{"id":3804,"date":"2013-02-03T08:35:21","date_gmt":"2013-02-03T15:35:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/macblaze.ca\/?p=3804"},"modified":"2013-02-02T08:02:03","modified_gmt":"2013-02-02T15:02:03","slug":"23-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/?p=3804","title":{"rendered":"2:3"},"content":{"rendered":"

2-3<\/p>\n

Well<\/em>, the beaver thought, I guess I’d better get the background<\/em>. He picked up the tattered Hilroy and flipped through it until he came to the first page that mentioned Magrath.<\/p>\n

Wednesday, May the twenty-second, nineteen hundred and eighty-five<\/p>\n

Well, I blew into this piss-ass town about 12:15. Just in time to see the hayseeds and hicks shuffle their way to the local food trough on main street. I figured that was as good a place as any to find Mayor McCheese. Probably stuffing his pasty face with deep-fried buffalo chips or whatever passes for local cuisine in this hole.<\/p>\n

And lo and behold, who was sitting on his fat ass right by the counter, making moo-eyes at the tackily dressed waitress behind the till. Well, to make a long story short (and probably more interesting than anything real involving these clods), Mr. Mayor was \u2019dee-lighted\u2019 to see me and invited me over to the office to chat about the cesspool he\u2019s forced to put up with.<\/p>\n

Christ, I have no idea why the suicide rate in places like this doesn’t exceed the birthrate. Maybe humping\u2019s the only thing that makes it better.<\/p>\n

So it looks like I’m here for a few weeks at least. Mayor McStupid bought the line and is putting me on the payroll. It’s not really worth the time, but it will cover expenses while I get on with it. I mentioned this Meredith McGrath woman and got a bite. Seems she’s in the habit of picking up strays \u2014 now there’s a stupid idea if I ever heard one \u2014 and she frequents the scuzzy taverna at the hotel most Thursday afternoons.<\/p>\n

So I’ll plug my nose, take a room in the putrid hotel and arrange to \u2019meet\u2019 the \u2019meat\u2019 tomorrow afternoon. And hopefully somewhere in this pus-ridden burg I can find a cup of coffee that doesn’t taste like petroleum byproducts.<\/p>\n

Ordo ab chao,
\nBarnabas<\/p>\n

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2-3 Well, the beaver thought, I guess I’d better get the background. He picked up the tattered Hilroy and flipped through it until he came to the first page that mentioned Magrath. Wednesday, May the twenty-second, nineteen hundred and eighty-five Well, I blew into this piss-ass town about 12:15. Just in time to see the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3804"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3804\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}