Monday, August 11, 2003
C-BEST is Yet To Come
On the way home from a celebratory luncheon on Saturday we saw many things about which one of us or the other said, “you don’t see that every day.” Not ordinary stuff like the dragon parade or the Feng Shui Supply Center or the Hempatorium - these have taken on the status of “ordinary weirdness.” Rather, what we saw came under the heading of “extraordinary weirdness.” By way of example:
* Mr. Westernware: he was different from the boots on up - snakeskin boots with really pointy toes and lots of ornamental silver. The pants were black leather; the shirt was azure blue rayon and the hat was a big ol’ stetson. The guy looked to me to be japanese, maybe in his early 60’s. Someone was asking to have her picture taken with him. He was totally psyched.
* The big poster ad for a new Chinese movie version of The Wizard of Oz. I don’t know what the Cowardly Foo-dog was wearing dangling around his neck but I don’t trust it. Sort of a cross between a fire plug and a prosthetic virile member. If it’s a fashion statement, the statement is “I have a fake doggy nose and a child-friendly dildo around my neck. Deal with it.”
* The ads for the tasty bubble tea drinks with no words except for the brightly colored english-language tag line reading “Let Me Crazy.” No, that’s all it said.
The very clever among you noticed and questioned the seventh word of this post. You are wondering, “what’s he got to be so damned happy about?” Well, Kel had just taken a big standardized test for a teaching credential, called the C-BEST test. (That might be redundant, as “SAT test” would be, but I’m not going to look up the whole acronym. Consider it your Chucklehut homework.) We had lunch to celebrate - her idea. I wanted to grill some sea bass, go to a theater and watch Sea Biscuit, go to a dermatologist to have a sebaceous cyst removed, visit a nudie bar so we could see breast, make wagers with snow planks so I could win some ski bets, and then hang out with a few old videos of the Avengers because Steed’s best. But we had lunch instead, and it was fine too. Thanks for asking.
