like unifomity on your keyring, but I do not. I want variety. I don't like putting 17 keys in a lock before I finally pick the right one. I also don't like the little rubber things to add to the top of the key in order to differentiate. No, you should have thought about that when you had this key made. Isn't there another design, like a skeleton key, or a key with fur on it, or something like that?

Man. Fuck that key design. I've about had enough. I already find enough things to waste time on and unlocking the door should not be one of them.
I won't be happy until I get a key that looks like this:


My new Bozo key. Hopefully carried at Wal-Mart by 2007. One can only hope.

Thursday, April 20, 2006

One of these days

As many of you know, I'm getting mairred sometime this year. While it is probably a long ways off, once can't help but bring to mind the popular old saying: "First comes love, then comes mairrage, then comes Fucko with the baby cairrage" or something like that. With that in mind, it's never to early to start planning. So here's a few names I have possibly reserved for my future children:

General Louis Godfried Terito
Needle Van Terito
Terito Terito Terito
Lord Stackhouse Terito II
The boy
The girl
Whtever that is Terito
Hairless Waxy Terito
the Flying Terito Bros.
Sperm that met Egg
Air
Ezekial Legend Terito
Apple Terito
the Pope
Smartie McSmartie Smart Smarr!
Garnish Plate Terito
Taco
Virtual Terito
2-D
Lonnie Terito
Little Laughing Lawrence Limping Last to Los Verdonas
Topher Patton Terito
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Smiley
Roar Teritostein
Zeston 2000 PVC Insulated Fitting Cover
April Tuesday December Terito
Sandra.Walking.Fast.Ter.Ito
Sony Presents My First Baby
Turn The Channel, Son
President George Washington Terito
Johnny Superman Terito
Next
Samuel Corey Terito 4: The Revenge
Turbo Terito
SHUT UP! Terito
The New Terito, Made Possible With a generous grant from the good people at Exxon
The Better Me
Doctor Linda Terito
Running Wolf Terito
Running Water Terito
Sam Terutti (I actually got mail addressed this way once.)
MJH-6895
The 2009 Ford Terito
Flash Terito
First Pick of the 2033 NFL Draft Terito
Teri To Terito
Bambi Candie Terito
Frank Sinatra Terito
Nailbomb Terito
Matsui Yamiko Terito
Sodium Citrate + Boric Acid
The Big Letdown Terito
Grizzly Toughman Terito
Ponyboy
You Better Be A Doctor or Lawyer Terito



That's all I could come up with for now. Any other suggestions out there?

Monday, April 17, 2006

Welcome to Moderately-priced Commercial Foodville!

Don't you hate it when you go to a restaurant during the lunch rush, and the waitress is immediately all over you. Like, the hostess has just set your menus down, your pulling out your chair and the waitress is already saying "what can i get you to drink?"... Suddenly, i know how this lunch is going to be. They want you to hurry the fuck up, they wanna get your $24.95, and get the next fat asses in those chairs. A perfect world for these over ambitious servers would be you saying "Um, I'll take a water with lemon, a tortilla chip, and the check!" and then they sprint to the POS register to key-in your bill.

Calm down. Please. I'm going to choke to death on my chili con queso and make a scene. Then I'll be in my chair for a considerable amount longer, prompting you to forgo all of the dough you'd have made on table 13 today. You thought it was going to be great because you're working with Christi the hostess today and she hooks you up. "Have you guys decided yet?". NO!

I'm a good customer too. If there's a wait, and I have to go get a drink at the bar, I will always close the tab so the bartender doesn't get fucked. I'm not the type who when my table is ready, would say "Can you transfer that to my table?". That's not fair, and I don't do that. Therefore, I'd like a millisecond to decide what I'm going to eat.

I also get annoyed by those servers who are asking you every 2 minutes if you need anything. It's not like everything has gone awry in 90 seconds. I don't foresee the following happening. "Is everything ok?". "Yes, it's fine. Thank you." Waitress walks away, and the burger falls apart and into your lap. Your date spills a glass and knocks your plate over while packets of Splenda explode and you stab yourself in the eye with your fork. Not too likely. I've devised a way to thwart this. Just ask for something everytime they come over. "Can I get some ketchup?" "Can I get some mustard?" "Can I get some more napkins?" "Can I get some bread covered with powdered soap flakes, toasted, with somebody to help me chew it up because i have bad teeth, with a little Gheghis Kahn trading card and VHS version of the film 'Witness' starring Harrison Ford and Lucas Hass...?"

"Can I get the check?"

And then it's like a bolt of lightening to the register. She's thinking "Oh holy fucking shit! Table 13 has FINALLY finished their meal. I mean, it only took like 12 minutes!!! Don't they know this is Chili's, where lunchtime minutes are like flakes of gold and money...Don't they?"

I'm always tempted to sit there after the little book has been brought out for me to sign. Just chew some ice cubes. Stretch. Look around for the waitress seething with anger. I don't really do it. And I always still tip well. Still, if i'm taking 30 seconds to say goodbye to my ailing greandmother, just chill. Don't come take the check folder thing away, thus completing our little lunch interaction. I want to be out of there when you see the tip. When you see the little present I left. It's always at least 20%. But don't look before I leave. It's like opening your birthday presents before the party.

But anyways. I was good today too. Where's my tip?

Wednesday, March 29, 2006

everything is blah.

my creativity has hit the wall at 65 miles an hour.

boom. bam. whatever.

I've never been on lithium. never. but one of the things i've heard about it is that it completely stifles all of your creative being. you don't feel like reading, writing, playing guitar, skateboarding. nothing. you just feel like sitting there. well, i think i've got a natural taste of it. i don't understand. a lot of times i'll sit there in a coffee shop with my laptop and try and write a story or lyrics, or anything. just get something on a page. then i drink so much coffee that i've energized myself past my own imagination. not that i'm really deep or anything because i'm not. i'm not the type who writes poems or spoken word, or keeps a leatherbound composition book or anything. no... i write songs about getting a bee in your car, or songs about meat, or songs about falling off your bike. then i record them and never play them again.

by the way, to all the ladies with the betty page haircut. that's so original. nobody has ever had that cut, ever.

i'm turning 28 this week. perhaps you can buy me a new sweater so that i can be responsible. i used to have a sweater that i called "the responsibility sweater" because at 24 it made me look like i was 30. not that i didn't already look 30 when i was 24.

i run in my neighborhood in the mornings. often, i'm running into the direction of the sun so i close my eyes. people drive down the street and see some maniac running with his eyes closed. still, that's better than people who run with sticks or golf clubs because they're afraid of being jumped. maybe tomorrow i'll run with something impractical, like a lawnmower or a garbage can. maybe a stereo so people will call the cops because they think i'm a thief. when i get stopped, i'll just tell the police "well, this is my stereo. but that lady over there stole my golf club."

the other morning, i was sitting in a hotel room with mac, joe, brennan, matt walsh, daniel, and danny moore. we were watching duke play in whatever round they were in before they got beat by lsu. we were talking about Fun Fair Park. somehow we got onto the topic of "Fun Unfair Park", which would probably be anything but fun. it would cost the person in front of you $5, and then it would cost you $10. when you complained, they'd just say "Life's not fair, kid. Welcome to Fun UNFAIR Park". then as you walked from ride to ride, people would sporadically punch you in the stomach.

anyways. i'm out. i'm going to work on that song i was writing about a bee getting in the car while you're driving.

Friday, February 24, 2006

shit keeps hitting me in the head

Man, I keep fucking myself up. For some reason, my face and head have become a target lately and if I don't watch out, something really bad might happen. One thing is for sure... if you get hit in the face or head with something, it really fucking hurts. In the last 3 weeks, I've encountered 2 sure fire incidents that had the potential to be far worse than they ended up being. Though that doesn't mean they were painless. I could have lost eyes, nose, lips. I'm just saying... be careful around me!
The first one happened on Super Bowl Sunday. This weekend always plans to be a severely drunken blur that usually results in me doing something stupid, and this year was no exception. We were all out at Mike's to watch the game, and afterwards to watch the let's-get-drunk-and-play-with-explosives display. Kegs, Football, and Firecrackers. See, Gonzales has a variety of hillbilly firecracker stands where you can find something moderately priced to blow your hands off with. I didn't have much interest in them because I was fucked up out of my mind, so I opted to stand in the front yard and discuss some sort of mindless bullshit that probably had little to no meaning whatsoever. (Actually, I think I was asking Julie why Ascension Parish didn't use street names. Instead they opt for numbers. Getting directions in Prarieville/Dutchtown/Sorrento is like a math problem: "Take a right on 61, go down to 22, and when you get to the light at 16, turn left at 14 and then 17 98 = 115, carry the one...".. ahem.)
So as I'm saying this, a flaming ember flies out of the sky and hits me in the mouth. I'm in the middle of a rant and just POW!.. right in the face. I remember people looking at me, then seeing this happen, then erupting in laughter. I was like "Mother FUCKER!", immediatly grabbing my upper lip and testing for blood. It was like God was getting me back for talking trash about the numbered streets. I couldn't shave for about 3 days because of this burn under my right nostril. To add to the embarassment, the scab sort of looked like a booger. How convenient. Later on in the evening, Mike burned his hand pretty bad and eventually Ashley shut down the show. Although lack of alcohol might have thwarted these incidents, it's presence certainly helped numb the pain. It healed about 4 days later for the scab to fall off, but for the rest of my life people will be able to say "Hey, Sam. Remember when you got hit in the face with that firecracker?".
So then last night, we go to Star 80 at the Moon to dance our little butts away. Again, a few drinks after we got there and I was working it like Janet Jackson. Now, if you're familiar with the Spanish Moon, you know there's a huge upstairs loft area with a railing overlooking the downstairs, stage, etc.. I think i was in the middle of singing "Always Something There To Remind Me" when I felt a painful POP on the top of my head. This was immediatly followed by the splattering of liquid, and glass... and then by a warm trickle of blood from my forehead to my cheek. Some asshole had dropped a beer bottle from the second story, probably about 20 feet up and it came to rest on my forehead.
This hurt considerably more than the firecracker, and i was handed fistfulls of bar napkins to stop the tremendous bleeding. Aimee, Joe, and Mac were on a tear up the stairs to find the culprits while I ended up in the kitchen with a migraine and some saturated bloody napkins. This REALLY pissed me off. The firecracker was funny. I mean, that seems like a fair retaliation for talking smack about Gonzales, but getting hit in the skull with a bottle while your dancing to 80's pop songs is extremely inappropriate. I mean, I already look stupid dancing to this. Severe bleeding from the forehead while "I Don't Wanna Lose Your Love Tonight" is playing is too much. I would have much rathered the firecracker.
Joe kept saying "SAM! YOU NEED STITCHES! TRUST ME, I KNOW A LOT ABOUT NEEDING STITCHES!" while I tried to pull the hair on my receding hairline over the gash. In the end, my attackers escaped. I at first wanted to keep this all under the rug, and I told Mac and Joe both as I was dropping them off back at the NGT to keep it quiet. Before I could get out of the parking lot, people were running out to the truck to see my new head wound. I ended up using the neosporin and peroxide healing method, but i'm sure that as I continue to lose my hair, the iminent scar will be visible. It just goes to show you that God will punish me for a variety of reasons. People have often said to me "Sam, this could only happen to you..." and it just goes to show that they're probably right.

So, anywhoo. Make sure you keep your shields up around me.
Peace on earth,
Sam

Thursday, February 9, 2006

Conversations I will have today...

"Hello. My name is Sam Terito. You have a great restaurant here. It's very nice... I like.. no, I love the atmosphere. Looking at the menu, I see you have a very good selection, and it's very reasonably priced. The table cloths look very clean, (::smiling::) Almost starched, they're so white. I like the lighting. Very mellow. Listen, I'm going to order a rediculous amount of food, but I don't want to pay for any of it. Would that be ok? I mean.. would that work for you?"

"Um, no sir. I don't think we can do that..."

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"Hello Dr. Johnson. It's Sam. Sam Terito. Look, I'm so sorry to call you this late. I just have a quick question. I was going to eat this entire jar of mustard but I wanted to check with you to see if it was safe. Can I do that? I mean, would that kill me?"

"Well, Sam... It's.. What time is it? Jesus, it's 3 oclock in the morning... Ok, now what? A jar of mustard? I don't think that would be wise. It could probably make you sick..."

"Well... it's actually the squeezy bottle kind. Does that make a difference? I mean, is that ok?"

"Oh, the squeezy kind. Yes that's fine. Go ahead. (Click)"

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"I like this car. I mean, this-is-a-fine car. How much is it? Like, how much would I have to give you to walk off with this car right now?"

"Hmm.. Let's see.. TT and L, everything.. Around $35, 250..."

"What? Shit. I thought that was yen. I like thought that was 35,000 yen, you know... Fuck. Could I just give you yen?"

"No. No you can't, you fucking idiot..."

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"Dr. Johnson. It's Sam again. Look, I know we went over the mustard thing already. I guess I learned my lesson. I literally vomited for what seemed like forever. I have another question. Don't answer too quickly now. Think this over...."

"Sam..."

"Ok.. ok. Here it is. If my arm is physically detached, is there anyway it will grow back? I saw this show about lizards on tv, and their tails will grow back. Like, would that happen with humans too"

"No, Sam. Now please..."

"Uh oh. I think we might have a problem then..."