How It All Goes Down
- Hopped up on pain pills to ease his aching groin, Dominick listens to the messages on his answering machine (the 90s version of voicemail). They include:
- a man named Henry Rood is wondering when Dominick is going to finish painting his house;
- Connie Chung;
- a man from another newspaper wanting to interview Thomas;
- someone wanting to be Thomas's agent;
- Ray;
- someone calling for Joy, Dominick's girlfriend (who is like, twenty years younger than he is), saying her new dress is in.
- Dominick whips up a delicious gourmet dinner of hot dogs and clam chowder, and while he eats that concoction, he dumps Joy's life story on us. We'll spare you the gory details here (details including her eating her uncle's dead skin, for fun) and put them on her page in the "Characters" section.
- After that trip down memory lane, he listens to the rest of the messages. Henry Rood's called again, and there's also a message from a social worker who says that Thomas is doing okay.
- Dominick passes out in a painkiller-induced haze.