Showing posts with label having no pride/shame. Show all posts
Showing posts with label having no pride/shame. Show all posts

Wednesday, November 4, 2009

The Chat Scene

So, I guess this is moving a little bit into the “social commentary” aspect of the blogosphere, which I never really wanted to get into, because my opinion on the topic of anything holds about as much importance as the four Mott’s apple sauces that I just housed do to anyone who might be so bored at work that they are reading the musings of Wilos. I mean, shit, guess what Wilos thinks about the faux pas of facebook or the new Martha Stewart Cookbook! Damn, Yonder Mountain’s new album is pretty dank (heady, bra! And, this one is true, so you should care). On a side note, when I listen to music when writing I tend to ramble, so bear with me or go back to redtube.

Anyways, the reason that I am writing on a subject of such importance as the “Chat Scene” is because, well, CdM, I just love pickin up some new scene. Also, I was talking to my old skydiving buddy MJB, one of the all-time great party bois. This dude is so cool, that he is up there with Steve McQueen, Clint Eastwood, John Wayne, and Moses, and Wilos as the Top 5 coolest guys in the history of history. On a side note, thank you for happening, history, for without you my thesis wouldn't have been possible. Anyways, I said, “hey mon, my good skydiving buddy, I’m bored, just partyin by myself, have no job or friends, and want to write something stupid in my blog. What should I write about?” And my good buddy said, “hey mon, just write about the old AOL chat scene!”

And I said, “shit! Why the hell has it taken me two paragraphs to introduce this topic?” So, anyways, let’s get to the point. I used to love those AOL chats. This entry probably won’t be very good. We used to get our buddies together back in sixth grade, and it was very exclusive if you were asked by LaxRat16 to join "Sweet, Sweet 6th Graders." We would shoot the shit on topics ranging from football, to which chicks were hot and which had acne (I still do), to football, to which websites had the best (fake) topless Spice Girls pictures, and who just sprouted their first pubic hair (yuck!). By the way, a bunch of friends and I were the Spice Girls for school Halloween in 4th grade. Pretty bold move.

Then, then came the chats with the girls. Now these were fucking awesome. If you got invited by the hot blonde chick who had hit puberty three years before everyone else and had breasts the size of Granny Smith Apples, then you had fucking made it. You were set. You might as well have already accepted your bid to the best fraternity on campus six years later (sick!). Now these chats were where the most important topics on the planet were discussed: Which dance we would be attending on Friday. Whose parents would be willing and cool enough to host the spin-the-bottle party on Saturday. What was the latest horrendous inside joke or nickname that the girls had ingeniously discovered, and that us guys would have to laugh at and pretend was funny. If you weren’t chatting, you might as well resign yourself to a life of getting wedgies by the lacrosse team or getting stuffed into lockers by the football team, and wait until college to try to reinvent yourself as having an ounce of coolness.

Lastly, and these were my favorite, were the “open” chats. The chats that you had to check the box that said “I certify that I am 18” to enter. Now, if you have a pair of testicles and had access to the internet in 6th grade, and you were as sick as my friends and I were at the ripe age of 12, then you know exactly what I am talking about. You had a lot of options, here. You could go into the standard adult chats, the lesbian chats, threesome chats, and even downright weird chats. So, you would lock the door, tell your parents you were studying Latin vocabulary, and pop into your chat of choice.

You would start off by either asking for or responding to the standard “a/s/l?” question. Now, to amateurs, this might be a tricky question, but to those well-versed in the language of desperately-seeking cyber sex, this constitutes an immediate, mandatory roll call for chatters to divulge their “age, sex, and location” Now, let me give you a sample response had I replied truthfully: “12, male, sitting in the top bunk with the lights off so I have time to react if my parents come in.” However, you would naturally spit out something such as “19, m, Los Angeles.” I don’t know why, but it was always LA for me. Musta been the sunny weather. So, you’d hook up with SexxxyBabe6969 who was 21, f, Fort Lauderdale, and open up a private instant message window.

Now, as sexy babe describes her voluptuous and Coke-bottle curvy body, you are combing the Abercrombie and Fitch website for a picture of a stud in the latest fashion to email to your new girlfriend. On the other hand, sexy babe was most likely an overweight, middle-aged lady eating Dominoes Chicken Kickers and guzzling Pepsi out of a 2 liter bottle. Or, worse yet, a rail-thin, middle-aged man who was doing keyboard dusters and running a GPS search on my computer. Hmmm, pretty nice “off-campus house at USC, Wilos, which happens to be located on the east coast...” And, the conversations that transpired from that magic moment are not appropriate for this blog. However, I never got much further then the a/s/l introduction. Never had to. Hmmm.


Anyways, I have provided far too much information on the subject of middle school cyber sex, but I have no shame in general, and nobody knows who this anonymous writer from Wichita, Kansas is, right? Anyways, to wrap it up (wear those raincoats, kids!), it appears as though a revival of the various “Chat Scenes” is upon us. The leaders at the forefront of this glorious movement happen to be Skype, g-chat, smoke signals, and craigslist.

Craigslist, you ask? Just search for my ad under “19 year-old stud looking for hot MILF affair” in the Los Angeles section. I still rock the A and F long-sleeve golf shirt in my pic. Haven’t aged a bit.

Monday, September 7, 2009

Streaking


Cal Ripkien’s 2,632straight games. The 1972 Miami Dolphins’ undefeated season. Joe DiMaggio’s 56 consecutive games with a hit. Orel Hershiser’s 59 consecutive scoreless innings. Bowling a 300. Pitching a perfect game. Pitching a tent. These are some of the all-time great “streaks.” However, when the sun sets on Monday, September 7, historians will be able to add another great streak to the annals of ass. Wilos will have gone the whole summer without hooking up with a chick.


Damn. I mean, I’ve had my fair share of dry spells (see: TI Initiations and the weeks to follow, sophomore year), but this one is pretty bad. It might not be my longest; but, given the circumstances (recent college grad with no job, a fact that has allowed me to go out any night I see fit), this one cuts deep. I mean, come on, not even a lousy d-floor make-out! Not even a lousy hj under the table at the Olive Garden whilst sharing a Chicken Carbonara and bowl of endless breadsticks!


My last intimate contact with a member of the opposite sex (aside from the goodnight kiss that my mother gives me on the forehead as she tucks me in to the bottom bunk of my bunk beds each and every night) was back in early June. I treated myself to a little “sky rockets in flight” with the broad upstairs after I finished packing up my college dorm room. Thought it’d be nice to give me something to smile about as I bid my school farewell in the rear-view mirror. Smooth, right? Resident Stud Wilos closes down shop with a bang (hiyo!). Gettin ready to slide on in to my post-collegiate victory lap wherein I would be up to my eyeballs in women. Nope. Nothin’.


I dunno what it is. Maybe it’s the fact that I wear a rubber “Livestrong”-type bracelet from my elementary school’s 5-Year Reunion. Maybe it’s the fact that I oftentimes over-serve myself to the point of losing control of my bladder. Maybe it’s the fact that my hair resembles that of Bozo the Clown. Maybe it’s Maybeline!


Whatever the underlying factors, I have come to the conclusion that the reason I am in the throes of this epic summer drought is that I do not posses the slightest hint of what one would call “game.” Boom. I have no game. Zero. Zilch. Nada. Looking back on it, as laughable as it sounds, all of the tail I pulled in high school stemmed from the fact that either a) the girl was a staunch practitioner of the Open Door Policy or b) I was a senior, the BIG varsity quarterback, and, quite simply put, I ran shit. (Cocky, much?)


Take last night, for example. I was out at a bar in Nantucket called the Chicken Box which is, to put it in layman’s terms, packed wall-to-wall with hot soup. I mean, there are some FBI (Female Body Inspector, of course) Certified, Grade A scorchers in there. And that’s the eye candy. My target range is more along the lines of the slightly overweight chick in the corner, eyes rolling back in her head, guzzling her seventh vodka-soda, and dancing by herself. But I can’t even bag that! You wanna know how my night ended?? (Probably not, but…) I ended up on a random beach by my house drinking scotch-and-waters with some bizarre dude that I shared a taxicab with. Hmm.


I really just don’t know how to get with chicks. Maybe you have to “talk to them.” Maybe you have to “spend time with them at the bar.” Perhaps it would behoove me not to be the guy sweating pure ethanol through two layers of shirts because he is running around the dance floor Rabil-ing dudes right and left. I dunno.


So, as I sit here on American Airlines flight number 853 headed for O’Hare Airport (from where our family will drive out to our grandparents farm), it looks like, save for an act of God or an act of incest, Labor Day will come to pass with old Wilos notching an astounding zero hookups in the season that was the summer of aught-nine. In the words of Vince Vaughn from Wedding Crashers, “hell of a season, pal.” And, with the way things are going, look out Cal, cause this streak ain’t ending anytime soon…


(Eds. Note: credit for picture goes to BJG)