News Flash Snadragon Central December 1, 20.12
Another fantastic day in Ohio. Got the ad cards from the printer’ for my book, “Space Christals,” and Terry Teri Luoise Kelly’s book of poetry, “Dead With Your Legs Spread on an Unmade Bed” (yeah, she writes catchier titles than I do). Barnes & Nobles was across the parking lot and took a few of my book cards but Teri’s book wasn’t in their system so they said they couldn’t take hers. (Her boo…
k is out on Lulu.com, guess B&N doesn’t deal with them) Stopped at Video Visions in Mansfield, porn and head shop, thought some of the heads in town might be into something other than porn. Stopped at Main Street books and my two lonely copies are still sitting on the bottom shelf eight months later. Oh well. They took both of our cards, guy there was very nice. Suzy is right next door in the smoke shop and is my mom’s best friend. She was sitting their in her empty cigar shop, not even a lottery customer in the store. We chatted for a few minutes and she told me to try the coffee shop across the street, that it was pretty hip. Left a reader’s copy there and some more of our cards. That was without leaving town so I decided to blow off driving to Columbus to look up some places to hit in the big city. Headed to Downertown to see my adopt-a-pops outside Huckabuck. Yeah, my pop’s almost five years older than me and is the most honest criminal you’ll ever meet, in his words. Pedro was already incoherent when I got there, and my pops and a couple of the “neighborhood nuts” were all trying to talk to him. Hadn’t seen him like that in quite a while. I guess he hit a rought patch or something. Me and Bob, one of the NN (“neighborhood nuts”), decided to take Pedro home and make sure he got in the door safely, he had his bottle of Kessler’s and his hat and he made it home alright. Holy crap this status is getting too long… Well when you’ve had another perfect day like I’ve had, you tend to remember a lot of details about it.
Bub was still there when I got back to my pops so it wasn’t really crowded with the four of us in the two room shack my pops owns outright, except for the Queen’s Taxes. Bub is another NN. I break out my li’l sack of sativa sitting on the catpiss stained couch pops sleeps on. Bob is the second-most sober of the four of us but he can’t roll for shit. Pops is too busy so I toss the sack to Bub and ask him to roll.
He grabs my li’l wee sack as well as the weed and dumps out half of it, about enough for four of pops’ prisoner joints and I’m “Like hey man! That’s half the bag!”
Bub just grins and says, “Hey man! I was in prison too long, I don’t know how much to dump out.” He drops a couple buds back in the sack and starts breaking it up. Bub is one of my favorite NN when he doesn’t get redneck drunk. Pops is ready to roll the weed cause Bub can’t roll for shit either and rolls up two prisoner joints for the four of us.
I’m hoping it will mellow them out a little bit cause they are all telling neighborhood stories and Bob keeps interrupting pops. Pops likes to yell at Bob and sometimes Bob’ll get his feelings hurt and go back to his camper across the street. But not today, these characters were three sheets when I got there at four o’clock.
Back before I put aside my practice of Plaid Magic, Bob had told me that Linda had gotten a whole box of old letters from the middle 1900’s and had asked me if I still collected stamps and stuff. He had a few with him. I told him they were of little value to me and probably not worth much but if he could find an old Valentine from the 30’s or 40’s I might be interested because I was casting a lovespell for my sister and could use it in the spell. He comes back five minutes later with a Valentine from like 1942 and I gave him two bucks. Man he was a happy camper.
Anyway after we smoked the first joint, Bob remebered that episode and we started reminiscing about the neighborhood adventures and people who had moved out or moved on. There’s more that happened today, but tjis writer is getting sleepy and is signing off… Have a blessed day
agnewpickens 