darkness falls
In case any of you weren't aware, yesterday the entire northeast experienced what was apparently the, "biggest blackout in North America's history". Me being in NY, I was among those affected ;\. The day wasn't bad however, t'was quite fun actually. Since there was no power anywhere around here, you could actually see the stars in the sky. OMG OMG, I'd almost forgotten what it is like to be able to truly see the stars in the sky, even though the moon was extremely bright and blocked some out. Over here on the eastern coast (or on Long Island at least) there's so much light pollution (think that's the term?) that you rarely see more than the north star in the sky. I've got quite an interesting story to tell of what went on that night too, heheh, and rather than try and recount it well now, I'll simply jack what Blakie (phetuspolice) said in his journal and put it here..
From Blake's perspective:
last night was fuckin high quality. the black out happened, and all the gas stations were down.. i didn't have enough gas to get home, so i slept over rolands.. around 8, i decided to take a stroll alone. headed to the park, sat in the swing set, swung around, walked to michelle's house, chilled there for an hour, headed back to rol's. annette (nick's gf) calls me crying, says on how she's goin on vacation the next mornin and how she's gonna miss nick.. nick was sleepin at rols, which is why she called me instead.. so i went to rol's to wake nick up.. he got the idea of goin to annette.. with no cars, we walked.
wasn't that far of a walk, but it felt good laying under the stars, the blinding headlights of the passing cars. jumpin in the streets, making conversations.. when we got there, nick and annette chilled, while me, rol, and this.. kid.. were chillin closeby to nick.. next thing i hear is nick running towards me saying "RUN!" with instinct, me, rol, and nick jet outta there. he hid by a car down the street, around a curve.. her father's car started, and we couldn't be seen, or else nick will never be allowed around again. so after 30 seconds, i get impatient.. i creep around in the dark, trying to see what happened.. i peer over the curb, looking at the parked car.. i get closer.. hide behind a car and look over the engine to get a good view.. this is where the fun starts
next thing i know, there's a huge guy right behind me, with a sawed off shotgun in his hands, pointed to the back of my head. i turn around and i can barely see his face.. a flashlight connected to the shotgun was blinding me.. "what the fuck you doin hiding behind my car?!" arrogant redneck.. he wouldn't accept that i didn't fuckin touch his car. then this old guy comes out.. bald spot on his head, but whatever grey hair he had, it must've been 6-8 inches long. the way he hunched over, he should've had a cane.. he looked like a ghoul from warcraft 3 from the lighting i could see with. but anyway, they're tryin to find out what i was doin. after i said whatever, they still didn't believe me, but they let me walk away with my friends.
we walk down the block, and the fuckin large redneck gets in his car and drives over to us.. on his third pass around us he stops, rolls down his window, and says "gimme your fuckin names." now wasn't this pleasant.. the same guy that was holding a shotgun to my face is asking for my full name.. i wasn't givin him shit.
he claimed to be a cop, yet he didn't have his badge, because it was conviently located at his 'locker down at the station.' liar. didn't matter though, we played along. he had a gun.. he was much bigger than us, even bigger than roland.
i didn't wanna give nick up.. because if annette's father ever found out nick was here, then he'd ban him from ever seein her.. i couldn't let that happen. he said he wanted our names to confirm with annette (bein her neighbor n all) that we're her friends and not some bastards tryin to steal his car.. i gave him my name and roland gave him his.. i didn't want nick in this. i offered him my cell phone # in exchange for nick's anonimity (sp?), but he refused. and about 10 minutes of asking us, i said the most RETARDED THING I COULD'VE EVER SAID! "nick, do you just wanna give him your name, or what?" "oh it's nick? thanks.." us 3 were laughing our heads off, me the most. it was like in a cartoon that i could've done something that stupid and foolish.. but whatever.. it happened. he got back in his car (he got out of it to try and be intimidating and threatening us) and asked for my phone #.. i said "fuck no, i told you.. it was for to keep nick anonymous.. but i just fucked up that deal.. so no"
the big dumb-ass stared at me with a questioning look "uh.. gimme your #!" "no.. i don't think you understand.. the deals off. you ain't havin my #" whatever.. anyway, the old guy comes back.. with an irish friend, who also claims he's a cop. holds out a fake badge.. he kept shining the light in my eyes. he saw that it bothered me, so he kept doin it, and called me "bright eyes".. stupid fuck.. i could smell the alcohol as he screaemd in my face. i had to re-explain the whole.. fucking.. story. the guy said "well, the suffolk police are on the way.. we'll let this be settled by them" they never came, btw..
after about 20 minutes of argueing, the irish guy and the redneck pulled nick aside to talk to him. the wired old guy was lecturing me and rol on how this was a poor neighborhood, and how cars are stolen all the time n shit.. i don't know how the fuck he kept saying that over and over.. but i snuck away from the old guy, and he just kept lecturing rol. i looked into the conversation the 2 thick-headed, down syndrome adults and nick were talkin bout.. i guess nick had them to realize that we know they weren't cops.. so they let us go.
it was so funny when the irish guy said "just get the fuck outta here.. you better run before i changed my mind!" i wanted to laugh.. his accent was so funny.. so we just walked away..
after that, we head back to rol's house.. annette couldn't leave, because her flight was at 5 am.. i think the blackout was still there.. i dunno, i woke up at 2:30 in the afternoon..
so we all sat around the kitchen table with roland's parents and sister, chattin the night away. later, we made hotdogs on the grill, then i got some sleep.. that was my day..
Interesting night ;-D. After alot of talkin' and a late night BBQ, Blake, Nick and I fell asleep around 3ish. I woke up at 9 am, still no power, no one else was awake, so I went back to sleep again till 3pm-ish, when we all got up. Power finally came back to my house around 5pm ;\. We're planning on getting a back-up generator for my house now, so I shall neva be without my electronics HA.
Tonight, I went out with Nick, Sam and Bojangles over to Huntington looking for some party Sam had heard about. Instead we found ourselves in the village at some Peace Protest. Ohhh man it was so frekin ridiculous, just a bunch of people our age on a corner with cardboard signs and drums. Bongo drums. Dancing! LOLOL oh man, Sam jumps in to dance.. I can't even describe it haha, but if you know who Sam is you'd be laughing your ass off now. Don't get me wrong, not like I'm mocking protesting, nor their cause,(they were rallied against the homeland security act, which is indeed ludicrous) I'm simply laughing at their particular protest, heh. Also found out Monday is open mic night at Starbucks in Huntington. Going to bring Sam over there and let him loose, haha. Perhaps if Blake wants to play in front of people he can go, too. I'll need ta tell him. Or he'll see it here.
Gonna stay up now n' watch some anime till I get tired, then head to sleep..
I want your soul
I will eat your soul
Come to daddy.
From Blake's perspective:
last night was fuckin high quality. the black out happened, and all the gas stations were down.. i didn't have enough gas to get home, so i slept over rolands.. around 8, i decided to take a stroll alone. headed to the park, sat in the swing set, swung around, walked to michelle's house, chilled there for an hour, headed back to rol's. annette (nick's gf) calls me crying, says on how she's goin on vacation the next mornin and how she's gonna miss nick.. nick was sleepin at rols, which is why she called me instead.. so i went to rol's to wake nick up.. he got the idea of goin to annette.. with no cars, we walked.
wasn't that far of a walk, but it felt good laying under the stars, the blinding headlights of the passing cars. jumpin in the streets, making conversations.. when we got there, nick and annette chilled, while me, rol, and this.. kid.. were chillin closeby to nick.. next thing i hear is nick running towards me saying "RUN!" with instinct, me, rol, and nick jet outta there. he hid by a car down the street, around a curve.. her father's car started, and we couldn't be seen, or else nick will never be allowed around again. so after 30 seconds, i get impatient.. i creep around in the dark, trying to see what happened.. i peer over the curb, looking at the parked car.. i get closer.. hide behind a car and look over the engine to get a good view.. this is where the fun starts
next thing i know, there's a huge guy right behind me, with a sawed off shotgun in his hands, pointed to the back of my head. i turn around and i can barely see his face.. a flashlight connected to the shotgun was blinding me.. "what the fuck you doin hiding behind my car?!" arrogant redneck.. he wouldn't accept that i didn't fuckin touch his car. then this old guy comes out.. bald spot on his head, but whatever grey hair he had, it must've been 6-8 inches long. the way he hunched over, he should've had a cane.. he looked like a ghoul from warcraft 3 from the lighting i could see with. but anyway, they're tryin to find out what i was doin. after i said whatever, they still didn't believe me, but they let me walk away with my friends.
we walk down the block, and the fuckin large redneck gets in his car and drives over to us.. on his third pass around us he stops, rolls down his window, and says "gimme your fuckin names." now wasn't this pleasant.. the same guy that was holding a shotgun to my face is asking for my full name.. i wasn't givin him shit.
he claimed to be a cop, yet he didn't have his badge, because it was conviently located at his 'locker down at the station.' liar. didn't matter though, we played along. he had a gun.. he was much bigger than us, even bigger than roland.
i didn't wanna give nick up.. because if annette's father ever found out nick was here, then he'd ban him from ever seein her.. i couldn't let that happen. he said he wanted our names to confirm with annette (bein her neighbor n all) that we're her friends and not some bastards tryin to steal his car.. i gave him my name and roland gave him his.. i didn't want nick in this. i offered him my cell phone # in exchange for nick's anonimity (sp?), but he refused. and about 10 minutes of asking us, i said the most RETARDED THING I COULD'VE EVER SAID! "nick, do you just wanna give him your name, or what?" "oh it's nick? thanks.." us 3 were laughing our heads off, me the most. it was like in a cartoon that i could've done something that stupid and foolish.. but whatever.. it happened. he got back in his car (he got out of it to try and be intimidating and threatening us) and asked for my phone #.. i said "fuck no, i told you.. it was for to keep nick anonymous.. but i just fucked up that deal.. so no"
the big dumb-ass stared at me with a questioning look "uh.. gimme your #!" "no.. i don't think you understand.. the deals off. you ain't havin my #" whatever.. anyway, the old guy comes back.. with an irish friend, who also claims he's a cop. holds out a fake badge.. he kept shining the light in my eyes. he saw that it bothered me, so he kept doin it, and called me "bright eyes".. stupid fuck.. i could smell the alcohol as he screaemd in my face. i had to re-explain the whole.. fucking.. story. the guy said "well, the suffolk police are on the way.. we'll let this be settled by them" they never came, btw..
after about 20 minutes of argueing, the irish guy and the redneck pulled nick aside to talk to him. the wired old guy was lecturing me and rol on how this was a poor neighborhood, and how cars are stolen all the time n shit.. i don't know how the fuck he kept saying that over and over.. but i snuck away from the old guy, and he just kept lecturing rol. i looked into the conversation the 2 thick-headed, down syndrome adults and nick were talkin bout.. i guess nick had them to realize that we know they weren't cops.. so they let us go.
it was so funny when the irish guy said "just get the fuck outta here.. you better run before i changed my mind!" i wanted to laugh.. his accent was so funny.. so we just walked away..
after that, we head back to rol's house.. annette couldn't leave, because her flight was at 5 am.. i think the blackout was still there.. i dunno, i woke up at 2:30 in the afternoon..
so we all sat around the kitchen table with roland's parents and sister, chattin the night away. later, we made hotdogs on the grill, then i got some sleep.. that was my day..
Interesting night ;-D. After alot of talkin' and a late night BBQ, Blake, Nick and I fell asleep around 3ish. I woke up at 9 am, still no power, no one else was awake, so I went back to sleep again till 3pm-ish, when we all got up. Power finally came back to my house around 5pm ;\. We're planning on getting a back-up generator for my house now, so I shall neva be without my electronics HA.
Tonight, I went out with Nick, Sam and Bojangles over to Huntington looking for some party Sam had heard about. Instead we found ourselves in the village at some Peace Protest. Ohhh man it was so frekin ridiculous, just a bunch of people our age on a corner with cardboard signs and drums. Bongo drums. Dancing! LOLOL oh man, Sam jumps in to dance.. I can't even describe it haha, but if you know who Sam is you'd be laughing your ass off now. Don't get me wrong, not like I'm mocking protesting, nor their cause,(they were rallied against the homeland security act, which is indeed ludicrous) I'm simply laughing at their particular protest, heh. Also found out Monday is open mic night at Starbucks in Huntington. Going to bring Sam over there and let him loose, haha. Perhaps if Blake wants to play in front of people he can go, too. I'll need ta tell him. Or he'll see it here.
Gonna stay up now n' watch some anime till I get tired, then head to sleep..
I want your soul
I will eat your soul
Come to daddy.