All posts by Lambchop

Democracy Run Riot

As most of you know, who aren’t toothless imbeciles still glorying in the day when Grandaddy Bush sent you three hundred bucks, Boston has been host to the Democratic National Convention this week. And aside from Clinton’s dazzling speech “TCB, Takin’ care of business, baby” and an amazing speech by tv’s Brak, it was surprisingly uneventful until today. You could tell people were getting anxious with all the strip searches and bag checking and helicopters flying overhead. Then the Ohio delegates tried to purchase some soft pretzels from a cart and they were SOLD OUT! A briefcase dropped to the ground and fell open like the shot heard round the world, and all hell broke loose. Ties were thrown to the wind, hats flew in the air. It was only a matter of time before the actual looting began. So if you planned to come to Beantown this weekend, don’t. Stay safely at home and sing God Bless America. I am off to Provincetown to enjoy a lavendar weekend on a beach, dancing with crossdressers.

-xo

Licketysplit reports:

I was right outside the Fleet Center when this kerfuffle errupted. There was trampling and screaming and amateur fires being set. When the dust finally settled, the crowd gasped to see John Edwards and Mayor Menino sinking their teeth into the ropey neck of a hippy! John Edwards’ wife was so shocked that she went into labor on the spot, delivering their eleventh child with the aid of the Sausage Guy. Edwards immediately sued the Sausage Guy.

The nominees escaped to their waiting tour bus via a hijacked 7 News Copter. The remaining scene was grim, ladies and gentlemen. Last I saw, people were just whaling on each other with the uprooted Make Way for Ducklings statues.

BUT I’M STILL VOTING DEMMYCRAT.

A Visit from the Germans

Six o’clock Saturday morning found me seated on my bed, eating olives, fresh from another crazy tequila night at Violet and A’s place. Just as I was sliding into some paranoid dream involving robots and spilling olive oil onto my bed, my phone rang and it was Anne, my roommate from Berlin. She is Das Model and she’s in New York eating cocktail weenies with Vince Gallo and Leo DiCaprio. Within hours we met at the Chinatown gate and spent the afternoon sifting for thrift store goods. The great thing about shopping with Germans, is speaking German. You can say things like “look at this disgusting milk cow standing next to us- if she brushes me with her chin hair, I am going to scream”, or openly discuss shoplifting, and no one is the wiser.

Saturday night was a rager. When the bars get out, throngs of the socially diseased litter the sidewalks, still trying to get off with each other. Das Model and I shoved our way like deranged pirate hookers through the human flotsam. Some brazen fellow tried his luck all “hey there, pretty lady’ with Violet and I threw him to the curb. That’s what happens when you start spending lots of time with the Germans. At Violet and A’s house, we watched Brett Anderson being all hot, and then Blixa Bargeld being less hot. We are also trying to sign A on as a new Vomitola correspondent in bitterness, and he seems game, but he would not model any underwear for us.

I am not allowed to discuss the Underwear Scene that Licketysplit and I had at Target until after the court date.

Sad it was, parting with the lovely Anne at midnight in Chinatown. But hopefully I shall return the visit soon, and soggily offering lapdances to Johnny Depp. All for your entertainment of course, vomitoleers!

-xo

We Got What You Need…

…and apparently you need Panties. So here we are, your favorite evil twins, in our skivvs. Lickety is as usual bumping me off to the side, (attention)whore that she is. Hrmm, actually I believe that’s me on the right, but who can tell with such things? Anyway, our dear readers want knickers, dainties, underwear, bloomers, britches, woolies, unmentionables. So today is an open call for pictures, poems, and actual pants.

P.S. do not send us actual pants.

-xo

What *is it* that Makes Guns Seem So Appealing These Days?

Ever feel like you got off on the wrong train, stuff like, pill on the wrong planet?  Maybe that is why I keep having to move around.  You spend too much time in one place, and barnacles begin to colonize.  That, and you find you have slept with everyone.  I love this pretty little town, and quite a few of the people in it, but this Lambchop was destined for bigger things.  So while Licketysplit is having her day ghostwritten (a concept yet more fresh and novel than my get rich quick idea of a service plan in which you pay someone to communicate thoughtfully to others for you!), while she plots world domination from the kiddie pool*, I will be locked in my studio, not just making work but hatching schemes.  Hopefully Five Years will see me having 5 ounces of salad opposite David Bowie.  

I am going to go ice skating and think about it. 

*I emailed her to ask if someone was ghost writing her replies to me.  the answer came back “maybe!”  Chilling! 

-xo

Just because I am a Bad Person, doesn’t make me a Bad Person

The list of persons who aren’t speaking to me just grows and grows. For much of this I am grateful, because there are very few people whose struggles interest me. If you are one of those people who gets their head stuck in the door on your way out of the house, you are one of them! No, no this is a bad habit – that of keeping company with those whose folly amuses you. I like to keep the circle of friends irony-free. But I have at long last uncovered another painful truth- I am fundamentally undateable! How I slogged toward this conclusion is not important, I am just looking forward to dedicating my remaining years to bitterness and ire in my studio.

-xo

Vomitola Personals

SWF: seeking friends. Will buy you inappropriate gifts. Will follow you from the bar to your house, order from one party to another. Will get to know your acquaintances just to get to know YOU better. Will show up at your front door uninvited. Will AIM you every ten mins. to tell you about useful things I bought on Ebay, generic such as a sofa beader or synthetic crotch toupees (they look so REAL! only 50 bucks for a whole set!). I will track your movements, knowing when you are on and offline and I will chart the places you go to see if you have been doing things without inviting me. I will call you up 20 times in one day without leaving a message, forgetting about caller ID, finally I will leave you an angry, drunken message at 3am to ask you where you have been. I will hound you for your advice on menial details of my day and then ignore whatever it is you say. I will be overly familiar from the first moment we exchange names, and express my hurt and angry feelings when you fail to reciprocate my awkward intimacy. Then I will spread nasty rumors about you but still hold out hope to be your dearest friend. I will take back everything if only you will love me! Please direct all response to SWF@vomitola.com.

What I Did On My Summer Vacation

 by Lambchop.


Me and the old school chums collected in NH, one year older and further embittered. What do we still have in common? Childlessness, irresponsibility, we love Blur? We also love to float on the river for hours at a stretch, smoking and towing a cocktail raft. We had a Japanese cuisine night, white trash grillin’, rum drinks served in gigantic pineapples, midnight moonlit swims, fireworks, the Gay Parrot Disco, and mud wrestlin’! We inflated a giant castle in crayola colors and set sail with it on the river.

Life has its downs, even greater downs, and downers, but I hope I will always have NH on the fourth of July. Do you think I could sell these pictures as Scat Porn? Maybe if I crop out the kiddie pool.

-xo

Lambchop’s Greatest Hits

It occurred to me as I rode the train back from New York, loopy from bourbon and the parade of latino girls in pube-risers…this is another topic, let me start sgain. It was the 13th of June, exactly the same day as I set out last year from Berlin, heading home. I wanted adventure. So what the hell have I done? Well here is a handy list to answer that very question!

1. Made 15 paintings.

2. Cross country mammajamma from New Orleans to LA to SF to Phoenix to LA, in that order.

3. Got a haircut and a job. Quit. Got a new haircut.

4. Licketysplit’s Wedding!!! (with fireworks!)

5. Two trips to the hospital, one incl. surgery!

6. Rode my bicycle in a blizzard in hotpants.

7. Visited the Berlin of my youth.

8. Floated on a flower shaped raft on a river in NH for a week with the Naughty Girls.

9. Turned 30! Quit smoking (99%).

10. Livin’ in Smugglers Notch.

Thanks once again for everyone who helps make starting over FUN.

By the way, I am a kitty cat and I dance, dance, dance.

-xo

Life and Death and Some Other Things

Always try to help a friend in need.

Remembering you, Lady K.

This weekend I brought The Germans to New York and we did touristy things like the Staten Island Ferry and the Empire State Building. It was such a clear day, you could see to forever. Well, forever being New Jersey. And as luck would have it, Newark was hosting their annual Portuguese “Cameltoe” Parade. This involved hundreds of pots of simmering Meat, the streets flowing with Sangria and spandex. Somewhere in between I had cocktails at the Rink Bar at Rockefeller Center and later at a trashy go-go bar in Jersey, not far from where I grew up. Those Russian girls and their ????????!

I took the train back up with a bottle of Maker’s Mark and Morrissey.

In the meantime Boston has lost a creative young person. Lady K. is an old art school acquaintance/rival. We became friends when I came back, the way you do when you are old enough not to care about who can wear more lipstick. I just saw her a week or so ago. We talked about studio spaces, she recommended some. A couple months ago she laughed at me for buying kiddie underwear at the store where she worked (hey, they had stars on them!). We weren’t best friends, but she has been part of my landscape for-just-about-ever, and we were starting to be friends. Sadly, she was hit by a car on her bicycle, and fell into a coma. She was taken off life support yesterday, and has very likely died in the night.

Everything I have done for the last two days I have relished, with the painful knowledge that she was gone and unable to participate in this moment.

I am also thinking of getting a helmet.

-xo