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March 14, 2009

disco pony

There was a dumpster in front of a house and so I stopped, with Will, and we loaded up a bunch of stuff. It is a truly joyful experience to take something out of the garbage. Even if I’ll put it back in the garbage tomorrow, for a moment there I believed. Believed a prayer had been answered. Believed I’d found what I needed. The search was over. The craziest thing was how nice the people were who were throwing the stuff out. The son, Aaron, made the mirrored carousel pony. He had some antique electric tools – old single speed drills, a giant chrome-cased jig saw, the kind of tools a workshop from the Eisenhower administration might be outfitted with.

The funnest thing was a big old Leslie speaker cabinet. It didn’t work, but the parts were there. Those cabinets sell for over a grand in working order, so I need to find someone to give me fifty bucks for this old broken one. Here’s a wiki link to them if you don’t know what they look like. (no great pictures there, actually. It’s a huge wooden cabinet.)

I was thinking, as I stood in the dumpster, I ought to advertise. The man paid $350 bucks for this dumpster, and I would have hauled most of it away for free. So, maybe I can get people to Yelp! me. Can an individual be on Yelp!? I don’t want to be a business, just a man. Friends, enemies, my student dentist, they could all write reviews.

Let’s work on this. In the morning.

6 Comments

  1. great disco jenny!

    Comment by n.d.p. — March 14, 2009 @ 1:13 am

  2. my little pony,, my little pony

    Comment by rodger — March 14, 2009 @ 5:21 pm

  3. donny balls went to worcester to buy a toasta

    Comment by poopies — March 14, 2009 @ 5:23 pm

  4. aint no jenny

    Comment by Rolston — March 14, 2009 @ 9:24 pm

  5. Yay! Glad you liked the stuff and happy it went to a new garage! w00t!

    You should see the stuff my neighbors have thrown in the communal dumpster (including a homeless person). Low income housing and getting my junk removed?! It was a deal.

    -Aaron

    P.S. I’ll join YELP to leave a review for you! When’s your band’s next booking?

    Comment by Aaron — March 14, 2009 @ 10:15 pm

  6. i might need that leslie cabinet…

    Comment by ac McKracken — March 15, 2009 @ 9:25 pm

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