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June 27, 2005
prog writ
I tried—almost unsuccessfully, and with much time usage—to explain to s. there on the hiply vintage couches before a baroque coffee table that i was working on a project for ME (not my company, not freelance—or “on my part time”, but just for me, not for money, just for me…foreign concept), and in the process and/or upon request for clarification (for once! break thru to U!) described the undertaking (I’m the undertaker, yes. No, The Undertaker, grrrr!) as a combo (value pak/meal) of programming and writing. Hmm. .…
Well, I’m on a roll now…
He asked me at the bar “Tell me about your culture.” ahhUh, what do you want to know? “What’s normal?” …Like what. “how you do things here in this country.” How long have you been here? “Six years.” You know as much as I can tell you. “Oah, okay.”
This morning he came into my room in his tight white underwear patted his chest (with an open hand, not a cupped fist Tarzan style as OUR [chest-beating] culture would have it) and asked me if he didn’t look good. His exercises were paying off, he informed.
Ahhh, it’s precious, really. Again, for all the bitching (and this is a first, really. When it does come up in conv. among friend, I just divert to “hard to really describe” imply sense of interesting tolerable (I’m noble) challenge and let it lie), I really do feel blessed and lucky to be able to experience first hand such a cliche. But it’s a cliche made cartoonish for exaggerating and simplifhying the cliched. It’s hot cliche on cliche action, with the unlikely underdog out clicheing the cliche. and that rules.
Posted by peligrito at June 27, 2005 1:02 AM
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