The Forgotten Blog

So due to a series of events I have been reminded of the fall carnival of 2007

this is a great forgotten story that has never been put in blog form

it's a good one

and it's all true

Ok so it's October 2007

Paul had mentioned that in Port Lavaca there is a fall carnival

for some reason I was all about it

I was stupid about going to this fall fun fare

but as usual I had double booked myself the sat that it came to town

I was supposed to co-host the Three Man Ego Trip's Dark Side of the Rainbow Halloween Party at the Den's backyard

but I didn't want to cancel the carnival

So during the Day I set up the back yard and in the early evening I called Raul and The Madness and invited them

So we drive to Port Lavaca and meet Paulie at the carnival

Erik mentions to me that he's been to theme parks but never to a carnival

I couldn't believe it

What a treat!!

ha ha just kidding

so when we get there me and Madness buy some tickets for the rides

I notice Raul and Paulie didn't buy any

so I called them on it

they said they don't ride rides

so Madness and I proceed to ride the rides

the first one was a hang gliding type ride

to ride it you had to lie on your stomach with you ass exposed in the air

Erik said, "I don't like this."

it held three people and after a while a little kid joined us


while waiting I joked that a doctor walks up behind us with a chart and asks, "Which one of you is Vincent?"

then I said, "What you can't tell?"

Erik laughed and reminded me there was a little boy next to me

after that one we get on a ride that swings like a pendulum until you're completely upside down

you know, this one:


as you can see me and Madness sit right up front

behind us is a mother and her little boy

after the ride starts and we start to build up speed and are almost upside down the little boy says, "I'm scared, I don't like this!"

then he says the four words you do not want to hear on a carnival ride

"I'm gonna throw up!"

I can just imagine how awful it would be to have vomit added to the craziness of this ride

it wasn't gonna happen on my shift

so I started to yell at the little boy

I said, "Bullshit you're not gonna throw up!"

I continued, "this is a carnival, it's supposed to be fun!"

and I continued to yell at him until the ride came to stop

and he did not throw up

when we got off the ride and I looked at the kid and told him good job

after that I talk Paulie into coming into the fun house with us

he agreed

then I talked him into going on that really big slide that looks like a wavy line going up and down

you use an old sack to slide down it

you have to climb a lot of stairs and I underestimated how high the slide was

and I forgot that Paulie is afraid of heights

so now Madness and myself are positioned to slide down

Paulie is at his spot but he won't sit down

he's afraid he's gonna slip

so for some reason he takes off his shoes and now is in his socks

Erik calls him out on that logic

in the video you can see me shaking my head because I'm thinking that Paulie is thinking," I don't like this."

but Paulie does rise to the occasion and sits down and goes down the slide

ok so times ticking and we have plenty of tickets so Erik and I decided to ride one more ride

it's a parasol ride

you know a little seat with an umbrella thing on top

so everything is going fine

the ride is going on in a circular path

Erik and I are cracking jokes

all of a sudden the ride comes to a halt

then it starts to reverse the direction

from clockwise to counter clockwise

this completely fouls up Erik's equilibrium

he says, "I don't like this."

those are his last words

he looks like he's gonna puke

so I start yelling at him

"This is supposed to be fun."

ha ha ha no I didn't say that

I was telling him if he was gonna puke then puke over the side

and I gave him a little nudge

he said I was not helping

and was close to spilling his cookies

then he looked down and saw Raul with the camera ready just waiting to capture the moment

Erik said he thought to himself, "Oh, hell no, Raul is not gonna get me puking."

this is as close as he got:


he fought it and we got through that one

well with all this fun it was time to go

on the way out I yelled at Raul and Paulie

"Thank god Erik was here, if not I would have rode all those rides by myself."

Paulie said, "Hey I got on two rides."

then I yelled, "The fun house is not a ride!"

good times