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2004-02-07 · 5:30 p.m.

Being half Jewish and half Black is sort of like being a Reese's Peanut Butter Cup: I'm two great tastes that go great together. That's why I'm creeped out by these new Reese's horrors, with ghostly pale white chocolate replacing the milky chocolate coating of their forebears. Perhaps even creepier are the inside-out Reese's with peanut butter ready to smear itself all over your unsuspecting fingers.

I have to design a library display about race mixing and biracial people for my Senior Project. But I don't really want to do that (obviously). I'd rather pretend I'm a senior citizen. I got a brochure in the mail from the Mansfield Senior Center about all the delightful antics you can sign up to be a part of when you're elderly, including Hawaiian Night (senior hula contests!) and special cruises (shuffleboard!) and walzting, yoga and basket-weaving classes (no comments necessary). I think I should go all Nikki S. Lee and start dressing, talking, and behaving like a funky granny or grandpa. I don't think I can wait until I'm 64 to start wearing pastel pant suits and fluffy flippers with giant glaucoma sunglasses and dancing the foxtrot.

I finished reading Atlas Shrugged a week ago (1,000+ pages of Moral Objectivity), which freed me up to start reading Of Human Bondage. Next is The Secret Agent or possibly a book about China during the Cultural Revolution. I love reading lists and when I was still on Atlas I used to go into the library every once in a while, just to take Of Human Bondage off the shelf and whisper to it, "Soon I will read you, Maughn. Soon." I'm sort of creepy that way.

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