Here the narrator points you back in time towards Larry at the Colony Bar.
Now back to the present and the two characters in the Swiss bar, or beer hall in Basel drinking Uli beer and smelling the pungent aroma of alpine Hempf. She is alone at the bar when he comes out of the door marked Herrenand announces, “I just had a great beer shit.”
“I’ll inform the media,” She said.
“I don’t know what it is, but sometimes beer is like a laxative… I feel like I passed a whole cheese cow.”
“Too much information,” She said. “You’re not Bukowski.”
“No, but I just shit like him… and who needs to write when….”
“Right.”
“Write.”
And they were silent and smelled the marijuana and he inhaled and on a T.V., C.N.N. had Rumsfeld on and he said, “Does anyone else think it’s strange that Rumsfeld seems to dress himself to look like MacNamara? The resemblance grows greater the deeper in the shit we get.”
“It is kind of uncanny.. Who is the stylist on this war anyway?”
“MacNamara was supposedly brilliant and all, but doesn’t anyone remember that we lost Vietnam?”
“No,” she said. “They remember Rambo… or Rambo Three…. or what was the last Rambo? We’d like to think we won it somehow.”
“Was it a concious decision to look like MacNamara, or is it just the look that all meglamoniacal men get when they are making huge blunders that they refuse to see or accept?”
“I haven’t smoked pot in forever,” she said smelling it in the bar and Frank Zappa came on the juke box as C.N.N. cut to the war footage and he said, “You never hear Zappa on a juke box in the States….”
“I think he’s more famous in Europe… Moon Unit and Dweezil are more famous in America.”
“Why?” He asked. “What did they ever actually do other than be his kids?”
“They were younger than Frank and in Hollywood…that is how you get famous.”
“What? Be young in Hollywood?”
“It’s a start anyway.”
“Didn’t Vaclav Havel make Zappa his culutural emissary or something?”
“Yeah, but he got cancer.”
“Which one?”
“Both actually…they both got cancer.”
“Always the great ones.”
“Hmmmmm,”she nodded and thought and said, “Dweezil had a cooking show with Lisa Loeb…. and wasn’t Valley Girl Zappa’s only hit?”
“Probably…. Another Beer?”
“Let’s try something else”
