Archives for January 2007
“Michael”
The filling was okay, but the bread is a drag.
Read this entry >>Feathers
Scene: the Bedford L platform, where Pistol is waiting for the train, wearing her fucking adorable fur hat that snaps at the chin, and listening to one of the more bizarre Shangri-Las songs on her zPod. (Pistol has been kind of obsessed with the Shangri-Las since Saturday, when the always-welcome “Give Him a Great […]
Read this entry >>Grass, greener
I’ve been off take-out for a day and a half. OK: that’s already a lie, because yesterday after [redacted] and before the Y, I was starving so I bought an unturkey sandwich at the deli. I wanted a meatloaf sandwich, but they didn’t have it. What kind of deli doesn’t have a meatloaf sandwich?
After running […]
And then, a miracle
The other day at work, one of my charges, a three-year-old with an intelligent little weasel face, gazed up at me and said, dreamily, “Ms. Whip, where did you come from?”
And I was like, “God sent me so that you might have eternal life.”
J/k. Honestly, I wasn’t exactly sure how to answer her. […]
Read this entry >>That’s All Right, I’ll Watch it Anyway
Speaking of that night at Youpers, remember how suddenly Elvis was before us, his usual Heartthrob McVainerson pompadour obscured by that lame hat, and we started running circles around him, verbally I mean, barking out the chorus of that Feelies song, demanding he guess guess GUESS which song it was? He couldn’t guess. Dude’s brain […]
Read this entry >>Whiphook: unlike most
Today at acupuncture, Dr. Ken saw my knife tattoo. “Is it real?”
“Yeah.”
“You have a knife on your neck?”
I said, “You don’t like it?”
“Do you?”
“Yes.”
He stuck a needle in my arm. “Most people have flower.”
Most people have flower. This isn’t the only awesome broken English=funny thing Dr. Ken has said. In my first session two […]
Mr. Before You Know It
Remember when we were at Coco and played “Before You Know It”? I thought about that last night while I watched a rerun of Scrubs. Scrubs is a TV show that takes place in a hospital. It’s way better than, say, 7th Heaven (I’ve never watched an entire episode thereof, but meet it from time […]
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