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LUDIC LOG
05.13.2004
GEN. 1:1. Dear
Diary, Mr. Phillips wants us to create a whole planet by next
Thursday. This is totally unfair. Like I have time to do
all this. I'm not on the Scientific Decathlon team. Why
should I have to create a planet? I just want to cheer. I
shouldn't even have to take biology. This is gay. Plus my
lab partner is Lucifer and he totally hates me after I got him kicked
off of Pep for refusing to be at the bottom of the human pyramid.
Like it's my fault that he has really broad shoulders. Well I
guess I better get started on this. If I have to take bio again
I'm going to totally vom.
GEN. 1:5. So last night when I went to bed I shut the lights off
on the planet because I want Adam to get used to day and night
cycles. Like whatever, but Mr. Phillips says it's important that
he have a diurinal calender or something. Anyway, when I got home
from cheer today I started working on the project again, and I noticed,
I completely forgot to make the sun and the stars! So how did I
get nighttime? I must have been so baked. Also, I forgot to
make a girlfriend for Adam. And believe me, he's going to need
one, because, I mean, he's not a hottie. So sue me, Adam, I was
in a hurry when I made you. Lots of people get by with only two
arms, Mr. Ungrateful. I could have made a cat-man, you
know.
GEN. 3:6. Okay, so, I don't get people like Lucifer. I mean
I'm not Miss Perfect Student or anything but that guy, it's like he
wants to fail or something. He totally ruined the project and now
I don't know what I'm supposed to do. Okay, so I put a tree down
there that would tell them...well, I said fruit would tell them the
difference between good and evil, but really it was just a nice-looking
tree and I figured if I put a bunch of window dressing on the thing Mr.
Phillips would give me a better grade. You know,
presentation. So I didn't want them to mess it all up by eating
the fruit. So Lucifer goes in there and tells them oh, eat it,
it's cool! It's really good fruit. Like, not even.
They're like decorative oranges and shit. (Lucifer said that it
would spruce up the place if I put in some apple trees, and I'm like,
forget it! The last thing this dump needs is more green.
God doesn't make little green apples, okay?) Anyway, of course they ate it and now it's
all just green, like a big pile of mold. I kicked them out of the
little garden habitat. Mom said I was being cruel but the fact is
I was super pissed, and besides, if I hadn't stopped them next thing
you know Lucifer would be feeding them the immortality sprouts.
He's already talked about it. I was all, "Not even! The
last thing I want is those fuckers to live forever. When the
semester ends I'm totally swatting them with a shoe. You think I
want to take care of them all summer? No way, Jose."
Lucifer is such a jerk. I don't know why I couldn't get a lab
partner who's interested in the grade, or at least who's hot.
Like that guy Krishna.
GEN. 4:5. Oh, great. The pets are breeding now. Adam
and Eve had a couple of kids. That's just great. I gave
them a box full of tiny condoms (which it totally took me forever to
make) and a bunch of abstinence pamphlets and I guess they didn't even
read them. I mean, okay, I didn't teach them to read, but that
was supposed to be Lucifer's job. And fucking Adam was wearing
the condoms on his fingers the last time I saw him, for goodness'
sake. What an idiot. Anyway, on the upside, one of the
puppies killed the other one, so I gave him a special reward and moved
him to a different part of the planet. I guess I shouldn't worry
too much, since there's no women besides his mother so there's no way
he can breed unless he's completely gross.
GEN. 6:2. Oh, no way. Gross.
GEN 6:13. Well, we got a 'C' on the project. I'm kinda
pissed that Lucifer got the same 'C' that I did when I'm the one who
did all the work, but at least it's over now and I don't have to depend
on his lazy ass anymore. Also, Krishna asked me to the Spring
Fling Dance! We're going to win the game against Multiverse North
this weekend if I have to rub my throat raw cheering, or strike their
quarterback with chilblains. Last night I went ahead and flushed
the planet I made, because like I said, total pain in the ass and no
way do I want to have to keep checking on it all summer. One of
the pets heard me say I was going to flush it and I kinda got
embarrassed, so I gave him some bullshit story about how the world had
become too violent and I was going to punish everyone with a
flood. I said he could save himself by gathering up his family
and putting them on a boat. Yeah, good luck with that, fella, I'm
sure that'll save you from the toilet.
GEN. 8:4. Holy shit. My dad came in after I got home from
school and he's got this old shoe box. He's all, "God, I think
this is yours. I've been keeping it in the garage over the old
water heater, but I thought you might want it." And inside is the planet I made for biology class.
And I'm all, "Dad, I flushed this. The project is over."
And he's like "Well, I pulled it out of the toilet because it didn't go
down all the way and then I just forgot about it." Yeah, you
forgot! That was forty days ago,
Dad. Anyway, I told him to just put it in the dumpster, and he
gives me this big lecture about responsibility and says he thinks it
would be a good lesson to take care of my pets because I'm getting to
be a young adult and adults have obligations. So now I have to
take care of these stupid things all
summer, and a bunch of them (there's, like, five hundred of them
now) are already building temples to me. I hate my parents.
TODAY'S DRIFTWOOD: "There are only two questions to ask about food.
Is it good? And is it authentic? We are open to new ideas,
but not if it means destroying our history. And food is history."
(Giuliano Bugialli)