Subject: Revised Draft of Erik’s Monologue – Cohesive Edit for Publication Consideration

Dear Reader, a brief preface-

I’ve taken the liberty of rewriting and editing this raw, stream-of-consciousness passage from my late father’s Facebook message. The original is a whirlwind of manic energy, dark humor, cultural riffs, and personal confessions—pure Erik, with all its chaotic charm and unfiltered edge. My goal was to enhance cohesion, smoothing the transitions between his wild associations while indulging in the absurdity and wordplay that make it so uniquely his. I fixed typos for readability, tightened rambling sections into more fluid paragraphs, and preserved the essence: that blend of self-deprecating wit, pop culture obsessions, and underlying vulnerability. It’s still got the freestyle rap vibe, the ironic boasts, and the satirical jabs—think a bardic rant from a Maine everyman channeling Celtic storytellers and stand-up comics.

This could work as a standalone piece in a memoir anthology—perhaps titled “Jesus Juice and Jordananity: A Father’s Freestyle.”

Best regards,
Cameron Stevens

Hey, hey, hey, hey—stop the hate and appreciate! Next up: walking on water, turning water to wine. Just as long as it ain’t Michael’s infamous “Jesus juice”—heard that stuff leaves your bum hurting the next morning, like those rough first days in a new jail cell after “getting to know” your roommates a little too well. Happens to everyone, right? Like those burning urinations we all deal with. My bacteria’s got viruses of its own, but hey, the upside is my shit’s seasoned like a defending champ in its kingdom, no moat needed. Honest Abe, cross my heart—not my bra, though. Holy hell, you can’t have a braless car; front-end damage is the gateway to that 24/7 involuntary lemonade stand you never signed up for.

Remember Chris Farley’s warnings? Something about ending up in a van down by the river. I think the hype’s possibly false—not that I checked, holy cow, you act like it’d be illegal. Hello, protect and serve—it’s right on their cars, talk about show-offs. Legal bunkers are Shangri-La! I heard on the intranet what kids are watching these days—terrible stuff they learn. Surf’s up, bro. #WaveRunnerVersionErk420. Greenpeace, man. Puff, puff, pass—don’t be greedy, share the lost memories. Just ’cause you’re the king of the hill—no, not Hank, but Eric Hill, the total mentalist guru who doesn’t even hand out flowers at airports for his cult… I mean, religion.

Not fair—I tried to patent mine, but Pat McAfee wasn’t what they meant. Hello, who wouldn’t mistake that when hearing “king” spoken? Well, I guess there’s Burger, Steven, and Justin King, but those are purely afterthoughts to the famous McAfee empire, duh? Doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure it out—they turned me down, and no one knows better than my personal-turned-business empire on pocket-rocket perfection: me. Can’t hold my resume against me ’cause a judge might’ve forced those years of alone time. At least the whole “gay for the stay” argument never had to be argued in my case—IDC, I’m the best sex I’ve ever had. No one compares to me in the art of self-preservation… well, pride, I mean, not the annual much-awaited Pride parade. Irish, what’d you think? Holy, too many pillow-talk Penthouse letters, possibly—not that I know anything about those; my mom would be mad. Please don’t tell her—she might tell my dad, or whoever got this year’s lottery pick, ’cause of the whole jail mix-up. I learned to accept the ramen-priced deals for countless sugar daddies. Greedy people, I’ve heard of ’em, and asking for club-cracker side dishes! Good luck—positive outlook, though, gotta appreciate that. I think I can, I think I can! All aboard, just beware of those crossing guards I hear about. Don’t trust the “made in China” stamp on their classification verifications, even though China makes all the best products—you know, “Calgon, take me away.” What other proof do you need? Best breakfast starts with salt-soaked suds, staying alert without the usual NoDoz boost. That’s chemical dependency, I hear—terrible things the evil intranet puts out.

At least I’m personal friends with the whole “Kids R Us” gang. Goat infants are people too—stop the one-way thinking. Animals matter, even the one time I can agree on the black ones. ‘Cause, goddamn it, what about the white? White should be under the whole equal-rights fight—just want equality, so fight for the right to wannabe Craig Black, but not that Jack fella. Heard he can’t be taken seriously from previous Joker attempts at Hugh Grant’s final act of perfect roleplay, the portrayal of the caped crusaders’ best-played foe—from Idaho, and not just the potato Ohians; they at least learned the sharing-is-caring thing I tried to claim. Gotta give proper credit to stealing Springer’s unicorn, the real-world Darcyville star herself, my own baby-mama drama—don’t hate ’cause I’m famous, pretty much, from my best-luck-night dream come true. Could be you. Wish, but can’t cross royalty—well, Chrissy Royal, I think, from my rare memory. I swear, drug abuse does sometimes leave remembered moments from your altered experiences. Just because I don’t have that whole “perfect” memory—not like my top-of-the-line memory in those paid courtroom encounters I may have been financially persuaded into. Just trying to help keep the Celtic past icon, “The Truth” Paul Pierce’s king of the whole F-the-undercover BS he protests. Got my backing—way backing, but backing it is, you know, “lean back, lean back” that Little Joe tried to take credit for. Especially the obviously ironic “little” bullshit he tried to push on us. I’m a faithful old-school fan of the “Adam” Fat Joe. Big fan of obvious acceptance that Black lives do matter. Hello, obviously the whole welfare thing wouldn’t have been achieved without the colored opinions, no matter the watercooler triple-K lessons—I believe greatly in misgreatness and mistreatment of the original slave prisoners’ names some may have unfairly earned. Original unvolunteered, they claim, but no one hears my complaints, do they? Learned young when my lawyer/idol taught me: White men can jump—well, usually it’s a bridge getting jumped from. Equal rights are only fair, you know, like my “tights right” movement I’m trying to claim, like Alaskan year rights to legally get free land ownership—even though some may look down on Iceland ownership. The legal thing’s rumored to actually be actual knowledge-is-power truth in some places, other times not so much—ask the wannabe Websters and that damn Siri, Google, Apple agent. Bad apple, believe me.

Hello, ever heard of the O.G. Apple Dumplin’ Gang? Hello, portrayal perfection—you can’t learn it. Natural gifts are in the jeans, and not those damn Lee jeans neither. Everyone knows Wrangler jean-etics can’t be copied, even from those talented street mimes I hear of. Talk about handling a situation, even if the fair-trade rules may have been crossed—prove it, ’cause proof is legally the only way I could be persuaded to protect and serve. Just because my whole citizens-arrest record might have been purchased at an auction—money talks, being broke thought for me comfortable because of the odd from so many chemically induced injury-prone incidents in my past. Some people can’t be challenged when the evidence clearly shows that even being the #1 all-time best at being loser king—can’t beat actual greatness when it’s clear, like in this instance. Believe me, whole wishful thinking like LeBron’s whole “greatest ever” argument can’t honestly even be attempted. Closest ever to the actual clear close to Jordan-anity is sad to honestly say Kobe fn Laker Bryant was unquestionably the closest to the throne, pre-baseball experiment—great anyway, but if it’s my team under the stress of final chance at sealing the proof of mind-reading on another level. Talk about an easy read, especially wishes genetically uncopyable, even those clone-rumored lab experiments—you know, like your experiments in black labs and the whole peanut-butter infatuation. Holy, talk about a waste of food. Hello, ever heard of hot dogs? Well, pretty sure those aren’t the Angeles stories I’ve heard. And angel dust—come on, expression “fallen angel” ring a bell? Well, even though boxing matches or Salvation Army volunteering might naturally come to mind first, ever hear the term “saved by the bell”? Hello, ZacksLifeMatters! #1 fitting-in thing actually for once can’t be honestly looked upon as showstoppers from great casted and acted television royalty. I mean, just because the whole Saved by the Bell weekend my good friend and me rode out—who can play a better Mr. Belding character? Even though arguably the classic portrayal of The Breakfast Club or Ferris Bueller maybe, but Twisted Sister video portrayal of principal throne-chasing is an honestly pretty good comparison of the uneducated movie critics’ Garden of Eden, maybe? Even though clearly unbiased opinions of the Adam ‘n’ Steve thing gets looked down on more and more.

You want to talk about freaks of nature? Yao Ming ring a bell? Tell me the tallest-ever sport winner at tallest-ever basketball player cannot, without some lab help of some sort, be clearly from China. Don’t even seem an idiot would honestly straight-faced argue that unchemically an Asian Chinaman could unseat the U.S. of fn A as best baller ever? Even though one American’s easily defended record of best ever, at a before-the-best, the Man in Black clearly is best golfer ever in a white-dominated world of sports legends—like the unchallenged best-ever partner at tennis pairs ever, clearly where the Sister Act from the white-walled before the Team Williams attack on before-them uneducated opinions. Like best-ever rapper ever, lyrically speaking, clearly is and still king—white, and from Detroit. What, the white limited editions of the unparalleled early on especially, but full dominance of a before unfairly black bit of unequal rights ever. Like they get watermelon and fried chicken? Who’s the unjust judge in this legal misjudgment? What, ’cause I’m white can’t be infatuated with not only a well-resumed past from the hater of anything that put him directly in the, and clearly on top of the best-rapper-ever tag? No? Not even close. Nas, 2Pac—good, well-educated arguments, but in all honesty, white chocolate melts in your mouth, not in your hand. But who in his position can clearly be compared to the way he made his way—the new 101 for ebonic history intros—and the way he showed that honestly talking about real talk, making fun of things that clearly, especially then, weren’t P.C.! But boy, did he show the world a rapping-for-dummies new-edition leader for a Pulitzer prize, ’cause he’d say what no one else would then, and be able to get away with taking the throne—and probably never be beat—like best entertainer ever, singing and dancing anyways, not side jobs he took trying to nourish unhealthy children at the famous Neverland Ranch. Come on, who but the master could easily come up with the term “Jesus juice” and straight-faced argue against early royalty, easily given the reins?

Now though, gotta honestly give him credit for ungreedily taking over the whole role-model term—self-coined for the best-parent-ever title he chose for the good of his daughter. Family first is an award honorably, in my opinion, gained and held by a white guy. But another white guy came along, and clearly, if only used inspired lyrics to build an unmatched—for him, probably unparalleled—true hit at white power in black culture by using Marshall’s gift of using honesty to point out un-P.C. names in the daily battle for celebrity stories that us unpopular people can try to live off. But good attempt anyway—shot at the title till the story switched hands to victim in throne-shots, clearly proved when the old “best” released his “proof” by accident on his own case of easy defense of the title. But credit has to be given for the shot taken by a good argument in his short but sweet shit at cheap advertisement of his case for best-ever argument—like clearly Ali was, and probably always will be unbeaten. But that’s what we thought about Mike Tyson. At the time, especially, nobody even seemed worthy at the argument, but the rapist karma caught him when he easily took up another good talent he had: comedic acting! To me anyway, he’s funny as hell. Just not quite as “iron” as previously named, rightly then, best ever. Never saw no one like him ever. But then a native Mainer, with self-promoting to me the more fascinating sport of MMA—more entertaining ’cause different styles can prevail, so more unpredictable—can easily bring in way more loot, which is honestly 9 outta 10 people’s honest answers to why are you giving the moniker “best,” and if you feel it’s earned or not.

Like, in my opinion, probably best-ever moniker of comedic acting in movies, and also combined with honestly putting his mistakes out there—like having to be E.R.’d ’cause of catching his hair mistakenly on fire while on a crack binge! No one was doing that, but that’s true greatness—smartly putting dumbass mistakes out there for the true comedy of it. But then two of the greatest duets ever together in movies: white and black, as well. Gene mfn Wilder, white, with black ‘n’ proud Richard mfn Pryor—emerged as the ruler for young comics, either stand-up or movie-acting dreams where dreamt deservedly so. The way he could convincingly pull me in expertly with true-life raw talent. His facial expressions, just like Jim Carrey till he tried going away from his specialty at laughter—comic acting is his forte. Once he tried serious roles, his—in my opinion—career took a dive. Mask, Pet Detective, even his skit from his launch as Fire Marshall Bob! IDC. Class of few with his believable portrayal of what he wants to show you. And the honesty was refreshing—especially ’cause BS sells. Think not only do enquiring minds wanna know! Then look how many careers got made through copying an easy guide to the high life!

Like one of the best actors ever, for easily playing any role he chose to be—which can never be denied, whether a fan or not. Certain actors, to me, are incapable of bad acting: Denzel, De Niro, and even, my opinion again, Pesci. Some guys just have it naturally, whichever talent they easily exude. Chris Farley, Steve Martin! To me, in convo for best ever at what he was good at. Believability is key for most in this convo—the way some of these were funnier ’cause with expressions or actions, made their role believable. That, to me, sets the greats apart: no effort. These guys needed no teaching, just had the specialty they have ingrained. Like the crazy talents of people like Chevy Chase, Bill Murray—guys like that. But like the rare cases of autistic guys who are unparalleled at whatever they’re exceptional at, like the autistic piano player easily in the Mozart, Beethoven, rightly so tags of best ever.

Good reading, though.

– Eric David Stevens
[my father Erik..]