Political Commentary and Humor
for Coffee and Energy Drink Guzzlers ONLY:
(Instructions: Best appreciated if read AFTER energy drink consumption,
A.D.D afflicted just skip the first half and start in the middle LOL 馃檪 )
I saw that one of my Facebook friends Mickey posted that he drank “Wayyyy too much Coffee” which reminded me of my father who used to say he drank a lot of coffee, but how did he know when sometimes he’d drink a coffee mixed with hot chocolate at night because it’s less strong than regular coffee or expresso that I’ll drink to keep me going and alert and I also drink Monsters and Red Bulls,
but the sugar free ones and sometimes I’ve had Rockstars but they are too sweet so I tend to drink more Blue Monsters and Red Bulls but too many Red Bulls make me irritable and nasty so I stick with the Blue Monsters because they make me giggle and happy and when I go to 7/11 that used to have 2 Monsters for $4 which brings the price down from $2.56 to $2 each which then saves you more than $1 each time you buy two , if you buy four a day that means you save $2 which means that every two days you’re saving $4 dollars and for the $4 dollars you saved you can buy two of the 8 ounce Red Bulls for free because 7/11 also has them on specials so then buying the Red Bulls isn’t actually costing you anything so it’s like not buying them at all but you’ll still have them if you want one
and I also like buying the tall 24 ounce Blue Monsters in the can with the round cap because when you look at the price you’re actually spending less per ounce with the tall cans then you are with the two smaller cans that are saving you the $1 each time you buy two but 7/11 often runs out of the tall 24 ounce Blue Monsters and only has the tall 24 ounce green monsters that I don’t want to buy because I watch what I eat like eating a lot of kale because my friend and long time inspiration Alexis Dellar Hanson mentioned that she eats kale and I eat a lot of fish because Japanese people don’t have heart attacks and I also don’t want that much sugar so when 7/11 doesn’t have the tall 24 ounce blue monsters I like to buy the white Ultra Monsters that look kinda like skim milk when you pour them which makes me wonder if there isn’t some sort of marketing psychology behind that but speaking about marketing psychologies leads you to thinking about marketing strategies
and for a while now Monster has been grabbing more shelf space in 7/11 by introducing the Red and Blue Ultra’s that don’t taste very different from the regular blue monsters except the red does have cranberry which is healthy and does look more festive over the holidays but I can never just buy the red monsters alone because you used to get 2 monsters for just $4 dollars so I’d have to pick out a second can which would then make me want to mix and pair the red cans with the blue ultra can but then you have to buy the white so that when you open up your refrigerator you get to see red white and blue which of course is the color of our flag which makes you think they did that on purpose to compel anal cumpulsive patriotics 馃榾 to buy more Monsters because how can you buy red, white and not blue which then makes it an odd number so you’d have to buy the 4th monster to get the 2 for $4 dollar special so because you don’t want to buy another red white or blue sugar free ultra monster because then it wouldn’t be “Fair and Balanced” you grab that “Zero” calorie monster which has to make you wonder where that 1 calorie comes from that’s in the other sugar free monsters or more importantly what’s in the Zero calorie monster that’s taking the place of whatever is causing the 1 calorie in the other monsters in the first place
and because I watch what I eat and don’t know what accounts for the 1 calorie in the sugar free monsters and what’s NOT causing that 1 calorie in the Zero calorie monster, buying the zero calorie monsters concerns me about what I’m putting in my system when I drink it and then I think about those gun toting kids at Columbine or up in New Town Ct. and all these kids drinking this stuff and wondering why do kids need energy drinks in the first place and if they are drinking the same Red Bulls that make me irritable and nasty so if I’ve had a few sugar free Red Bulls that will tend to make me nasty I counter them with the Monster “REHAB”s because they rehab you and we all need rehabbing unless you go to the gym like I do and drink a chocolate Monster “Muscle” energy drink that tastes just like YooHoo but makes you crave Ring Dings and Twinkies that are now new and improved because we all know how Twinkies needed improvement (whose brilliant Idea was that) and back on the market but now last 18 times longer so dooms day preppers can stock up on them without concern
while l toss and turn all night wondering about all of this and if Red Bull isn’t to blame for the decline of western civilization and the deaths of so many innocent kids in these school shootings and I’d like to know if the investigators of these horrific, tragic events log what the contents of these peoples garbage cans are and how many Red Bulls they’ve had before going on a bullet spraying rampage because inquiring minds need to know and because it may have a causal effect so I personally shy away from the Red Bulls and only have them every so often and stick with the blue monsters that make me giggle though I’m not giggling at all over X-box owning empathy dulling computer game playing Red Bull guzzling tots bringing guns to school I am worrying about our America and what these violent computer games are doing to our kids and what we’re doing with gun control and the NRA and stop and frisk which I wouldn’t have a problem with and most often think is good except it draws my attention to this growing chasm between the people and the State and our governing and controlling institutions who no longer have any resemblance to the “Of The People, By The People, For the People” credo our natiion was founded on
and then I ponder about this other even stranger group of separated people we call Congressional Lobbyists and our politicians and then I worry about who they are, because they seem more like a “They” than an “Us” now and have amended our laws to allow some things to be legal for “Them” that are still illegal for “Us” like insider trading that sent Martha Stewart to jail because she overheard something at a party when our Senators go to the bank for doing the same thing, and I worry that “they” are not paying attention to the fact that our America is losing the dollar as the world’s standard for currency and that’s a huge concern for us which makes you think others in government and on Wall Street and the Henry Paulson’s and Ben Bernanki’s and the AIG’s and the Goldman Sachs must know this and are just not sharing it with us and that’s why they’re all grabbing as much money as they can out of you and me and our economy with impunity and while it still lasts while we’re all busy watching Honey Boo Boo and not realizing how all the middle class will be living if we don’t pay attention and then of course there’s the animal rights issues and groups like Animal Freedom Fighter and cool people like Nora Constance Marino and Judith Jones that are doing their best to raise our consciousness and to stop so much cruelty to animals and I think we should be looking at what it means that our country’s athletes can’t wear American symbols at the Olympics in Russia and being instructed to “Not dress like an American” and what does that actually mean about who we are in the world stage and I can’t decide which causes insomnia more, worrying about all these things or the Vodka and Red Bull I had at 8 o’clock and though I don’t know how much Coffee is “Wayyyy too much coffee” I do monitor my Monster intake by how many dollars I retrieve on each receipt I get from the Waldbaums can recycling bin every Saturday because I am
environmentally conscious and recycle which usually amounts to around $2 and you know what that buys at 7/11 !!! 馃槑
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聽Gregg P Sullivan聽Best appreciated if read AFTER energy drink consumption !!!
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David Bold聽Plenty of ’em!
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Marie Helene Heyne聽Heh heh heh…ROTFLMAO…WOW
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Suzanne Anoushian聽And I thought I was a coffee drinker. Now I just feel like a novice. Hah!
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Larry Byrne聽Lot of free time today?
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Gregg P Sullivan聽Larry Byrne聽LMAO,聽聽No, but I had a lot to say and my punctuation storage was low on ‘periods’聽聽I just wonder if anyone makes it to the end and then gets it.
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Marie Helene Heyne聽Had to print a copy, need time to digest, but yes.
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Karen Friedl聽Ramble on聽
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Lydia Sue Keidel聽Grrreggg, did someone have too much coffee today?

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Kailyne C. Valjack聽路聽Friends with聽Ditter Kellen
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Susan Lovebug Storm聽OMG … Wow oh wow . Good lord .. I could not stop laughing through it all .. That is rambling at its finest form . That is a mouth ful .. Holy moly .. Xoxoxox. How much coffee did you drink .. How the heck did you keep all that straight .. My goodness .. My mind processing as fast as I was trying to read it . That was funny too . Hahahah. I am awake now聽Gregg P聽..
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Susan Lovebug Storm聽So you recycle to start the cycle again at the end .. Too awesome .
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Michael Voight聽Lol damnnnn….. That a boy!
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Kip Walden Carr聽Are you sure my 5 year old isn’t at your house???? Lol!!!! Needing the Monster are you??? Lmao!!! Just kidding. We love you
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Kip Walden Carr聽Listening to the pretenders. Those were the happiest days of my life!!!! Caffeine and 5 year olds!!! Lol!!!!!
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Susan Lovebug Storm聽Yes we love you …. Where are you catching your breath … .. Resting your fingers ..聽猸曗潓
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Susan Lovebug Storm聽Not to mention all the serious Topics you touch on .. That are real .. & need very much attention in the world .. .. .. Wow ..
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Michael Voight聽Haha your a character! Love this guy!
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Susan Lovebug Storm聽Not funny … Now what else you drinking … You are a funny man … Silly聽聽Xoxoxoxox why we love you ..
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Kip Walden Carr聽I wish I were drinking! Lol!!” Damn if I don’t need it. Lol! Thank you for your cheer
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Frank Ringuette聽Holy crap!…that’s amazing stuff Gregg. The living novel and Mr. Bayside’s manifesto rolled into one.
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Kip Walden Carr聽So homesick. Wish I were with you Greg!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Toni Mantus聽Thats how you became the KING of the run-on sentence! Monster drinks!
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Kip Walden Carr聽Ha! True!!!! Lmao!!!!
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Suzanne Anoushian聽I think you’re funny Gregg. And King of the run-on sentence- that’s a good one!
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Kip Walden Carr聽I hate to admit it but, that is true. He can run on. But, I love it!
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Toni Mantus聽Credit for the “king” comment actually goes to Gregg himself. He always says that!
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Pat Sweeney聽This is just normal Gregg. Good to see you back in good form! ( this is actually quite brilliant)
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Patrick Head聽Wow my favorite is the Mean Bean! You are somethin else Gregg
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Patrick Head聽And on that note Gregg …Im of the opinion that if more people had or took the opportunity to take a walk in the woods or through a garden or field where something is growing , to get a big deep breath of the fresh air and utter silence a calm that is unmistakeable would take over . This may confuse those who read this comment but if more people had or took the opportunity to do so . I can assure you the confusion would become Clarity! Annd thanks again for your friendship!
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Gregg P Sullivan聽Oh you got that so right. Pat. and that, believe it or not is part of the subtext of my point. We’re all so so so busy doing nothing while what we all really need is to push all that stuff aside and be still and get back to simpler more meaningful existances and the fundamentals that it feels like so much of our culture has lost.
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Patrick Head聽You got it brother !
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Andrew Poretz聽Did you also eat one too many of Latke Gravas’ “Grandma Gravas” coca-leaf-infused chocolate chip cookies?
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Gregg P Sullivan聽NO ! This is all me聽聽but that sounds like an item you hear about in news stories about the menues at the legalized weed growers out in Colorado.
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Susan Lovebug Storm聽Smiles
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Toni Mantus聽…and you tease me after I’ve had an Expresso Martini!
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Gregg P Sullivan聽Thanks聽Susan Lovebug Storm聽and聽Frank Ringuette, I don’t usually write politcal commentary, and shy away from humor because I’m just not a funny guy. I usually like to write about the theatre or film festivals or faces I see in inanimate objects or social events I go to, but I figured what the heck, you can at least write ONE sentence about what you see in the real world and what better place to go for inspiration to write about the real world than 7/11
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Randy DeOrio聽I hear ya!!
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Paula Costanzo Artopiades聽They make an espresso martini Toni Mantus? What a battle – the martini is tellin you to relax and the espresso is screaming No no wake up !!!
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Toni Mantus聽Exactly, Paula Costanzo Artopiades, perfect for happy hour. Relax and wake up! Just don’t have them too late at night!
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Gregg P Sullivan聽Hi Pat Sweeney,聽聽Thank you for the recognition. As your artistic sensibilities probably got, the Monster / Reb Bull pricing rant is just a metaphor for our overly stimulated busy busy busy culture that actually keeps us so distracted and busy with聽…See More
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Marie Helene Heyne聽I really appreciate your bringing this to everyones attention in such a lighthearted way Gregg, yet, I see the seriousness in all that you are saying, Our society is blind and deaf to the real issues that are facing us , we ARE too busy trying to survi…See More
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Patrick Head聽Yes Marie ..I believe its safe!



















