Thursday, July 15, 2004

Random Musings

Whenever I find myself confronted by one of those very enthusiastic “Jews for Jesus,” I casually tell ‘em I’m a “Muslim for Buddha” and they begin looking for a new dupe.

There’s a homeless man that I sometimes see near Grand Central Station. He looks so much like Jerzy Kosinski that I’ve begun to believe that he is.

To me, getting a wedding invitation in the mail is a lot like getting a bill… even worse. Con Edison doesn’t expect me to buy a new suit and dance for two hours on a stomach full of shitty food before I pay my electric bill.

Speaking of weddings, one of my foremost accomplishments in life so far is that I have several good friends who trust and love me, yet none of them have ever asked me to be in their wedding party. That’s a pretty neat balancing act, if I say so myself. 

Kurt Vonnegut has come up with as exemplary a rationalization as I’ve ever heard for being a writer in the Age of TV: “Many people desperately need to receive this message: ‘I feel and think as much as you do, care about many things you care about, although most people don’t care about them. You are not alone.’”

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