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Jamie Barrodale

William Wei - Amie Barrodale The Paris Review Vice







I once had a one-night stand. She was ten years my senior with luscious lips. That's all I remember about her looks besides her breasts and ass. She had broken up with her boyfriend Cedric, who worked with her at Ocean Drive magazine. We were both wasted at a South Beach bar. A friend sitting at the booth behind us reached across my chest and told me to give up because I wasn't going to get any. She called me a white Supremacist and I told her she was right. We fell to the floor and broke some glasses, then walked three blocks down to her apartment. I remember struggling with a third condom as she went to the bathroom. I waited a long time before checking up and finding her passed out on the toilet. Her name was Capucine.

The following month I started freshman year of college. Ebony was in my Comparative Genocide class and we paired up for a dehumanization project. We decided to analyze a real-life current systematic killing of a people instead of imagining our own. Palestine, we argued, is seen as an invasive species. "A rodent problem," I specifically remember saying. She told me I reminded her of Hitler. "That moustache." We pinned ourselves against an entire classroom of Jews who were none-too-pleased. That's how we began to relate to one another. It was something I had done many times before. She invited me to a party in Cutler Ridge. Her friends assured me I'd be safe as soon as they met me. We drank fortified wine and Ebony placed her hand in my backpocket. I tongued her ear when no one required our attention. A fight broke out and a bicep was stabbed. The molly kicked in as lights flashed red and blue. She slept over my house many nights before she invited me over.

Parked on her driveway were matching black impala and monte carlo. Her share of the efficiency was towards the back. Her brother asked me where I purchased my shoes. She pointed to a door which led to her parents' bedroom, then showed me her room and told me her parents were out of town. I asked her if she was baby-sitting her baby brother. She laughed and said of course. I always laugh when people laugh at something I said, like I understand the joke I just made.


She made a dreadful pasta in jar sauce, a steamed vegetable and a portion of meat. An American tradition. I’ve cooked up pasta before, beef bolognese on lemon-pepper angel hair, smoked beef rib on a plate, asparagus and mayonnaise, associated crystal hot sauce, the Italian works ground on a silver tin. I swallowed ragu and opened another four loko. After some steady rope sex, I got up to go to the bathroom. I felt tempted and decided to peek into her parens' bedroom. It was a broom closet.

It reminds me of the time a friend invited me to dinner at her house and set a pot on fire. She asked me to hold her hands behind her back as I pushed against her. That night I learned something.



Dan BratDan Brat
gay marriage tonight 
It was weird, because I looked at pornography pretty frequently at this point. It was even a problem, so that I would spend an hour looking for the most disgusting pictures I could find. Maybe disgusting is not the word. For example, I liked a short video where an older man was fucking a girl in the ass while he put a Blow Pop inside her. Then he stopped and put it into her ass. Then he put it into her mouth, and he started to fuck her again. But somehow this conversation ... 
Victor BarrenecheaVicari Valdez
i feel like i've read that before. where is it from? 
Dan BratDan Brat
Amie Barrodale 
William Wei 
this is like the fifth time I reread this story 
Victor BarrenecheaVicari Valdez
ah yeah! 
great story 
really good 
i should give it a re-read as well 
Dan BratDan Brat
check out the stuff she posts on vice 
I really want to learn from her style 
Victor BarrenecheaVicari Valdez
i only read one about when she got married in las vegas 
loved the comments section 
was not moved by it immediately 
but it was like a contemporary HST 
in a way 
Dan BratDan Brat
HST? 
Victor BarrenecheaVicari Valdez
hunter s thompson 
in the sense that it's 1st person journalism 
Dan BratDan Brat
oh word 
Victor BarrenecheaVicari Valdez
and it reflects the banality of our times 
Dan BratDan Brat
yuh 
Victor BarrenecheaVicari Valdez
like she's not taking a bunch of drugs 
she's not really doing anything at all 
and it's even more narcissistic 
like she was in town (i assume) to cover a porn convention 
and she talks about sharing a hot tub with a pornstar 
but doesn't bother to tell us (or remember?) the name 
she kind of doesn't even really care about what's happening in the city above and beyond what she's doing 

Dan Brat
We got take-out from a delivery service, and around eleven, her hair had fallen down, and her cheek was resting on her hand so the top of her head just touched my shoulder. I still have the shirt I was wearing at that time. It’s hanging in my closet.
it's subtle





this is what the poet Gregory Solano said:


i was reading one of her vice articles  12:35 PM
here's a small excerpt:  12:35 PM
"The mixologist was named Nichole Villerot. She had big, Brigette Bardot blond hair, and she was sexy and nervous. I think she was the first outwardly nervous person I’d seen in a long time. I am nervous. I usually hide it in situations where I think it’ll make others uncomfortable, by taking pills. I used to do it by drinking. So it was funny for me to see that a nervous person is a person who is good-hearted, kind, sensitive and—since I’m talking about someone other than me—brave. All she had to do was take a belt or a pill, but she didn’t, and she shook as she talked about the four mocktails she had made up for us, on the fly."  12:35 PM
i hate this cold ironic angle that defines every fucking vice article  12:36 PM
they could write about going to chernobyl and it would just end up saying something like "Yeah, and so it was like really weird I guess"



A Brigitte Bardot está ficando velha,
envelheceu antes dos nossos sonhos.
Coitada da Brigitte Bardot,
que era uma moça bonita,
mas ela mesma não podia ser um sonho
para nunca envelhecer.
A Brigitte Bardot está se desmanchando
e os nossos sonhos querem pedir divórcio.
Pelo mundo inteiro
têm milhões e milhões de sonhos
que querem também pedir divórcio
e a Brigitte Bardot agora
está ficando triste e sozinha.
Será que algum rapaz de vinte anos
vai telefonar
na hora exata em que ela estiver
com vontade de se suicidar?
Quando a gente era pequeno,
pensava que quando crescesse
Ia ser namorado da Brigitte Bardot,
mas a Brigitte Bardot
está ficando triste e sozinha











i hate this cold ironic angle that defines every fucking diff int article