<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:blogger='http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005" xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8745687600383269783</id><updated>2024-09-01T16:45:18.228-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Inebriation at its best</title><subtitle type='html'></subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://inebriationatitsbest.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8745687600383269783/posts/default?redirect=false'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://inebriationatitsbest.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>Matt the Mazz</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09594545514832004266</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>3</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8745687600383269783.post-4775322409386226329</id><published>2011-03-06T13:40:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2011-03-06T13:40:56.843-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Staten Island</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class=&quot;title&quot; style=&quot;color: #494949; font-family: Arial, &#39;Helvetica Neue&#39;, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 10px;&quot;&gt;Black Jack&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;copy&quot; style=&quot;color: #6e7173; font-family: Arial, &#39;Helvetica Neue&#39;, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 15px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 10px;&quot;&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;&quot;&gt;Staten Island is the cesspool of New York, don’t let anyone tell you differently.&amp;nbsp; To this day, I still have no idea how Deekweed and I wound up in the middle of “fistpump, USA” but nonetheless, we were there, and god damn, we were going to make the best of it.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;&quot;&gt;So we walk in on this block party and to our dismay there are fist-pumping douchebags as far as the eye can see.&amp;nbsp; Surveying the festivities, I notice a ‘Tiki Bar’ set up on the side of a street; immediately, a smile breaks out on my face as Deekweed and I both make a beeline to the bar.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;&quot;&gt;Me: “Dude, free booze!”&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;&quot;&gt;Deekweed: “Lets do this.”&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;&quot;&gt;Stimulating conversation, no?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;&quot;&gt;Anyways, we walk up to the ‘roided out Guido behind the counter, and I flash my toothiest grin;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;&quot;&gt;“I’ll take a Jack and Coke” I say instinctually.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;&quot;&gt;Within seconds my drink slides across the counter to me.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;&quot;&gt;Barely thirty seconds later, I’m asking for another one.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;&quot;&gt;This process continues for a good thirty minutes before I get bored.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;&quot;&gt;Time to switch to Vodka and Redbull.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;&quot;&gt;The party is just getting started as Deekweed and me are in the middle of thirty year old Guidos, pounding back round after round of God’s nectar.&amp;nbsp; That is when we noticed it, however.&amp;nbsp; Gleaming in the sunlight, the light reflecting off its horn, it stood illuminated, like some statue of the Gods.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;&quot;&gt;The mechanical bull stood there, surrounded by - dare I breath their name? - carnies!&amp;nbsp; Yes, carnival folk.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;&quot;&gt;Coming to an unspoken agreement, Deekweed and I headed over to the mechanical bull - straws were drawn, and I won.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;&quot;&gt;As Deekweed hopped on the mechanical bull, my phone entered my hand and began to record.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;&quot;&gt;Within two seconds he was bucked off the back of it; his testicles firmly clamped between his thigh and the cold steel of the bull, I giddily watched his face contort in agony.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;&quot;&gt;Within four seconds, he was off of the bull, holding onto the inflatable container under his body for dear life.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;&quot;&gt;Deekweed: “Your turn asshole.”&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;&quot;&gt;Without a word, I eyed the beast before me; truly, this was no easy feat.&amp;nbsp; Mounting the beast, I immediately held on and began to pray to every major and minor God that I knew of to protect me.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;&quot;&gt;The moment the ride began, I immediately lost my balance and fell perpendicular to the ride; holding on and screaming to Vishnu to save me, I made it to five seconds before being viciously thrown from the bull.&amp;nbsp; After gathering my bearings, I stumbled to the Carnies and offered them a drink; they deserved one for their hard work.&amp;nbsp; Nicking a bottle of Malibu from underneath a counter, I brought it over to them in a sign of friendship.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;&quot;&gt;Within twenty minutes, Deekweed, me, and the carnies were entering “blackout territory.”&amp;nbsp; Undeterred, however, I stepped up to the controls for the mechanical bull and attempted to control it for the next participant; my actions resulted in a near-death experience before I was restrained by our new-found friends and sent back to the bar for more refreshments.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;&quot;&gt;Stumbling back to the bar, I can’t help but notice the biggest black man that I have ever seen in my life taking shot after shot with ease.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;&quot;&gt;Me: “Deekweed, this man is a God.”&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;&quot;&gt;Deekweed: “A black God.”&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;&quot;&gt;Me: “A big black God.”&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;&quot;&gt;Intrigued yet undeterred, we continue on our path to the bar.&amp;nbsp; Upon arrival, we immediately order four Jagerbombs for the two of us.&amp;nbsp; The moment we begin to pound them back, the bartender starts chanting,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;&quot;&gt;“JAGERBOMB, JAGERBOMB, JAGERBOMB WOOO!”&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;&quot;&gt;Naturally, this gets my showboat blood pumping as I down them and ask for another four; tonight should be interesting.&amp;nbsp; While we are pounding down these beautiful depth charges, however, the black man from earlier approaches us and tells us to pause; he then orders six more Jagerbombs, slides them across to us, and begins to drink them like they’re water.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;&quot;&gt;From somewhere behind us, a chant arose which slowly began to get picked up by everyone around us,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;&quot;&gt;“BLACK, JACK!&amp;nbsp; BLACK, JACK!&amp;nbsp; BLACK JACK WOOO!”&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;&quot;&gt;And then it hits us.&amp;nbsp; Dickweed and I stare at each other as we realize that this magnificent alcoholic was indeed Black Jack.&amp;nbsp; These thoughts are promptly washed away by more jagerbombs shots of Cafe Patron at the urgence of Black Jack - and shit, who could refuse a guy named Black Jack?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;&quot;&gt;Sometime after the drinks, I remember sitting down against the base of a tree and passing out, but the rest of the evening vanished in a fog, as once again, Dickweed managed to get both of us home alive.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;&quot;&gt;God bless you Dickweed, god bless you.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://inebriationatitsbest.blogspot.com/feeds/4775322409386226329/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://inebriationatitsbest.blogspot.com/2011/03/staten-island.html#comment-form' title='21 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8745687600383269783/posts/default/4775322409386226329'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8745687600383269783/posts/default/4775322409386226329'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://inebriationatitsbest.blogspot.com/2011/03/staten-island.html' title='Staten Island'/><author><name>Matt the Mazz</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09594545514832004266</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>21</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8745687600383269783.post-7140711440474900065</id><published>2011-03-03T18:24:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2011-03-03T18:24:47.854-08:00</updated><title type='text'>A little about me…</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class=&quot;title&quot; style=&quot;color: #494949; font-family: Arial, &#39;Helvetica Neue&#39;, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 10px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;color: #6e7173; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 15px;&quot;&gt;My name is Matthew, and I am an asshole.&amp;nbsp; As you will see in the following entries, I am an alcoholic; that is not to say, however, that I am not a&amp;nbsp;&lt;em&gt;functioning&lt;/em&gt;&amp;nbsp;alcoholic.&amp;nbsp; I disregard all things politically correct and choose to live life outside of the social norms; there is nothing too holy to be touched.&amp;nbsp; Whether I am running for my life from the police or picking up random girls, I feel it is time to bequeath my stories for the entertainment of you, the reader.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;copy&quot; style=&quot;color: #6e7173; font-family: Arial, &#39;Helvetica Neue&#39;, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 15px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 10px;&quot;&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;&quot;&gt;This is my life, pure and unadulterated.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;&quot;&gt;Enjoy.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;&quot;&gt;- Matt&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://inebriationatitsbest.blogspot.com/feeds/7140711440474900065/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://inebriationatitsbest.blogspot.com/2011/03/little-about-me.html#comment-form' title='8 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8745687600383269783/posts/default/7140711440474900065'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8745687600383269783/posts/default/7140711440474900065'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://inebriationatitsbest.blogspot.com/2011/03/little-about-me.html' title='A little about me…'/><author><name>Matt the Mazz</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09594545514832004266</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>8</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8745687600383269783.post-8972752549006535659</id><published>2011-03-03T17:58:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-03-03T17:58:24.406-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Hey</title><content type='html'>Hey guys, I&#39;m new to this but here&#39;s the rundown.&lt;br /&gt;
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This is a blog for my thoughts.&lt;br /&gt;
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On it I will post stories, quotations, anecdotes, thoughts, and hell, whatever I want to.&lt;br /&gt;
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It&#39;s my blog isn&#39;t it? :)&lt;br /&gt;
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Hope you all enjoy,&lt;br /&gt;
Matt</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://inebriationatitsbest.blogspot.com/feeds/8972752549006535659/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://inebriationatitsbest.blogspot.com/2011/03/hey.html#comment-form' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8745687600383269783/posts/default/8972752549006535659'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8745687600383269783/posts/default/8972752549006535659'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://inebriationatitsbest.blogspot.com/2011/03/hey.html' title='Hey'/><author><name>Matt the Mazz</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09594545514832004266</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry></feed>