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Hound Dog

Oct 19, 2009, 4:55 PM

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A Prison of the Mind

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deleted by poster as a bit overwrought.


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tonyburton


Oct 19, 2009, 5:17 PM

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OK; let's start a competition to see who can emulate the dawg's style and, in no more than 50 words, produce something that fits his title—"A Prison of the Mind".
All entries must be suitable for family viewing, please.

Hound Dog

Oct 19, 2009, 6:29 PM

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Dawg always loved Emmy Sue from the day he met her in The Haight and when he was finally able to seduce her one night in a bar in North Beach after a few rounds and some smoke imagine Dawg´s surprise when it turned out Emmy Lou was, well, so to speak and without question, a boy but, by God, what a boy. Dawg had an emotional investment in Emmy Sue at that point so, what the hell, why surrender to the prison of the mind. This was San Francisco after all, not Birmingham and Dawg never intended to take that Midnight Flyer back east and never did.


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Hound Dog

Oct 20, 2009, 6:41 AM

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OK, so that first entry was a bit off subject so I´ll try again and then butt out.

As the launch from Yaxchilan to Frontera Corozal ploughed the Usumacinta the crocodile was in the shallows mouth agape yet no electrical wire extended from the beast to the impenetrable jungle but it seemed strange that that croc was always there opening his jaws as this launch passed. Amusing villagers.

Manuel Dexterity

Oct 20, 2009, 7:24 AM

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There once was a poster that had lived in two European three African and one Asian country and still managed to visit Mexico and attend jazz concerts in LA and bankrolled the Black Panthers all in 1968 and there wasn't a maximum security prison of the mind that could contain him.

TIO GREENGLEE


Oct 20, 2009, 10:29 AM

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OK; let's start a competition to see who can emulate the dawg's style and, in no more than 50 words, produce something that fits his title—"A Prison of the Mind".
All entries must be suitable for family viewing, please.

Rolly


Oct 20, 2009, 10:31 AM

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That damn useless quote function bites another unsuspecting user.

Rolly Pirate

wendy devlin

Oct 20, 2009, 11:21 AM

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The gringo's FMT was running out. His abogado stuck in manana-land. Today the secretary says another $20,000 pesos to continue his case. Over at the casa, Alberto, el presto nombre, swings in the hammaca, sipping una cereza.

Alberto stares at the empty ejido lot next door. Soon, he must liberate another gringo from the prison of his mind.


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Zarcero

Oct 20, 2009, 3:39 PM

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This thread is creeping me out.

Hound Dog

Oct 20, 2009, 5:21 PM

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This thread is creeping me out. (Zacero)

In furtherance of our true goal here:

Dawg´s response:

"In 2012 the Maya Calendar dictates the end of Earth as we know it and mock indigenous at your peril as once the Huicholes tired of white boy pompous irrelevance they beseached their gods to refill Lake Chapala in an island ceremony on the lake in 2003 and it promptly rejuvenated itself."

50 words, profound disclosures.

It doesn´t take a weatherman to tell which way the wind is blowing.


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tashby


Oct 20, 2009, 5:33 PM

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but that of course was the 1960’s which the Dawg spent wandering the Okavango Delta wearing nothing but an air-filled burlap Sari picked up in Singapore, if you catch my drift, so returning to that afternoon spent in a one-panga paradise on the coast of Oaxaca, despite my darlin’ wife’s better judgment I entered A Prison of the Mind but I tell you what

50-word count? I give up.

Hound Dog

Oct 20, 2009, 5:42 PM

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but that of course was the 1960’s which the Dawg spent wandering the Okavango Delta wearing nothing but an air-filled burlap Sari picked up in Singapore, if you catch my drift, so returning to that afternoon spent in a one-panga paradise on the coast of Oaxaca, despite my darlin’ wife’s better judgment I entered A Prison of the Mind but I tell you what

Tashby:

Are you spoken for?

Tony, I smell a contender.

Dawg

Rolly


Oct 20, 2009, 7:07 PM

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Of all the things I have lost over the years, the thing I miss the most is my mind, because now I'm a prison of my lost mind.

Rolly Pirate

MattDBennet

Oct 21, 2009, 10:52 AM

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The French port glazed leg of lamb had been grilled to the charbroiled crunchiness on the outside
and succulent tenderness on the inside that the Dawg appreciated, but south, in the Mayan
jungle, he finally escaped the prison of the mind with a glass or two of good wine.

Hound Dog

Oct 21, 2009, 12:18 PM

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The French port glazed leg of lamb had been grilled to the charbroiled crunchiness on the outside
and succulent tenderness on the inside that the Dawg appreciated, but south, in the Mayan
jungle, he finally escaped the prison of the mind with a glass or two of good wine.

Thank you for that Matt. You have inspired the Dawg:

"Pousierre was the patriarch of the fisherman´s family on Arcachon Bay at Gujan-Mestras poor and destitute as Albanians but then came The Hound from Alabama with his new Parisienne bride lusting after that leg of lamb roast with garlic cloves and rosemary but puntbrain wanted Pousierre´s favorite cut never before contested."






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Hound Dog

Oct 22, 2009, 10:57 AM

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When we started freezing our butts off in San Cristóbal in the summertime at 7,000 feet during rain showers because no one had heat I was reminded that Hadad, a native Tunisian living in Paris, had told us he had never been so cold as in Tunis so we heated.

Manuel Dexterity

Oct 23, 2009, 2:42 PM

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The fabulous meal at the restaurant in Paris was straight from a Mastercard commercial. The card kept in my wife's Coach handbag was even cloned on that trip. The beans from the clay pot while sitting along the rio de La Sierra with our backs against the ahuehuete were more pleasing. The sight of Don Octavio's .45 escuadra dissuaded the Zoque with the machete from contemplating further malice.

wendy devlin

Oct 23, 2009, 3:04 PM

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.Los Señores Bubbas dined al fresco, exchanging a few words of Zoque at the table. A few kilometres away, Don Octavio hangs from el mesquite. Sentimental gesture? Los Bubbas? Enough time to make their escape, de la frontera, a Laguna de Chapala, donde............................................viven......... más cerca, those that can protect los extranjeros?

Hound Dog

Oct 23, 2009, 3:11 PM

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As the foreign white boy interloper from Jovel approached his rudimentary home in Aguacatenango negotiating the hill from the combi stop on the highway, Don Octavio considered alternatives which consisted of killing the sumbitch or selling him an overpriced rug which would fetch a better return than the fat boy´s carcass.


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Manuel Dexterity

Oct 23, 2009, 4:42 PM

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Don Octavio made it back to Guadalajara just fine having done his share to deforst the selva. He spent his time counting his money and trying to keep the youngest of his 7 daughters from screwing all of the male students at the UAG prepa. He had to buy husbands for the rest of them. What a waste of those fine cedros.

wendy devlin

Oct 23, 2009, 5:10 PM

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The body in the tree. Not Don Octavio?
I've been sadly misinformed. Better buy a few more rugs.

Hound Dog

Oct 24, 2009, 7:40 AM

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THE COMMUTER

Alberto was a burglar who lived in the Beehive but worked in San Cristóbal because there was nothing worth stealing in the Beehive and besides, those a-holes in the Beehive had lynched his friend Enrique after he stole one too many bicycles. One doesn´t steal bicycles; life´s very blood, in a favela.


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Manuel Dexterity

Oct 24, 2009, 8:22 AM

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Dr. Livingstone, I Presume

Another gringo who moved to Mexico "for the adventure", (like they were going to build a tree house at the headwaters of the Atoyac), was having a classic meltdown when the cashier at Superlake refused to accept his torn 500 peso note muttering something about "these people".

arbon

Oct 24, 2009, 12:06 PM

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The "Cake Eater".

It did not imprison my mind being a cake eater* enjoying the sugar and the coffee and the chocolate even when the growers had to grow more powerful stimulant crops to feed a family but when local workers had to turn their hands to produce organic herbs it became matter over mind.

*look it up.
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Hound Dog

Oct 24, 2009, 4:25 PM

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THE LITTLE BITE

Dawg remembers when hit up for mordida by cops in Mexico the Alabama cops in the 1950s who waited for uppity "negroes" who left Selma for Detroit and worked in the mills up there and drove big Lincolns back south with Michigan plates to show off and got nailed every time.


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Manuel Dexterity

Oct 24, 2009, 8:20 PM

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Waiting For Familia from El Otro Lado

There were still a few left at the velorio for Chema. Some had been there all night, many others had drifted off. The bags of ice in the coffin had lasted thru the night but the body won't stay fresh long in the hot tropical sun. Send little Juanito for more ice, make it block this time. It doesn't melt as fast. Hopefully they''ll arrive soon.


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Hound Dog

Oct 24, 2009, 9:26 PM

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PASS THE CROISSANTS AND JAMON DE SERRANO - A FINE BREAKFAST

Don Carlos took the combi from his Zapatista village south of Teopisca to Jovel to sell his rug but couldn´t sell it and lacked the funds to get home so he stopped by to borrow combi fare with the rug as collateral. Joined us for espresso, croissant, serrano ham and 10 Pesos.


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Oscar2

Oct 25, 2009, 9:19 AM

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A Beach

Its said, the sounds which scream from the prison of the mind, identify and seek relief through ecstatic prisms vacant of its chatter, knowing well it finds refuge, peace and more in the pure naked sublimity of a beautiful, lonely, stretch of beach, mind-words can’t touch but just simply felt.

Hound Dog

Oct 25, 2009, 12:53 PM

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CALCIFICATION BLUES

The Ministerio Publico folks hated the demanding foreigners and the hatred was mutual. The foreigners had no notion of how Mexican law worked and acted as if they were still in Cleveland. The Ministerio prosecutors had simply tuned them out and the foreigners thought them slothful. Misdirected Rage was the result.


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Manuel Dexterity

Oct 25, 2009, 1:17 PM

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No Seas Guey, Choose Your Battles Wisely

That was the third time in the doubleheader he had been hit by a Tomatero pitch. Enough was enough and he charged the mound. Dumb idea. Nobody from the Hechiceros left the bench to help. Their first loyalty was to their paisanos, not a gringo teammate. Mexicans have good memories.


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Hound Dog

Oct 25, 2009, 1:57 PM

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PINE TREES AND MAXIMUM ANXIETY

Dawg drove down the steep descent into Angangueo in the gathering dusk on the seemingly endless hill to a town rarely visited out of season with images of DELIVERANCE, muchachos with machetes at the ready to slice his head off like a watermelon at the County Fair but he is still here.


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Oscar2

Oct 26, 2009, 7:53 AM

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Bravado

In a Zacatecas Cantina, un descarado with an eye de sangrón, said, “hola pinche." The tremors in my gut said, look out! I pressed a tight smile, eyeing him with distain and rebellion, walked deliberately toward him, thrust my arm out grabbed………..my order of tacos from the bar and exit.

tonyburton


Oct 26, 2009, 4:17 PM

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There have been some fantastic short pieces on this thread, which as always illustrates the considerable creativity and talent of MexConnect readers and posters. Thanks to everyone who took part. I believe this thread has now run its course, but feel free to start something similar if the creative muses take hold. Tony.
 
 
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