{"id":212,"date":"2014-06-27T22:12:29","date_gmt":"2014-06-28T04:12:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.grassmonk.net\/blog\/?p=212"},"modified":"2014-06-27T10:13:33","modified_gmt":"2014-06-27T16:13:33","slug":"another-really-silly-blast-from-the-past","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.grassmonk.net\/blog\/2014\/06\/27\/another-really-silly-blast-from-the-past\/","title":{"rendered":"Another really silly blast from the past"},"content":{"rendered":"

When I found some old poems I wrote for a BYU French class<\/a> I also found printouts of silly soda-related writings I sometimes did back when I worked with my cousin doing customer support for a smallish company.\u00a0 I posted one of them a few years ago here<\/a>.\u00a0 Here is the other:<\/p>\n

twelve fluid ounces (spidey remix)<\/strong><\/p>\n

twelve fluid ounces
\nyou’ve always been my friend
\neven past the expiration date tattooed on your end
\nnow in recent months I see
\nyou have pictures on your face
\npictures of Spidey
\nhe’s in so many poses: swinging, hanging upside down
\ncrouching, crawling all over the town
\nso I build a house from you, twelve fluid, a house for the homies
\neven though some people made fun of you and called you bologna
\nit has a dance room and a make-out closet and even a big screen TV
\neven if the TV is invisible and maybe imaginary
\nthen the spidey phase passed
\nbut I still drank you up
\nI poured you in a red plastic cup
\nsometimes ice, sometimes no ice
\nwhichever way I go, you still taste nice
\nand then came a glorious Pepper day
\nyou have rogue on your can
\nyippee hooray!
\nsome of the spidey house had to come down
\nbut a hot girl took his place so I sure didn’t frown
\nwe moved the make-out closet to rogue’s wing
\nso the homies can go there and do their thing
\ntwelve fluid ounces you really are my life-long friend
\nI hope that our friendship will never end
\nif it does I’ll kick your scrawny little Pepper butt<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The backstory, if it isn’t clear from the masterful prose, is that we built a “house” in our cubicle space out of empty soda cans that had Spider-Man on them.\u00a0 These were, I assume, promotional tie-ins to the movie Spider-Man<\/em>.\u00a0 Then when X2<\/em> came out we replaced part of the house with new X-Men cans, specifically those featuring Anna Paquin’s Rogue, because she is hot.\u00a0 I still haven’t had to kick Pepper’s butt, which is good.<\/p>\n

“Twelve fluid ounces” is also the title of a couple of my haiku: twelve fluid ounces (special haiku remix)<\/a> and twelve fluid ounces (alternative dark)<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When I found some old poems I wrote for a BYU French class I also found printouts of silly soda-related writings I sometimes did back when I worked with my cousin doing customer support for a smallish company.\u00a0 I posted one of them a few years ago here.\u00a0 Here is the other: twelve fluid ounces […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grassmonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grassmonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grassmonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grassmonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grassmonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.grassmonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grassmonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grassmonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grassmonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}