28 April, 2011
09 April, 2011
falling, in a different language
Yesterday, one of my coworkers asked me: "Hey, have you ever heard someone fall off a roof in Spanish?"
At first, yo no comprendo. But then I was intrigued. "Um... no? I can't say that I've ever heard that happen before."
Apparently, my coworker used to be employed by the gas company. He'd been working on a house where a Hispanic utility employee was also working (doing something on the roof, I'm not sure what).
From inside the house, my coworker heard some thumping from the roof, as if someone had stumbled. Then he heard some skittering, as if the aforementioned person was trying to regain their footing.
He ran outside, but was too late. Just as he dashed out the front door, the utility worker slid over the gutter with a long "Aiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii!!!!" of terror.
The worker twisted mid-air, and somehow softened his landing (this hadn't been his first time falling off a roof in Spanish). He immediately sprang back to his feet, completely and miraculously unhurt, and climbed right back up onto the roof to finish whatever he was doing.
How does falling off the roof in English sound? "Ohhhhhh fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu-------" is probably a good guess. Somehow it's just not as interesting, is it?
At first, yo no comprendo. But then I was intrigued. "Um... no? I can't say that I've ever heard that happen before."
Apparently, my coworker used to be employed by the gas company. He'd been working on a house where a Hispanic utility employee was also working (doing something on the roof, I'm not sure what).
From inside the house, my coworker heard some thumping from the roof, as if someone had stumbled. Then he heard some skittering, as if the aforementioned person was trying to regain their footing.
He ran outside, but was too late. Just as he dashed out the front door, the utility worker slid over the gutter with a long "Aiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii!!!!" of terror.
The worker twisted mid-air, and somehow softened his landing (this hadn't been his first time falling off a roof in Spanish). He immediately sprang back to his feet, completely and miraculously unhurt, and climbed right back up onto the roof to finish whatever he was doing.
How does falling off the roof in English sound? "Ohhhhhh fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu-------" is probably a good guess. Somehow it's just not as interesting, is it?
08 April, 2011
"But how can one avoid telling a story ex post facto? Can nothing ever be described as it really was, reconstituted in its anonymous actuality? Will no one ever be able to reproduce the incoherence of the living moment at its moment of birth? Born as we are out of chaos, why can we never establish contact with it? No sooner do we look at it than order, pattern, shape is born under our eyes. Never mind. Let it pass."-Witold Gombrowicz
05 April, 2011
and the live venue slowly goes the way of the dodo...
I wish I could explore some of these old buildings; stand on the collapsing stages and listen for echoes and ghosts of shows gone by.
04 April, 2011
why the hell is this girl the newest internet sensation????
Apparently sitting in the front seat or the back seat is the hardest decision Rebecca Black has ever had to make. I really hope she makes the right choice, since we older folks know the only thing that happens in the back seat is pregnancy.
I'm going to write a song and find some moderately good-looking preteen to perform it while wearing too much make-up... it will be a gold mine!
Seriously though... how the hell is this song so popular? I have never heard lyrics so asinine in my entire life.
I'm going to write a song and find some moderately good-looking preteen to perform it while wearing too much make-up... it will be a gold mine!
Seriously though... how the hell is this song so popular? I have never heard lyrics so asinine in my entire life.
African earthquakes
My fiance worked in Haiti immediately after the earthquake last year, and experienced more than a few aftershocks while he was there. He spent the first couple months sleeping in a tent, since it wasn't safe to sleep indoors.
In fact, the first night that he slept indoors since coming to Haiti, an aftershock shook him out of a deep slumber (and out of his bed). It was dark, he was disoriented, and everything around him was rocking. The best thing to do in an earthquake is evacuate the building immediately, so it doesn't collapse around you - but he couldn't find the door in the dark. Needless to say, the experience left him quite upset.
Now he's working in Burundi, a small African country south of Rwanda and west of Tanzania. Yesterday, a 4.8 earthquake shook the building he was sleeping in, and his instincts took over the moment he woke up and realized what was happening. He leapt from his bed and dashed out of the house to safety.
Totally naked.
In the morning, his buddies didn't believe there had been an earthquake - he actually had to show them the U.S. Geological Survey website to prove it. They'd all slept soundly through the whole thing.
It was probably for the best; at least they were spared the sight of my naked fiance running amok in the yard.
In fact, the first night that he slept indoors since coming to Haiti, an aftershock shook him out of a deep slumber (and out of his bed). It was dark, he was disoriented, and everything around him was rocking. The best thing to do in an earthquake is evacuate the building immediately, so it doesn't collapse around you - but he couldn't find the door in the dark. Needless to say, the experience left him quite upset.
Now he's working in Burundi, a small African country south of Rwanda and west of Tanzania. Yesterday, a 4.8 earthquake shook the building he was sleeping in, and his instincts took over the moment he woke up and realized what was happening. He leapt from his bed and dashed out of the house to safety.
Totally naked.
In the morning, his buddies didn't believe there had been an earthquake - he actually had to show them the U.S. Geological Survey website to prove it. They'd all slept soundly through the whole thing.
It was probably for the best; at least they were spared the sight of my naked fiance running amok in the yard.
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