Word: weirdness
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...ever seen stumbled in. Within two minutes, they’d insulted the host and spilled a handle of vodka on the stairs. Later, I found out they all worked on the UC.” Commented one socially maladjusted party-crasher, “I got a weird vibe from the people there, like they didn’t want to see drunken, uninvited buffoons spill shit on the furniture.” He then composed a resolution demanding world peace...
...Guide to Life-Threatening Conditions That Your Child Almost Certainly Has" book on my shelves. I usually work back from CF, through lung cancer, pneumonia, asthma, pertussis, bronchitis, and finally, good old upper respiratory tract infection, which is what a cold gets called these days. Is this some weird corollary to the whooping cough rule - the less scary the disease, the scarier the name? I've even had my baby tested for anthrax. She didn't have it, even though we live mere blocks from a post office...
...here's the weird part: Once I have established that the little tot is not on the brink of petering out, I think, "I can still go to work, right?" Sometimes the journey from "Fifi is about to die" to "I'm abandoning Fifi before I miss my train" can take less than three seconds. And then there's the hideous clash of wills between wanting to cuddle said sick child and not really wanting sick child's snot all over your only presentable blouse. There's a marketing opportunity here. What working mom will want to go through life...
...trucks belching their way from the Jersey shore to Long Island. I love it. On a visit last week, I wove past Asian markets with windows full of roast ducks and durians, checked out prices in tiny perfume stores with Vietnamese names on the window and peered into that weird place that appears to sell nothing but fans (kitchen ones). I stopped in a tattoo parlor as three teenage girls from Queens, in J. Lo jackets and spray-on jeans, hovered nervously at the counter. I wondered whether to buy a new car radio at Taj Mahal Stereo...
...Point Pleasant, on the Ohio River in West Virginia. What Washington Post reporter John Klein (Richard Gere) is doing there he can't explain. He is not on the way to his original destination, Richmond, Va. Nor can he or the local police officer (Laura Linney) understand all the weird sights, sounds and phone calls the townsfolk keep reporting. All Klein knows is that the goings-on resemble a vision his late wife had just before succumbing to a brain tumor...