Friday, October 31, 2008

Good Times Jolly & the Stake of Ownership in The Dismembering a Halloween Classic

It was on a night quite like this one, when ... the dismembering came!

Many a good folk were left dis-traught , and dis-satisfied by the whole incident. They were bemoaned and bewildered when at the door was a knock. It was Good-Times Jolly, who'd come to say let's go out tonight, its Halloween?

The proposition seemed so harmless, it seemed so natural. And so the road is where our venturing took us. Out into the night's air and the open road, our bodies felt free from the shackles of the daily grind. We were, alive.

Then, there was this light behind us. The bright lights of an automobile bent on revenge, muscling its way through the road and anything that stood before it. Jolly, tried pulling to the side at a slowed speed, but that only seemed to agitate - the driver in the car behind us.

I had worn my warmest sweater and was glad I'd chose so too. For the wind in the air, coupled with the ride in Jolly's convertible was chilling. It almost had me shaking out of my skin.

Upon deciding that the trailing automobile would not pass, Jolly began to whimper. The Good-Times presence was all but evaporated and a hauntingly suspicious glare came over Jolly's visage. Suddenly, Jolly's expression was contorted into that of someone who had done another wrong, and knew that they would face sever judgement for the wrong they had committed. Jolly's eyes bulged.

Then, our car flipped up in the air and we landed on the edge of a cliff, the trailing automobile with its bright beams squalled on as if to say that is where you belong. Jolly shivered and crept not so subtly toward the part of the automobile that clung to the ever-evaporating real estate below it.

We were going to die, the look in Jolly's face said it all. Jolly had brought this upon us, Jolly was now to blame. And so we pushed Jolly back into the car as we slipped away. Then we watched as Jolly descended into the pit of the Crenshaw Dam River.

After which, we taxied a ride home and wrote this blog about it. Or, did we?

Happy Halloween

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