December 2009
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On a Wing and a Paw
So I’m flying Delta from MIA to JFK this morning. I snoozed with some sound isolation headphones and a little Ben Folds A Capella ‘shoop-ing’ and ‘dooom-ing’ me into peaceful rest. I awoke to a full bladder and cruised back to the aft lavatories, because the sign above me indicated they were vacant. When I pulled the door open, however, the little Hispanic woman undoing her black jeans indicated...
Overheard #3
It’s not the first jazz solo interrupted by Jewish phlegm.
Great Band Name: I Promise You Hot Magma
I promise you hot magma
from the center of the earth.
I promise you white lions
that sing when they give birth.
I promise you a town in CO
Named after a rock.
I promise you a wicked rash
From picking the wrong lock.
Heavy, heavy metal indeed.
Overheard #2
“She told me she wanted to snuggle.”
“Watch it, dude, that’s what they say right before they feed.”
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Art Basel Miami Beach... more like Art Basal
So during the monsoon of visual arts that is the annual Art Basel in Miami Beach, all sorts of worms slither out of the mud. For example, I was splitting a cab from the W hotel back to a friend’s house sometime after 1AM this past Friday. Traffic was moving like it had spent the day eating cheese and tempers were flaring, understandably. My cabbie, a thick, slow-talking Haitian woman, gave...
Miami Beach is Unreal
Overheard #1
“I knew she was the one for me when I saw the tube of Anusol.”
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