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Should Have Stayed at the Bus Station @shouldhavestayed.bsky.social · 1h

It's got "Ciccone" on the top. That's like a medical label. "Ciccone." Check it out. I know it's kind of disgusting... but it's like, it's sort of... like getting down to the real Madonna. I don't know if you can see it now. I freaked out when it came in the mail.

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Should Have Stayed at the Bus Station @shouldhavestayed.bsky.social · 3h

This -This will blow your gourd. I have this friend, all right, she's a gynecologist in Hollywood. And she scored this for me from the lab where she works. It's a Madonna pap smear. I know it's kind of cloudy, but it's a Madonna pap smear.

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Should Have Stayed at the Bus Station @shouldhavestayed.bsky.social · 5h

Offed himself, man. Blew himself away right there. It's like, I don't know... he had had enough, enough. — It's like — Do you know Stephanie? Oh, yeah. I thought I heard that you were in "Timberlawn." — I got back about a week ago. — All right, cool. Oh, yeah. I know what I gotta show you guys.

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Should Have Stayed at the Bus Station @shouldhavestayed.bsky.social · 8h

He was still swingin' the gun around, man, and laughing. He fuckin' laughed all the way. Finally his car spun out and slammed into the grassy knoll... you know, the median. As soon as his car came to a halt, man... he just put the gun to his head and blammo.

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Should Have Stayed at the Bus Station @shouldhavestayed.bsky.social · 10h

and it just ricocheted around inside with him for a while. He was, like, out of his mind. Everybody tried to get off the freeway. Some chick who had a bullet lodged in her ponytail... called the pigs in San Marcos. And they had six or seven pig cars chasing him into the south side of town.

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Should Have Stayed at the Bus Station @shouldhavestayed.bsky.social · 12h

Things like that. People were freaked. They didn't know if he was just a lunatic, you know... with, like a squirt gun or what. And then, check it out, the guy started firing on the freeway... randomly through his windows. He shot one bullet up at the roof of his car...

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Should Have Stayed at the Bus Station @shouldhavestayed.bsky.social · 14h

Man, this old man driving to town from San Antonio... like this old man about 40 or 50 years old... goin' about a hundred miles an hour down the freeway... waving a gun at people, laughing. Like, doin' fuckin' chicken squawks at people out the window... and showing them his gun and going like -

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Should Have Stayed at the Bus Station @shouldhavestayed.bsky.social · 16h

We're playing this Friday. If you wanna come, I can put you on the list. I'm sleeping a lot, you know. — Yo, hey, dude. — Hey. Man, I am freaking out so severely. Did you hear what happened on the freeway? You didn't see the local news today? Oh, it's beautiful.

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Should Have Stayed at the Bus Station @shouldhavestayed.bsky.social · 19h

— Yeah. So what are you up to? Same old, same old. Just... lollygagging around. Still unemployed. Uh, I'm in this band. Well, the one I was in before, but now we've changed our name. Ta-da We're The Ultimate Losers now. And, uh, the singer is still a jerk. And, uh, well.

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Should Have Stayed at the Bus Station @shouldhavestayed.bsky.social · 21h

Yeah, I just got back about a week ago. — Yeah? From where? — Dallas. Dallas? Man. What were you doing up there? Hanging out, resting. I was in the hospital for a while. — Wow. — It was really awful. — Yeah? — Yeah. It was awful. Your parents, probably? — Yeah, you could say they put me there.

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Should Have Stayed at the Bus Station @shouldhavestayed.bsky.social · 23h

Yeah, took all his stuff, just left these cards here. — Can I have his room? — Sure, why not? Cool. Hey, where you headed? Oh, I got some band practice in about five hours... so I figured I'd mosey on out. — Okay. — See you. Stephanie? — Oh, hi. — Hi. Wow. I haven't seen you around in a long time.

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Should Have Stayed at the Bus Station @shouldhavestayed.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

"Watch for the next episode: "Juan joins up with an emerging European terrorist organization... and soon returns to the U.S. With a supply of homemade nuclear weapons." Huh. That's interesting. Just a second. — Hi. — Hey, guy. — Hi. What's going on? — Paul moved out, man. — Oh, yeah?

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Should Have Stayed at the Bus Station @shouldhavestayed.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

"eats cereal or toast, reads the newspaper... "looks out the front door, takes a walk... "goes to a movie matinee, listens to the radio... "watches sitcom reruns till 1:00... "and usually falls asleep about 2:00. He likes to sleep. Sometimes he has good dreams." It's the finale.

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Should Have Stayed at the Bus Station @shouldhavestayed.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

"Someone told him his fingerprints are unique, and he believes... "there's too much direct evidence against uniqueness. "He thinks that differences are minor compared to the similarities. "All his days are about the same. "He wakes up at 11:00 or 12:00...

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Should Have Stayed at the Bus Station @shouldhavestayed.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

"He comes from a light blue-collar family. "He doesn't see his parents much anymore. "He quit going to visit when they quit sending him money. One of his grandparents died last month, but he can't remember which." It's Uncle Fester. "Last summer he thought about sticking his index finger in a fan.

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Should Have Stayed at the Bus Station @shouldhavestayed.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

"So now he's looking for a job that doesn't involve much work. "He rents a room in a large house and rarely sees the people he lives with. "One is called Frank something, and he thinks there are some more... but he can't be sure." I guess that means all of us.

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Should Have Stayed at the Bus Station @shouldhavestayed.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

— What do we have here? — Those are the cards he left. There's writing on the back of them. They're numbered. It's like a little story or something. "Juan Apagato spends a lot of time wandering around town. "He tried college for a while, but it consumed too much time.

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Should Have Stayed at the Bus Station @shouldhavestayed.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Sitting there right in the middle. It's really bizarre. Why don't you come look? It's really weird. So where you getting all these statistics from anyway? Dallas Morning News, man. You ought to read it for a change. See, he's gone. All his stuff's gone. — Strange. — He's a strange guy.

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Should Have Stayed at the Bus Station @shouldhavestayed.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Oh, hey. Ow, man. — Uh, Paul's moved, man. — Where did he go? I don't know. It's like he split, man. He's like - He disappeared. Nobody knows where he is. But, uh, his room is, like, totally empty. It's got everything moved out. And on the floor there's these postcards just sitting there.

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Should Have Stayed at the Bus Station @shouldhavestayed.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

So 18% is nothing. It just seems like one day it's gonna dawn on everybody... that this large nonvoting majority has been winning every election... for the past three decades. And the people who win these elections are gonna be too ashamed... or better yet, too afraid to even take power at all.

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Should Have Stayed at the Bus Station @shouldhavestayed.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

That's nothing. That's nothing. That's not a mandate. — The people in Nazi Germany had — You guys done male bonding yet? Nazi Germany in 1932, the Nazis had maybe 34-38%. And somebody like Pinochet who's already out of there back in Chile... that guy's got maybe 34-43% of the vote.

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Should Have Stayed at the Bus Station @shouldhavestayed.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Noncitizens, the underage, the overage, people too old to get to the polls. People out in rural areas. People who don't have addresses. I mean, to be conservative, the figure's more like 35%. So Bush got 54% of 35%. What's that, 18%? Maybe 18% of the people in this country support him.

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Should Have Stayed at the Bus Station @shouldhavestayed.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

they say 50.3% of the eligible population participated in the '88 election. But I think the figure's a hell of a lot lower than that. You gotta consider. Prisoners. We got more people incarcerated in this country... than any other country in Western history.

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Should Have Stayed at the Bus Station @shouldhavestayed.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The thing is, the media's trying to hold up this whole one-party, two-faction system... by telling you that George Bush got this mandate with 54% of the vote. And that just doesn't take into account the whole population of the country. They say that 50.3%, in the media...

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Should Have Stayed at the Bus Station @shouldhavestayed.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Oh, you live here. Okay, sure. Well. Just a little security check. There've been some people missing. Nothing to worry about, pal. Okay, you gotta go. I mean, you're in a hurry. That makes perfect sense. Things are speeding up here at the end. Gotcha. What a day, what a day.

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Should Have Stayed at the Bus Station @shouldhavestayed.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Tell you what, listen. I'm gonna stick around outside, just for a little while... kind of make sure everything's okay. You know, make sure we weren't followed. Have a nice day. — Hi, how you doing? — All right. — How's it going? — Fine. — Matter of fact, where are you going? — Going home.

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Should Have Stayed at the Bus Station @shouldhavestayed.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

All right, look. I gotta go see this friend of mine, okay? — Yeah, right in here. — Is this it? Okay. Anyway, look, pal. It's been nice talking to you. I really hope your friend isn't one of them already. — I'm sure he's not. — Yeah, well. — I just thought you had the right to know. — Thanks.

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Should Have Stayed at the Bus Station @shouldhavestayed.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

There are not that many perverts around. You know the worst thing about this, pal? Is that you're in close proximity to all this. You know, I mean, Houston's right down the road. You know, the main headquarters. NASA. Sure, in the main headquarters, around the world...

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Should Have Stayed at the Bus Station @shouldhavestayed.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

but you tell them to do something, and they do it. They can follow instructions. Perfect employees. — Sounds like most people I know. — So. They must like children too, because... the statistics of the F.B.I. Since 1980... said that 350,000 children are just missing. They disappeared.

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Should Have Stayed at the Bus Station @shouldhavestayed.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Why do you think the C.I.A.'s down there hacking the hell out of that forest, huh? Make sense? Sure it does. Yeah, this drug takes away your long-term memory... leaves your short-term memory, so there you are. You got people that don't know who they are, where they came from...

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Should Have Stayed at the Bus Station @shouldhavestayed.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

So they'll be looking for ordinary guys. You know, just like you and me. Yeah, they need those to kind of colonize things. You know, they do a little psycho-surgery on us, a little liquid lobotomy here. Well. And I know this for a fact. They got this drug down in Guatemala in the rain forest.

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Should Have Stayed at the Bus Station @shouldhavestayed.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The people they need, like scientists. You heard about that? All the missing scientists around the world, and those that are mysteriously dying... that's all part of the recruiting process. I really hope your friend is not, well - Well, they need a lot of lackeys to do the labor though.

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Should Have Stayed at the Bus Station @shouldhavestayed.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

By the way, there's something you should know. You see, this entire operation's being funded... by the profits from the Medelln drug cartel. And they're specifically set up by the C.I.A... to handle large sums of money being funneled into this project. Keep it under your hat.

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Should Have Stayed at the Bus Station @shouldhavestayed.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

We couldn't beat the greenhouse effect anyway. This secret group, you know, the group that's in charge of the government - Oh, yeah. They're gonna get boosted off this rock before it melts. And the rest of us, what do they care? We're gonna be left here to fry.

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Should Have Stayed at the Bus Station @shouldhavestayed.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

serious global confusion. I mean, really, we're in massive mainline ecological chaos. Anyway, it's happening even as we speak. So, I'll tell you what they've already done. They've colonized outer space. Oh, they couldn't colonize everybody. No, no. That would be global bankruptcy.

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Should Have Stayed at the Bus Station @shouldhavestayed.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Not so, my friend. Not so. The government's sitting on the fact that it's 10-20 years maximum. It's getting hotter, don't you think? Yeah, it's not even summer yet. Yeah, and when the polar ice caps begin to melt... it's not gonna take a certified genius to understand that we're in

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Should Have Stayed at the Bus Station @shouldhavestayed.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

You can ask yourself what they've been doing sitting on their ass for 49 years, huh? While we're out here with some serious social diseases and everything else. Oh, never mind that. Everybody says... "Greenhouse effect. A hundred years from now. Oh, I'll be long dead, gone and out of here."

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Should Have Stayed at the Bus Station @shouldhavestayed.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

It was May 22nd. That's a very important date for you to remember, pal. — Yeah, that's my birthday. — Right. So, see... the reason we're up there covertly is because of the greenhouse effect. It all ties in. Yeah, greenhouse effect. By the way, they discovered that in the '40s.

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Should Have Stayed at the Bus Station @shouldhavestayed.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Anyway, there's this sci-fi movie called Alternative Three. And, uh, it's about kidnapping people, using a little psycho-surgery on them... and, uh, turn them into zombies. And making them colonize the moon and Mars. Funny, huh? Except it's absolutely true, all of it. We've been on Mars since '62.

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Should Have Stayed at the Bus Station @shouldhavestayed.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

We stole it from the Nazis after the end of World War II. It's perfectly obvious. And you know, I was watching this Late, Late Show. A lot of truth in the Late, Late Show. You know, they slip it through there, they figure nobody's watching, but -

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Should Have Stayed at the Bus Station @shouldhavestayed.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

It's a covert operation between the United States government and the Soviet Union. It's been going on for over 30 years. We've been on the moon since the '50s. You wanna know how we got there, right? I'll tell you. Anti-grav drive. Anti-gravity technology.

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Should Have Stayed at the Bus Station @shouldhavestayed.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

But those of us with the right kind of radios, you know what I mean? Yeah, we got enough of it. The gist of it was... there's a giant spacecraft over in the other crater, looking at them. That's right. Oh, it all begins to leak out then... that the space program's just one giant big cover-up.

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Should Have Stayed at the Bus Station @shouldhavestayed.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

And way back when they're giving us that "One giant step for mankind" bit... another astronaut's in the background yelling his fool head off... saying, "Oh, my God. What's that over in the crater? What the hell is that?" Well, NASA cuts him off just like that.

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Should Have Stayed at the Bus Station @shouldhavestayed.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

A lot of people like that found, uh, just wandering around lately. You know, no history, no nothing. — It's weird, huh? — Yeah. You know about the suppressed transmission, of course? — Mm — mmm. — No? Oh, well. This is the 20th anniversary of the moon walk, you know.

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Should Have Stayed at the Bus Station @shouldhavestayed.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Well, I doubt he's missing. He's just not around. Oh, yeah, well. I've been reading in the World Weekly News. Just a while ago there was a guy out on the street. He's found wandering around, didn't know who he was, where he came from. He's perfectly healthy, but he's a complete amnesiac, you know.

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Should Have Stayed at the Bus Station @shouldhavestayed.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

— Does he still live in the same place? — I told you. No one's seen him for months. — Well, later. — What was that obsessiveness line again? — Obsessiveness without personality? — What are you talking about? Excuse me. Say, pal! Did I overhear you say you got a friend that's missing?

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Should Have Stayed at the Bus Station @shouldhavestayed.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Intensity without mastery. The obsessiveness of the utterly passive. And could it be that in this passivity... — I shall find my freedom? — Well, I'm headin' over there. Hey, man. What are you doing? You're supposed to be getting this down. It was pretty good there. — You seen Gary around? — No.

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Should Have Stayed at the Bus Station @shouldhavestayed.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

"My current response to every worldwide or personal tragedy is: "It's disgusting. I love it. I hope it gets even worse." Okay. I'm Dostoyevsky. You're Anna. We're writing The Gambler. Take my dictation. Who's ever written the great work about the immense effort required... in order not to create?

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Should Have Stayed at the Bus Station @shouldhavestayed.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

With a tan and so personal Past the Conoco, the Abel's Who's that man with a tan That's a disturbed young man with a tan "Number three: Opportunistic celibacy. "Number four: Renunciation of all human endeavor. "And the fifth and final pillar of euphoria: "A full-circle, aesthetic reevaluation.

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Should Have Stayed at the Bus Station @shouldhavestayed.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Looks like some guy, uh, ran over his mother. It's so personal That no one No one in their right mind Would touch him with a ten-foot pole With a six-foot pole With a six-inch pole Well, maybe a six-inch That's a disturbed young man with a tan And problems so deep And so personal torturing himself

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