Mount Sutro: An Electronic Periodical

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Lessons In Normalcy, Part II

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First, I will start with the entries I alluded to yesterday. Have you seen the new Oreo® Cookies that boast dual-flavour cream centres? There is an advert on television featuring blue-collar workers during their lunch break. An African-American man has the "Mint 'n Cream" Double Delight much to the amazement and jealously of his co-workers, who then try to offer their desserts in exchange for one of these new cookies. The bald man with the beard, moustache and cupcakes makes me laugh so hard. Reminding me physically of Clint Howard, this guy's final line of "Eight cupcakes!" is stupidly amusing.

Next, we have some bitching about the waste of money organisation, the United States Department of Homeland Security's preparedness website designed for citizens, ready.gov. I have made some comments here and there about it, but have you really ever gone to this site and read the material presented. I feel like we are back in the 60's again with the scare-tactic propaganda. Even if terrorism is a threat, I have to wonder if the employments of these tactics are being used to help gain popular support for the controversial, to mention nothing of expensive, security initiatives going through Congress. That was rhetorical, by the way. You should go and print out the instructions and information presented on their site, pinning them up on your wall in the event of a cataclysmic terrorist attack. God knows ducking under a table with your hands over your head is going to provide live-saving protection in the event of a biological or nuclear attack.

I was recently laughed at for my irrational fear of spiders. I feel the fear is irrational simply because I think people should not be scared of most of the things we fear. They are generally harmless, smaller and less intelligent then us. None the less, the fear exists and so I thought I would share now the story behind my arachnophobia. I believe I was twelve or so and was participating in an emergency communications exercise though an amateur radio organization I was a part of at the time. This twenty-four hour event took place at a church or scout camp situated in the woods not too far to the present location of the West Oaks Mall in west Orlando. I was in charge of desktop workstations that were used to log all communications during this exercise. At some point during the overnight, someone wanted to use the radio located in the most remote building of the complex, which had been shutdown due to inactivity. I was asked by this individual to accompany them, get the workstation online and make sure everything was ready for his use. As I entered the rooms walking toward the back where we had the station set-up, I rubbed the walls looking for the light switches. Finally, we arrived at the proper room where I began getting the computer ready for use. Something caught my attention to the right peripherally so I looked. Covering the far walls, floor and ceiling were fully-grown, large adult wolf spiders. I turned and looked back at the way I came in and saw they were there as well, hideously close to those light switches I had just before flipped without looking first. I worked with a swiftness getting that workstation ready for use and then hauled ass running out of that building and all the way back to the other, less secluded buildings. Since then I have been pretty intimidated by any spiders the size of a half-dollar coin (including leg span) or larger.

You Mac-lovers out there can laugh at this. I tried today to eject the CD in my drive by dragging it's icon to the trash. Um, yeah, you cannot do that in Windows XP Professional even though my "recycle bin" icon is labelled "Trash" and looks like the OS X icon.

Finally, some select search terms people used at Google or other engines and came to Mount Sutro.
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There are many others, but most of them revolved around lingerie, Playboy®, Mount Sutro and pictures of Tallahassee.

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  • FSUpaintball

    "Paypal granny sex?" for real???

    I hate spiders too, but I don't know why.

    EIGHT CUP-CAKES!!!

  • Maurice

    Spiders aren't great, but it's mice and rats that push me over the bend. Fear of tiny little mice, given my size, seems highly irrational to me.

    ~Maurice

  • Syelence

    I am not fond of spiders...but see their purpose... My mother is violently allergic and I watched her arm swell after losing a battle with an itsy bitsy spider...that was a sobering experience...

    What are truly terrifying are palmetto bugs aka roaches on steroids... they are evil little creatures that actually attack people...I hate the fuckers...

  • Matticus

    I found these while looking at another forum. I mean... finding something like this in your own fucking home is insane!

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    Whoever removed the clock to see what was under there is braver than I. If it was me I would have said fuck the clock and smashed both it and the spider to kingdom come with a sledge hammer (thank you adrenaline). And even then I'd have myself a good cry afterwards.

  • FSUpaintball

    what's your FW name?

  • David July

    That is probably one of the scariest things I have ever seen. I would not be surprised if those pictures were taken from a home in Australia, because they have spiders like that roaming around a common as our houseflies. I once knew a guy there who told some scary stories about finding little critters like this in their home (one discovered by his wife whilst sitting on the toilet; we all agreed it was a good thing she was sitting where she was when she saw the intruder).

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