Washtenaw Flaneurade

15 June 2005

Mouse Haters
I stopped into Espresso Royale on Main this morning to have a lemonade before work. As usual, two out of the three computers didn't work and an early customer got to the operational unit before me. I sat at one of the other terminals and waited for her to finish while reading Vanity Fair (funny, but it's hard going--Thackeray is so intrusive with his narration--he makes Dickens look like Raymond Carver). All the while she was doing whatever the hell she was doing, she moved the mouse around in an unusually savage manner. I mean, she was jabbing the thing, slamming it against the countertop like she wanted it dead. It was weird, it was bizarre, it was the perfect start to my day.

I saw a rainbow Monday morning, which was nice. Tonight I'm going to try and make a soup. We'll see what happens, but apparently I'm really good at making quiche crust.

One of these days I'm going to have some kind of interesting experience and y'all will think I'm lying. I did get a hilariously flattering mention in someone else's blog, but I'm holding back on linking to it because it's... well, really flattering.

Posted by Charles J. Microphone at 5:01 PM EDT
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16 June 2005 - 6:26 PM EDT

Name: DrStarr

You know, if it had been anyone else I would have expected the words "while reading Vanity Fair" to be followed by some remark on this month's photoshoot with Nicole Kidman :-) Yes, the Vanity Fair narrator really is intrusive (and, once you come to think about it, how did the guy get all this information? Who is he? I don't think Thackeray ever lets us know. Some society gossip who took a few facts about some people he barely knows and from them spun a tale made from whole cloth? An old school friend of George and Dobbin's?) but I rather like him. He may butt in, but he's interesting.

Sounds like the mouse was bunged up with table-fluff and dust-bunnies to me - I only ever jab and slam the mouse if the arrow on the screen doesn't correspond with what I'm manipulating the mouse to do. Did it work well for you, when you took over?

Please post that blog ref! Enquiring minds want to know!

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17 June 2005 - 6:59 AM EDT

Name: Wendell

I actually do read "Vanity Fair"--James Wolcott is usually entertaining, as is Christopher Hitchens, even if the latter has let his genuinely well-intentioned anti-fascism delude him into finding the Bush Administration somehow decent.

I'm teetering on the edge of posting that blog ref. We'll see--maybe in the next couple of days.

Thanks for visiting, too!

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