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The Legend of Chief Munsee

by 90s Meg Ryan

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Zach Arnett 00:53
¡Corre, Diablo, Corre! Excuse me, I thought this was Logansport, where all smoke implies burning. Nights I sleep flat as map- assuming Cass County: the same and Red on every side. Nod and I'll give reasons to. Tomorrow I am underwater in Cass County's still, Red quiet. So early I'll see anything. Inside every head is the heart of a caramelized devil!!!! My dad and I awake and early. All of the poachers in the early woods. There are antlers nailed to gunrooms all like Who Could Care? Give a Shit? Is it impressive to cut out a tongue? To feel it's pebbled top-side? Plum Wasteful not to eat it?
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Elysia Smith 01:57
I am Quirky I buy bruised fruit at the local market, hold clementines soft in my hands like the mouth of someone I just met. I can’t swim in anything bigger than a martini glass. But how you hear the ocean hallowed in the concaves 
of my body makes you wonder what other lies I tell. You will not be surprised at how much you want to believe.
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Davis Macks 02:52
An excerpt from an interview with National Inquirer’s The Batboy: I’ll fuckin tell ya how it was. First, the Mother Fucker pumped me full of vitamins then they made me do a fuckin headstand on a piece of plywood all the while getting lifted up by a muscle boy in a spandex crotch saddle. You should have seen those fat white people watching slack jawed! I say put me down you Mother Fucker, I say or else I’m gonna use these sharp, sharp claws and I’m gonna start fuckin scratching myself in the fuckin head til I can feel it or till my brain falls out, Mother Fucker. And he does let me down, that Mother Fucker, and starts bashing me in the head until I start bleeding, then the Mother Fucker gives me a buncha iron to stop the bleeding. Your wings will grow in soon, he says. Your fangs will get real, real pointy like, he says and the Mother Fucker gives me some calcium for growing but god damn when am I gonna be more’n 4 feet up? I’m getting right sick of this rude shit so I say Mother Fucker, listen here, I tell em, I say, I’m not taking no more shit, Mother Fucker. . Not wearing these gotdamn capes no more, not snatchin no elephant shit no more, not shaving no beards off no ladies no more, not lickin no butt mud off no Russian whores no more. Mother Fucker. And so he starts feeding me melatonin till I fall asleep and I don’t dream none and I wake up. Gotdamn! Breakfast! Mother Fucker gives some eggs with sodium in em laid out on a fresh plate with a cup full of vitamins. But they don’t taste that bitter with a dash a pepper so I swallow it. ************************************************************************* We Have Only Today. Let Us Begin. Let’s turn the circle of life into a giant flaming hoop and jump through it with a motorcycle. Rev that engine and wear a bedazzled cape because we’re white with long hair and shitty mustaches covered in bee’s wax. Let’s ride up that volcano and watch it erupt nacho cheese and tittie milk, all the while open mouth kissing, slapping tongues and spitting malt liquor in each other’s mouths like a sexual mama bird feeding her naked babies. Rev that engine and take a picture of your crotch for posterity. Let’s go to Applebee’s© and shove a Bloomin Onion® so far up our asses that we puke spicy mayo. Our reversal of fortune flowing like Greek statues fashioned after the goddesses of admiration. Rev that engine and let’s kick each other in the nuts because this is the collective conscious and we’re laughing. Let’s laugh until milk comes out of our noses and then cry as it forms puddles, then our tears will form puddles until we run out of tears because we’ve ran out of water in our bodies then our bodies will form their own dehydrated puddles. Rev that engine and realize that we’re 60% water and 40% other shit and 100% inefficient if you do the math. It’s funny how math is inside everything and anything but we don’t give a shit about Archimedes and his bullshit. Let’s climb a mountain and whisper dirty jokes. Let’s go to a funeral and get free hugs. Let’s rub our nuts on a sphinx and throw toilet paper on the pyramids. Let’s learn how to shape shift and shape shift into giraffes wearing sunglasses and roller skate in the Grand Canyon. Rev that engine without a helmet because if we crash and die then we die and we’re dead and we’ll be dead as dead forever but we looked cool as all hell doing what we had to do and we fuckin’ did it.
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Layne Ransom 01:53
Poem Addressing Leslie Nielsen Yes yes, I remember, I had lasagna from a box the first time I saw you on TBS. My brace-shackled mouth squeezed my cackles into the TV antennae, shot them to a nearby satellite and bounced them back through the atmosphere into your head, so you knew how funny it was that I adored you. Captain Oveur asked a little boy, “You ever seen a grown man naked?” and my face flared red, knowing I hadn’t, kind of because I loved The LORD but mostly because we didn’t have internet. You asked the flight attendant, “Can you face some unpleasant facts?” and I already had, that Mom cancelled AOL because Dad loved the women in his inbox. You said, “Don’t call me Shirley,” and my parents laughed at once, a rare sound that made everything seem all right. You said, “There is no reason to panic.” And I believed you, but as more passengers got sick, Mom and Dad white-knuckled Diet Cokes on separate couches, silence hovering in turbulent air, an ocean of carpet between them – still, you remained calm, assured the captain, said, “I’m a doctor,” and taught me your secret: you dealt deadpan with guitar-playing nuns and little girls who take coffee black like their men, because the best thing to wear is a straight face when you know the plane is going down.
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Ryan Rader 04:56
On Fire Wes Clapp was fired from work, so I invited him over for drinks. When he arrives, Nick, Sam, myself and the television are one - the video game is called NBA Hangtime, the console is a Nintendo 64, and there's an ashtray on every surface because we need them. Scrolling through the rosters of the mid-nineties heavyweights, we fawn over Dennis Rodman's ability to push people down whenever he goddamn wants, and lament that Latrell Sprewell is not very good and doesn't even have a 'choke' option. The heads of the characters are pastel blurs, and John Stockton looks like Stephen Colbert, in a pixelated, antiquated sort of way. The game moves at a ridiculous pace - it's full of uncalled fouls and goaltending and occasionally Reggie Miller will be on fire, throwing the ball from halfcourt and sinking every shot - just like it used to be. This was mostly the entire night, at least what I can recall of it. Wes left, seeming defeated. I don't know him too well but he's a nice guy - and guys like me seem less pernicious next to guys like him. We got lit, yelled humorously for a while, normal night, especially since it's Spring Break and I'm in the midwest. Sam went to his room and Nick slept on the couch and I wondered what my free throw ritual would be when I bounced upstairs to pass out. * * * * * * * * The next day I realize I have fourteen hundred dollars in my bank account from my federal tax return and that a tsunami has just devastated Japan. I owe the state eighty bucks but I consider it a wash and remind myself to save at least eight-hundred of it for a car. Nick gets fired, but he's less than shocked and more than happy to drink a couple pitchers of beer with the usual cast. The band I play bass for had a show, and it took a sharp turn into surreal darkness when a guy drunker than my recently rich-ass gets huffy about a t-shirt. Sam and I are both oblivious because we are on the brink of obliteration and this little fella slurring about how I was 'unprofessional' was mind-boggling and buzz-killing - I guess my sense of humor didn't appeal to his fine sensibilities. The last time I wanted to punch someone was over three years ago, and I was surprised to see my fists ball up when he insulted me and then tried to shake my hand - but that is a low move, even if you're loaded. The issue was more or less resolved, money was made, beers were drank, and I decided that I didn't want to sleep alone, so I found a bed a little bigger than mine and someone who didn't mind sharing it with me. * * * * * * * * I don't get a chance to sleep in late but it's probably better that way. The sun is out and the wind is out and I'm not hungover. I consider my budget and decide to buy some tea. The whole process takes about forty-minutes - I ride the bus to campus, withdrawal three brand new twenty dollar bills, exchange one of them for four wrinkled Lincoln's at my job and joke that I'm taking bets on when I'm getting fired. A few of the people giggle - I've been working here for a lot longer than most of them, and most of them are terribly boring. The place used to be filled with Dennis Rodman's and Charles Barkley's, now it's a bunch of Detlef Schrempfs. I leave the shop and walk north. The city is overrun with potholes due to a particularly icy February (in the sense that ice would fall from the sky every other week.) There's a small caravan of vehicles that two men with shovels are following. They stop and go up the avenue, scooping asphalt from the truck and into the holes. I think these guys could use what I'm buying. I pay for the tea and sit with some nice jam-rock people for a while while someone plays Super Mario on the Nintendo Wii. You can actually see Mario's mustache wiggle under his nose whenever he jumps. We've come a long way, baby. * * * * * * * * * The wind died down as I walked back to campus to catch the bus home - but I decide to give Nick a call and see what he's doing, which is nursing a hangover through the healing properties of orange gatorade and pistachios. I ask him if he's heard about the Tsunami, and he says yeah and we focus our attention to the computer. We both have beers and cigarettes and the internet in our hands, and we consume them. I tell Nick to pull up a particular video: It's taken from a helicopter floating above vast areas of farmland, and the massive flood carrying homes and cars rolls over the landscape. The newscaster narrating the events almost laughs a little when a house that is on fire floats effortlessly with the tide. Nick and I agree that it's all pretty amazing in the awe-inspiring sense and that the flashing neon parts of Japan are the parts you don't want to be in at the moment. We wonder if a series of cats will eventually pop up out of nowhere and provide commentary on the tsunami. The jokes help - I'm not proud of them, the pithy jabs at death we take with our witty fists, but they help me, and they help my friends. Nick says that our boss didn't even fire him directly, and that if he can't get his job back he's going to call him out for being a timid idiot, which he is. I tell him to do it, he says that going out quietly from that sandwich prison wouldn't be his style. I agree. We part ways and make vague plans to drink later at a mutual friend's house. Fifteen minutes later, I'm still at the bus stop. There's a clear view of the road the bus comes from and when it swings its weight around that corner it almost seems like it will tip over and spill people all over the sidewalks and pothole infested road. But it doesn't - I get on, and I know where my stop is.
6.
Derek Miller 03:05
Song: "Away" Written and recorded by Derek Miller. More at: http://indianastatepark.bandcamp.com/ or for a throwback: http://flannelgraphrecords.bandcamp.com/album/missile-crisis-b-w-bob-hampers
7.
Carebear 02:24
Song: "Chips for Chaps" or "Chapstick Steve" Written and produced by Carrington Clinton. More at: carebear.bandcamp.com/

credits

released July 11, 2013

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CONTRIBUTORS:

• Zach Arnett acted surprised during the Red Wedding, but knew about it in advance from some shameful Wikipedia-ing. He's not even through A Clash of Kings. He has poems in places such as Stoked! and NOÖ Weekly.

• Elysia Smith still owns her old prom dresses. Her favorite food is boxed shells and cheese because that's all she can afford as an MFA student. You might call her a romantic.

• Davis Macks is the Bad Boy of the literary world. His shit has appeared in Stoked V, is a Film Maker and a Muncie Dude. Call or send pix messages at 3174209618.

• Layne Ransom shamelessly loves Sting's solo career. Her chapbook You Are The Meat was recently released from H_NGM_N. She is the design editor for Stoked Journal, an online contributor to Vouched Books, and a new MFA candidate in the New Writers' Project at UT Austin. No one can tell her that Soul Cages is not a good album.

• Ryan Rader accepts the fact that he had to sacrifice a whole Saturday in detention for whatever it was he did wrong. What he did *was* wrong. But he thinks you're crazy to make him write an essay telling you who he thinks he is. You see him as you want to see him... In the simplest terms, in the most convenient definitions. But what he found out is that he is a brain, and an athlete, and a basket case, a princess, and a criminal. Does that answer your question? Sincerely yours, Ryan Rader.

• Derek Miller lives in Ecuador with his wife, but he'll be back in a year for law school. He's been in a number of bands, most recently, most notably: indianastatepark.bandcamp.com.

• Carrington Clinton works on short films and plays drums in a handful of bands in Indiana. He believes in true love. Here are some songs: carebear.bandcamp.com.

*** 90's Meg Ryan Album Art and Topper by Travis Harvey, who owns the Village Green Records and does graphic design. I asked him for a contributor note and he sent me this: Looks dumb, 90s were dumb. - Ghostdad.
Anyway, more here: facebook.com/VillageGreenRecords


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