This is what "Red Bull," the taurine energy drink,
looks like in its native environment. Before it
was re-packaged for Yankee yuppie overachievers,
it was a Thai patent medicine.

I guess it should go without saying that I drank this.
Then, at about 1 AM, I was still staring, rigid
and grainy-eyed, at Bollywood satellite videos.
A rare Warren Ellis moment from "Beyond the Beyond"
there.