<< Memoirs of a Marker | Main | Video Games on the Tee-Vee >> February 25, 2007 >> Irony takes Birthday Beats A birthday comes with an expectation of cruelty. In a twisted version of camaraderie, your birthday is supposed to be the site of some ultimate drunkenness. If you aren't throwing up or asleep in a bathroom somewhere, friends have failed you. Thus the Prairie Fires come out in force, and the Cement Mixers, and the Rocky Mountain Bear Fuckers, and maybe the Jaeger if female hearts are tinged with pity at the sight of your hideous inebriation. Thus it pleases me when this concept falls in on itself in symmetrical irony - the man planning the demise of the birthday boy, in the end, becomes The Drunkestest. The Phoenix is a bird that rises from the dead, again and again, to battle the neverending hordes of squirrels that plague humanity. The Drunkestest is a demon that rises in every breast, sometimes unexpectedly, to animate wobbly frames: to slap strangers, spill drinks and projectile spit and vomit in a 180 degree arc. Sometimes the two - the Phoenix and the Drunkestest - collide, and rising again the next day requires a great deal of water and a trip to Subway. Meanwhile the dude who was supposed to get his, the one with the birthday, ended up making out with some girl in the hip-hop room. Posted by Chris at 07:45 PM >> Commentations (4)
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