\t\t\t\tnothing to do with squirrly, except that i just heard someone use that
\nword. it’s a word i associate with turds, and sarah jessica parker.
\nsquirrly turds. girly, squirrly.<\/p>\n
i went to the park today to write, to deal with a story i’ve had in mind
\nfor a while, and which i started a few weeks ago. it’s not going to be too
\nlong, the story, but it might have some zip to it. it includes Keri,
\nwhich I didn’t anticipate, but it’s all good. i hope the story sounds
\ngood, because it’s a radio type of thing, not a printed matter.<\/p>\n
i was not at the park too long. it felt nice out there, though, the
\nautumnal breezes and the overgrown grasses swaying like a choir of
\nJohn Cage-ian silence that can not contain itself and must make sound.<\/p>\n
i was at the wedding of two friends on saturday. i triumphed with my tie.
\nabout a month ago i asked the groom-to-be “is this gonna be a formal
\nwedding?” to which he responded “just so you don’t wear one of your Snoopy
\nt-shirts you’ll be fine.” (i wear a lot of Charlie Brown and
\nPeanuts-themed t-shirts).<\/p>\n
so i special ordered a Charlie Brown tie, a fine silk creation, which
\nturned out to be an excellent conversation piece as the night spent mostly
\namong strangers evolved. i was about 98% certain that the groom would
\nremember our conversation, and see that the tie was my answer to his
\ninstruction not to wear a Snoopy t-shirt. but that lingering 2%
\nuncertainty hovered until he saw me, saw the tie, and immediately smiled.
\nit was nice.<\/p>\n
i feel like a clown wearing a tie, or even a jacket. walking over to the
\nwedding i hoped against all hope that no one I knew would see me. i used
\nto wear ties and jackets all the time but nowadays it’s more like i’m
\ngetting naked than getting clothed. the sense of conspicuity was
\ninsufferable, but i took some comfort in knowing that a man walking down
\nthe street in a suit and tie is not cause for alarm, or even a second
\nlook. heck, i even saw other men on the street, wearing suits and ties! i
\nfit right in…<\/p>\n
and i once again experienced that passing sense of narcolepsy that always
\noccurs when i tighten a tie around my neck. i wouldn’t go so far as to
\ncompare it to a noose, but when i put this tie on on Saturday i felt that
\nold familiar sensation of wanting to go to sleep, and maybe even dying. i
\nused to get that same sensation of narcolepsy when the lights went down
\nat concert halls and the performer took the stage. I missed the first
\nmoments of a Radu Lupu concert at Carnegie Hall on account of me passing
\nout, sound asleep, at the moment the lights went down and he took the
\nstage. i woke up feeling like hours had passed.<\/p>\n
the wedding itself was lovely. i happen to be a strong advocate of lack of
\nresponsibility (which is not the same as irresponsibility) and on account
\nof that I think that marriages should not happen, but i do not begrudge
\nanyone else’s choice to enter into that exorbitantly priced and
\nlawyered-up institution. i mostly felt lost in the maelstrom of strangers
\nand family, and i took leave of the place when everyone started getting
\ndrunk, or at least drunker than I, which was not so drunk, though the gin
\nand tonics did provide a more efficient route to drunkardry than beer. and
\ni find that as i grow older i am all about *efficiency* in pursuit of
\nintoxication.<\/p>\n
people kept asking me how I knew the two people getting married. i
\nsaid “i’m a friend from the neighborhood.” the back story is that the
\ngroom first introduced himself to me by standing up in a bar and pointing
\nat me yelling “I THINK YOU’RE SORABJI!” i think i already told that story
\nhere…<\/p>\n
oops, gotta go.<\/p>\n
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