The details of my life are quite inconsequential.
My father was a relentlessly self-improving boulangerie owner from Belgium with low-grade narcolepsy and a penchant for buggery. My mother was a fifteen year old French prostitute named Chloe with webbed feet. My father would womanize, he would drink, he would make outrageous claims, like he invented the question mark. Sometimes he would accuse chestnuts of being lazy. A sort of general malaise that only the genius possess and the insane lament.
My childhood was typical. Summers in Rangoon, luge lessons. In the spring we’d make meat helmets. If I was insolent, I was placed in a burlap bag and beaten with reeds. Pretty standard, really.
At the age of twelve I received my first scribe. At the age of fifteen, a Zoroastrian named Vilma ritually shaved my testicles. There is really nothing like a shorn scrotum. At the age of eighteen I went off to evil medical school. From there…
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You should organize a march on AIG. I think people are ready to explode and would come out in mass. Look at the comments on the front page of the NY Times today under the AIG article. A shut AIG down march is needed. It is amazing that the people have been sheep to date and no one is willing to march for anything except St. Patrick’s Day. I think the people are ready though. All they need is a leader to organize it. Who will that be? Time is of the essence. The people must speak with the souls of their shoes. The digitization of communication is killing us because everyone one is inside emailing and IMing each other, instead of going outside and marching.
Makes sense but I am not nearly French enough. I can’t stand any parades or marches; they strike me as vaguely fascist and entirely annoying.
You must be the offspring of an evil genius taunter! Thank’s for the laugh!
Hey! I stumbled upon one of you diaries on Kos and found it really insightful… Great blog and taste in movies! Clerks and Princess Bride are also on my personal rec list (of course, I’m female so admitting to PB isn’t the same act of bravery….) You have inspired me to finally break down and netflix some of the others. I’ll be sure to stop back to help get better understanding of the behind the scene nuances of this economic mess and and get your take on current events in general.