I've been out to the woods a few times to Malissa's place. It's a real nice place. At first i didn't like it. Being from Seattle, and the lushness and beauty of old fragrant pine and fir trees, with undergrowth of deep, ankle deep composting needles and moss, mushrooms, slugs, ferns, etc. It was hard to be in the California back country. Some of the views are pretty, but compared to the northwest, they aren't beautiful.
Slowly, i've gotten used to scrubby, mid-california fauna. There just isn't the vegetative fecundity. Anyway, it was a great idea to go out to the woods for a weekend and take some mushrooms with some really good friends and feel free to go on walks while we're peaking. to converse, to be left alone or just to sit on the back deck and look at the pines swaying, all the way down the hill.
We got there around 3pm after getting up early to drive. it was even before the sunrise. Of course we had to stop for breakfast. waffles, pancakes, tarts, eggs, bacon, sausage, grits, homefries, bagels, lox, juice, coffee, omlettes, and we didn't really eat that much, but we just had to order it in the euphoria of american over-doneness.
The cabin was a welcome sight. the sun was still high in the sky. we had plenty of time to eat our mushrooms, peak, come down, and mellow before even twilight had set in. The amazing thing, was that the angle of the sun hanging over the pines was reflected on the ocean and made it look like billions of shimmering shards of glass, as if the ocean had hundreds of disco balls under the surface. and this was before we had even had our mushrooms.
So we got our shit and were bringing it into the house. I was finishing up a conversation with my good buddy as we walked in.
Out in the woods to party, eat mushrooms. It starts out very safe, very fun, playful, joyful, wonderful, non-scary. As they are in the cabin, then there starts to be strange sounds, they find an alien-like creature dead in the river (that one photo of the e.t. like creature with the tongue hanging out of his mouth.
They are in the cabin and then one guy pulls back the blinds quickly and that face is up next to the glass, green, bizarre, unflinching, unmoving. The girls scream. They all freak out. Finally someone pulls the blinds back over his face sot hey don’t have to see. He’s still there after a number of minutes. One in their party is not scared. He insist that the person is not evil. “if he wanted to do something, he’d do it.”
He goes out, and the blinds are open, and the creature goes towards where he goes out, you can hear him talking to him, and then they’re screaming for him not to go, not to do it. But he does and then he walks off with the guy.
They don’t see him.
The next night, one guy hears something so he reaches over to the light switch, and he turns on the light and that face is sitting directly under the light looking at him. He runs to the other side of the bed, and he stands. Then he looks down under the bed to see the man, and he sees another one under the bed. He goes to open the door and there’s one at the door. They just stand there.
Slowly they acclimate.
The Game
Black team vs. White team, basketball.
One of the most amazing cheerleaders, fans, colors, teams.
Introductions, songs cheers, beautiful cheerleaders, great rivalry, parents and alumni.
Electricity in the air. Hot dogs, popcorn, cotton candy, candy bars, etc, school fundraisers, pta mother types.
The white team, “faking it” by simon and garfunkle is their introduction song/cheer. The drumming at the beginning of the song and end of the song are the black teams songs. Missy elliot with slick rick.
The game is incredible. Kids making incredible shots, incredible plays, impossible jumpers, back and forth, steals, fouls, injuries, funny stuff, arguments, comraderie, dunks, blocks, twisting/turning layups, overtime, double-overtime. Last second shots, back and forth, fearlessness from both sides, great halftime show, loose balls, huddles, speeches, layup drills, bad calls, reversals, three pointers
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