Archive for June 2008
I Buy My Groceries At… ATTACK!!!
June 29, 2008, 1:14 am
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Mormons
June 27, 2008, 2:27 pmI saw them when I was coming up the platform. Even from the back, without seeing their dopey little nametags, I knew they weren’t English teachers. There’s just something in the manner. They were standing there talking to two Indian guys. Okay, I don’t know that they were Indian, maybe they were Pakistani, or some other type of south Asian. But, they were smiling, nodding, and talking with the chosen ones.
I came up and sat down. By some chance, one song ended on my walkman and there were three or so painful seconds of silence where I had to hear their conversation. At first, there was an awkward silence, and you could hear the wheels in their heads turning, what to say next, what to say next, what to say n- (more…)
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Get Down!
June 27, 2008, 3:58 amHere’s the album cover (been meaning to post this) by Cliff Mott, who did the cover for “Superstupid”…
Those cats look so much like us it’s scary. There are some little tracklets here at the band myspace page. Band pic…
Please note the He-Man backdrop. Yes, that is Skeletor. He will be our new band mascot. I’ll make sure of that.
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Old People Can Sometimes Be Wicked Treacherous Bitches
June 26, 2008, 1:28 pmTeaching E____ today and grandma came in. Mom and dad were both out of the house. I should explain a little, actually. Dad is, like me, of foreign extraction, a human being who comes from “the outside world.” Thus his customs and ways are different than everybody else’s. I come from Uhmerrruhkuh, but he comes from some land with a funny name. Anyhow, his daughter was born in that country, and since they moved here to continue their happy family life together, his wife and her mother have decided life would be better without him, chiefly because he fails to bring in piles of cash even though he works 12 hour days six days a week (he’s not of blonde, blue-eyed, tall, really-uhmrkin looking extraction, so he can’t get a high paying job as some joker that hangs out with kids and pretends to teach them English), so that the grandma of the family who I have never actually met has always been a shadowy and evil figure to me.
She comes in with a tray of corn chips and coffee (the usual fare at the O____ house). Smiling sweetly, (more…)
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The Baby’s Mine After All
June 25, 2008, 10:26 amWell, we went to the doc today and everything is a-ok with our little unborn precious one. She is weighing in at 3.2 kilograms, or grams, or something or other (like most of my countrymen I never quite mastered the simplest measurement system on earth), which means she is big for her age (-2 weeks). She is ready to come out at any time, and the doctor gave us this bit of startling news…
“She looks like she’s half-western, definitely.”
…the doctor said. This was a great comfort to me. If she were half-black, or half-something else, or fully Japanese, I’d have cause for worry. I couldn’t tell if it were a joke or not, but I just laughed anyway. I usually do that when I don’t understand fully what somebody said, or when everybody else starts laughing (more…)
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