“If I had a dollar for every time I got a blow-job, I’d probably have the best job in the world.”

Everybody remember to get out and vote on Tuesday. If you don’t vote, you can’t complain. At least not to the president himself. If fact, if you do vote, they still won’t let you complain to him. They just escort you out and taser you in the alley out back. And don’t try telling them you pay the president’s taxes, that shit don’t work more than once or twice.

I vote early. Really early. I fill out my absentee ballot as soon as I receive it in the mail. I’m a native of Mescalo, Puerto Rico, which is a Puerto Rican territory of the U.S. territory. But we still get a vote, so there, Dominican Republic. Since I don’t live in Mescalo anymore, except on Thursdays, I make sure to get my vote sent off early. I check the ballot, but I know there’s a lot of trouble with reading the ballot, so I write the name of the candidate I want to win several times, on the inside and outside of the envelope. No way I’m voting for Buchanan again, even by accident.

The worst part about voting by absentee ballot is, you don’t get one of those stickers. How the hell are people supposed to know you’re a good citizen and you voted and you can make them feel like shit for not voting if you mail in your ballot? I deserve to be patronizing, too. So I made my own sticker, from the Chiquita banana sticker I snagged, but it was too small and hard to read. So I had it tattooed on my back. It’s not perfect either, since I have to walk around with my shirt off, and the local cops keep telling me they warned me about doing that. Plus, it’s only right once every few years.

Another thing I like about tattoos is, they’re conversation starters. Instead of getting the name of a girl tattooed on you, which no one ever believes, I just put a strange word somewhere. I tattooed the word “dog” on my forehead one time, ‘cause I have this really funny story about a dog biting my fellas while I was trying to test him for rabies once. No one ever asked me about the story, so I had the tattoo removed in a really expensive surgery. I’m thinking maybe next time I might try “dog bites balls” or something, that might make them curious enough to ask.

So what I’m saying is, it’s important to vote. Our grandfathers and grandmothers fought and died on battlefields all over this country just so white men could have the right to vote. And then they gave it and let everyone else have it. Never forget their sacrifice, ‘cause they’re all dead now and can’t ever come back, unless they’re ghosts. Exercise your right to vote. It doesn’t matter who you vote for as long as you vote—they don’t even count those things anyway. The same dicks get into office no matter what. But vote, like I said, or the rest of us will make you feel bad.

Heh, heh. That reminds me about this dog story—ask me about it, I’ll tell you next time.

Losing for Dummies
The worst one I ever got was Self-Esteem Building for Dummies. I read the whole book and only felt more like an idiot. After all, only a real shithead would finish a book for dummies.

Downsizzling
Not like it’s the first job I’ve been fired from. That was helping my dad fix the car. I wasn’t working for real pay there either, even though I tried to hold out for a hug or something, but you could never hardball dad. I would stand by him while he put the lugnuts in my hand, at least that’s what he said they were.

Old Lame Sign
No, New Year’s is the time for me. There’s the refreshing feeling, as all old mistakes and the old news gives way to the newness, a blank canvas is set up for the next year. It’s like a big douche for the entire world. I wonder, if you were actually doing it, where you would stick a douche to do the whole world?

Pure Garbage
What’s even worse about being a garbage man, people always use you in negative examples. Some shithead kid doesn’t do his homework and all of a sudden his mom is threatening to give your job to him. That mom better watch out. ‘Cause if she’s right and the kid becomes her garbage man one day, I bet she’ll never get any furniture or boxes taken away.