It is late and Bob and I were loserish this evening. Rather than take part in the spark and vivacity that is an evening in the joyous presence of the Austin Improv community, we stayed home, read some shit, and ate dinner at an old people's restaurant. It was there that I spied perhaps the largest ass I have ever seen on a living person in my entire life. Elephantine in stature and gait, this woman had chosen to cover her monumental ass with blue striped stretch pants, causing her derrière to resemble a perambulating full-sized mattress. Indeed, one of her butt cheeks added up to both of mine. The poor dear was enormous on the bottom but only regular big on top. She was cruelly mismatched, as if she were assembled by diabolical suburban rugrats who put Barbie's torso on Mr Potato Head's bottom. The entire walk home was spent pontificating about this enormous, gigantic, noteworthy, pitiful, and yet unavoidably public butt! I don't want to be mean, but OMG! BIGGEST BUTT I'VE EVER SEEN!
Anyway, rather than talk about superlative butts, self-doubt, my nose, my novels, Bob, or any other frequently mentioned maudit shite, I am going to refer you to the writings of one of the best minds of my generation, Mr. Shannon McCormick. I have been waiting to hear someone articulate this for years and today I found this on his blog. As someone who often rues her own lack of charisma and leadership in the arts (writing a novel is a lonely, thankless, inglorious endeavor, might I remind me!), it felt damn good to have these fears validated by someone else. I also think that I'm pretty consistent in not laughing or responding favorably if a scene is just okay or less than okay. I am guilty of sometimes saying "great show!" when really it was "mediocre show!" or "anal rape isn't funny, dumbass!" (though I'd only have to use that one if I were at an out-of-town fest)
This is why I love my 30s so much. The best lies of youth are laid bare, right before your eyes. An era of a thousand blinking lightbubs. Yes.
Good show, Shando!
Posted by Zerd at September 23, 2007 12:19 AMI worked with a woman who had such a mismatched body. She was a little bit fat all over but her torso and chest were rather small in comparison to her extravagant read end. It was kind of amazing, though she said how hard it was to find clothes.
As for Shannon, he's right but I do think people respond to charisma for different reasons.
I myself often respond to it in an oppositional way and it can take me a long time to warm up to cool people cause I am quite sure they don't like me one bit so why try.
You weren't loserish. You did fun stuff with your man. We stayed home as well and it was great.
Staying home with loveys is a good thing.