Porno Broke My VCR the commune's Omar Bricks poses a question uglier than a hat full of assholes
Thursday, Jun. 3, 1999
May I be struck down by the ghost of Sid Caesar if I'm lying, but I swear I'm the only
person who's paying attention any more in this crazy world. The latest example of this
truism happens to be the VCR repair business. Seems harmless enough of a topic, right?
Wrong again, my friend! I may never loose those CIA dogs of my trail after this one.
I've become convinced that the VCR repair business is nothing but a front for criminal
activity in all of it's grisly manifestations. A few years ago I was living down the
street from this guy who claimed to be a VCR repair man. I even had him tinker with my
betamax machine on several occaisions. Now I'm not saying he didn't fix the thing, but
I knew something was up. Then one pleasant afternoon I was sitting on my porch when not
unlike all the monkeys of hell descending from the sky at least a dozen police vehicles
of every make and description, vans, trucks, cars and battering devices squealed onto my
street, producing scores of heavily armed SWAT officers brandishing shotguns, gas masks
and ferocious-looking dogs. Equipment and vehicles were scattered helter-skelter across
the street, and all of these Virgina farmboys had but one intention in mind: Well,
there's an outside chance that they wanted to have an old hi-fi deck looked at or
something, and that it was all a coincidence, but deep down inside I think that they
came there that day with the intention of kicking down my neighbor's door, dragging him
out into the street in his underwear, and then removing large amounts of illegal drugs
from his home before loading him into the back of one of their cars and driving away.
Call it a hunch.
Naturally, anybody would be a little curious about "VCR Repair Men" after an episode like
that. But it doesn't stop there. Just today on the way home I passed the friendly
neighborhood porno theater and what did I see on the marquee (I mean, under "A Fistfull
of Tits" and "Jug-Jambouree") but the simple words "VCR REPAIR UPSTAIRS". I should have
suspected as much.
There are several schools of thought on the subject. Some have suggested to me that those
living on the fringes of our society's culture, the unwashed and rarely shaven, those apt
to deal in drugs or products of the flesh, may themselves be frequent users of porno
videocassettes. And that the frequent playing of these tapes, in cahoots with frequent
high-speed rewinding and heavy use of the slow-motion feature, may be apt to damage the
average video cassette recorder. And that these individuals, rather than pay the high
price of electronics repair or replacement, might take up with screwdriver in hand (and
some kind of tool with which to open the VCR in the non-drinking hand) and learn the fine
art of VCR repair themselves through trial and error. And that such experience might give
them a way to supplement the income received from their illegal and barely-legal
activities.
A sound enough theory to most ears. But I think it's bullshit. I think VCR repair people
are all inherently evil, and most likely they are from Milwaukee. I know, sometimes the
truth hurts. I'll be in touch.
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