Suit on a skateboard
Something Awful may be a humour website, but something like today's update, by the possibly undervalued Zach Parsons, is just plain good writing. Like his take on cities:
The thing about living in a big city - and I assume this is true all over the world - is that you do have to possess a certain tolerance for the surreal. I'm not talking about naked cowboy or some dude painted like a robot, those guys aren't surreal in the least. They want to be noticed. Surreal is a bunch of guys passed out drunk underneath the trees in front of your apartment at 10 AM. It's some incredibly muscular guy screaming in a voice like the vocalist for Cannibal Corpse at a retarded woman in a wheelchair. Surreal is people being incredibly strange or creepy and not wanting you to notice.
The thing about living in a big city - and I assume this is true all over the world - is that you do have to possess a certain tolerance for the surreal. I'm not talking about naked cowboy or some dude painted like a robot, those guys aren't surreal in the least. They want to be noticed. Surreal is a bunch of guys passed out drunk underneath the trees in front of your apartment at 10 AM. It's some incredibly muscular guy screaming in a voice like the vocalist for Cannibal Corpse at a retarded woman in a wheelchair. Surreal is people being incredibly strange or creepy and not wanting you to notice.
I dunno that guys passed out under trees drunk at 10am in front of my apartment counts as surreal. But I attended Texas A&M... so.
Posted by
Lady K! : |
3:21 PM
I'm assuming that's a party school.
Posted by
Ian |
3:24 PM
kinda
Posted by
Lady K! : |
3:33 PM
Oh god, you had Aggies too.
Posted by
Ian |
3:48 PM
oh yeah, the aggies were terrible. so, see? I'm used to this kinda thing. drunken idiots under my tree <> surreal.
Posted by
Lady K! : |
3:56 PM
Our aggies are different, but in degree rather than in type.
And wouldn't it be surreal if you were in Chicago and they weren't aggies, just random guys?
Posted by
Ian |
5:35 PM
no, no. I'm sure there are aggies in chicago too. I'd just assume they were aggies and move on without giving it a second thought.
Posted by
Lady K! : |
5:54 PM
I really don't think aggies are that widespread in urban areas.
Posted by
Ian |
1:11 AM
I actually know an aggie moving to chicago soonish. They are *everywhere*.
There are like 50,000 people enrolled on *main* campus at any given time, not counting all the other A&M satellite campuses around who also call themselves aggies. Texas A&M Aggies are allllllllll over the place.
Posted by
Lady K! : |
2:44 PM
Woah, shit. Aggies are pretty prevelent at the U of Goo, but that's about it. And I think our total enrollment is about 17,000.
Posted by
Ian |
1:56 AM