Midnight Pals: Far From Streets

Michael Griffin: Submitted for the approval of the midnight society, i call this the tale of being far from streets
Griffin: it's about this couple who build a nice relaxing vacation house
Griffin: deep in the forest primeval
Barker: oh shit yeah that's where you do it ha ha

Griffin: the guy is all, i'm gonna build this cabin with my own two hands
Griffin: get in touch with my provider archetype
Griffin: really get all iron john with it
Griffin: the wife is all "whatever, man"
Patricia Highsmith: ain't that just like a dame

Griffin: now of course once they build the cabin
Griffin: strange things start happening here in the deep words
Griffin: as you would expect
Griffin: strange things that portend the unsettling nature of reality but don't actually connect to one another in a cohesive way

Griffin: for example, they catch a weird-looking fish in the creek
King: a weird looking fish?
Griffin: yeah a weird looking fish
King: what's so weird about it?
Griffin: oh you know it's just kinda weird looking in a general way
Griffin: anyway, moving on
King: wait come on you can't just move on

King: you can't just say that they caught a weird looking fish and move on like that
Poe: yeah michael we kind of need closure on this fish
Griffin: why? it's just a fish
Griffin: just a perfectly ordinary fish
King:
Poe:
Koontz:
Barker:
Lovecraft:
Griffin: it just looks a little weird

Griffin: it's just a fish
Lovecraft: [sweats]
Griffin: sure, maybe it looks a little weird
Lovecraft: [sweating intensifies]
Griffin: maybe a little unappetizing
Griffin: but at the end of the day, it's just a fish right?
Lovecraft: [vibrating] i can't take this anymore

Lovecraft: stop it! you know how i feel about fish!
Barker: oh yeah howard doesn't like fish
John Langan: [wearing rubber waders and bucket hat] did someone say fish?!?
Barker: but john loves fish
Langan: you know what i always say
Langan: a bad day fishing is better than a good day at the office!!

Griffin: the fish, however, is only one weird thing that happens
Griffin: just things are weird in general
King: how are things weird?
Griffin: oh you know just a general kind of weirdness

Griffin: things are so weird that it makes the guy get real reflective
Griffin: he's really getting real philosophical about the nature of life
Griffin: like how does this cabin he built reflect his dissatisfaction with reality
Griffin: getting real thinky about it
Griffin: being middle aged is hard

King: see, this sort of thing always happens when people vacation in the woods
Barker: couldn't be me
Barker: if the isolation of the woods started to make me lose my grip on reality, i would simply leave the woods
Griffin: oh you would, would you, smart guy?

Griffin: think you could just leave the woods? think it's that easy, huh?
Barker: it's incredibly easy
Griffin: maybe leaving the woods isn't as easy as you think
Griffin: maybe even after you leave the woods, you still haven't left the woods
King: whoa, that's kinda heavy!