Art, Pansies, Politics and Palo Alto.
So what can I say, work totally sucks ass lately. Lots of travel with no advance notice, working for assholes. But what does this have to do with Dick and Jane you ask? Excellent question!
Another bullshit work trip came up, but this time I actually had a whole day’s notice before I was going to Palo Alto (to Stanford). So I figured I’d make the best of it and bring along Dick and Jane and hopefully they’d get something out of it. After all, you can’t keep your kids locked up in the closet every day now can you?!!
And what a day it was: trains, public art, politics, and pansies. And sunshine.
We took the train from downtown SF to Palo Alto. Dick and Jane had never been on a train before. BART and Muni yes, but never a real train. Dick enjoyed the BIG 2 story cars (a size queen already) and the view during the ride, in particular something called The Beauty Lounge. “Perhaps a little glamour can be found on the peninsula” Dick exclaimed to me, which is not what he was expecting. But Jane couldn’t believe that practically every one on the train the whole hour long ride each way had nothing better to do than blather on non-stop on their cell phones. I believe the term she used was “silicon valley trash”. That Jane. I don’t know where she picks that language up from.
Jane is becoming quite the radical. She was ecstatic to see anti-war posters everywhere for the demo coming up in San Francisco. While Dick on the other hand enjoyed the public art. And they both enjoyed the beautiful purple pansies which adorned University Avenue.
While chillin with the purple pansies was kinda fun, overall it was too hot and too dull and too ugly. But Dick and Jane both reminded me that there are much worse things I could have been doing during a work day. Like something besides reading a book and taking pictures of my shoes while on a train.
I told them to mind their own fucking business. Kids today...
Saturday, March 17, 2007
Friday the 16th, Part 1
