April 08, 2002
Four Unrelated Things that Cannot Be Assimilated Into a Coherent Post


  1. After a viewing of Y Tu Mama Tambien on Saturday night, there was among the attendees a consensus about the likely popularity of the VHS/DVD version of same in our neighborhood, and the multiple-rental revenue it’s likely to garner, particularly among couples with an ambivalent feelings about pornography and fantasies concerning deserted beaches and impulsive Mexicans of both genders. There was some discussion of the disconcerting presence of Surgical Enhancements (and mild shock, expressed by those in the know, that less savvy audience members had not been able identify aforementioned enhancements), but that this drawback in no way seriously endangered the film’s ability to have its intended effects, best summed up in the occasional whisper-exclamation from the darkened theater on the order of Damn.
  2. We just think it’s lovely that the there are U.S.P.S. stamps specifically designed to commemorate “Probing the Vastness of Space."
  3. We observed red-tailed hawks on two separate strolls through Prospect Park this weekend (admittedly, this might have been the same hawk on two different days), and were concerned for the health of the many tiny, ratlike "dogs" which were running around off the leash, unaware of the hungry predators drifting above.
  4. In searching for a new place to live, and in attending “open houses” as a component of this quest, we are reminded from time to time that there are things that can be done with faux-wood panelling and wall-to-wall carpet that will wound the soul and leave a horrible memory, like the flavor of a peanut-butter-and-mayonnaise sandwich. May no reader of this column ever lay eyes upon the Abominable Sun Room With Bar which lurks on East Seventh Street in Brooklyn; may it be swallowed up from this benighted Earth by some blessing of an urban sinkhole and never spoken of to our children.

Posted by BT at April 08, 2002 12:10 AM