{"id":67672,"date":"2025-02-04T10:32:48","date_gmt":"2025-02-04T10:32:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/advertising\/the-lizard-king\/"},"modified":"2025-02-04T10:32:48","modified_gmt":"2025-02-04T10:32:48","slug":"the-lizard-king","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=67672","title":{"rendered":"The Lizard King"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/godsofadvertising.wordpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/img_8238.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" data-attachment-id=\"13635\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/godsofadvertising.wordpress.com\/img_8238\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/godsofadvertising.wordpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/img_8238.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"4032,3024\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;1.8&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;iPhone 8&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1614036302&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;3.99&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;100&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.076923076923077&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;,&quot;latitude&quot;:&quot;38.032025&quot;,&quot;longitude&quot;:&quot;-122.57284444444&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"img_8238\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/godsofadvertising.wordpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/img_8238.jpg?w=300\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/godsofadvertising.wordpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/img_8238.jpg?w=460\" src=\"https:\/\/godsofadvertising.wordpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/img_8238.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13635\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p>Long, curly hair framing an impetuous, sensuous face; a chunky, beaded necklace clinging to his lean torso like the serpents he so often rhapsodized about, this was Jim Morrison in his prime. The photograph, taken by Joel Brodsky, captured the iconic rock star on one of the last days he would ever look this good, before degrading into a bloated, bushy alcoholic. A beautiful man who had it all, Morrison would be dead in four years. According to the photographer, Morrison was blind drunk during that photo shoot in 1967. You couldn\u2019t tell from the pictures. He looked alive and virile. The camera had lied.<\/p>\n<p>Not long ago, you discovered an old picture of yourself, shirtless playing table tennis in the backyard of your father\u2019s first California house, in Santa Monica. Tanned and lean, with long brown hair, you were also wearing a beaded necklace. Was this your Jim Morrison moment, where you looked as good as you ever would? You remember not feeling that way. Like Morrison, you\u2019d been a chubby kid. Those insecurities were still there even if the pounds weren\u2019t. You recall being proud of your lean body but frightened by it as well. New skin or not, you trembled inside it. You looked cool but would never feel that way.<\/p>\n<p>And just like your hero, you would become an alcoholic. You\u2019d also written your share of bad poetry.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Goddess of burning urination<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Clap Trap, A small-breasted nymph<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Groveling for lust you succumbed<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">To pumping her indifferently<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">In this city of women<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">You lay dregs and drunken exceptions<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Routine masturbations<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Are cock and ball hand me downs<\/p>\n<p>You\u2019ve forgotten the rest, thankfully. It lies buried between sheaves of old papers somewhere in the garage. But the photograph brings it all back: summer break from college, visiting the old man in California. Looking at it now it\u2019s tempting to think that this was the time of your life. Yet you remember that trip to LA as anything but.<\/p>\n<p>The first night, borrowing your father\u2019s car, you\u2019d gone with your brother to Hamburger Hamlet, supposedly a cool place, according to your dad. You remember him telling you not to stay out late or bring home any chicks. He\u2019d winked. You can still remember the envy in his eyes. Oh, to be young again, he said loudly as you paraded out the door.<\/p>\n<p>But the evening was a dud. You were too young to order beer and you certainly didn\u2019t pick up any women. You didn\u2019t even speak with one. Entombed in a leather booth, you and Jesse tried valiantly to look like you had it going on. In a half hour you were done eating. It was painful. The sun hadn\u2019t even set. You couldn\u2019t go home now. Your dad would be so disappointed. The two of you decided to drive into Hollywood and check out the strip. You smoked a joint and turned up the music. But no amount of posturing could hide the fact that you were a couple of clueless teenagers in their dad\u2019s Honda. You\u2019d spent the rest of the evening killing time, waiting for it to be late enough to return home with a semblance of your dad\u2019s fantasy intact.<\/p>\n<p><em>to be continued<\/em><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Long, curly hair framing an impetuous, sensuous face; a chunky, beaded necklace clinging to his lean torso like the serpents he so often rhapsodized about, this was Jim Morrison in his prime. 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