Finding Ulysses

This was published in the Ithaca Journal this week:

“Police said Aramani’s arrest followed the arrest of three others for seventh-degree criminal possession of controlled substance, a Class A misdemeanor: Shane Jennings, 26, of 9610 Lodi Center Road, Lodi; Lisa Riley, 42, of 4380 W. Seneca Road, Trumansburg; and Ashley Riley, 21, 98 N. Applegate Road, Ithaca.

Two officers saw the three snorting cocaine in a truck behind the NAPA Auto Parts store at 1 Main St. in Trumansburg just after midnight Saturday, police said.

When they saw the officers, the trio quickly exited the truck and walked toward the Rongovian Embassy, a bar at 2 West Main St., police said. Meanwhile, the officers saw two lines of cocaine on a DVD that was resting on the truck’s seat.”

There was a time I thought of the Rongovian Embassy to the USA as a place for free spirits, creative types and all that. Now, when I think of the Rongo, I just think of intoxication – depressed people getting drunk, and buying drugs.

What a stupid, mind-wasting, uncreative way to spend your time and your money. Cocaine isn’t artistic or musical or freethinking. It’s just a slow suicide.

If you can’t even do something better than a DVD than snort coke on it, you’re really pathetic.

I’m not a cop. It’s not my job to bust you and send you to jail. I will tell you this, though: Trumansburg is a village of families and retired people. If you think you’re leading a life on the edge here, you’re really deluded. If you can’t get over your juvenile addiction, you can take your drunken, druggie behind and get the hell out of our town.