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[lapsedmodernist]

Best Overheard in New York entry ever:

The subway doors open. A hobo enters, holding a bottle of windex in
one hand and a tube of toothpaste in the other. He says: Which is the
better time to read Dostyevsky? Winter?

He sprays the windex.

Hobo: Or Spring?

He squeezes toothpaste out of the tube.

Japanese girl: Spring!
Hobo: You are correct.

Comments

[contrasoma.livejournal.com]

Christ, I love that site. Between that and Alien Loves Predator I get my vicarious NYC kicks.

[contrasoma.livejournal.com]

Vancouver doesn't get that nutty, but I did hear this about three years ago:

Two stoned guys sitting in the back of the 17 Downtown bus this morning:

Guy 1: "D'you see that? Barry Manilow's coming? Remember him? He's coming, I read it in the paper. D'you remember him? Barry Manilow? From the 70's?"
Guy 2: "He's a fishdink."
Guy 1: "Yeah, that's right. But he's coming here. He's coming to Vancouver. You know how I know that? Knowledge and wisdom. Wisdom and knowledge."

[apropos.livejournal.com]

My favourite overheard in Vancouver quote was in the bathroom of a gastown club:

Sketchy girl #1: "Like I ordinarily wouldn't be worried, but you know, today's like, 9/11, you know, like 9/11..."

Sketchy girl #2: "So was the guy like Persian or something?"

Sketchy girl #1: "Yeah he was TOTALLY Persian. But I feel bad, but you know I had to call 911. You know, like 911, 9/11. But I'm totally not like that. I am NOT like that. I have shaved my pubic hair into the shape of a lotus flower, like, I have a tattoo of an Eastern religious symbol. I would have LOVED to have lived in ancient Mesopotamia."

[lapsedmodernist.livejournal.com]

I don't think you posted the stuff about the lotus and ancient Mesopotamia back when you wrote about this!

[apropos.livejournal.com]

I totally did because I just cut-and-paste it from my memories! The ancient Mesopotamia part is the best part... it's such a random thing to hear out of the mouth of a speed freak. This is why goths shouldn't be allowed to do yoga.

[apathyfabulous.livejournal.com]

damn, that is both depressing and hilarious for so many reasons.

Also, like, lotus flower? seriously?

[apropos.livejournal.com]

Yeah the lotus weirds me out too, but it must be a Vancouver thing.

[contrasoma.livejournal.com]

Oh, man... Lemme guess, Sonar? I guess this has to be the laid-back left coast variant of "I'm not racist, but..."

Speaking of gastown clubs, holy crap, you joined new_wave_affair! That was my night!

[apropos.livejournal.com]

Nope, if that was your night, then this was, in fact, at your night. Small world. (I seem to recall your icon/t-shirt.)

[contrasoma.livejournal.com]

That's insane: you miss all the good stuff when you're stuck in the DJ booth.

Not that I would've heard it in any case if it was in the ladies' room...

Did we ever actually meet/talk at the night?

[apropos.livejournal.com]

Nah, I stuck to drinking and dancing. it was a good night, my friends and I really miss it.

[contrasoma.livejournal.com]

Thanks! I miss it too. If we start anything up again it'll be mentioned in the community.

[fengi.livejournal.com]

If you're still in town on Saturday, want to do coffee? I'm running errands all over town, so I could arrange to spend a few minutes wherever is convenient for ya.

PS - What does your dad teach at Columbia? I ask because [data embargo] is in grad school there and who knows, perhaps I met him at some point. This world of the culture nerds, it is like a neighborhood block the size of the planet.

[lapsedmodernist.livejournal.com]

Ja!

I will be running errands around town too, so I will need a coffee break.

Dad teaches in the fiction writing department--not surprisingly, Soviet and Russian and European literature classes.

Coffee?

[fengi.livejournal.com]

Here's some random Suggestions
Atomix 1957 W Chicago Ave
Filter 1585 N Milwaukee Ave
Heartland Cafe (near the morse el stop)
Kopi Cafe (in Andersonville)

Good times: 11, Noon, 1 or 4

let me know here or 773-770-9038

Re: Coffee?

[fengi.livejournal.com]

Also - the Indian/Pakistani greasy spoon Ghareeb Nawaz @ 2032 W. Devon. It's got $.50 chai (small cups, but still) and is a few blocks east of little India, so there's actually parking.

Yes, I'm going to be driving ALL over the city, which is why I'm making a variety of suggestions. I'll try to bring [data embargo], but she's in the last stage of her thesis and seems a bit preoccupied (can't imagine why).

[all-or-nothing3.livejournal.com]

Excellent! I have never heard of that site but I can see it becoming a favourite.

[lapsedmodernist.livejournal.com]

careful, it sucks you in!

[stillwell.livejournal.com]

Great site!

I took a guess at the lj feed and:

[jeremyrichards.livejournal.com]

overheardinny

I was right! So that's convenient.

[mjmj.livejournal.com]

am i missing something, or is there a reason why you call it "overhead" instead of "overheaRd" in new york in your "etcetera" entries?

[lapsedmodernist.livejournal.com]

no, I just misspelled it and I keep meaning to correct it and forgetting to!

451.

[mordicai.livejournal.com]

that was most certainly not a hobo, but in fact a magical wizard. you have been taught! gain 1000 xp & 1 level.

Re: 451.

[lapsedmodernist.livejournal.com]

HA! awesome.

[keylolo.livejournal.com]

maybe i'm just not clever enough to get it... haha

I stumbled across your journal through isolt and noticed that you seem to be quite interesting... so I'm adding you. hope you don't mind.