Tuesday, March 07, 2006
in lieu of photos, The Phantom Strikes Again
I wanted to say a little something about Z’s party but I’m having a touch of trouble loading a photo and I don’t want to do a halfassed job of it so I’m going to leave it at this:
A whole leftover pizza
Leftover birthday cake
and we only opened one bottle of wine, and didn’t even finish that one. Of course, it’s a three-liter bottle of that nice Bregonzo Amarone… and there’s another whole double-magnum we didn’t even open. The mandoo and kimbop were delicious; the LOrsons brought Azermendi baked goods, and a very pleasant time was had by all.
I’ll show some photos later on. You’ll love them. I swear.
But that’s hardly enough to constitute a post, so here’s a little dialogue I hear in my head several times a day:
* I can’t believe you just said that.
* I didn’t say it. You just imagined it.
* No I didn’t. I heard you say it quite clearly.
* But did you really? Can you truly believe it?
* Yes I can.
* You just said you couldn’t.
* That was just a figure of speech.
* Which is itself a figure of speech.
* Well, yes.
* But they don’t really exist. “Figures of speech,” I mean.
* What’s your point?
* What you say doesn’t really exist.
* That’s not entirely true.
* But you just said so yourself.
* Only about that phrase.
* Regardless, it’s proof that what is said might not reflect an actual underlying reality.
* That’s a truism. No one disputes that.
* So if you heard something, maybe it wasn’t there.
* I see where you’re going with this.
* So maybe what you thought you heard never really happened.
* I see. One question: are we having this conversation?
* Well, yes.
* Why? How did it start?
* Just a figment of your imagination.
* I’d agree, except we started off talking about something else.
* Oh yes, of course.
* And then I called you for talking nonsense.
* But did I really?
* If you didn’t, we never had this whole conversation at all.
* Works for me.
I’ll be back shortly with some birthday cheer. See ya later.
