It's Decorative Gourd Season, Mothereffers!

edith headedith head 5,106 Posts
edited September 2010 in Strut Central
i've adopted reading this essay as new annual tradition
http://www.mcsweeneys.net/2009/10/20nissan.html
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I don't know about you, but I can't wait to get my hands on some fucking gourds and arrange them in a horn-shaped basket on my dining room table. That shit is going to look so seasonal. I'm about to head up to the attic right now to find that wicker fucker, dust it off, and jam it with an insanely ornate assortment of shellacked vegetables. When my guests come over it's gonna be like, BLAMMO! Check out my shellacked decorative vegetables, assholes. Guess what season it is???fucking fall. There's a nip in the air and my house is full of mutant fucking squash.

I may even throw some multi-colored leaves into the mix, all haphazard like a crisp October breeze just blew through and fucked that shit up. Then I'm going to get to work on making a beautiful fucking gourd necklace for myself. People are going to be like, "Aren't those gourds straining your neck?" And I'm just going to thread another gourd onto my necklace without breaking their gaze and quietly reply, "It's fall, fuckfaces. You're either ready to reap this freaky-assed harvest or you're not."

Carving orange pumpkins sounds like a pretty fitting way to ring in the season. You know what else does? Performing an all-gourd reenactment of an episode of Diff'rent Strokes???specifically the one when Arnold and Dudley experience a disturbing brush with sexual molestation. Well, this shit just got real, didn't it? Felonies and gourds have one very important commonality: they're both extremely fucking real. Sorry if that's upsetting, but I'm not doing you any favors by shielding you from this anymore.

The next thing I'm going to do is carve one of the longer gourds into a perfect replica of the Mayflower as a shout-out to our Pilgrim forefathers. Then I'm going to do lines of blow off its hull with a hooker. Why? Because it's not summer, it's not winter, and it's not spring. Grab a calendar and pull your fucking heads out of your asses; it's fall, fuckers.

Have you ever been in an Italian deli with salamis hanging from their ceiling? Well then you're going to fucking love my house. Just look where you're walking or you'll get KO'd by the gauntlet of misshapen, zucchini-descendant bastards swinging from above. And when you do, you're going to hear a very loud, very stereotypical Italian laugh coming from me. Consider yourself warned.

For now, all I plan to do is to throw on a flannel shirt, some tattered overalls, and a floppy fucking hat and stand in the middle of a cornfield for a few days. The first crow that tries to land on me is going to get his avian ass bitch-slapped all the way back to summer.

Welcome to autumn, fuckheads!

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  • Colin Nissan?? Shiiiiiiit....Serg ain't fooling me.

  • JRootJRoot 861 Posts
    Felonies and gourds have one very important commonality: they???re both extremely fucking real. Sorry if that???s upsetting, but I???m not doing you any favors by shielding you from this anymore.

    Thanks for the laughs!! I love Fall, Gourds and All.

  • i can see a resemblance to Serg but i hear Kenny Powers's voice

  • McSweeney's never really equaled this absolute gem. I re-read it every year.

  • Amazing... I'm assuming this is the same guy who wrote the classic...

    "Look at my striped shirt... fucking look at it!"

  • HarveyCanalHarveyCanal "a distraction from my main thesis." 13,234 Posts
    Bales of hay...I got em for sale if you need one for your Fall display.

  • edith head said:
    i can see a resemblance to Serg but i hear Kenny Powers's voice

  • We had a grain moth infestation at work. The culprit was a two year old bag of decorative corn.

  • welcome to autumn, fuckheads! there's a nip in the air and my house if full of mutant squash


  • DJ_EnkiDJ_Enki 6,473 Posts
    FortyFivan said:
    Amazing... I'm assuming this is the same guy who wrote the classic...

    "Look at my striped shirt... fucking look at it!"

    "I am playing some fucking Golden Tee!"
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