THE VENTRILOQUIST
(Or, "Which one's the Dummy?")
Okay, like, I don't know why it happened, but it was fuckin' weird, man.
I was sitting in the lounge of Texas Tommy's Boi-Toi Ranch, when they got an outcall for a "Big strong, hustler".
As Mickie at the desk said, they wanted the biggest boy there, ALL OVER.
Next to "Detroit Half-Smoke" Willard, who's been visiting his mom back in Florida, I'm the biggest boy...and the longest here at the Boi-Toi Ranch.
Mickie also said they'd pay double the hourly rate for an all-nighter, and I was all up with that.
Two bills an hour is my usual rate, and four hundred dollars an hour times 9 p.m. to 9 a.m. is...uh, well it's a lot.
And the client was Sterling Fogg, the old guy who's been doing the "Sterling and Miranda Show" on Channel Twelve, Jesus, since I was a kid.
Yeah, you know Miranda, she's his whaddyacallit, his manikin?
Or his dummy... and he's a vegernarian or a ventriloquist, whatever. Fogg throws his voice into Miranda, which is this wood doll?
Dressed up sexy like Marilyn Monroe with big bazooms and a short skirt, long legs, she has hands with a red manicure, all that jazz.
Yeah, they always made my folks and I laugh our asses off, the Miranda doll was always like, insulting Fog.
Miranda's in a different outfit alla time, one week a tiny bikini, the next a sexy jumper dress... on the Bob Hope show she wore a lace teddy nightdress!
That was the one where Miranda's cheating on Sterling Fogg with Bob Hope while he's sitting there!
Not screwing, that would be impossible, but she kisses Bob Hope while Sterling Fogg looks the other way...oh it killed us, it was so funny.
My father used to get a boner looking at Miranda, I remember that... a wood doll? Friggin' pervert.
And Pop threw ME out of the house when I was fifteen because I was a fag! Least they're human beings!
So I jumped in the cab and ran over to one of those swell mansions up in the Hollywood hills. When I knocked on the door, a maid let me in and sent me upstairs Nice place, by the way...
I was real excited about getting Fogg's autygraph and all, and I knocked on his bedroom door.
So I heard his voice, just like when he and Miranda were on the show and on "Hollywood Squares" pleasant as you please. "Do come in!"
So I walk in and there' s Sterling Fogg, sitting with Miranda on his knee.
But get this! Miranda is dolled up in a leather miniskirt and a tight leather top that shows the top of her boobs, the you know, cleavage.
And the blonde hair-wig is tied up in a sexy bun toppa Miranda's head.
And in her one hand, glued on it, is a short whip with three tails about a foot long each.
"Good evening young man" Miranda says, her hinged jaws opening the bright red lips.