I'm stuck here in good old Rochester with one Meri Doubleday. I come visit her and she still has work to do. No time for good old me. The boyfriend. The one who paid 100 dollars round trip for Amtrak tickets just to visit her - the girl I equate to Halle Berry looks-wise and she responds "Who is that?" Yes. Woe is me. Now we're sitting here in a boring rip-off Starbucks while she sips some pink smoothie and alternates between keyboard strokes and T9ing it on her 1980s cell phone. "I only need to study for an hour," says she, and I wonder, does that mean we sit here for an hour and then go, or do I stop and restart the hypothetical stopwatch when she's actually focusing on typing her assignment? But I love her. And as she sits across from me, our computers back-to-back, forming an upside down T shape, she reaches for her cell phone again. I just read a few sentences from this paragraph to her and she laughs at me. Gets back to work. She is now motivated. My plan is working. She looks at the textbook. Looks back at the computer. Mumbles something about me being a jerk. Smiles. Leans in closer to the computer. "Oh my God. You have to delete that." Little does she know, that unlike her cellphone, we are in the 21st century and when I delete something I can type it right back! Aha! Take that, woman! I win! *Edit* She just sent Daria Burachek a wall post on Facebook! I caught her red-handed!
I hope you all enjoyed that little bored moment of mine. I'm sure Meri did. Anyway, time for some actual stories about my life these past 24 hours. When Meri was in class today I began reading Jim Breuer's autobiography. For those of you who don't know, he is a stand-up comedian famous for his work on SNL playing a goat-boy, his role as a stoner in Half-Baked, and (obviously) his stand-up acts. The introduction itself was a very interesting read. He explains a very weird, interesting and touching story about writing the book while on a plane to Vegas and the ensuing circumstances that involved it getting stolen from the hotel by a maid and him getting it back. I won't give much away, but it's a must read (the introduction, that is.... in the process of reading the rest of the book now). There's a great quote that stuck out to me that a security guard at a stand-up event told Jim when his wife complained about his use of the F bomb three times throughout his act. The guard said: "I can see through the cursing and still totally get Jim's message. You know, Jesus hung out with all kinds of people and never sat in judgment of them. It's good to keep an open mind. A message can be delivered in any medium. We can't ignore it just because we don't like how it arrives." I don't know, that just stuck with me... very well said and I can really relate to this (see my controversial blog post entitled Dear Old Lady)...
So I think I'm really going to enjoy this read. He's a great guy, pretty smart and really funny. Great combination. I'll keep you people posted on the book as I read it. Meanwhile, enjoy Jim's most famous and arguably funniest stand-up.
I would like to make a clarification about Christ "hanging out" with all kinds of people. If you read the bible you will see that Christ does past judgment on people, because He is Judge of Judges. He called everybody a sinner. He wasn't just around people, or they around Him, to chat about the last trends in carpentry. He absolved people of their sins, not justifying them. How many times did He say: "your sins are forgiven, and sin no more"? He called one lady a dog to her face, not to be confused with ugly, but not worthy to be in the company of people. I don't think he had an open mind with St. Mary Magdelene, "hey you know, if you want to keep being a whore, i understand, but when you have time and money, you can stop, no big deal". Its good to keep any open mind about people but you can't misquote the Bible to justify swearing. Keep blogging though Petya, its an interesting read.
ReplyDeleteLove the video, really funny!!
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