Showing posts with label Wilt Chamberlain. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Wilt Chamberlain. Show all posts

Tuesday, March 19, 2013

The Elton Says Things: Almost Advertising Road Show Pt. 4

      Trying to put the "this guy means sex" thought to rest was difficult, especially when he asked me to follow him to the back of the depot. "It's not for sex!", he repeatedly assured. With growing trepidation, I shuffled behind him, while still keeping my distance. The grass, brown and dead crunched beneath my feet. He lead me toward a dented, rust spotted dumpster that looked a week past it's emptying date. "Okay--", he said while turning to face me, "--here."

I looked at him for about 3 seconds, "What the fu--", then everything went dark.

      I awoke sprawled on the floor with a headache, nausea and a desperate panic to check my rectum for unwanted visitations. I didn't find any. Then again, I've never been taken to "rim town" on the "tube steak express", so, I'm still not really sure. I did know that I wasn't wearing the same clothing. They were gaudy, loud colored and expensive in a hipster sort of way and by God...where the fuck were my underwear.


Like this...but, less hip

      A door creaked open letting in light and revealing my surroundings to be that of a store room of some sort. Dusty boxes labeled "cotton candy supplies" and "cold cream" eased into the light in a sinister fashion. "What the fuck is going on here?", I yelped loudly to whomever was creaking that fucking door, "And stop creaking that fucking door!". Sorry, my head still hurt...hang over style.

      "Gosh, I'm sorry, Mister--uh..", a man wearing full clown garb said. His blue hair, two sprigs lacing a rubber bald cap, red and blue striped pants, an over-sized dicky bearing a polka dot bow tie accented a coat comically too small for him. His white grease painted face and huge red nose grew as he bent to look in my face.


Like this...but, with better teeth.


"Elton, my name is Elton, who in the fuck are you?"

"Golly, you curse a lot. My name is Melvin. Melvin the Merry!"

      I looked at him in puzzlement and responded, "Outta my, weird motherfucker.", and dashed to the door as quick as my contusion afflicted brain could carry me. I didn't make it far. My brain scolded my efforts with anguish fueled throbbing as Melvin hurriedly blocked the door. I bounced off of his clown body and met the floor a second time. It was then that I noticed the full breadth of what I was wearing, "Holy, shit in a hat! What the fuck am I wearing?".

      I too was wearing striped pants, yellow and black, like a retarded bumble bee. I checked my face and it was smeared in grease paint. My shirt was the anomaly in my already freakish get-up. "Dicks are for Chicks?", I inquired.

"It was the only thing I could find in your size. My last speaker ruined my special speaker suit. I had to improvise.", the crazy clown answered, "I'm sorry, Impy Elto, you can't leave right now."

"Who the fuck is Impy Elto?", I questioned while slowly standing, my brain still protesting.

"That's yer clown name, silly!", the maniacal clown said while erupting in garish laughter.


Pants...officially shit in.

      "What in the shit is wrong with you? You can't keep me here. It's illegal. Clowns don't break the law, they...squirt shit--seltzer, they squirt seltzer and scare kids, they don't kidnap."

"I'm a different kinda clown."

"Well, fuck you and your difference, I need to get the fuck out of here."

"To break Wilt Chamberlain's record? I know, I heard, the hobo that sold you to me told me. He was a nice man."

      "FUCK WILT CHAMBERLAIN! I need to get the hell out of here because YOU'RE here, you nutty clown fuck. I don't want to be near a crazy fucker in clown shit. I need to be near other people in regular shit faaaarrrr the fuck away from here.", I made my way to the door. Melvin stepped in front of it.


Nooo leavin' for you, nope, nope!


"I'm afraid that can't happen, Impy. You have a job to do!", he said while doing a dance and honking his nose horn, "You're the big speaker at the convention."

"What in the happy horse dick are you talking about?"

"'The Annual Festival of Beleaguered Clownsmen Family Fundraiser Blood Rally for Satan', of course."

"I'd be fear shitting right now, if I wasn't beyond the capacity for terror. I think I've reached a whole new level of scared. Like,...slowly falling into a sun made of broken glass shaped dicks...with teeth."

      "I...don't know...what that means, but, your speech is up next, so, you'd better get ready. Plus, you'll the blood sacrifice we eat afterward, so, you might want to shave.", Melvin the wonder weirdo said as he exited, bolting the door on the other side.

      My mind raced, as I frantically searched for a way out. I flipped over boxes, kicked at the door, finally spinning in circles until I was dizzy. I was lost and hopeless. I couldn't help but think that of all things I should be wishing for...I wanted Wilt Chamberlain dug up and shit on.


Google just delivered the most awesome picture in existence.

      I resigned myself to my fate and thought about what a waste my life had been. I cried. Then, the door opened and my tormentor wrested me from the floor. "Come on, silly billy. The crowd's awaitin'", he said, while guffawing in a way that made me vomit in my mouth a little. He walked me out of the store room around a corner and up a small set of stairs. I was on a stage, flush with lights glaring in my face. I could see hardly more than silhouettes. "Just read what's on the cards and you'll be fine.", he whispered while grabbing the mic to introduce me, "Ladies and gents, our sacrifice for the evening, Impy Elto would like to say a few words. Impy?", he shoved me toward the podium and disappeared down the stairs into the crowd.

      My brain hurt and I strained my eyes against the lights. I looked down at a set of note cards scrawled over with what looked like crayon writing. I strained to read them for a moment then gave up. If I was going out...it would be dicking with clowns.

      "Hello, you weird mother fuckers.", I started, "You're a twisted bunch of bat shit crazy weirdos and I'd love to see you ass fucked with broken bottles. That is...except the pretty ones...they can get fucked twice!", I wretched the mic from it's stand, pulling the cord in the process, which in turn began to topple the crowd. They were cardboard. "Hoooly shit.", I said while observing a shadowy figure racing toward the stage. It was Melvin in a panic.

      Thinking quickly, I waited until he was in range and whacked him fully in the eye with the microphone. He took it bluntly and stopped. "What the hell did you do that for?", which I replied to with a swift kick to his clown genitals. He dropped like the heavy sack of freak that he was. I stepped on his face while I ran for the glowing outline of a door. Throwing my shoulder into it, I opened it with an explosion of pain. I was outside. What I had been in was a garage and what awaited me outside was what I later learned was Melvin's mother, putting trash into a trash can.

      "Who the hell are you?", she asked, appropriately startled. I responded with a swift kick to her genitals. He too dropped like a hot bag of granny freak.


Pussy...kicked in. Boom.

      The rest of what happened is pretty run of the mill. I ran to a neighbor of the freak, used a phone, called the cops, blah, blah, blah. The main thing I learned is this. If you want to advertise a blog...don't attempt to break a record you have no business breaking. It's easier to just buy an ad in a paper or something.

Sunday, February 3, 2013

The Elton Says Things: Almost Advertising Road Show Pt. 2

      I'll admit, trying to break a record I had no way of breaking was pretty stupid. Still. It was an idea, which was more than I had when I started. Paying for my burger, I thanked Gordon and Earl for their..."inspiration". They, in turn, wished me luck, well, Gordon wished me luck. Earl gave me the finger.



Boom.

      The air whipped across my face, like an unwarranted penis slap when I exited the diner. The crisp chill snapped me back to reality and it's infernal logic. Was I really going to do this? What the hell was I doing? Break Wilt Chamberlain's record? How the fuck am I going to break Wilt Chamberlain's 100 point record? Isn't that an NBA record? Don't I have to be in the NBA to break that? Isn't that like...a union or something? Shit. Shouldn't I know how to play basketball first?


Not Pictured: basketball skills.

      Questions ripped through my brain as I crossed the street. Making my way to a bus depot that looked like it had seen better days...in the sleaziest part of the 1970's. Resembling a proper back drop for drug dealers and hookers...if they were slumming it, the grime thickened the closer I got. I entered and edged toward the ticket counter skirting a floor dwelling bum, snoring thickly amid drunken slumber...and his puddle of urine.

      "Can I help you?" the ticket seller half yelled in a bored, annoyed tone as I approached his plexi-glassed station. "Yeah, I need a ticket to Hershey.", I responded, in the kindest sound my irritation could muster.
Clacking away on his out of date keyboard, I could sense his resentment. This guy hated the ever lovin' shit out of his job. Squinting at the screen, muttering and jabbing at the monitor, he practically seethed with angst. I almost felt sorry for him...but, I really didn't care. I just wanted a damned ticket so I could hurry up and fail at basketball.

"It'll be thirty-one bucks.", he chirped, most of his bitterness now, hidden behind a facade of disconnection.

"What the fuck?! It's only, like...an hour away, right?", I pouted.

"Are you asking? I could look it up.", he replied., his answer slathered in sarcasm.

"What the shit! I don't have thirty bucks to--"

"Thirty-one.", he interjected snidely.

I glared at him coldly. "--thirty-ONE fuckin' dollars to piss away on a trip to Hershey."

"Soooo.", he replied with his finger hovering over the delete button.

"Is there anything cheaper?", I asked.

Turning to the monitor he squinted again, "Let me check.". His fingers punched at the keys in a broken staccato of assholery. "Nope."

"Well, that's fucking great. What the fuck am I going to do now?", I angrily asked...rhetorically.

"Don't know. What were you going to do anyway?", he answered...and asked.

"I was going there to try and beat Wilt Chamberlain's 100 points in a single game record."

Discreetly rolling his eyes, he idly tapped at his keyboard. "Who's Wilt Chamberlain?"


Now imagine the smell of stale farts. You're welcome.

      "He was a basketball player in the NBA.", I replied as an afterthought. My mind was desperately trying to figure a way to get the ticket money. The bum behind me grumbled slightly and readjusted himself on the floor...and farting in the process.

"Didn't he fuck a lot?", the clerk inquired, derailing my hopeless train of thought. "What?", I responded.

"Wilt--what's his name. He banged a lot of chicks, didn't he?"

"Yeah, that's the rumor."

"Well, fuck, dude, that's the record you should be breaking.", he said in revelation. "I think it's like 20 million chicks or something, right?".

      "That's insane. That would literally be like fucking the population of Australia. There's no way Wilt Chamberlain fucked Australia.", I retorted, "He would have pulled his own dick off in the process or have worn to a nub from all the friction.".

"Yeah, maybe you're right. Though, it's still a better record to beat than some bullshit game.".

"If it weren't for all the A.I.D.S, rejection and possibility of one or more of those women being a man, I might have entertained that thought. Either way, the game seems like it's more doable.", I elaborated.

[to be continued]

Monday, January 14, 2013

The Elton Says Things Almost Advertising Road Show--ish.

      Walking to the podium, my throat was dry and I was starting to sweat. The lights beat down on me with a heat, almost too intense to bear. I was probably exaggerating. I was anxious, nervous and wearing a pair of clown pants...going commando. That didn't help much. Plus, wearing grease paint didn't facilitate the kind of confidence I was assured it would. Why I was wearing a shirt that read, "Stop Being A Prick, Dicks Are For Chicks!", What the hell does that even mean?

      The crowd, silhouetted amid the spot light glare was deathly silent. I placed my pre-written speech cards on the podium, adjusted the mic and took a breath.
"How did I get here?", I wondered as I opened my mouth to speak. Oh yeah, I remember...

Wilt Chamberlain.


That magnificent bastard.

      Having just spent the previous two weeks drunk and broke, I decided to take my newly reborn zeal for writing on the road. It was a new year and time for new lease on career building. If I was to make any money blogging, people had to know I had a blog. I decided the best way to get the word out was old school advertising. It seemed the cheapest and most cost effective. Before I could start,...I had to eat. 

      "You've got a what?", said Gordon, an old guy I had just met, sitting to my left at the diner's counter. I explained what a blog was...again...and continued eating my bacon, double cheese burger with a side order of arterial plaque. "...and you're taking a trip...to advertise it?". I nodded in affirmation. "Can't you just do that ON the internets?", he said with obvious lack of technological lingo.


So? Who farted?

      "I could, but, it would just get lost among all the other people advertising blogs and bullshit...and porn." 
"There's porno on the internets?!", my ancient diner acquaintance exclaimed in disbelief, "Where do I sign up?" he chuckled. I replied, mouth full of burger, with scoffing laugh, mocking him. He didn't get it.

      "Did you know about these porno-nets, Earl?", Gordon said to Earl, his equally old counterpart who, until now, had been engrossed in a news paper. Without looking away from his paper he said,  "No I didn't." flipping to the next page. Apparently, Earl is a man of few words and a complete disinterest in sweet, sweet porno.

      "How do you plan on advertising yer...bloggin-whatsit?" he asked. "I'm not sure really. I just know that I want to do it in the real world and not online. I want it to be memorable, then, it might go viral...on the internet.". 

Like herpes...or a Family Guy quote.

      Gordon, brow furrowed in confusion tipped back his trucker cap and scratched his head. "You want to advertise something that's on the internets--in the real world, so that people will see it, make it viral by putting it back up on the internets.", he recounted. "Yes.", I confirmed. "That's the dumbest thing I've ever heard of.", Earl chimed in. 

      I gave Earl a sideways glare, which he didn't see. Gordon ruminated for a moment and said, "So,...you need a gimmick." he concluded. "Basically. Yes." I established, "Something everyone will remember.". 

I took another bite of my burger, as we contemplated various gimmicks. "You could strap a dildo to your forehead and call yourself Captain Dickman, King of Cockland and dance around at intersections, flopping around your forehead penis...and maybe do some singing.", Earl interjected...to the bewilderment of Gordon, Me and the waitress who was bringing Gordon a slice of key lime pie. 


      He looked up at the waitress and asked, "You'd remember that wouldn't yuh?", to which she replied with awkward silence and quietly walking away and eyeing him over her shoulder. He went back to reading his newspaper and muttering, "I'd remember the shit out of that.".

      "Hey are you any good at sports? People love the hell out of sports and that kind of stuff", Gordon contributed breaking Earl's statement's awkward spell. "It depends, I guess on what--", I managed to get out before Earl added, "You could break Wilt Chamberlain's 100 points in a single game record.". 

      Again, Gordon and I were befuddled and looked at Earl in silence. He looked back at us and said, "What? There's a write up about it in the paper. Something about a guy who was at that game...or something. It doesn't matter. The thing is, no one has ever broken the record. It would be one hell of a memorable advertisement, event...viral...what have you. You'd be famous."

"Hey, he's right!", Gordon exclaimed, "You'd be in the history books.". 

"I'm not good at basketball." I admitted, "I'm a terrible shot and kinda clumsy and I'm white. Excessively white.".

"Ah, well, it's worth a shot, right? Just saying you're going to do it might be enough.", Earl amended.

"Sure it would--", Gordon said, "They'd remember it even more if you did it where Wilt got the record."

"Where is that?"

"Hershey, Pennsylvania, right up the road from here.", Earl informed.

"It seems a little outlandish and impossible.", I scoffed.

"You could always sport that dildo and do a dance.", Earl rebutted.

      Being that I didn't have a dildo. I decided to go for the record, despite not having the ability, talent or skill set necessary to achieve it. It might be fun to try, right? I'd never get that far, however. As I would find out...even the dildo get up would have been a hell of a lot easier.

[to be continued...]

{Oh, a quick side note: I've started contributing at another place. You can read it here. I've also started a "talk radio show"...that's on the internet. It can be found here. I do it every Saturday at midnight. You can call into it and talk to me! The number is (347) 326-9252. Feel free to call and harass me to no end. It would definitely "up" the entertainment value.