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Saturday 5th April
Dined with the Phresh Prince of Baghdad in his underground bunker
with my former camp counselor, "Rusty," now a human shield who is
tediously waiting for his exit visa to be approved. Out came the
delectable spread for which this leader is justly feared: Tuna
Helper dry-rubbed on Slim Jims just prior to microwaving, pickled
Kurd's feet, and McTavish's whisky. "No rules. Just right," Rusty
whispered as he pretended to pick up a dropped napkin. The dictator
sat at table with his right arm extended as though he were a night manager
of a Motel 6 in Dubai, and smiled stupidly throughout the meal, saying
nothing. At the end of the evening, feeling slapped from the cheap malt, I
told Hussein that I thought he was his own double. He laughed uproariously
and had someone killed. I apologized for my mistake and vomited
noiselessly into my gas mask. We watched a *Cowboy Bebop* DVD together and
Iraq's president averred that all Iraqi women have anime-quality bosoms,
an assertion that I personally found intriguing, and made a mental note to
verify this statement scientifically at a later date. Later, at the
coat-check I hurriedly slipped on my burqa and trotted home in time to
catch Aaron Brown, "The Lazy Librarian," on CNN. Slept like a decal on a
cruise missile. Dreamt of the shrieking double-time Slim Jim demon.
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