Friday, May 11, 2012

The Only Good Llama

One of my meditation routines is to try to relax, contort myself in a sacrilegious way – called "The Perineum Tickler" - and come up with an appropriate conclusion to the meditation mantra, “The only good llama is…”

I can puzzle over this for hours.  I can puzzle over this until my perineum is sore.  So far, my best conclusions are: “…one spit-roasted and served over a bed of greens with steak fries.”  I also like “…one with its skull cleaned out and placed on the head of a staff as I stand over a pit of bleating, terrified llamas and ask them to slather the ointment on their skin or else they get the hose again.”

Admittedly, neither is real catchy.  That’s why it’s a good meditation mantra.   There’s no bad answer (as long as the llama ends up dead.)  But then I see this uplifting story of a llama given a prosthetic leg so that it could walk again.  T' hell?


Do you know how many hours I’ve spent devising this animals destruction to then have to suffer this “feel good” story?  The same people that made the prosthetic tail for Winter the dolphin (as seen in Dolphin Tale movie) are behind this.  Here I thought they were the good guys.   What do you call a llama with only three legs?  A good start. Or 3/4ths of a waste of space but getting better.  Or, one dinner down, three to go.  I imagine llama meat is very succulent and lean.  I hear their cold, dead black eyes taste like cherries.  Why aren’t we eating these animals?  Why aren’t we using their long necks for a line of llama neck bed lamps?  And what’s the deal with those necks?  It’s like a llama is a glued together donkey body on a half giraffe neck.  They should be called a Halfraffekey.

At the very least, let’s stop fitting them with cheetah striped fake limbs so they can walk again and continue their menacing existence.  We don't do that for a half smushed cockroach.

Next thing you know, the filthy beasts will want to run and race.  What do you do with a llama with a prosthetic limb?  It’ll be like Oscar Pistorius all over again.  Can he run in the regular Llamalympics or will he have to go in the Parallamalympics?*
No cheetah stripes.  A shame.
I might just be a little ornery today.  Due to a busy schedule and other personal reasons (possibly related to my meditation pose), I’ve been unable to run for 12 days.  It feels like 12 years.  I feel like I should be on The Biggest Loser.  It’s the longest non-running streak I’ve been on in over 6 years.  It’ll all come to an end tomorrow as I’ll be able to hit the road for several miles but, man, it’s been tough.  And then to see the whole MIRACLE WALKING LLAMA thing…

In the meantime, I’ve come up with an exciting and delicious recipe for roasted llama souls to share with you.  Best served with a fruity cabernet. 
  1. Kill 15 llamas and harvest their souls.
  2. Drink a fruity cabernet.
Feel free to use “The only good llama…” as a starter for your own meditation mantra.  Be careful, don’t get lost in the double ll’s – presumptuous beast, ohhh, I need TWO L’s in MY name because One.Won't. Do. – and split open your perineum.  You’ll be (theoretically) on the shelf for 12 days.

If the Hangar Clinic isn’t too busy working with the wonderful, can-do-no-wrong llamas, it'd be nice if they could come up with a prosthetic human perineum.  Don’t want to bother them with all of their useful and important llama work though.

Your turn.  Get into The Perineum Tickler and consider:  The Only Good Llama is….(fill in the rest)

KummerLama.

Happy trails.

* Admit it, that was fun to say. 
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Based on the poll results so far from my last post, the leader seems to be concern for my lack of fixing the lattice fencing pieces.  You would think that, with 12 days away from running, I’d get that done.  You’d be wrong.  And I see many of you are bashful about calling yourself a "race-ist"...at least in the comments.  Don't worry, I know who you are.  And, Danny, don't worry, I can't possibly drive any more readers from this blog.
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Happy Birthday dear Nitwife!

8 comments:

Josh said...

I share your dislike of llamas. I've hated their necks with a passion for years. Every time I see one I want to jump over their fence and punch them in the neck. Thanks for the funny post, I was having a long day today and this lightened the load a little, actually a lot. The only good llama is one that's running away after I just punched it in the neck.

B. Kramer said...

The only good llama is the one ruining your day. Hope your taint heals fast. Cheers!

Anonymous said...

dammit, you're like the older long lost twin brother I never wanted - I just went from April 23 to May 4 without running a mile.

The worst part of not running for 12 days? When you start running every day again, every run feels like the hangover from hell - stiff, achy, sore

Elizabeth said...

Happy birthday to the Nitwife!!!! Sorry you haven't been able to run. That totally bites the big one. Good luck this weekend with your run and hopefully with fixing your lattice fencing. :-)

Anonymous said...

Damn, had the best answer ever then realized I was thinking of the one "L" lama and not the two "L" llama.

Vava said...

The only good llama is the one that stuck that birthday greeting to your wife at the end of the post.

Trent (Scott) Lorcher said...

That'll do, pig.

Drea said...

Lucky Llama with a magic leg. What is your real excuse for not running for 12 days? How you gonna break that 5:38 mile?

And I think Llamas are great for carrying your shit if you're trekking. Right? That might be a good Llama. I mean they can haul all your Onesies and cheetoes :)

Go for a run Nitmos!