EXCERPT: “So here I was, lying on a raggedy couch, my throat scratchy from a night of drinking and smoking, my chest hair sparkling with glitter. A couple of hours earlier, I found myself in a treehouse, the uninvited guest at a bizarre wedding and witness to the strange tradition of penis limbo.”
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EXCERPT: “When I woke up I had no idea that the day would involve getting intimate with a butch, hairy chested, bald man; that just wasn’t typically my sort of thing….”
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EXCERPT: “And that’s when the full humor of the situation hit me. Here we were in plastic ponchos, every color of the goddamn rainbow, slipping and sliding on the ruins of a culture that had collapsed due to climate change, environmental degradation, overpopulation, overconsumption, brutal infighting and war-mongering, and finally the sheer weight of its own bloated, ineffective governance… And that was all before the Spanish arrived to finish the job. Sound familiar? You’re damn right it sounds familiar, Rodrigo! Here we are raising our eyebrows over the exact same issues that we are facing in our own culture, and watching these amorphous blobs of purple, yellow, pink and blue, staring wide-eyed and taking pictures like the whole scenario was so completely alien to them seemed pretty damn funny right now. “
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