video description, 2022-04-24
In the beginning of this video, I make the delirium-induced mistake of attempting to call the game SNA vs. Capcom. I was actually spelling snail, S-N-A… and then that’s where I always lock up. I choke. Right there at the penultimate letter. I get flashbacks to my third grade spelling bee, when I was in the middle of spelling snail and an actual bee started coming up to me. The stinging sort. I tried to convey the urgency of my predicament by gesticulating wildly to the onlooking assemblage, but because I was in the middle of spelling snail, everyone thought I was trying to signal that a snail was coming up to me and not a bee.
“Just get out of the way!” the other kids’ parents called to me from the audience. “It’s just a snail! You have plenty of time!”
In the end, tragically, there was nothing I could do. The bee wound up coming up to me, all the way up to me, and we’ve been the best of friends ever since. So why did I feel compelled to spell snail again at the beginning of this video? Well, it so happens that as I began to speak, I looked off in the distance and saw what I supposed was another bee coming up to me. Damn thing gave me flashbacks. But in the end it turned out to be a radish. Now that it’s all the way up to me, we’re both just sort of looking around awkwardly because it’s woefully unskilled in the art of conversation, quite frankly.