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The SussMan Cometh
David Sussman quickly made a name for himself on Ricochet with his writing, insight, and solid demeanor. I was surprised when he invited me, the human embodiment of entropy, down to Freedom Fest in Las Vegas this July 19th-22nd. More on that later and the potential super cool Ricochet Vegas Friday night fun fest.
I met the man via phone a couple years ago and I’ll be darned if he didn’t interview me in his own sneaky way. We hit it off and I met a fellow traveler who likes to study humans. If you watch Whiskey Politics, and you should or else…., it’s easy to see David’s easy style bring out the most in a person.
I will be watching this first hand as Melissa Promotiontorious has procured a press pass and a video camera for me. My roles are legion and will be interspersed with taking medical calls so the man gets to see my existence, for better or worse. I get to film him, be interviewed by him, lug cameras around, and bring in folks to be interviewed. I will feed prospective clients booze or witty banter and lure them, already socially lubricated, in to David’s interviewing web. That’s the loose plan. There’s a lot of man in that web. We have 12+ feet, 300 IQ points, and over 420 pounds of solid dude there so the flies will come.
Let me tell you how this all came together. David calls me and says,”Jay baby, you’re lonely and I have a party going on. You’re invited”.
“Sweeet, what’s going on?”
“So much fun dude. First we will start drinking and talk politics. Then we will keep drinking and talk about life. Then more drinking and some wrestling followed by lots of sex”.
“Awesome David, I’m totally down for it, what should I wear?”
“Oh come as you are Jay it will just be the two of us”.
Vegas Freedom Fest here I come.
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“I love the smell of interview candidates in the morning!”
I noticed that neither of you seem to have read my list of rules for good behavior.
Apparently, they’re very good at bad@55ery, dear 6’2″…Have tons o’ fun!
There is a difference between “not reading” and “totally disregarding.”
Jay, drinks and video cameras. What could go wrong? Looking forward to it brother.
Ooo! I’ll have to borrow this.
Wait a minute, there are rules?
I just made it up, you may use it as your own.
δqrev/T = ΔS is DocJay’s spirit animal.
Legalized prostitution and now dope.
Their will be neither for me. Well, much.
I’ll bring Penicillin shots and a defibrillator for the Rico crowd.
I am staying w a nice married friend/patient I need to catch up with, so I only have one night to get in to trouble. That night will be with the Rico crowd which I’m suspecting won’t be visiting houses of ill repute or opium dens. We may drink and punch each other repeatedly over the merits of our mustard haired narcissist in chief.
We need to pick a restaurant for the meetup, choir boy.
It’s the recurrence of the Robert Earl Keen lyric: “We were bad for one another, but we were good at having fun.”
How about Battista’s Hole In The Wall? Very, very close to the strip; across the street from Bally’s.
Looks nice. Does he play the World Accordion to Garp? I’m up for anything. I am not an organizing type of person. Curious how many would come. I will stay out late though ;-)
I thought the circus played it’s last?
Hmmm. I’m having second thoughts. Entropy is always increasing, and if one is the embodiment of it, well, I don’t want to be that guy. /-:
HAHAHAHAHAH Oh, er ahem
You haven’t read it either.
Neither have I.
Addiction, if you plan it, we will come :)
I aim to be inconvenient.
I never expected to hear that old joke on Ricochet. Yikes.
Oh probably only 1/5 of the people know it and I felt the need to blush the Suss. Besides, timing is everything.
But … the primary question is … will Elvis Be In The House?
I do have an old bottle of ether. I’m not bringing it to Vegas though, it’s critical to do the job, cover the story. “There’s nothing more depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge.” HST
If you put me in front of a karaoke machine I’ll sing Burning Love.
I have a friend whose dad was an Elvis impersonator. She hadn’t heard from him in a month and found him expired in a trailer in the desert, outside of Vegas. The surreal experience of collecting and cleaning up the life of an Elvis devotee was a fascinating albeit saddening story. Her first and middle names are Lisa Marie
…How about Thursday the 20th?… :D
Entropy: It’s not just a good idea, it’s the law.
My PChem prof was fond of a restatement of the Laws of Thermodynamics that is particularly apt for Vegas:
It’s like Ricochet for a reluctant Trumper ;-)
I knew so much chemistry at one point but that knowledge has faded in to the mists of time. I can recognize alcohol but all the complex ones look like methyl-ethyl chicken wire.
I thought you aimed to be incontinent. I’m glad you went with inconvenient. Much more socially acceptable.
That’s Urinalysis.