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5
Jul

Who Do That Voodoo?: Part Deux Deux

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Who Do That Voodoo?: Part Deux Deux

Who Do That Voodoo?: Part Deux Deux

Here’s the latest breaking news on my family Voodoo saga: 

We’ve spared no expense in keeping our creepy ass neighbors from committing additional acts of creepy ass Santeria Voodoocity on our property.

We’ve installed high tech, high priced heat sensor devices on every inch of our property. These specific devices were used in the film “Alien vs. Predator”, or so it was claimed on the eBay auction I won last week.

Now, no raccoon or stray cat can set paw on our property without setting off an elaborate system of lawn sprinklers and a 200 Db alarm warning system that I’ve customized to shout “Die, Zombie, Die” in my own voice. Unfortunately, I didn’t consider the possibility that Voodoo zombies may have no actual body heat, rending the device useless against members of the undead persuasion. 

On a more practical note, we’ve installed an anti-Voodoo wall arrangement in our front hall. 

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The Front Hallway Wall of Anti-Vodoo

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Brazilian House Protection Fetish

 

$49.95 from Uncle Hoodoo's House of Voodoo

$49.95 from Uncle Hoodoo's House of Voodoo

 

While three of the four masks aren’t officially Voodoo-related in origin, the fourth is a super powerful Brazilian household protection fetish I purchased online for $50 from Uncle Hoodoo’s House of Voodoo in New Orleans.

Be it the heat sensing security system. The anti-Voodoo wall of terror, or a combination of the two, I’m pleased to announce that there have been no further acts of Voodoocity on our property. Although, I must attest to the fact that the neighborhood raccoons have taken to bringing their food around for a nightly washing under the sprinkler alarm system. The water bill is going to be monster.

But, while our Black Rock backyard has remained secure against headless chicken attack, downtown Bridgeport has once again been the site of Voodoo activity.

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I don’t actually mind your run of the mill, mainstream chicken bones and pin dolls arrangement, but the addition of Matchbox cars and Dunkin Donut cups is a bit gauche for my tastes. (Something tells me that this particualr curse altar is directed at Bridgeport’s finest.) 

Stay tuned to this blog for future Voodoo updates. 

And now In closing, I’ll leave you with the words of the great Delman Mangrove essay “My Waitress is So Slow That I Think She’s Dead” from his essential “The Layman’s Guide To Perspicacity”.  

“Don’t just stand there like a Zombie, Lucille. Run around like a chicken with your head cut off, and get me my omelet.”

 

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“You do something to me.
Something that simply mystifies me.
Tell me, why should it be
You have the power to hypnotize me?
Let me live ‘neath your spell.
Do do that voodoo
That you do so well.
For you do something to me
That no one else could do!”

“You Do Something To Me”
Cole Porter

I love to pick on Bridgeport. Bridgeport, the three-legged junkyard dog barking at shadows from behind the safety of a rusty barb wire fence. Bridgeport, the wobbly one-legged drunken man on the street corner waving at every beer truck that passes by. Bridgeport, the single winged bird dangling from a dead tree branch.

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“There’s only one thing they’re not making any more of – land. And one thing that we’ll never run out of – death. Combine the two and you’ve got the whole thing covered.”

From his 1964 TV Today review of “Death Valley Days” as collected in “The Layman’s guide To Perspicacity” by Delman Mangrove

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2
Sep

The Return of Mr Barnum

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As many of you may know, Mr. Barnum has been away from Bridgeport through most of this underwear-soaked, mosquito-infested summer.

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7
May

Today’s Corporate Survival Tip

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Surprisingly, being Mr. Barnum doesn’t pay enough to keep me in the lavish lifestyle to which I’ve become accustomed. Read the rest of this entry »