sunday was wedding day in fbc land. not sure why; i hate weddings. they claim to be expositions for people who've "found each other" and want to "share the love" when in reality they are simply another forum for people to brag about their "conquests" and show their "superiority" to us single folk. i'm told weddings and their corollary "receptions" are "great places for 'hooking up'" but to me they are great places to be TERRIBLY BORED AND UTTERLY DEPRESSED. i only attended this "wedding"--which, in comparison with the other weddings in my life, was oddly lacking in pomp and ceremony--as a gesture to an old friend. in the end i just felt like i wasted a beautiful day. hm.
in other news, after "rocking" a complaint about a chase billboard in which some random dude is portaging his mountain bike, i got a bit of "reverse comeuppance". quickly, at that. after heading to the elysian in tangletown for some righteous "nighthawk" pumpkin ale, which i drank like a fish, and fish and chips, i hadda head back home. up the backside of phinney ridge. which is WAY STEEP, if you din't know. like a 20% grade or 80%. about a third of the way up, when the grade really gets after it, i made like the hindenburg and BLEW THE (*&(* UP. hadda jump off and PORTAGE MY DAMN BICYCLE. it was embarrassing. i mean, it's one thing to pick my bike up and jump over a--to me--unrideable log ride, but another entirely to WALK UP A PAVED STREET. ach. serves me right. i still hate chase manhattan bank, though, in case you wondered.
good news of the week: i got new pedals. my life is complete. they're at least 50 grams lighter than my old ones, and they "thunk". by that i mean they ROCK HARDER THAN A MARSHALL HALF STACK AT "ELEVEN". watch out, ryan trebon.
one fake homeless person at a time.
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Just watched a contemporary version of Much Ado about Nothing, which has two memorable weddings in it. The first, where the tricked second lead, Claud (Claudius), falsely accuses his bride, Hero, of infidelity, and thus sets off a horrible succession of events.
ReplyDeleteThe second has Bea (Beatrice) and Ben (Benedict), first female and male leads finally marrying, after hilarious trickery, ups and downs. As they approach the altar, Ben whispers "What are we doing here?" to which Bea responds "I haven't the faintest idea." And they crack up on the spot. It's a delightful end to a delightful story.