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Rev Roger, MSY24: Back in The City

Started by The Good Reverend Roger, March 27, 2008, 04:32:12 AM

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The Good Reverend Roger

March 27, 2008, 04:32:12 AM
We moved into our new digs in Tucson yesterday.  Our place is between the business district and South Tucson, a notorious neighborhood full of pimps and dealers and bangers...in short, where the stories are.  A neighborhood that reminds you that you are alive, for at least as long as it takes The City to kill you.

Our landlord is a gun dealer/gunsmith by the name of "Coffee Bean" Ortiz.  He is called Coffee Bean, I am told, because he is small, brown, and bitter.  He is also armed, armed in a way that would make Charleton Heston cry.  He was wearing 2 pistols and a knife when I met him, and that's just what I could see.

When we first spoke, he asked me what I did for a living.  I told him I counted cabbage, and handed him 6 months rent in cash.  He just nodded, and told me not to blow the place up.  I imagine he thinks we make meth; the truth is, of course, much worse.  I have decided to take a few months off and do some writing...and, while a meth man can be understood, nobody likes renting to writers.  We are constantly surrounded by oddballs and weirdos that no self-respecting drug dealer would have anything to do with, and every Superbowl results in serious structural damage and endless police reports.

Coffee Bean helped us unpack our arsenal, nodding at each weapon with approval.  He is, like myself, a man that appreciates fine craftsmanship.  Then he offered the use of his indoor range, and made his goodbyes. 

We finished unpacking, and decided to put everything away in the morning.  A coffee was in order, so we headed down to a little coffee shop on Broadway, across from the cable access studios.  Sitting down out front, it occurred to me how much I have missed The City.

Don't get me wrong...I will miss my house on the mountain, where every morning, I could walk out in nothing but a pair of engineer boots, and take a big leak off the side of the mountain, onto the town below.  I am sure the town will miss their Rain God too, for it will be dry and parched without me spraying my toxic and diseased urine 300 feet down onto their quaint collection of trailers and broken down cars.

But that was then, and this is now.  I am back in The City, surrounded by hookers and freaks and the dirty boys on Grant Road.  I can look out on the gritty streets and the crazies shrieking at passing cars, at the crooked cops and the hard-working criminals, and know that I am home again.  They are the Doomed, the scum, the hop-heads and damaged, and God help me, I am their King.  Or at least their high priest.

Or kill me.
" It's just that Depeche Mode were a bunch of optimistic loveburgers."
- TGRR, shaming himself forever, 7/8/2017

"Billy, when I say that ethics is our number one priority and safety is also our number one priority, you should take that to mean exactly what I said. Also quality. That's our number one priority as well. Don't look at me that way, you're in the corporate world now and this is how it works."
- TGRR, raising the bar at work.

Mesozoic Mister Nigel

#1
March 27, 2008, 11:06:29 AM
You are cute. Anyone, properly prepared, could make Charleton Heston cry.

What you could do might make an impression. What I could might do might make an impression.

I like your stories. I would like to come visit your cult of personality, with my cult of personality.
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Cramulus

#2
March 27, 2008, 02:35:53 PM
Great entry Rog. You really do have a way with words. Your prose reminds me of a Hunter S Thompson narrative.

So are you gonna be a cop in Tuscon now? Or are you just living there while enforcing Roger Law outside of it?

Payne

#3
March 27, 2008, 02:57:56 PM
Fuckin hell Rog, you have set yourself up in the perfect place to "just be yourself".

As for your previous residence, I'm certain that some aspects of your (oh so brief) stay there will reverberate for years to come, like the aftershocks of a particularly nasty earthquake.

I fear the results of six months of writing, however. I might prefer it if you really were manufacturing meth.

LMNO

#4
March 27, 2008, 03:01:17 PM
If this is any indication of the quality of writing, I am going to love the next six months.

It's like our own Lester Bangs/HST/Spider Jerusalem, ITT.

Jenne

#5
March 28, 2008, 12:53:15 AM
I'm wondering if you'll let us know where you plan to publish...  *morbid curioisity wut*

Also, MOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRR!

The Good Reverend Roger

#6
March 28, 2008, 03:00:31 AM
Quote from: Professor Cramulus on March 27, 2008, 02:35:53 PM
Great entry Rog. You really do have a way with words. Your prose reminds me of a Hunter S Thompson narrative.

So are you gonna be a cop in Tuscon now? Or are you just living there while enforcing Roger Law outside of it?



I am done with that business.  There's no time for fun.  I mean, the right kind of fun, the kind that foams at the mouth and crawls up your leg and UNNNNNNNNNG!
" It's just that Depeche Mode were a bunch of optimistic loveburgers."
- TGRR, shaming himself forever, 7/8/2017

"Billy, when I say that ethics is our number one priority and safety is also our number one priority, you should take that to mean exactly what I said. Also quality. That's our number one priority as well. Don't look at me that way, you're in the corporate world now and this is how it works."
- TGRR, raising the bar at work.

The Good Reverend Roger

#7
March 28, 2008, 03:01:30 AM
Quote from: LMNO on March 27, 2008, 03:01:17 PM
If this is any indication of the quality of writing, I am going to love the next six months.

It's like our own Lester Bangs/HST/Spider Jerusalem, ITT.

I wish I could write that well.

Though I have never denied HST's influence on me (and SJ was nothing more than HST in the future).
" It's just that Depeche Mode were a bunch of optimistic loveburgers."
- TGRR, shaming himself forever, 7/8/2017

"Billy, when I say that ethics is our number one priority and safety is also our number one priority, you should take that to mean exactly what I said. Also quality. That's our number one priority as well. Don't look at me that way, you're in the corporate world now and this is how it works."
- TGRR, raising the bar at work.

The Good Reverend Roger

#8
March 28, 2008, 03:02:05 AM
Quote from: Jenne on March 28, 2008, 12:53:15 AM
I'm wondering if you'll let us know where you plan to publish...  *morbid curioisity wut*

Also, MOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRR!

I'm looking into that right now. 
" It's just that Depeche Mode were a bunch of optimistic loveburgers."
- TGRR, shaming himself forever, 7/8/2017

"Billy, when I say that ethics is our number one priority and safety is also our number one priority, you should take that to mean exactly what I said. Also quality. That's our number one priority as well. Don't look at me that way, you're in the corporate world now and this is how it works."
- TGRR, raising the bar at work.

Bu🤠ns

#9
March 28, 2008, 05:44:53 AM
yeah, something about this post seems different.  i can't really put my finger on it

Golden Applesauce

#10
March 28, 2008, 06:11:59 PM
It doesn't display any paranoia?
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The Good Reverend Roger

#11
March 29, 2008, 04:57:34 AM
Quote from: Golden Applesauce on March 28, 2008, 06:11:59 PM
It doesn't display any paranoia?

Paranoia is impossible. 
" It's just that Depeche Mode were a bunch of optimistic loveburgers."
- TGRR, shaming himself forever, 7/8/2017

"Billy, when I say that ethics is our number one priority and safety is also our number one priority, you should take that to mean exactly what I said. Also quality. That's our number one priority as well. Don't look at me that way, you're in the corporate world now and this is how it works."
- TGRR, raising the bar at work.

Doktor Loki

#12
March 30, 2008, 10:06:37 AM
So many of my friends are all about the woods and nature.  That shits cool, but the urban jungle is far more to my liking.

Great piece TGRR.
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The Good Reverend Roger

#13
March 30, 2008, 04:39:04 PM
Quote from: Doktor Loki on March 30, 2008, 10:06:37 AM
So many of my friends are all about the woods and nature.  That shits cool, but the urban jungle is far more to my liking.

Great piece TGRR.

Thanks.

And nature sucks.  It crawls into your pance.
" It's just that Depeche Mode were a bunch of optimistic loveburgers."
- TGRR, shaming himself forever, 7/8/2017

"Billy, when I say that ethics is our number one priority and safety is also our number one priority, you should take that to mean exactly what I said. Also quality. That's our number one priority as well. Don't look at me that way, you're in the corporate world now and this is how it works."
- TGRR, raising the bar at work.

Triple Zero

#14
March 30, 2008, 06:54:12 PM
i do like both. but one's for living in, and the other's for looking at.
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