Three Things
1. Jonno is currently en route to Manhattan. So far as I know, he’ll be staying with the minx, so he’ll have access to email and stuff. I’m sure he’ll want to see each and every one of you New Yorkers while he’s there. Why not drop him a line and take him out for a drinkie-poo?
2. Politically, I find myself bouncing between the Left and the Right, depending on the situation I’m in. For example, at the gym the other day these two “hey-bruhs” were talking about the goings-on in the Middle East and the people dancing in the streets of Lebanon after Tuesday’s events, and in the process they made more references to falafel vendors and nuclear weapons than I could count. Not only was I offended by their thoroughly racist, ludicrously facile politics, but part of me–the newly discovered Lebanese part of me–also took it as a kind of personal attack. Not that I was raised with a sense of Lebanese identity or anything, not that I’ve even met my biological father, it was just…what if I had? They just presumed their conversation wouldn’t offend me ’cause I’m a white boy.
The very next day, I’m working out, and these two quasi-liberal homos are in the room, ragging on Bush and the fiercely militaristic, nearly autocratic stance he’s adopted the past week, and I’m offended again. I mean, yes, Bush has been whiny, and he should probably can most of his speech-writing staff, but did anyone really expect him to behave differently? He’s doing what he’s go to do. Giuliani, on the other hand: now there‘s a pleasant surprise.
3. On a completely different note, I got a call from the adoption agency yesterday. Contact looms near.
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