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PLEASE TAKE NOTE OF: a heartfelt apology from the author for this first, and admittedly vulgar, installment of These Special Holiday Notes.

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THESE SPECIAL HOLIDAY NOTES
(INSTALLMENT ONE)


It is cold, and wet, and it refreshed my throat. I can think of many times when I have yearned for a Pepsi. I don't know, though, because even though I want Pepsi, and even though it tastes good, there is often a sticky, tacky, sweetish residue leftover in my throat. That sticky tacky residue in my throat is gross, and if it were snow I would stay away from it-I like to slide down hard, smooth, and crisp snow, not that sticky, tacky kind of snow. I don't even know, really, if that kind of snow exits. I'll bet it exists in Peter Pan's world of Nevernever Land, or at least the NeverNever land that was presented in the Robin Williams remake of the movie. Sometimes when I am drinking Pepsi, or some other clear liquid, even though Pepsi is not a clear liquid, out of a clear, glass, crystal-like bottle, I would like to be drinking bourbon or gin or something like. I am an ironing board with a. My name is Ralph Ingerson and I have a. I wish that I was a cowboy. If I was a cowboy with a silly little hat with a feather in it, I would. That would be a really great trippy-like thing and I want to go in the snow and play and. This is a great opportunity for us to do some dancing. I love ballroom dancing. I have never done any ballroom dancing. I am a hopeless romantic. It is cold and wet, not dancing, but something else, and not something sexual. I do not want to be a sexual. Sex. Sexual. Sex is not bad, even though some people pretend that it is bad, and even those people do not mean it is bad, they are just kidding or singing. Singing birds and flowers and dancing elephants and silly little towns that are covered with green snow. Are some of my. Favorite things in the whole wide, Ocean-world-pseudo-metal can. Kin. I have lots of kin and sometimes some of them like to go skiing, and so I do, but some of them like to do shooting instead. My name is Ralph and I have a big fat elbow I wish that my elbow was colored green if it was colored green then I would have a good time I was thinking of a story that I once knew about a little boy named Josiah OK OK to be completely honest it is not a story about a little boy named Josiah it is a story about a man named Josiah He is married now and when I was a freshman in high school he was a senior He graduated when I was a freshman and shortly afterwards I finished school they always graduate before we graduate But he is married now He married Ingrid My family drove our cars to their open house last summer we really only drove one car It is a big car though it is a suburban a 1999 model it is probably a car that my dad's work bought for him he own the business but we drove it to Josiah's open house which was way out in the boondocks in the country in the woods in the wilderness and I am listening to the police right now but when we drove out there it was the first time that we ever saw his fiancée and they were to be married in a week She was very beautiful my whole family noticed She has blond hair and probably blue eyes but I am not sure having blond hair and blues eyes together always is not always true I know because I once saw a brown-eyed boy with blond hair But anyway she is a runner and her dad was a runner's coach her coach She and Josiah met in college at CMU where they both attended college and where they both ran The open house was very good and a lot of people were there Good people I do not know them really well but I do know the [One] family and they were there [The Younger Son] and [The Older Son] and the sister she is pretty but I do not know her name I wish that I did not her name She lives in Chicago and so do I It was good Ok back to the story about Josiah I once heard before I had ever done anything bad like drinking beer in Brazil that Josiah had been drinking beer This was a traumatic story for me because I had a very noble image of him in my mind When I was a freshman he was a senior He was the captain of the cross country team and I was on the cross country team He was role model for me I am glad that I did not hear the story about him drinking beer climbing the tree and being really funny until I was older than a freshman maybe a sophomore or a uunior oops I mean junior because it would have been really bad for me to hear that about Josiah If I had heard it when I was younger I would have lost faith in him as a good person and I know damn it he is a good person He is a good person even if he did do some drinking and climbing and having a good time with a bad vice when he was underage I have done that too but not very much Sometimes I am thinking about different things and I want to focus all of the thoughts in my mind but I do not know where they are going with the song and I do not even know the name because it is not my CD it is someone else's maybe one of my friends or maybe one of my pseudo-alphanumeric-friends I don't really have any alphanumeric friends that was just a joke Pretty funny huh Ha ha ha ha I like that kind of humor I once had a dog and that is not funny No I am not talking about Lysander Beau Champ I am talking about Genoa she was a good dog that Genoa she was We had to put her down because she bit a little girl I was really angry and I said we should put that stupid little girl down instead she's the real menace to society but we did not put her down Because she is my cousin and not many kids are put down except in China Ha Ha Ha That was a joke No not the part about China the other part about putting the girl down When I said it I meant it as a joke* I remember a time when I was in Tuabate with Ben and we went on a long bike ride As I was just thinking about Pepsi I was thinking about that long bike ride probably because we stopped on a dusty street and went into a surprisingly clean and surprisingly modern shop and got some stuff to drink but neither of us got Pepsi Funny I was thinking the same thing


*Here is a footnote for all of you; you readers who read with, or without, a proper frame of reference for the details surrounding that real-life joke of the author's which he told early in the Spring of 1999.

At the time that the joke was presented it was presented in a manner that was clearly tongue-in-cheek. When the author presented the joke he was able to draw upon the essential resources of verbalization of visualization to clarify to his audience the true intent/tone of the joke.

The joke was presented to the audience in a manner that was so absurd, and exaggerated, and overdone that it was humorous. The author employed the use of facial contortions and expressive chopping hand motions to accompany his Stalin-esque statement that, "we should put that stupid little girl down instead, she's the real menace to society!"

In a serious context, the content of the author's joke would be obviously foolish and inhumane. In a serious context, the author's joke would be grounds for upset and confrontation.

However, the content of the author's joke was not presented in a serious context, and because he was aware that it is foolish, inhumane, and downright absurd, he was making clear that he loved and valued his cousin more than he loved and valued his dog, and, at the same time, lightening the downhearted mood that surrounded the event of the dog's decease. His actions nullified his words; what he was saying was refuted by his expression, tone, and mannerisms. So be happy.


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