Previously: An Isolated Incident I, II, III The First Seal is Broken I, II, III, IV, V The Second Seal is Broken Part I, II, III.
Epilogue
Well, shit. Frank’s last pronouncement was the death knell for the story.
I find I am unable to drive the story forward. Partly I didn’t have enough structure (in my head) and some certain parts I probably should’ve amplified, to form more coherent arcs to carry things along, and I didn’t. I let the story find its own way a little too much and that has limited me such that trying to force that in now doesn’t really seem to work. I guess maybe that goes with the approach (writing in series rather than to the end) or at least without a firm enough grasp on how it should progress.
I had roughly planned to push CNO to a degree of victory – this is where I failed to elaborate on how they were received by the public, and that they had created a wave of support which would be essential to that end. That element was tricky anyway because as someone made a mention about suspension of disbelief, I simply couldn’t now find a way to craft this in. Particularly it got harder to move the story in a way that would end up more fantastic, given the realism I kept veering toward. Early on there was a comment about magical realism, and maybe there was a path there, but I couldn’t find it. The victory was to have been bittersweet, in that the final act of accountability was to be self-imposed and they would commit mass suicide (as there was no way they could just simply melt back into society). That also was going to be tricky as that is almost a bit more Japanese than American as a sense of honor. Alternatively, I couldn’t write toward an end where they failed – that was even more grim. Rock, meet hard place.
I thank you all for being a kind and generous audience as I experimented with this; I’m glad I’ve entertained you, and I wish I could have brought this to a more satisfying conclusion. Perhaps everyone can imagine a better ending.
Editor’s Note: Glibs truly appreciates the contributions of Juris Imprudent, and all our other writers. Series are hard to write. Some drag on forever, or fizzle out unfinished (mea culpa). Glibs is a sandbox where aspiring (and experienced) writers can try things out. The best advice I can give to writers is to write, or at least plot, the whole thing out first. A series is basically a novel published one chapter at a time. Commenters may consider this an open thread. -T
You never know. You may pick this up again in a few months, or come up with something new from the experience. Either way, I salute your efforts!
My not-so-humble opinion: The best way to become a better writer, is to keep writing. Lots. Oh, and read a lot.
Juris, this was some pretty interesting stuff. I enjoyed it. Hope you pick it back up again at some point.
The best way to become a better writer, is to keep writing. Lots.
This. So much this.
And that doesn’t mean you work on your magnum opus every day; it means you write something every day.
Sometimes I describe an interesting thing I saw while out and about. Sometimes I record a character or bit of dialogue I find interesting. Even if these never turn in to stories on their own they provide the henchmen, passersby, and background for other works.
I like that. Sort of an artist’s sketch but with words.
I use the turn of phrase “Painting pictures with words”
Sometimes I will set an even loftier writing exercise challenge – for example, can I take a character who is unlikable but make them a sympathetic protagonist? I failed at that one, since the character didn’t stay unlikeable and simply became human. On the plus side, I got a book out of that one.
Delving into personality, depicting personality, and character motivations is vital practice as well. People notice shallow characterization as much as they do the scenery.
You also have to be someone who enjoys that.
I like writing but I discovered long ago that I don’t like writing a lot.
Luckily I found something else that I enjoy doing a lot and made a career out of it.
I’m going to leave that low hanging fruit right where it is.
Hey, 20 bucks is 20 bucks.
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Hanging like a couple balls over the home sack?
OK, I will admit to drinking. And going after low hanging fruit.
re-write something…..the next day, the next week….and then again a month later…..and then again a year later
when we are in the middle of an idea, it is clear to us; when we are away from it, the innocent readers’ perspective becomes more obvious: what the hell did I mean to say is not something one says to himself ten minutes after first penning a line
A technical writing professor had us cut the fluff out of some sample verbiage…..it was full of redundancy and tautologyl I would strike 30% of the words out of almost any document. Second, write work instructions for assembly and then years later see how may errors your best intentions failed to prevent.
I do a lot of technical writing at work. I enjoy it.
As I told Tonio in private correspondence, I would have to revisit previous chapters to ret-con what I needed. That was a loathsome prospect. Probably needed a more solid outline, that could have kept me on point when I needed to be – mostly it was just in my head and you know, we forget things.
There is a third thing; a ruthles editor. Tonio and I have gone back and forth a bit on this, and I can safely say that there are few things better than someone that can cut your Bs short.
I enjoyed the ride, Juris.
Dittoes.
Moi aussi. Thanks JI.
Kicks pebble, ponders another broken romance. It was good while it lasted. Don’t fret, JI, I’ll get over it.
Who knows, it ain’t over ’til it’s over.
Nick, I read your travelog late, an interesting trip down nostalgia lane. We did drive around the Lakes one year, in September. Mrs F got tired of Farm Museums along the way but it was interesting. We crossed back over in Montreal, the hills of Vermont-New Hampshire were absolutely gorgeous in fall colors. Then the UP and northern WI. A lot of small towns and villages, real life. Thanks.
Also there is a parallel road to 61, I can’t remember where but maybe Silver Bay or farther north. I took a lot of fall pictures. Mrs F’s nephew was with us and he had a great time, seeing the north country. At Split Rock you can enjoy some Canadian music
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vST6hVRj2A
Thanks.
Sorry to disparage Betty’s Pies. It was bad 35 years ago. And it was still bad the last 2 times I’ve gone. I don’t understand the popularity.
I’ll echo the other’s sentiments, very well done. Thanks for sharing.
It might not have finished the way you wanted, but all the parts were well written and entertaining.
Thanks for writing
^ this ^
Am I the only one who thinks this is a perfect segue into a crowd-sourced story, which could branch off from any of the preceding instalments? I did that once, eons ago when I was younger and even more of a studmuffin than I am now, on a BBS based on the Citadel software architecture back in the mid-to-late-1980s. (STadel, to be more precise…)
As long as anyone catching J.J. Abrams contributing shoots the bastard on sight.
Or Joss Whedon. Hate that guy.
Or Wil Wheaton.
That does sound fun.
Used to do that on car trips. One person would start a story, stop at a cliffhanger, and then the next would pick it up.
Naked Came the Libertarian
I thought the sequel, “When Will the Naked Libertarian Get Off My Sofa?” didn’t deserve the awards.
As atonement, I am writing a non-fiction piece that might even make publication for this slot next week.
I apologize for what I did below. I really liked your series–these are exceptionally hard to write. I think you should keep on truckin’!
Thanks for sharing Juris! Really enjoyed it.
Dick Slashballs crept silently down the hallway, the smooth wooden handle warm in his hand as he kept his eye on the agent ahead. The agent had his back turned and was distracted by something down the intersecting hallway to the left. Slashballs knew exactly what was distracting the man–he’d slipped the girl an envelope in the bar a half hour earlier. She never saw him, but the note, room key, and seventy-five hundred lira inside the envelope did his talking for him. She was headed for a room on the intersecting hallway, to the right of the agent.
Slashballs paused his approach, sliding back into a recessed doorway as the girl passed the agent, who followed her with his eyes as she moved. As Dick continued, he picked up his pace, having estimated the girl’s. As she entered the room and its door closed behind her, Special Agent Frank Regan’s last breath was interrupted by Slashballs’ garrote. Dick caught the body as it relaxed, easing it toward the stairwell at the corner. Looking around, Dick saw that no one had observed him, and headed for the other stairwell, confident that his escape route for the final confrontation was now clear.
Dick!/Balls on you sir!
db, you little tease…
This seems like it could be a fun little story line. I wonder if someone could expand upon this.
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Can we redo this with Special Agent Frank Drebbin?
/1980’s Priscilla Pressley
Out of context line of dialog from a story that’s been in-progress for Glibs for a while:
I think there’s one word and an ” ‘s ” missing there.
I don’t see it.
How are you trying to change the character’s pattern of speech?
what else do educated linguists around here eat?
Sorry, I’m in kind of a mood tonight.
This wasn’t a reference to Glibs. Here’s the context for the quote:
OK, in that context, it’s a great use of wry humor.
glom onto an Aztec diety to justify eating people
Nice John-o there.
I haven’t run it through a spellchecker yet.
Commenters may consider this an open thread.
Am I a freak? I fucking LOVE how this ended.
Thanks for everything, ji!
Yes, you are a freak. Whether or not that has anything to do with your opinion on the ending of the story is a separate question.
Fair.
No, you’re not a freak. The ending (last installment) was great.
It forces the reader to get in Frank’s position: he’s learned that the organization you’ve dedicated yourself to is corrupt, but the vigilante guys ain’t saints either. Does he stick with the agency and try to salvage it? Or does he go full over to the “Correctors”?
Maybe he hangs it up entirely, moves to the country and becomes a woodworker.
It’s left to the reader to decide what he should do, and how to live with the consequences either way.
See what I mean about a generous audience!
And actually that was how I lost track of the bigger picture – because I got interested in that dynamic. With a little more focus, I should’ve been able to carry off both. Lesson learned.
Or he goes mad with trying figure out if he’s in a double cross, triple cross, or it’s crosses all the way down.
Ugh.
Pardon the terrible switcheroo I made from “he” to “you” and back again.
I must now turn in my grammar badge and gun.
okay
but
take the cannoli
*Frank leaps in the air, fist raised in victory*
*freeze frame*
*credits roll*
Thanks for this. It took a lot to do this in public. I can’t write this well and I’d never have the courage try this in front of others. Keep at it.
Thanks for this. The parts were all interesting and fun to read.
Watching the hockey game (WIld kicking some Philly ass).
Subaru commercial comes on. Yep, one of SF’s.
I love this place. I love you weirdos.
Rangers kicking Penguin ass.
Good. Wild playing them shortly.
It’s a nail-biter now.
So nice to have Flower here.
DON’T RUB IT IN!!!
/sobbing Blackhawks fan
Come on
He was only there for like an hour!
Whew.
Philly just scored. Nice fucking shot. Still 4-1.
Rangers missed like a dozen opportunities on Penguins’ empty net but somehow they couldn’t score either.
There will be a lot of ice after this game. An amazing number of blocked shots.
[ONE YEAR LATER]
Frank wakes up and heads for the bathroom to take his morning shower. Frank is astonished to find Conor in the shower. Conor tells Frank the last year was all just a bad dream.
[Take the story from there, and add whatever SF-like sex at appropriate points]
GAY!!11!!
I think you’d need Jesse_in_MB to pick up that storyline.
Now THAT is a twist! Suck JI’s balls, MNS
Please keep letting this story brew in your little grey cells. I’d love to see it return in the future.
Grey cells
green.
Sigh I miss the nineties.
I listen to Godfodder at least a couple times a month.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=onjaC3A2xjk
UCS is right; you’re a freak.
Yep.
And proud of it,
That disc is in my roadtrip jacket of discs. For when SiriusXM gets to repetitive.
My 20 year old bass playing daughter loves it too. When she learned they had two bassists, it was over!
Garlic-stuffed-olives are delicious.
That is all.
Sounds like a huge amount of garlic. Unless there is another filler to not have just a whole darn clove.
A whole darn clove. Garlic is good for you.
One a day (sometimes two) keeps the doctor away.
From the halitosis.
Put on your new experiences gloves and try it some time.
But I already know I hate olives.
OK, so this is a true story: I used to think the same thing. Mostly because of those fucking black olives people seem to think they need to put on everything. And the disgusting pimento-stuffed cheap garbage.
You should try some high (or even medium) quality, GREEN, stuffed olives. I went from pleasantly surprised to addicted in a few bites.
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Same. I still hate black olives but have grown to rather like green ones.
Now I want a dirty martini with, like, 6 bleu-cheese stuffed olives.
I can’t even with this.
Kalamata > green
I have been munching on garlic jalepeno olives from Costco. One of my faves!
I haven’t tried the jalapeno ones yet. I’ll have to get a jar to spice things up, as it were.
They are excellent. Not stupidly hot, but still more than just garlic.
I really like both jalapeno stuffed green olives and bleu cheese stuffed green olives.
JI was just going for a lady or the tiger ending.
I always disliked how we never had enough information about the Princess’ character to assess whether she’d rather see him dead.
https://archive.ph/ozZfc/f9ff4be6374c26cc8e4c53d50c1d13acde024307.webp
NSFW.
https://thumbs2.redgifs.com/EnormousFriendlyArawana-mobile.mp4#t=0
NSFW.
https://archive.ph/kQx4p/194b3723c025182fc9b0b4d8e0757edb1c6abbc1.webp
NSFW.
https://archive.ph/G3ank/dd39129ce620cd9d89422b90bd1f8f9a1fc69479.webp
NSFW.
https://archive.ph/hyjLB/34c7fb00a211a927c6dc2bffdf47eb0ae5b1d5bd.jpg
NSFW.
*stands up and salutes*
Pretty appropriate.
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/end-of-citizenship
I’ve liked Michael Lind’s stuff for many years, 20-25. Today though I had to take exception to at least one sentence.
“many libertarians as well as progressives have supported the idea of a universal basic income,”
I don’t know of any libs that would say that. One would lose his/her credentials right there.
Isn’t Lind the guy that has burned down more libertarian strawmen than Winston (and all the trolls of HnR combined)?
He offhandedly mentions Milton Friedman as though he were the Rosetta stone of Libertarianism, completely ignoring the rifts between him and other even more significant thinkers of that camp.
Even with his wife. She apparently gave him shit over the withholding scheme.
It’s a weird thing to pin on libertarians. Even the few libertarians who mull over the UBI do so under the pretext that it would eliminate other forms of welfare.
shorter, maybe better than I put it………..that’s what I’m getting at, yes
I don’t have the attention span.
Sheesh, buddy, wrap it up.
Lind’s stuff
As brilliant as he is, Lind is not above the non sequitur. For example, he criticizes libertarianism per se because no country has adopted it; the self-serving vacuity of majorities or the abject evil of despots isn’t the problem, you see: it’s libertarianism’s own fault that she is not pretty enough to be asked to prom. That a philosophy of liberty cannot be thrust upon others does not occur to him (or does and like most intellectuals of our day he prefers popularity and influence to intellectual honesty?). An avatar or a short cut is one thing; dodging ingenuity is another.
I suspect he knows better but is merely too lazy to take on the issue. I don’t know why he is not yet a senator.
At best, perhaps observing that we already have a UBI and considering replacing all of the welfare programs with a single cash transfer.
Lind can fuck right off with glorification of a slave army. If anything, the link didn’t end in 1973, it ended when all military age males were no longer subject for a single conflict and it became a beginning of adulthood lottery for whatever staffing the military decided it needed.
If citizenship is going to come with obligations, than military service to me would be the most basic and appropriate. I tend to fall into the camp that believes citizenship should be tied to military service. Either that or at least paying taxes.
Fuck. That. Let’s not give Uncle Sam 10x the budget and 5x the number of soldiers to fight the mic’s wars.
I didn’t join. And I didn’t join because I didn’t trust my government not to make me kill people who posed no threat to our country or to be killed or maimed by people that pose no threat to our country. In thirty years of hindsight, it was the right call.
I would be happy with something between the current part time status/fulltime obligation of the current reserves and the unorganized militia.
Sometimes, I wonder if I do not spoil the Glibs. I give them so much of me with every First. Does not the entire world deserve the light of my Firsts? I share here and there with the rest of the world, but the largest part of me has been given to you…the people of Glibs.
Would you miss the paternal warmth of my Firsts, my dear Glibs, if I shared it more broadly?
Just so long as you don’t bring any diseases back…
I First so much, that I have near unbreachable immunity. I have super white blood cells. Not even super AIDS could harm me.
Did a fresh install of the updated Windows, when I was trying to open my restore files it froze, now I can’t even get it to boot up, I only get a BIOS splash everyother restart and then just a black screen with a mouse cursor. 🙁
Got a Windows recovery USB?
I have the disk I just used to do this fresh install, but now my BIOS isn’t showing the prompt to boot from the disk.
Try another fresh install?
Like I said, now my BIOS doesn’t give me the option to boot from the disk
And now this laptop BSODed twice trying to find an answer. WHAT DON’T THEY WANT ME TO KNOW?!!
FINALLY, after about 6 hrs, got it back up and it’s doing restoring from the back-up. Fuck sake.
Step 1 – get some tannerite …
A very interesting piece by Mate. D.C. knew exactly what would happen if they flooded Ukraine with weapons after Maidan. We know this because Blinken himself describes what would happen. This mess has McCain’s finger prints all over it.
https://mate.substack.com/p/urging-regime-change-in-russia-biden?s=w
“Expanding U.S. assistance to Ukraine, including lethal military assistance, would likely increase the costs to Russia, in both blood and treasure, of holding the Donbass region,” the study said. “…The Ukrainian military already is bleeding Russia in the Donbass region (and vice versa). Providing more U.S. military equipment and advice could lead Russia to increase its direct involvement in the conflict and the price it pays for it. Russia might respond by mounting a new offensive and seizing more Ukrainian territory.”
Written in 2019 and for some odd reason played out exactly like that in 2022.
Watch “Ukraine on Fire”. I thanks it’s of Rumble now the YouTube canned it. There’s a scene after Maidan with McCain and Lindsey Graham talking with a bunch of Ukrainian military with Graham telling the Ukrainians that the US would give them full support in their fight against the Russians.
The two fucks were promising to defend Ukraine down to the last Ukrainian.
Yet Ukraine never was really serious about defending itself. Like going the Swiss route of a robust citizen army and militia. Or Finland. Instead it was about grifting and skimming as much as possible for everyone involved.
I saw that a week or so ago. Blowback is real and doesn’t absolve Bin Laden or Putin. But, it sure does explain why you don’t rile up an already volatile situation.
And they got all the blue-checks to fly little Ukrainian flags. What a world.
I’m annoyed that there’s one flying at City Hall.
I’d understand if the Ukranian Catholic Church a few blocks away from city hall were flying a Ukranian flag, but it should not be on city hall at the same height as the US flag.
No it should not and it is an amazing example of how agitprop can take on a life of its own.
Linked article
https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_briefs/RB10014.html
Did they do similar undermine studies about Canada, Germany, or Japan? All of those could potential competitors. Gee, I wonder why not. Theses top.men. have been trying to provoke and escalate conflict with Russia for years now and why? Fall of the Berlin Wall was even more disappointing than to the grey hair hardliners in the Politburo?
They never will be satisfied until they have total control. Since they never will have total control, there will be continuous war.
I wonder if there’s one for China.
According to this, most you are fascists.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXyg0PyRgOs
I had pinapple on pizza a couple times, and it was all right, now mayonaise, that is insanity
https://ibb.co/DKpykBt
‘EST 1918’ sounds fucking communist.
I would have gone with sounds like fucking Werner Erhard.
https://youtu.be/NJaLUDtZgEg
Wow! There’s a name I haven’t heard in 40 years. Nice reference.
Bakery pizza. Ugh. Bread with tomato sauce and random stuff.
I say go for it
Ocasio-Cortez to Clarence Thomas: Resign or face impeachment
Please please please let there be a pubic hair on AOC’s coke in her locked apartment tonight. No one gets away with threatening Justice Long Dong Silver.
Sandy thinks wives should stay in the kitchen and not express independent thoughts.
https://youtu.be/_oqbLSisnME
Elihu Thomson talks about his high school experience circa 1864. It’s one thing to “know” that people are people and always have been, but to see him speaking and moving like someone in present day gives a sense that dusty books never did.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elihu_Thomson
Morning, Glibs.
Have to go into the office today. At least today I don’t have meetings all stacked up on the same time slot.
*flings olives at UCS*
Wait, that seems wasteful. Give them back.
You seem unhinged this morning.
Wait till the coffee kicks in…
https://philadelphia.cbslocal.com/2022/03/30/2-police-officers-injured-when-pursuit-suspect-ends-in-crash-in-wissinoming-police/
Sue Toyota.
From the dead thread:
“Sean, It’s all Sean’s fault.”
I don’t think that’s right.
*shrug*
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=K4dx42YzQCE
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wfmz.com/news/area/berks/reading-to-honor-transgender-visibility-day/article_e71077f8-afea-11ec-8e7c-7bdf7b91e493.html
Wut?
https://ktla.com/news/local-news/firefighters-respond-to-koreatown-apartment-building-after-person-trapped-in-garbage-chute/
I guess she doesn’t have a step brother.
*sigh*
Have to get on the road.
I was on the road. Then I went back home. Stoopid vertigo.
There was a damn traffic jam on the way to work.
At 6 in the morning!
I only commute so damn early to avoid traffic!
I was also tempted to quip about the time vortex giving you vertigo. I hope that clears up.
It’s already getting better, thanks. Bonine works pretty good for me, just not as fast as I’d like.
/Checks traffic.
I hate Atlanta. I’ll be going in a bit later, methinks.
Ask Lemmy: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=skGEBgePHtk
I hate pollen.
Yup. Migraines and then later, gushing blood from the nose. Every Spring.
Good morning, TARDy, Sean, rhy, and U!
I managed to stay awake through Curse of Oak Island last night. On what had seemed to be a promising dig about 150 feet down in what they appropriately (though not in the sense they’d prefer) call “the money pit,” they hit bedrock and thus found…nuthin’. ? So they moved the equipment and started digging another hole.
Ah well. They get their money from selling TV shows anyway. Finding treasure would end the series.
Oak Island is one of those modern legends where the promise is far more than the payoff. I wish they had left well enough alone so I could still think The Templars buried Solomon’s treasures there or whatever it is they’re pushing.
I’m waiting for the big reveal wherein everybody there gets face melted.
Mornin’ GT, TARDy, Sean, rhy, and UCS and all the rest of the crowd,
UCS, I haven’t forgotten the piece of rail but the snow is still coming down. Looks like a few more days ’til I can have a looksee.
Had the first cuppa, eyes are 1/2 open.
I have patience, besdes, depending on how much my upcoming repairs cost, it’ll be that much longer before I’ll have someplace to work.
Mornin’, reprobates. Need more coffee.
5️⃣4️⃣
6️⃣9️⃣
Boring!
6 4
5 8
*Yawn*
6 3
4 7
suh’ fam
whats goody
Good Morning my fellow Glibs…
Sheep that we weren’t sure was pregnant was indeed pregnant.
Gave bath to two girls, one was stillborn. Mom was not attached to the other. So we had a baby kid in the house. We think we have successfully reunited the two. Have been kinda busy. Its something holding a sleeping baby sheep…..
Loved this story, i am not as brave as to put something out there.
The lambs shall come to him
Well most of the time, they run away from me.
Overnight at work, some HVAC maintenance was being performed by some contractors. I was up on a step ladder doing something, and this huge, Hacksaw Jim Duggan m’fer walks past.
His hat was turned backwards so when he passed me and I turned to glance at him I could read it:
“Show me your butthole”
I about fell off the ladder from laughing so hard.
I wish I were burly enough to rock that look. F’n awesome!
Morning! Mornin’ Glibbies. Eldest Grandson just fucked off to the coast for some reason. He’s 17 and drives his own bought and paid for truck. I fail to see the reason for the resulting freak-out by his Mom and Grandmother. I know that Autumn did much crazier shit when she was his age. So did I by about an order of magnitude. They even got the RCMP involved…
I was reminded yesterday of my youth, my wife mentioned that the Russian soldiers looked so young. I told her of my first days in the army, I was 19 and terrified. A year later I was on my way to Germany, confident and looking for new adventures. It takes some of us longer than others to begin to find ourselves.
He’s being a little shit for being so secretive but the hypocracy is a little much. I don’t know the details.
i had my 18th birthday in basic training.
Right? He goes to school and has been gainfully employed at his step-dad’s shop for the last two years. He’s a man. An apparently immature man but here we are.
Im not going to make maturity judgements. Ive mentioned before that when Im working or with my idiot friends, I still act like a 15 year old.
When Im with my 15 year-old kid, I act like my Dad.
Festus at age 17, with the RCMP
Connie was somethin’ else, wasn’t she?
So, I’m sitting in front of my computer for an hour and now I’m beginning to get a strange smell around me. I look at the gas stove, burning the way it’s supposed to, look at the trash can, nothing there.
As I ponder and scratch my head, it dawns on me. It’s the smell of a skunk. WTF is up with that? Then I remember that it’s about time skunks come out of hibernation, and wander around looking for food. I’m guessing I’ll see tracks in the snow by my front door.
The smell is beginning to dissipate so that’s good news.
We don’t have them here but on the other side of the Great Divide they are legion. I did see one last year.
It’s the smell of a skunk
You get that smell in Washington Square Park, NYC, but not from skunks. Comes from burning a once illegal weed.
First bag of skunkweed that I ever bought. Had to stash it in my locker. That wasn’t your older Brother’s red-thread…
A friend of mine works for an airline, and thus has free travel. Since he lived in Pittsburgh he’d fly home on weekends to party and fly back. Once (way pre 9/11) he bought some weed here to take home and put it in his carry-on. Evidently it stunk the cabin up to the point that the flight crew asked him. His quick, on-his-feet answer?
“Oh, when I was home I was camping with some friends, and a skunk got into our stuff. It must’ve carried over to the bag I have.”
Genius thinking for a stoner. They believed him.