{"id":1135,"date":"2010-10-06T18:07:08","date_gmt":"2010-10-06T22:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/?p=1135"},"modified":"2010-10-06T18:07:08","modified_gmt":"2010-10-06T22:07:08","slug":"i_want","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/2010\/10\/06\/i_want.html","title":{"rendered":"i want&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tin high school my friends and went to a diner, and dared each other to use the C word, the cunt word, whilst placing our order with the waiter. i think there was money on the line. $20. big coin. i won, too, though i was lame. i mumbled it. i was so lame that i returned the money, since the spirit of the bet was to boldly and roundly say that word, like a salute, to the waiter, preferably in a borg-like voice, deep and husky, a randy Darth Vader.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c what can i get you sir?\u201c<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI WANT CUNT.\u201c<\/p>\n<p>\u201ci don\u2018t think i have that i have tuna salad on&#8230;\u201c<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCUNT!\u201c<\/p>\n<p>\u201ci\u2018ll make some calls, sir.\u201c<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTHANK YOU FOR THE CUNT.\u201c<\/p>\n<p>yeahyeahyeah, it\u2018s a funny word to me, as foul as some Americans find it i think it is the most righteous comedic punchline for any circumstance. the brits, i am told, use that word as commonly as we Americans use \u201cjerk\u201c or \u201casshole\u201c, a behaviour i assume the Brits would blame on inbreeding. fucking cunts.<\/p>\n<p>hokay, enough racisistic and cuntonistic dabblings, but i found myself laughing long and righteous this afternoon at the idea of a deep-voiced drone marching around town announcing \u201cI WANT CUNT\u201c to everyone who might seem to be in a service-oriented capacity. cab driver: \u201cTAKE ME TO CUNT.\u201c grocery store clerk: \u201cWHAT AISLE HAS CUNT?\u201c bartender: \u201cI WANT CUNT.\u201c telemarketer: \u201cSELL ME CUNT.\u201c joe torre being asked if he would manage the new york mets next season: \u201cI WANT TO MANAGE CUNT.\u201c<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;..<\/p>\n<p>i feel sterile inside. this month of october, month of november thing, why does it have to happen at this time of year? like clockwork. i can\u2018t stay asleep. i was in bed late, 2am, but wide awake by 8:30. this is the seasonal adjustment. i wanted to wander today, and yesterday, but yesterday i had to sit and wait for FedEx to deliver the tremendous microwave convection extraveganza, and today i paid homage to the Tampa Bay Rays in their failed ALDS game #1 postseason adventure. so i had to stay in place, wandering new softwares and protocols. i have been a flickr paying customer for years but never really used it. today i adventured in to linking my sorabji.com pictures with flickr. i found a plugin\/module that failed at first, and after much failure i found a line of code that made the thing work. one line of code, something to do with a writable tmp directory, the solution lurking in a sourceforge comment board posting.<\/p>\n<p>i woke up thinking of Ozone Park. i hear of that part of Queens on the radio or in the Daily News but I have not been there, I don\u2018t think. The neighborhoods of New York seem like impenetrable fortresses to me, just like its people. I would like to go to Ozone Park because I like the name of the place but I have this sticky shit in my brain that stops me from going there, from going anywhere, stops me from stepping outside and presenting myself to the world on which i live.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>in high school my friends and went to a diner, and dared each other to use the C word, the cunt word, whilst placing our order with the waiter. i think there was money on the line. $20. big coin. i won, too, though i was lame. i mumbled it. i was so lame that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-text","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/saumAn-i_want","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1135\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}