12.14.2004
this is a post-thanksgiving post; so this is a tad late, but, considering the fact that i have a mere 2 weeks to relocate from queens to miami and start a shiny new job, writing this at all is amazingly irresponsible.
but when you come across such a glorious new source of personal reflection and quasi-national genuflection as the statue at the Charlotte Airport [see below], you have no choice but to share it with the two people who regularly read your blog.
here's the statue, which may or may not be entitled "Lady Liberty Getting Cannonball Shot Into Her Freedom-Loving Rummy-Tum-Tum ":
while it may seem odd that such a morally-bereft statue would be constructed anywhere outside of The Red Chinese Museum of Ill-Advised Propaganda Stunts, i direct your attention just a few short miles to the east (or whatever direction, i'm just going with east) to one of the city's local malls. [incidentally, this mall had Belk's as one of its flagship stores; however, in no way do i want to impute Belk's, as it will forever be linked to my imaginary detective, John Belk, who would almost certainly hunt down the designer of the above statue, link him to an underground drug ring, have a car chase gun battle in which his partner would be mortally wounded, and eventually put the perp in the slammer, this time for good.]
so, inside this mall, amidst the required-in-all-malls-by-law merchants (3 competing pretzel merchants, a husky women's clothier, a foot action, and an as-seen-on-TV shop) i stumbled upon a t-shirt stand selling clothing for the discriminating consumer. please note that i use the word discriminating in the "let's lynch all non-white people" sense of the word.
that fine print underneath the confederate flag reads "still standing." i'd like to think that the manufacturers of this garment also sell shirts celebrating custer's glorious victory over the injuns at little bighorn and commemorative amelia erhardt "mission accomplished!" pilot scarves, but probably not.
i'm too tired to get into how embarrassing these shirts are. it's exhausting. just remember that we live in a country of mostly red states. so much so, in fact, that hillbilly xenophobes have been spoon-fed such a diet of entitlement by our current administration that rewriting history is now being hawked for $9.99 a pop in the middle of shopping malls. and that, my friends, is some scary damned stuff.
but not as scary as crispin glover.
the man's a menace.
nathan filibustered at 3:31:00 PM
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this is a post-thanksgiving post; so this is a tad late, but, considering the fact that i have a mere 2 weeks to relocate from queens to miami and start a shiny new job, writing this at all is amazingly irresponsible.
but when you come across such a glorious new source of personal reflection and quasi-national genuflection as the statue at the Charlotte Airport [see below], you have no choice but to share it with the two people who regularly read your blog.
here's the statue, which may or may not be entitled "Lady Liberty Getting Cannonball Shot Into Her Freedom-Loving Rummy-Tum-Tum ":
while it may seem odd that such a morally-bereft statue would be constructed anywhere outside of The Red Chinese Museum of Ill-Advised Propaganda Stunts, i direct your attention just a few short miles to the east (or whatever direction, i'm just going with east) to one of the city's local malls. [incidentally, this mall had Belk's as one of its flagship stores; however, in no way do i want to impute Belk's, as it will forever be linked to my imaginary detective, John Belk, who would almost certainly hunt down the designer of the above statue, link him to an underground drug ring, have a car chase gun battle in which his partner would be mortally wounded, and eventually put the perp in the slammer, this time for good.]
so, inside this mall, amidst the required-in-all-malls-by-law merchants (3 competing pretzel merchants, a husky women's clothier, a foot action, and an as-seen-on-TV shop) i stumbled upon a t-shirt stand selling clothing for the discriminating consumer. please note that i use the word discriminating in the "let's lynch all non-white people" sense of the word.
that fine print underneath the confederate flag reads "still standing." i'd like to think that the manufacturers of this garment also sell shirts celebrating custer's glorious victory over the injuns at little bighorn and commemorative amelia erhardt "mission accomplished!" pilot scarves, but probably not.
i'm too tired to get into how embarrassing these shirts are. it's exhausting. just remember that we live in a country of mostly red states. so much so, in fact, that hillbilly xenophobes have been spoon-fed such a diet of entitlement by our current administration that rewriting history is now being hawked for $9.99 a pop in the middle of shopping malls. and that, my friends, is some scary damned stuff.
but not as scary as crispin glover.
the man's a menace.
nathan filibustered at 3:31:00 PM
at the podium.
name: ..nathan..
shoes: thin, uncomfortable
sleeping in: queens (the city, not Latifah)
mirror: :rorrim
throws: righty
current crush: young britt eckland
lunch: i'm into brunch now
cohorts.
=audio science=
=LL Robot=
=Hasser Vision=
=Seanbaby=
archives.
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talk to me Goose.