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Volume 33, Issue 1:
The HEURISTIC! Squelch

Zagat Survey 2005

Drug Dealers

LC
Palazzo Apartments, #205. El Cerrito
Satisfied regulars describe LC’s weed as “dank” and “where are my keys.” Service is “butt-slow,” however; calling an hour ahead is recommended “so he can wake up and answer the door.” Also, closed from 5-8 on Tuesdays and Thursdays due to “finally having to pass Math 54 at Southwestern to get my AA so I can transfer to Long Beach State and get a job like playing volleyball or fuckin’ something.” Proprietor adds: “Maybe a ferret trainer. Do they have those?”

Jimmy the Fuckup
Outside an abandoned warehouse on the edge of town
Many conflicted customers offer praise for his “four hour long orgasm where you’re coming harder than a firehose”-quality Ecstasy, but advise against his “yellow-ass rocks.” “Don’t bother with the crack,” says one regular. “Get the Mitsus and I don’t give a fuck if you’re getting mauled by a bear, it’s gonna feel like God’s downy nutsack.”

Big Yiz
By appointment only. (510) 230-5948
“Simply the best coke in town, this town, any town, you name a town,” according to one satisfied customer. His yay is described as “silky smooth” but with a drip that tastes “like the Tijuana River took a Carne Asada dump in a camping ground porta-potty” and “unimpressive.” A little on the pricey side, with a grammy going for Triple Twomps and a siggity for “more money than I make down at the Hyundai Dealership in a week.” Blowjobs are acceptable, but only if “you’re not a fag, because I’m not.”

Flint Jonz
Somewhere off San Pablo, Oakland
“My [fellow black person] Flint does one thing and he does it right: rocks.” His crack is “the toast of the town” and “of course it’s good, it’s crack.” More of a mobile caterer, Jonz shifts locations nightly. “Try parks and bus stops,” advises one customer. Caution: Jonz keeps his rocks in his cheek, and is known to have “all them kinds of Hepatitises.” So “make sure you already have Hepatitis” to avoid disappointment.

Flaco
The alley behind Harry’s Bridal
If you’re looking for speed at decent prices, then Flaco can’t be beat, except by “six Haitians and this big Dominican bitch with a shovel.” Sporting “more tattoos than a prison,” this colorful character has established a successful business from the West Side alleyways. Describing his decor as a fusion of “what you want” and “I said what you want,” Flaco always welcomes customers with his signature butterfly knife swipe at the face. “After he stabs you, watch him turn around and hop over the ten foot straight brick wall,” comments one customer. Another concurs: “That little fucker runs like the wind, if the wind weighed ninety-two pounds and wore K-Swiss.”

The Armenian
He’ll find you
Not much is known about this dealer, but he can provide “anything chief, anything” for the right price. His familiar greeting of “Hey chief” welcomes you to his sprawling estate, where he conducts much of his big-ticket deals. “This is only for serious connoisseurs, chief” explains one business associate. But if you’re looking for “black tar, red rum, or white china, then go talk to our brown friend, chief.”

Doctor Ted
2100 Westbrook Ct. Suite 1001. San Francisco.
“I gotta go see the Doctor,” says one regular with a wink and an uncontrollable tremor. Be it Dilaudid, Oxy or Vike, The good Doctor Ted will write you up a prescription for “backitis” or “heart cancer.” Caveat Emptor – it comes at a price. “Sold my car, sold my car,” relates a loyal customer. “Anyone want to buy a baby?” cautions another. However, if you’ve got the means, The Doctor provides a “wonderful” and “[the sound of repeated lip smacking]” experience.

Top Ten Wholesome Fun Things to do in People’s Park

  1. Shit, shit, I’ve really gotta move to an apartment that’s not on benvenue
  2. Fuck, now there’s two of them, hurry!
  3.  
  4. Oh thank god, I think we lost him.
  5. [heavy breathing]
  6.  
  7. Asking the homeless to … oh shit, he’s got a gun, RUN!
  8. Pillowfight (w/ rocks)
  9. Recruit for midnight basketball
  10. Hide and Seek

Sherlock Holmes Meets CSI!

Crime Scene #1:

Double Homicide, Kitchen
Sherlock Holmes: Yes, hmmm, yes.
[Holmes paces up and down the dingy room excitedly, pausing briefly every few minutes to examine a loose screw or the victims’ shoes.]
Detective Brass: His wife was a–
Holmes: Yes, a seamstress. I know.
Dr. Watson: Amazing! How…
Holmes: Notice the way his cuffs were perfectly re-sewn, and the small depression in this doorknob suggesting his wife favored her right ring-finger with an unusual proclivity, likely due to her right thumb and fore-finger’s exhaustion from long hours with a sewing needle.
Watson: By Jove!
Brass: No, she was a stockbroker, and the husband was–
Holmes: Yes, a steamboat captain, notice the distinctive way the left pant leg is tucked into his boot while the other is loose, a necessary precaution as the gears of a steamboat lie so close to an operator’s left foot.
Brass: No, he was a computer programmer.
Holmes: Hrumph! As If I’d take the word of someone with the over-sized left pinky of a haberdasherist. I mean really!
[Holmes injects himself with cocaine.]

The Ballistics Lab

CSI Warrick Brown: The grooves match. These two bullets were fired by the same gun, I just wish Sherlock Holmes wasn’t so late so I could make my report to him.
[An old woman enters the lab.]
CSI Brown: Oh god, not this again.
Old Woman: Hark! What say you about this Sherlock Holmes?
Dr. Watson: Excuse me, ma’am, but have you seen Mr. Holmes?
CSI Brown: For fuck’s sake Watson, do you have to fall for this every damned time!? It’s obviously Sherlock Holmes in a wig, just like it was the last 20 times before that.
Dr. Watson: Nonsense, sir! This woman walks with a limp.
Old Woman: What? I’m sorry, I’m a little hard of hearing.
Dr. Watson: I said–
[The old woman drops her cloak revealing she is actually Sherlock Holmes.]
Holmes: A-ha!
Dr. Watson: My word, Holmes, that’s simply astounding! Amazing! You never cease to amaze me with your brilliance!
CSI Brown: Sigh.

Crime Scene #2:

Homicide, Apartment Building
Detective Brass: Well what do you make of this?
Holmes: It was the landlady.
Dr. Watson: Why that’s astounding! How the devil do you know that?
Holmes: Quite simple, my dear Watson. You see the left shoe is scuffed in such a way that–
Lab Guy: We found some blood under his fingernails. The DNA matches the landlady’s.
Brass: Oh, well arrest her.
Holmes: Wait, don’t you want to hear how I knew the victim ate seafood?
Brass: No, not really.

DNA Lab

Marg Helgenberger’s Character: Okay, so the body was cut in two BEFORE the murder took place. If we can find some saliva on the torso, we may have our murderer.
Dr. Watson: Indeed. Marvelous. Stupendous.
Marg: Right. Dr. Watson, would you please get a tissue sample from the lower abdomen.
Dr. Watson: The what?
Marg: The abdomen.
Dr. Watson:
Marg: I thought you said you were a doctor.
Dr. Watson: Well I am. It’s an honorary degree you see. University of Tampa. In the field of surpriseability actually. But if you–
[Marg Helgenberger drops her cloak revealing she is actually Sherlock Holmes.]
Holmes: A-ha!
Dr. Watson: Yes! Good show! Marvelous!

Top Ten Things Sadder than Playing World of Warcraft

  1. Being the black guy from Stargate: SG-1
  2. Pretending to be the black guy from Stargate: SG-1
  3. Working for the black guy from Stargate: SG-1
  4. Playing World of Warcraft with the black guy from Stargate: SG-1
  5. Knowing that the name of the black guy from Stargate: SG-1 is Christopher Judge
  6. Discovering your craigslist blind date was with the black guy from Stargate: SG-1
  7. Breaking up with your girlfriend on WoW who you met on WoW, also finding out she’s a guy.
  8. Being unable to play WoW because of Mass Comm homework
  9. Buying a virtual Russian bride
  10. Missing your MCATS to meet the black guy from Stargate: SG-1 at the mall

“Finally! A Beer For My Active Lifestyle!”

Picture this: You’re casually practicing volleyball at a Malibu beach court with your handsome heterosexual best friend, Chet, discussing the subjects that every straight man thinks about: girls, highlighter shorts, the proper form for a leg press, watching football, and being on the receiving end of anal penetration. As you admire his chiseled abs, two beautiful girls saunter by and nonchalantly ask if you would like to play two-on-two. You and Chet shrug lackadaisically and smirk at one another. Sure, you say. But I warn you, we’re pretty good.

They take off their shirts to reveal their curvaceous figures, toned abs, and silky golden-brown skin. The game gets going, and they’re good. You and Chet are fighting hard. Everyone is sweating and having a great cardio workout. You feel good, great even. One, one…two, two…ten, ten, it’s a tie. This is game point. One of the girls serves, you save it, Chet sets, and it’s all up to you. You jump in the air, calves flexed, your body shivering in reverent anticipation of the spike you are going to drive to win this game. Contact. Line Drive. But wait! She blocks, the ball thuds against the sand. Game over. They won.

You walk away dejectedly with your tail between your legs. You hear a whistle and turn around. The girls are waving you to come back with something ice cold and refreshing in their hands. 95 calories. 2.6 grams of carbs. Michelob Ultra.

Is this your idea of courtship?

It’s mine, but I’m a pretty active guy. Some might say too active. But then again, those critics are probably too fat to do anything but lift Miller Lite to their wretched swollen lips, vainly struggling to fill the deep rift in their soul that only unpopularity and acne scars could have forged. How could they possiblly drink something that has 0.6 more grams of carbs than my beverage of choice? No wonder they all get heart attacks and die.

See, the thing is, I like to stay in shape. When I’m not racing against my supermodel girlfriend in Speedos in the pool or attending advanced yoga classes with my supermodel girlfriend, I’m on my lunch break zooming around downtown with my supermodel girlfriend on rollerblades, going off jumps and causing rebellious havoc in ways only I and a beautiful supermodel girlfriend can.

When I am three-fourths up the face of a backbreaking climb with only small, difficult grips in sight, I want a cool, refreshing prize waiting for me at the top. I also want something waiting for me after a hard set at the gym, while writing slam poetry at a trendy cafe, and in the middle of caddying at an intense golf tournament. I’m extreme, and I need a beverage that is as extreme as me. Like Mountain Dew Code Red. But only something that doesn’t cause cancer.

So you see why this is my beer? How else would I be able to drink after every extreme activity of mine (which is all of them) and still maintain my 1% body fat? I need a beer that has fewer calories than water.

Supermodel Girlfriends. Anal Penetration. Michelob Ultra.

Top Ten Worst Excuses for Cannibalism

  1. Stuck in the superdome in the rain
  2. Mushrooms
  3. When was anyone gonna tell me what an Ethiopian steak was?
  4. It’s the only thing that goes with this wine
  5. Took the pet name muffin too far
  6. Bastard ate your last slice of pizza and you wanted it back
  7. Snowed in for five hours
  8. Thought if the murder was crazy enough, you’d get to meet Grissom from CSI
  9. Prove a point to your vegan friends
  10. Accidentally spilled really really delicious barbecue sauce, not on them but still

Words from The Top

Bullshit Sports

I’ll never be an athlete. Don’t get me wrong, it’s not like I got picked last in P.E. or anything. I wasn’t the fat kid, or the crutches kid, or the kid with mittens sewn onto his sleeves to create the illusion that he had hands. True they were all stronger and faster than me, but I was normal so I had friends. However, just because I’m no Joe Montana or because the mittens kid kicked my ass every week doesn’t mean I don’t love sports.

I watch and play a lot of intramural sports. I love the adrenaline soaked rush of competition. I love the stirring anthem of victory beating in my breast. I love watching the lesbians tackle each other. And I love the satisfaction of knowing I’ve given 110% in pursuit of the ultimate goal: completely vanquishing my talented, motivated opponents.

Furthermore, I also love to lie harder than a defendant at Nuremburg. I don’t play intramural sports. I’ve never even seen a mural. Okay that was a lie too, but that just proves my point. Playing intramural sports is the gayest possible way for coeds to come into close physical contact with each other. Intramural sports are the dry humping of athletics: all the motions are the same, and the work’s just as hard, but no matter how much effort you put in, you won’t have anything to show for it but sweaty balls.

Even some professional sports are, in fact, bullshit. Bowling? If they serve hotdogs and beer to the players, it’s not a sport. Chess? If Stephen Hawking can beat me at it, it’s not a sport. Baseball? If a forty year old can beat me at it, it’s not a sport. Basketball? If a black guy can beat me at it, it’s not a sport. Murderball? I rest my case.

These so-called “sports” are all bullshit. You want to know a real sport? There are only three: Jai alai, pointing a gun at someone’s feet and shouting “dance,” and the Japanese guy who can lift forty five pounds with his cock. What happens when a game of basketball is over? Everyone goes home. What happens when the guy who lifts stuff with his dick finishes lifting stuff with his dick? Chafing.

Top Ten Toilet Training Methods of the Future

  1. Just tell the little fucker to Google it
  2. Additional instruction on removing your spiky shoulder pads and unitard
  3. Exactly as you would do it today, BUT YOU’RE IN THE MATRIX
  4. What, you’re telling me you don’t know how to use the three seashells?
  5. Osmosis
  6. New SkyNet toilets train themselves
  7. Being the last man on earth after the apocalypse means you pretty much crap wherever you want
  8. Same little plastic potty, but with blue LEDs
  9. Get the book “Everybody Poops Except Death Cyborgs”
  10. Hover-Ups Training Pants