Mmm ... herpes

The wages of sin is great parking

There was a magnificent post all but posted last week, but an unexpected computer crash + an unsaved draft = me telling you now that Jon Krakauer's "Under the Banner of Heaven" is wonderful and terrifying and occasionally makes fundamentalist Mormonism really attractive.

Also, I've had a bit to drink this evening so I'm going to choose my words carefully lest The Girl be turned off from polygamy. If it weren't God's plan, God wouldn't have told a huckster like Joseph Smith, would He? Or wouldn't He've?

Burrrrr. I said, "I have two choices this evening: drink beers or tidy my place." She said, "Do one and then make a decision." So I'm going to finish drinking this beer, and then finish watching this episode of The Equalizer (early 80's NYC paranoia represent!) and then I'm going to decide to drink beers. Except I'm out of beers so I'm going to drink tequila, which Ukraine has taught me is the desperate man's liquor. And that's Ukraine talking, so you know it knows of desperation and liquor.

Fig. 1: This was New York in the early 80's. Toss in a bit of After Hours and American Psycho for bit of color, and it's just like being there.

Chris Elliott is in this episode of The Equalizer. And the psycho guy with the hair-that-will-be-popular-in-1991 will totally kill The Equalizer's girlfriend, because The Equalizer can't get close to anybody.

Argh, that subject line is killing me because it's totally true. (The story behind it will be my next post, in June, maybe.) It tempts me to take up sinning full-time.

UPDATE: The Equalizer's girlfriend lived, but The Equalizer felt that his line of business would endanger anyone he loved, so she had to go. Oh Equalizer, why can't you give up this business?!

UPDATE 2: This episode guest-stars John Goodman, Joe Morton, and David Johansen. I predict good things.

UPDATE 3: And an uncredited Steve Buscemi as a "cheeky" fence?

UPDATE 4: And Stewart Copeland (or Andy Stewart? The drummer one, whichever one that was) as a ... guy ... in a disco ... with a purpose ... ?