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Thursday, April 22, 2004
I have no foundation on which to build a tower of complaint today, because it's just fucking beautiful out there, but god knows I can try. I went outside for lunch to get some sun on my shoulders before I start rocking the mad farmer tan, and was disgusted to see that I was not allowed to sprawl on Bryant Park's grass because "the sod is establishing its root system"! Fuck you, sod! If they'd stop tearing up the lawn every time a bunch of anorectic paranarcissists feel like risking their feeble anklebones on the fucking catwalk, maybe your roots would be a little hardier. I am yelling at sod now.
But New Yorkers are too polite and law-abiding by half, and nobody saw fit to step over the shin-high rope onto the ridiculously luscious and inviting lawn. Giuliani trained us all to be quivering drool-puddles in the face of the slightest authority: A FUCKING SIGN. There may have been jackbooted enforcers hiding in the shrubbery or in the decommissioned public restrooms, but if they're not arresting the Underpants Cowboy (who I refuse to refer to as the "naked" cowboy because: duh) or The Guy With A Fucking HAWK, why bother the grass-layers-on? So everybody just crowds the perimeter of the lawn like idiots. I swear I could have thrown a hundred-dollar bill into the middle of the lawn and people would just have eyed it hungrily and then shrugged, hoping for a fortuitous gust. THIS CITY HAS BEEN INFANTILIZED. Okay okay okay, I don't really think that selfish scofflawdom is good, especially because the respecting the sod sign thing is a face-slapping refutation of the Tragedy of the Commons, right? Or a classic example of the Prisoner's Dilemma-type problem where every individual sacrifices a little for the future good of everyone? And it's working? HOLY FUCK. Is this what life is like in small, rich suburbs with achingly attentive PTAs and highway-adoptions and Neighborhood Watches? DO I GAG OR REJOICE? Well, here's something worth rejoicing, anyway: I saw workmen installing the early-stage viscera of a future Jamba Juice on 42nd street. In case you don't know, JJ is a juice chain that I've only seen in Los Angeles, and of which I have rose-colored vacation memories. My first trip to LA was probably my best vacation ever (despite what I may have told subsequent or previous hosts) and the memories fill my sensorium thusly: taste: Jamba Juice; sound: Rufus Wainwright's first album and Neutral Milk Hotel's second; sight: palm trees, highway, SuperMario64; smell: Venice's relatively smogless seabreeze; touch: abundant and wonderful naked flesh. Woo! That was a nice vacation! Everything until my May vacation is a sham. I cannot concentrate on anything. I let my six-month warning glide by, and I am suffering for it. You will suffer by extension. If they finish building the Jamba Juice before I fly to California, I will seriously cry. 0 comments |
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