GAS!!!

September 30, 2008
It’s a long day of class and my last class ends at 7:35. For my Civil Liberties class, my professor seems to leave out big things about certain cases. I’m also surprised that people support my view on McGowan v. Maryland. It deals with how some guys got fined on selling random shit like a three ring binder on Sunday. Maryland back in the 1960s, they had laws restricting people doing labor and sale of certain goods because they wanted people to be “good ol’ citizens” to rest and stupid shit.
Justice Warren who rights the majority decision feels that the state had legitimate reason to make Sunday “rest day.” He sounds like a fuckin’ octagenarian old timer. I explain that it’s fuckin stupid that have this shit and the fact that Sunday (a Christian day) doesn’t matter. It’s moot. The issue that the state doesn’t have a right to stop people from selling regular shit on a Sunday, just because it’s a good idea to have people “rest.”
Anyway, end of that political rant.

October 2, 2008
After class, I meet up with Evan who gets dinner. We end up watching the VP debate with Brian. I have a few drinks of my vodka while I’m watching it. They both try listening hard, so there’s little discussion during the thing, so it turns out super boring for me since I don’t like either party.
I end up leaving an hour in because I’m drunk, I need get more drunk, and I can’t sit there bored out of my mind. I Stickam with people for the rest of the night and sleep earlier because I have a test at 2:00 the next day.

October 3, 2008
By 8:40, I’m bored, so I start the drank and my two step. I try reaching Evan to do stuff, but he’s watching the new Bill Maher movie. I end up going out to meet up with him and Jonah past 12:00ish because they came back from the movie. We go to a Ramen place where they eat. We walk around for a while and end up sitting around at Evan’s dorm for a bit. I end up leaving at 2:00ish because I’m tired and sleep soon after.

October 4, 2008
I realize that I don’t have much liquor left. I would have to re-up for the night. I go to the Russian liquor store and smoothly get by with buying generic and Georgi plastic bottled vodka. By the time I’m showered and ready to pre-game, it’s past 10ish.
I do my usual drankin’ and Stickamin. Evan is hard to reach and finally at 12ish he says that he’s not sure if he wants to go out. He finally gives me a final decision that he won’t be. I speak to Jonah, but by then it’s 12:30ish and it takes a while for him to get down here since he lives further uptown.
After a while, I decide to go outside for a smoke and call up some people. I end up speaking to Miah for almost three hours, fuckin’ hell. It’s just me talking around, debating random shit, talking about random shit, chain smoking, and I decide that I’m so thirsty from talking/drinking that I need water. However, there aren’t any stores open and I can’t find a cart of some sort for a while.
I end up finding a cart in a skeevy part of Bowery and it’s filled with homeless people and shit. I ask for a chicken gyro, but it turns out there’s only beef on the stick and he randomly gives me that instead. There’s also no anything, just that meat, wrapped by a gyro, and some hot sauce. What was a water trip becomes food and water because I haven’t eaten since 4:00 and I’m starved and drunk.
Then he says “$8.” I’m drunk and confused and pay along. I get Miah back on the phone because I had to deal with the cart. We come to the conclusion that I shouldn’t have paid for that. It’s way too expensive. Gyro should be like $3-4 and a water should be $1. I don’t know where the 80% markup is from, but I guess it’s the only cart open for a distance at this time.
I’m still walking around and I notice the bar across the street from me that Atron couldn’t get into last week. I notice a Q104.3 black van and there are at least 20 around it and they’re all sucking on balloons. Remember that it’s 3:40 now and I’m still on the phone with Miah. It’s seriously one of the strangest things I’ve ever seen and I can’t possibly understand what people are doing.
I try to get one of the balloons, but he says it’s $5. What the hell! I think that it might be helium and people are having fun, but no one around has a high voice or anything. I end up sitting down at a bench and just asking someone what that deal is. He says that it’s nitrous or “laughing gas.” You know, the shit that dentists use.
He says that I should try it and we walk over to get one. Sit back down on the bench and work on it. Only after one puff, I already feel it. It’s like an uplifting lightheadedness. It turns out to be great and it only ends up last 5-10 minutes tops.
The guy that I speak to turns out to be really cool and he grabs my number. I try getting his, but he walks away before I do. Maybe he’ll call about shit to do sometime, that would be cool. However, it’s a bit weird that I see him handling a huge wad of cash after that. Maybe he was involved in the selling of the balloons or something. It’s one of the wads of cash that like bouncers or whoever have, like to take entrance fee and give change.
But really, what is this situation? There’s no way Q104.3 is really doing this illegal shit. So that’s fraud. Then there’s the issue of possession, selling in public, and selling at all and stuff. It’s just crazy that they literally pulled this slick operation off on a lane street in the city.
http://www.cognitiveliberty.org/dll/N20_state_laws.htm

You see where the red truck is? Just imagine the van being right there with people filling up balloons with tanks, 30 people standing around, balloons being sucked and thrown all over the floor at 4:00 AM. Then again, they left soon after cop cars drove by and around.
http://maps.google.com/maps?ie=UTF8&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-a&q=bowery+poetry+club+nyc&fb=1&cid=0,0,675106739067944942&ll=40.725921,-73.992185&spn=0.002045,0.003009&z=18&layer=c&cbll=40.724899,-73.992387&panoid=zccliIljvR41-j5DstiKKg&cbp=1,68.617274896733,,0,4.337264461478547

After this and the van leaves, I finish by little Maker’s Mark 1 shot bottle that I bring along that’s filled with vodka. I end speaking to Miah by 4-5:00ish. I get back, eat the salad that I made before I left, Stickam, and watch The Shield. Start watching The Shield already, it’s tooo good!!