Saturday, September 21, 2002

i think its very cool

i think its very cool and honorable that my dad got included in this cool book of photos and essays.  he’s such a little kid in a sage’s suit a lot of the time, which isn’t to say he’s universally endearing, in fact he can be a bit of a noodge, but i love him and im certainly too proud of him to say anything about his entry in the book, positive or negative.  he speaks for himself, and eloquently.  but that won’t stop me from noting that there’s another guy in the book who just rubs me the wrong way.  there are always a few who are irritating or you just wouldn’t want to meet’em or have anything to do with them, they just have that kind of face… but then there’s this one guy, he took my breath away, i took one look at his rosy face and vacuous smile (both of which traits i share with him) and i just wanted to smash his face in.  just wanted to crush his jaw with my fist.  see his face crumple around my knuckles.  drive his teeth into his uvula.  i didn’t understand where this antipathy came from till kel pointed out that he had one perfectly straight wrinkle that went all across the whole breadth of his forehead.  ‘its where they reattach his scalp,’ she informed me.  ‘he’s a robot.  a rabbi-obot.  or robot-abbi.  your choice.’ if you ask me, they’re both bad choices.  thats why i want so badly to smash him.  but other than him its a cool book.