Tuesday, November 06, 2007

TV

Here you will find The Apartment episode 4.5. It's probably my favorite installment so far.

Yesterday I tried on more than one occasion to post some pictures of an Indian child with several extra limbs, along with a picture of Vishnu. I decided that it wasn't meant to be, but using words from previous sentence anyone age 5 and up should be able to find plenty on the subject via the search engine of their choice.

Just witnessed a Jewish mother offer a treat to her toddler by asking "Do you want a kosher cookie?" Either that child is being allowed to grow up with a choice of what they choose to believe, or I walked away and didn't hear the end of the question which was also delivered in standard baby talk accent "Or do you want to burn in Jewish HELL?"

Witnessed what could have been a pretty serious incident a couple days ago. I've talked on here before about a neighborhood in Brooklyn called Williamsburg. As a quick refresher, and speaking generally as always, Billyburg is a hipster mecca, where folks who got beat up in high school, or those who in a quest to not be a part of anything flock in hopes they'll be accepted as part of something. Think denim infused with elastic, and the rehashing of styles best left dead unless you promise to keep that tongue jammed into the cheek the entire time you're in front of anyone including your closest "friend". These folks don't really bother me for the most part save for when I see dudes wearing KEDS. KEDS are for fucking junior high aged girls, it's just a fact, and it hasn't even been a fact since 1992. Ok. Getting back to the near incident. I'm waiting on a train at Bedford Ave. epicenter of all things thought to be cool. I spot a guy wearing the same frames Anthony Edwards wore in "Revenge of the Nerds". I then make a slight turn and see another guy in eerily similar frames. So we have two guys within steps of each other wearing those box metal eyeglass frames from the 80's, neither of them means it, it's all for the sake of irony, what's gonna happen?!?!? If you guessed nothing, you'd be correct. Not so much as a stink eye was shared. Just a couple of fun loving emasculated chaps waiting on the train. Perhaps their minds were elsewhere, like say the last Terrence Malick film, or each feeling like there was no reason to posture since they both knew they had been listening to Can long before the other had ever heard of that band.