At long last, I had found him. Mike Foster. From 7th and 8th grade. Given to tall tales that earned the ire of Pete, my best friend at the time, and a second thought from me. We shunned him at a vulnerable time. Indeed, children can be especially heartless. Now, all these years later, after losing touch once middle school was over I had found his... apparent kingdom? A whole square, named for its lord which I could only assume was the very same. So I'm thinking, what is this some medieval fair thing? Nope. So I show up, ready to challenge or embrace this mad man, I hadn't decided yet, and.... What the hell is this? Mike Foster, and I'd know him anywhere! - was nowhere to be seen. He, evidently, had converted his kingdom to retail space and disappeared somewhere. Hmph. Some king. I knew that he'd be close, so I did some snooping. Illusions hair salon, where you'll get the best dang hair doo of your life? No, last I saw of him on MySpace he was a dope smoking hippy. He wouldn't care about looking good enough to avoid a police line up. Perhaps OKI sushi? Where, I mean, wow; if you like sushi. Spladow!(I mean, I don't. But, don't miss it) No, a man of such chagrin would be of the... Gas station hot dog variety. In luck, there's a Cumberland wonder land fun center here! If you like hard to peel bananas and lots of sugary drinks they'll do you right. And, wouldn't you guess? This is one of those renovated cummbies with all the pizza and nachos and fixings and whatever barbarians like Mike would eat. (Not like the ghetto one in Orleans. Real og's only! That's the HARD cummbies) I sprinted as fast as a lame turtle to the well maintained gas station in question. I searched high and low, but he was nowhere to be found. Hm. I began to doubt myself in this moment, perhaps Mike was no person of lordly caliber at all. Or, maybe he's just not hungry. Ah! The liquor store! Yes, while I find the evils of the bottle to be a foe best left to the realm of the hobos, I'm sure this place has everything you need to make bad decisions. The name? It never occurred to me to look. But surely weed, the ultimate gateway hard narcotic drug, has now left Mr Foster a shambles underneath the bottle. I didn't find him inside, but the dumpster was far more fruitful. It being lunch time I admit perhaps I strayed in my questing, to the task of lunch; being more than a little peckish. There I found a raccoon with a half eaten calzone. Ye-ah!! I attempted to wrestle it away from him, which - YO - I do not recommend. I came out of the encounter with a number of scratches and bites, but jokes on you, because as he bit me I bit his calzone! Delicious! That's all I needed to find my way to the Brewster pizza house and sports bar and order a salad. Yeah, so? I admit the calzone was great but hey let's keep it under 150, okay? I would rate the salad a 7, because the chicken was well done but it's definitely a "every pizza place" salad otherwise. (sorry bphsb) Yeah. It kinda peters out from there as I started to see worms coming out of everyone's mouths and wondered if perhaps the raccoon was Mike's final last laugh. Shun me? Boom. Rabies. LOL. Well, that was stupid of him because even with the shadows chasing me I knew that we were all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively, life is a dream and the cosmos bends to the will of congress NOT the man in the moon. Furthermore -
At this point your humble narrator had wandered out into the street and got hit by a car. 45 minutes later, animal control arrived and scraped the remains off the pavement with a shovel and threw...
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