Wedding Bell Booze
by Rok Finger 

I had game Saturday, good people. An old fashioned wedding, right out of the books. If the book was The Nightmare Before Christmas, or something by Roald Dahl maybe.

It was quite a shock to find Felchyana drunk on the worst imitation Russian vodka I’ve ever seen. On the day of our wedding! Actually, it was the day after our wedding was supposed to be, since I had been too inebriated to remember the date then, but you understand my meaning. It was quite disturbing. Lil Duncan had to walk her around the room and give her coffee, while Ivana Folger-Balzac shouted at her like a drill instructor; though since she does that for everyone I’m not sure if it was supposed to help. I was so depressed riding Boris Utzov around the room like a horse was the only thing that would cheer me up. I’m about to marry one of his nation’s people, so that makes us like family. Then again, who knows where he comes from? They don’t speak the Queen’s English there, that’s all I know.

Despite all that horror beforehand, it was a charming ceremony. Red Bagel walked me down the aisle, though the preacher certainly didn’t approve, but he’s Episcopalian and I don’t approve of that, so we’re even. Felchyana had to come down the aisle riding Lil piggyback, which was quite embarrassing for me and arousing for some of our guests.

It may seem strange, but I had a hard time deciding on who my best man would be. It was between Camembert and Lee for quite a long time, but I could never completely make a choice. Eventually I decided to select Lee carrying Camembert as my best man. Which worked out nice, although now Lee’s back is out, possibly for good. But I say it was worth it.

We wrote our own vows, which were quite moving, if I may say so. Felchyana’s vows were unintelligible in our original language, the way Boris read them they sounded like excuses on why she couldn’t get married in very broken English. So I had to translate them, and then they finally sounded right. I promised to love, honor, and cherish her, and she promised to delegate all responsibilities outside the kitchen to me, the less known about it the better. The preacher then told me I could kiss the bride, at which point I punched him out—no one needs to see that kind of smut show, I don’t care what kind of kicks he gets out of it. Then Lil picked her up and carried her out of the church to my car, which is a two-seater I bought second-hand from a go-cart place.

At this point it would be customary to drive off into the sunset. Would that we could! The battery was dead on the stupid thing and nobody brought any D-cells to the wedding. Which is just as well, we were only going to drive to her apartment and honeymoon ourselves into a coma. Who needs that?

Instead, as is more customary in the working world, Lil Duncan carried us both home to our place and I caught a ride from her back to the office. After all that, Lil demanded a week’s vacation to go to physical rehabilitation, but I wasn’t lucky enough to have that sort of vacation at my disposal. I had to jump in head-first, which smashed my desk, and get to work trying to pay for this gigantor-style wedding.

Despite the intrusion of reality and the deep debt I’ve run into, and my wife’s never-ending crying after the ceremony, it feels good to be a married man again. I’ve closed one chapter to my life, nearly a thousand pages in, and start another one today. This will hopefully be the exciting chapter with all the explicit nudity and gunfights.

The Last Nights of a Free Man
It started out as a typical bachelor party plan, when fortunately good friend and a little too-hippie-for-my-tastes associate Omar Bricks got involved, with the sage advice that one-night parties were earmark signs of a pussy. Am I pussy, he asked me?

A Moll Married to the Mob
The details are hard to glean, since Felchyana’s English is a little shabby and I have a poor ear for details, but as near as I can figure it he was involved with a non-Italian mafia in some fashion and it did not lead to the expected 40-years-then-retirement. They found him in the shape of an ottoman in a warehouse down by the waterfront.

The True Meaning of Glasnost
Not all the Russians, mind you, but one Russian. You know me, good people, knowing one is like knowing all of them. Sure, I was instantly distrustful of her when I heard that thick Russkie accent, but when I saw her face, I was a daydream believer, just like the Brass Monkeys say.

Home Sweet Homo
Greetings, good homos. Rok Finger here, reporting from the street. Which street isn’t important right now. If I’ve learned one thing from my time on the street, and I have, it’s that homos are people too. And by that I mean that everybody’s a homo these days. So I hope that’s going well for all of you.