A LOT OF WHAT I LIKE TO LEARN CORRELATES WITH THE OPPOSITE OF WHAT GETS YOU LAID

1) Thing that happened
Earlier today a kid suffered one of those super-intense sneezes where covering one’s mouth with a hand doesn’t quite offset the force of the sneeze. We’ve all been there. Except he sat in the front row and had sneeze gunk on his hand and upper lip, which was semi-disgusting, yes, but I’m an adult and have little trouble looking semi-disgusting things with a slightly averted gaze. The heartbreaker was the panic that immediately came over him, and I became the object of that panicked look which morphed into terrified/pleading at the same time. If I was quicker on my feet I would have created a giant distraction by acting like I had tourette’s or throwing a book across the room, but I stood stock still and sort of tried to channel the feeling of resignation and send it to him via my semi-averted look. It didn’t go over that well.

2) album

Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Show Your Bones. This is most likely of the album species, Grows on You With Each Listen. There is no discernible departure between this one and the one that got all the youngsters’ hearts a-fluttering, but sometimes sticking with what you brought the first time has its charms.

3) book

Spring and All. I like William Carlos Williams. I like that his first and last name are almost the same. I like that he was a doctor, and I like the picture on his selected poems which seems both completely unmannered and innately orthinologist-like.