Wednesday, October 11, 2006
crazy / not crazy
To go along with my tale of a real true blue conspiracy theorist, I want to mention two things. One is that last evening a strange looking trio brought a gekko in a cage with a blanket onto the train and eventually let the thing walk on seat backs and the floor. Can you say "let me out of here!"? The other, not at all nutty, thing is that I sat across from a nice normal woman and we chatted all the way home about all kinds of things. She was delightful. A native Californian, her interesting observations about both coasts, and life on each, are worth repeating. For example, apparently one goes "to the beach" in California but "to the ocean" here. And although people are smart and intelligent on both coasts, on the sunny west coast they almost always do something outdoors while engaging in intellectual pursuits. I particularly liked her descriptions of the different colors on each side of the country - vivid bright blue ocean (Pacific), steel blue-gray ocean (Atlantic), solid green leaves and grass (Calif.), bright shiny green grass and leaves (east coast), transparent light rain (west coast), sheets of shiny gray/black wet rain (east). And you should hear her descriptions of snow!
Labels: huh?, modern culture, politics
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