“Dude?”
“Whut?”
“Whut’re ya doin’ up this early? Itʻs barely light, an’ I can still hear more birds than cars.”
“Iʻm hungry, dude. Tryin’ ta cook breakfast.”
“ʻKay, dude, but don’tcha wanna be, like, awake afore ya start messin’ wit’ kitchen stuff?”
“Tha’s important?”
“Yeah, kinda … um, dude, where’s tha microwave?”
“In tha oven.”
“In tha … whut?!?”
“Dam near froze my fingers off doin’ it too.”
“Why?”
“ʻCause I kept it in tha freezer ov’rnight, dude, like tha instructions on tha box told me to. A’most couldn’t fit it in there. ‘Specially wit’ the cord. Tha oven wuz a little bigger, but it wuz still a tight fit. Woulda been even wit’out frozen fingers.”
“Tha instructions told ya ta cook tha microwave fer breakfast.”
“Yeah! An’ ya gotta keep it frozen afore ya cook it!”
“Didya light tha oven yet?”
“Nah. A certain dude a my acquaintance started aksin’ me questions afore I c’ld figger out howta do it.”
“Good. It’ll keep yer breakfast an’ yer pad from tastin’ a little burnt. Dude?”
“Yeah?”
“Wake up an’ go back ta sleep, yeah?”
“But I’m hungry, dude!”
“Ifʻn yer too hungry ta sleep, which I doubt, Iʻll haul ya ta tha coffee shop in, like, an hour. Itʻll be, like, tastier, not ta mention safer an’ neater. Ya’ll thank me fer it.”
“If’n ya say so, du …. zzzzzzzzz.”
The Dudes, with their abject failure of a literary agent, O Ceallaigh (aka OC and The Amoeba), first descended onto the blogosphere from a rented room in Berkeley, California on New Year’s Day in 2006. They’ve moved from California to Maine to Washington to Hawaiʻi to Washington again to Hawaiʻi again (where they’ve finally managed to stay put, for now anyway), picking up a Quilly along the way. They’ve stayed on the blogosphere (on four different sites, two of which have since vanished), while the thing that was the blogosphere in 2006 moved to Facebook to Youtube to Twitter to Instagram to Tiktok. And a lot of, um, stuff has gone down. O Ceallaigh thought it might amuse someone out there to see just what kind of stuff has gone down over the last fifteen years, and how it looked at the time to OC and the Dudes and their gaggle of weird buddies.
