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Wednesday, July 09, 2003
You can't invite bad luck by talking about your good luck, so don't tell me to knock on wood. In spite of your feel-good superstitions, my flaily impersonations of retards, while tasteless, will not cause my children to "come out retarded." Misfortune is not like Beetlejuice or the Candyman -- though they are particularly charming embodiments of the concept -- and can't be summoned like a golden retriever on the porch.
So listen: I have never been mugged. I've never been punched. I have never been sexually assaulted. I have never been in a car accident. I have never been arrested. Dude: I've never even been stung by a bee. Those of you cringing in anticipation of the immediate correction of these oversights of fate can untense your stupid trapezii. I'm still here, unmugged, unstung, unraped. I've had close calls: that spinout on snowed-over Route 80; that drunken party fucktard who was staring at my mouth like it was a fisty bull's-eye; the time I was almost hit by a train. Ooh! Once I was sitting in my laundromat, waiting for my wash to finish, and I was reading the last ten pages of a Joseph Heller's Something Happened (which is key because for almost 600 pages nothing happens at all and then, at the very end, something does, and it is very very very bad), and I was so totally engrossed that it wasn't 'til I finished that I noticed the cashier at the back sort of quivering and crying. The place had just been robbed at gunpoint, with such quiet efficiency that the robber had rustled past me, gun in hand, like a dryer sheet in the wind. Hooray for literature! I've always said New York is really safe, sometimes by comparing it to criminal hellholes like San Francisco or D.C., but usually just on the strength of my personal experience. Well, that's stupid; anecdotal evidence is no basis for, well, anything. So I admit, now, that as a six-foot-one male with long supple arms and a frighteningly huge jaw, I have less to fear than ittle bittle puny girly you. I am free to live my life without fear, until the day I'm forced by circumstance to perceive the dangers that grandparents have always seen in hitchhikers, alleys, and bodies of water. Until then, however, I will continue to stride carelessly through throngs of Hell's Angels on my way to the roof to practice my fencing moves in a thunderstorm. 0 comments |
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