so apparently el paso runs on one piece of electrical wire, i found this fact out because while i was dancing like a fool to 'let me clear my throat' by the musical genius DJ KOOL the entire city of el paso had a massive black out. . . luckily i was in the company of about 500 people and i was safe with my best friend Ari, Jackie, and of course Ray. And since we were seated at some Special KINGS table upstairs (due to Jackie being a fucking pimp and buying a large bottle of vodka) we had a splendid view of everyone downstairs freaking out.
I spent about 10 mins texting everyone i knew, and drinking cranberry juice, gray goose and sprite until finally i left. I drove around with Ray exploring the city and despite the wonderful time we had prior to the black out, it felt like a twilight zone episode. I started to imagine the absolute worst, and movies kept popping into my head, 28 days later, Night of the Living Dead, anyway I have never in my life seen my entire city pitch black. I got to see stars i had never even known existed, the glow of Juarez lights hovering over the mountains, the very defined Mexico/USA border,a sole McDonald's sign glowing next to the burning smoke stack of the refinery, long stretched out streets of darkness, a pretty bad accident, blaring sounds of sirens, flashing lights of emergency vehicles. It was one of the strangest sights of my life.
when i finally got home my parents house was the only block in the east side to have power. And my mom made us hot dogs and ramen and we all talked about how creepy the night was. i went to bed thinking about all the radiation poisoning i could of endured, and how my organs were probably glowing green. but by the time i woke up this morning everything was its normal self. nothing happened, i wasn't glowing, and my ideas of a zombie apocalypse was flushed out by reading the comics on the news paper.
Weirdly enough i have an idea what happened... but the news channels havent even covered in on their websites- no mention of the massive El Paso black out of 2009. wtf is going on?
Also... black history month ended with a black out. which is kind of funny.
