Nice Try, Fanatical Cowpokers the commune's Omar Bricks is currently interviewing secretarial applicants
Monday, Oct. 29, 2001
God and the commune’s mail room clerk, Lefty, both know that here at
the commune we get our share of bogus and life-threatening mail.
Shit, I think we set some kind of Guiness Stout World Record for it
in our first week. Hardly a day goes by that our building isn’t
evacuated after some righteous jackass sends us a pissed off warthog
in a box or a bunch of ebola-flavored Junior Mints. Several memorable
incidents come to mind, like the time Lefty pried open a crate in our
mailroom and sure as shit, there was a goddamned midget with a machete
that came jumping out of it, just like in that Cheech and Chong movie.
We were all stuck perched up on our desks for nearly two hours while
that little bastard ran around and macheted everything in the office
that was near to the ground. After a while he got tired and went down
for a nap in the corner, so Lefty snuck over with a dolly and loaded
that little mercenary nutjob back into the crate, sealed it, and put
a big “RETURN TO SENDER” stamp on the side. You can rest assured that
Omar Bricks had his desk raised up an extra two inches after that day,
just in case the next midget was this one’s older brother.
And given the controversial nature of my views on artificial
insemination, you can bet that Omar Bricks gets more than his share of
the death threats and bullshit mail around here. I’ve said it before
and I’ll say it again: they’ve yet to invent a mail bomb that’ll keep
me from hiring a new secretary every time my old one gets blown out the
window in a plume of swirling fire and acrid smoke, y’all. These
terrorizing fancy-boys act like they’ve never heard the words “temp
agency” before in their lives. And even when my secretary’s out for
the day, off painting flowers or having babies or whatever, I still
have a seemingly endless stream of nosy bitches who are always trying
to peek at my mail to see if French Stewart sent me any more of those
naked pictures, even though I keep telling them I got him to knock that
shit off years ago.
Speaking of naked pictures, probably the most troubling piece of hate
mail I’ve ever received was back in ’99 when some cruel bastard sent me
what looked like a bad-assed set of nudie playing cards, but when I
opened the pack they turned out to be—you guessed it—those infamous
shots from the Golden Girls cast orgy in Cancun back in ’85. Sweet
motherfucking Christ, the last time I saw something that ugly I had to
flush twice. If anything has ever tested my resolve as a commune staffer, that
shit was it, not some weak-assed mail bomb antics. And it turned out it
was commune photographer Junior Bacon behind it all anyway, that sick fruit.
You know he got a lifetime subscription to Fecal Fancy in the mail
shortly after that event.
But lately a lot of talk has been going around the office about some
crazy dead-cow-finding punks sending everybody and their sister anthrax
in the mail, and how that’s some no-fooling-around bad shit. Well,
don’t let any short-dicked Iowa boys ever tell you that Omar Bricks
gets caught off guard, because ever since I heard about this freaky Mr.
Science mayhem I’ve been on the lookout. And it paid off big time the
other day when I stopped at McDonalds on my way to work to pick up my
usual morning apple pie and coffee. I placed my order as always but kept
an eye on Miss Sheri Landowski, my McServer that morning. And goddammit
if she didn’t pour an ass-load of anthrax powder right into my coffee
when she thought I wasn’t looking. I guess it isn’t as hard to get a
job at McDonalds as it used to be, because it’s obvious their entire
organization has been infiltrated by terrorists, as Sheri Landowski can
surely attest. Or, should I say, Sheri bin Landowski?
I don’t think I need to tell you what happened next, but suffice it to
say I was able to hop out the drive thru window before the fry cook
could get at me with that broom handle, and Sheri won’t be anthraxing
any more coffee-loving Americans any time soon. Incidentally, I’ve also
got a shitload of apple pies back at my apartment now, so any of you
interested parties out there can cross that off your “Christmas Gifts
for Omar” list this year.
I wasted no time getting to my doctor’s office, since I think that
during the melee I might have got some of that powder up my nose and
the last thing I need is some goddamned cow disease and long waits at
the vet’s office. Doc Thrusher took some tests and when he came back he
looked like he’d just found the corpse of Gregory Peck in his stool.
Actually, to be honest he might always look like that, I don’t think I’d
been to the doctor since I was eight. Anyway, he showed me his clip
board with a pie chart or some USA Today shit on it and said:
“Well Mr. Bricks, you were right to come to us. Your test results show
that you’ve had anthrax fourteen times in the last five years. That has
to be some kind of record.”
Doc Thrusher and I talked and he ruled out the possibility that I’d
been getting it from that Asian chick who works over at the Photomat,
and I ruled out the possibility that I’d been rubbing my ass all over
any sick farm animals, so we decided that it was most likely those fan letters
with all the white powder in them that I've been getting every other month
since 1996. To tell you the truth, I thought it was kind of strange
that someone chose to express their appreciation for my column by writing “YOU
DIE. YOU DIE WHITE DEMON! YOU GET SICK YOU DIE!” on an index card and
mailing it to me every other month, but there’s a lot of weird literate
mugs out there. And I thought that fucker was sending me Tide, like
some kind of wink and a nod about how I’m always having to get blood
out of my work shirts. Shit, I haven’t bought detergent in five years.
Anyway, the doctor said I’d developed an immunity to anthrax over the
years, and so I had nothing to worry about, except I should probably go to
a different McDonalds from now on.
So all you revolutionary mama’s boys had best be advised to take your
sickly cattle and impeccable penmanship and scurry on home, because it
takes more than a lethal dose of deadly neurotoxins to keep Omar Bricks
down. Now if you’ll excuse me, I need to call the temp agency. Bricks out.
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the commune book selections
the commune's Bear in Rearview
the commune's Big Book of Duke
Faces of the commune
the commune 100: Leaders and Revolutionaries
the commune 100: Traitors and Noodledicks
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