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Monday, August 17, 2009

A Vision I Have Seen

Posted by on Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 2:27 PM

A few moments ago, I enjoyed a mango.

Gauguin.jpg

The result of this enjoyment was a vision. The vision was clear and bright. There was a sun, a sea, and an island. I was stranded on the island with hundreds of bottles of excellent French wines, a copy of Spinoza's Ethics, and all around lots and lots of mango trees. There is no fruit that compares to a hard and sweet mango. The flesh of it is just as satisfying as the flesh of an animal.

 

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1
get the fuck out
Posted by muh duk muh duk muh crazzee crazze duk on August 17, 2009 at 2:38 PM
Fnarf 2
I'm a papaya man myself.
Posted by Fnarf http://www.facebook.com/fnarf on August 17, 2009 at 2:39 PM
3
I love you, Charles. You are my mango.
Posted by Jonah Spangenthal-Lee on August 17, 2009 at 2:40 PM
4
It is "flesh of an animal" Charles. She's holding a Baconator.
Posted by butterw on August 17, 2009 at 2:46 PM
Timmytee 5
Totally agree about mangos, Charles--they rule!
@ 2: Fnarf, I think the woman in the painting may actually be holding a papaya--lots smaller than the mangos I usually see. Best wishes to all. [Is it "mangos" or "mangoes" for the plural?]
Posted by Timmytee on August 17, 2009 at 3:01 PM
LaRiiiiM0RrrHAwtiiii696969 6
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LETS GO.

Cash Money Young Money motherfuck the other side
They can fuck with us if they want I bring 'em homicide
Word to my momma I'm gonna continue bombing
Told her getting out the game it's like coming out of a coma
I'm tryin... but I'm normal when this rap shit gets boring
All I ask is that you pray for me (please)
And the beat keep crying and I'm gonna keep beating her
Fee I'm fucking her I'm deep in her sleep in her
And what happens when the reaper come (huh?)
I'm just hoping that he sends that elevator up
I made enough I ain't make shit
So while I'm here I'm gonna take that and take this (nigga!)
Breakfast yes let's eat, wipe you mouth when you finished
Then hunt for the lunch and dinner no beginner
To the criminal activity fuck with them they rushing in
Like Seminoles Indians no bow and arrows Harold
Just leaners Cheena just choppers Robert
Carter II tell me how is you gonna stop a riot
I lock and seal it up the best I could feel it (yeah!)
I'm in the lead I can pop a wheelie (got 'em!)
Not for rookies late bloomers stay in the womb (GO!)
I'm here motherfucker make room... BOOM!
Young Tune the big kahuna
It's my ocean baby you all niggas is tuna
Better now than sooner junior
Fly around you city try tryna take a number two on you
I ain't going nowhere special I won't never leave
Shit I'm already a legend if I ever leave
Can't get rid of me? Not little me
Man I got 'em I'm gonna get 'em B (I got 'em B)
I'm hungry like I didn't eat
I want it like I didn't see a meal before seventeen
What the fuck you niggas telling me?
You pups can't keep up with the Pedigree
Catch me where the weather be somewhere in the seventies
Call myself settling palm trees Promethezine but what's new?
Sometimes I can't cut through that rough loop
Get fucked so many times 'til it's fuck you (fuck 'em!)
So how you wanna do it baby we can get it
All you gotta do is say it and I'm with it
Money and murder you my nigga my jelly preserver
I'm gonna ride baby 'til the judge give me a verdict yeah
Hear me or heard me I get it and serve it
'cause everytime I did it I hit it and hurt it yeah
Now I kill it the mission accomplished
The niggas abolished the bitches astonished
Then they pay homage when did they find it but
Now that they know it's a must I remind 'em so
They don't forget it I underline it and
I'm in the sky when the thunder's crying young'n
I been through all that I done done what you saying
I put it down when the other was playing
When the jungle was open I rolled in with the riders
Stole food from the bears and bought it back to the lions
I hold court with the apes I'm a gorilla but lighter
With the eye of a tiger the heart of a fighter yeah
Start 'em, ignite 'em I walk through fire
Watch the flames start multiplying whoo! Yeah
Alter a nigga nina talk to a nigga
Take a chunk ouch body like a shark bit a nigga
I'm awkward like Cartwright fuck with a nigga
Shot ugly but my arch right come on dog bark bite
Fork in the road I'm always going right
Nowadays knowing life ain't no more road lights
We can't see but we're gonna make it to the finish line
It's right there the goal line right behind the scrimmage line
Touchdown check the scoreboard gimme mines
Semi 9 fit me fine hit a nigga twenty times
Damn then one more to the face (BOW!) just
So they close the casket like I pay to close the case
I made straight mafia shit front line
Top rank ready to die for my shit and the obvious shit
If I talk about my robbery they probably get rich
So fuck 'em I'mma let 'em sit
And I ain't ducking 'cause I'm right here I'm chestin up
I don't care who at the top of the stairs I'm stepping up
See you fucking up the money baby that ain't good business
You starting to look like a witness and this is
For the gangsters and the bitches the hustlers and the hoes
Crossover whatever mainstream know
'cause Wayne thinks silent Wayne'll never fold
You heard it right here if the game was ever told
Lift up you toes and look under a rug
Trust me there's history under all that dust
So deep down in the dirty there lies us (who?)
Yeah Cash Money Records and I'm still up front
Stunner pop a bottle baby peel us a blunt
Lets eat and talk about all them niggas we cut
But. You know what? Let's not fuck up our lunch
That's real shit if you ever seen such
Chuch

The Mobb
Nigga

SUCK IT OR NOT, THE HEAT WAVE RETURNS TO SEATTLE.
More...
Posted by LaRiiiiM0RrrHAwtiiii696969 http://balkin.blogspot.com/ on August 17, 2009 at 3:19 PM
Will in Seattle 7
I'm wondering if any of the mangoes will be infested with nanobots wielding nano-lasers ... and what color the laser beams will be.

I'm guessing a nice pastel.
Posted by Will in Seattle http://www.facebook.com/WillSeattle on August 17, 2009 at 3:26 PM
8
no one fucking cares you stoner
Posted by burgin95 on August 17, 2009 at 4:10 PM
care bear 9
@2, really? You like papayas? I like them as part of a batido or other drink but on their own I think they're nasty. Very flavorless. And @5 I thought papayas were usually bigger than mangoes. Mangos. Mangoes?
Posted by care bear on August 17, 2009 at 4:16 PM
Will in Seattle 10
Breadfruit ftw.

It depends on where they grow actually, care bear.
Posted by Will in Seattle http://www.facebook.com/WillSeattle on August 17, 2009 at 4:22 PM
11
"dear slog, I ate a subway sandwich"
Posted by @chuckymuddick on August 17, 2009 at 4:47 PM
Fnarf 12
Will is right for a change. Mexican papayas are the size of footballs and taste of nothing. Hawaiian papayas are the size of a can of cola and taste of sweet sugary sunshine. There's nothing better.

Mangoes have that gigantic rock in the middle, which freaks me out. I only like them if they've been made into something, preferably gelato.
Posted by Fnarf http://www.facebook.com/fnarf on August 17, 2009 at 4:55 PM
kim in portland 13
Fnarf,

I suggest next time you try eating a mango while standing in the ocean. Start peeling it before you walk in, and then just bite it. The juice will run down your face, hands, and neck, but you can just dive in after your done.
Posted by kim in portland http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2010/11/fast-paced_video_provides_a_fu.html on August 17, 2009 at 5:39 PM
Fnarf 14
@13, you're turning me on. But it's not the tango of the mango, it's the motion of the ocean that gets me.
Posted by Fnarf http://www.facebook.com/fnarf on August 17, 2009 at 5:56 PM
Will in Seattle 15
In practice, the beach sounds fun, but it's better on land.

Followed by a shower.
Posted by Will in Seattle http://www.facebook.com/WillSeattle on August 17, 2009 at 6:04 PM
kim in portland 16
14:

And, to think I left off the part about skipping the swimwear for ease of clean up.
Posted by kim in portland http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2010/11/fast-paced_video_provides_a_fu.html on August 17, 2009 at 6:08 PM
ERIN! 17
I agree that mangos are awesome, but Gauguin is a piece of shit.
Posted by ERIN! on August 17, 2009 at 6:10 PM
18
I think the reason for the vision is that you ate the peel. You're not supposed to eat the peel.
Posted by jasonsewall on August 17, 2009 at 7:04 PM
19
Gauguin was awesome, mangos are over rated.
Posted by Senor Guy on August 17, 2009 at 7:31 PM
Posted by blecky on August 17, 2009 at 11:36 PM
21
Bothe fruits - think ice cold smoothie style drinks with a hit of rum and lime and then no swimwear, and in fact no swimming and sweet skin galore.

Then wake up and start over.... repeat for three days with tropical posters on the wall.
Posted by Matt from Ballard on August 17, 2009 at 11:38 PM

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