Like Spinning Wheels
Ever find yourself walking along the sidewalk, minding your business, not thinking about much besides preventing your clown shoes from getting caught in a crack, before you glance at the traffic to your left and see a car speeding up the street… backwards?
For me, the information doesn’t register immediately. It’s like watching a video rewind, without those fuzzy bars in the middle.
Now, I understand the driver just wants to nab a parking space without going four turns around the block.
But it’s an image like that — surrealist stuff, that doesn’t blow your mind as much as snicker at its limitations — that demonstrates not only the absurdity but the GOOFINESS of the world.
Meaningful and serious are two qualities that don’t necessarily overlap.
February 25th, 2005 at 12:48 pm
A similar thing happened to me in the subway the other day. I was sort of spaced out, walking along the platform when I realized a shrouded black ghost-like figure was wavering towards me. Once I had fully woken from my mind, it turns out it was actually a woman in a full burqua. She was pushing a stroller and had two other children with her. It looked like she had a black sheet over her head- like a ghost costume. Just odd. As I passed her, I noticed that everyone else was staring at her, but then I thought, “well at least we can’t actually see her.” Perhaps that was a tad mean to think of that, but it’s the truth.
March 1st, 2005 at 5:27 pm
To identify two other things that do not overlap:
http://www.sixdifferentways.com/images/venn-pants1.html
I used to have a mail man that drove around in a car that was modified with the stearing wheel on the left hand side of the car so that he could access the mailboxes. He used to drive with his dog in what used to be the driver seat. No matter how many times I saw his drive through my neighborhood, I never could catch myself before I thought – “holy freaking crap! that dog’s driving the car!”