Three Cheers for Caveman!
Caveman rides on my morning train. I have no idea what his real name is. People don't usually talk on the train. But Caveman is clearly developmentally disabled in some way. Earlier this week, Caveman had a book with him. It was by Bruce Weber. At first I thought it was this Bruce Weber, homoerotic, marginal pedophile fashion photographer. That would have been shockingly left field. Turns out, he was reading a book by Bruce Weber, the University of Illinois basketball coach.
He was clearly concentrating very intently. He was staring at the book with his brow furrowed. And his mouth was moving. Not to every word, but definitely to those words that he had difficulty reading.
Today, just before the train reached downtown, he finished the book. He closed it, looked up and around at everyone else, and he was just beaming. Apparently, the other riders noticed this too. There was a real weird, palpable feeling of affection for Caveman. Like we were proud of him.
I'm sure I sound horribly condescending. And I'm guilty as charged. I'm a snob, and I too often find reasons not to like people. Its just so easy to be complacent, and if not self-satisfied, at least feel like there's a reason to feel that way. Caveman made me feel like a dick. I need that sometimes.
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2:17 PMI forgot what I was going to say. WBB made me laugh.
Me go Market Day now.
7:12 PM
Sometimes I need to feel dick but things don't always work out how we'd like, 'eh?
8:38 PM
Me feel warm and fuzzy on my insides. You good man Sysm.
I would like to say more but everyone else's comments made me spit out my wine and now I have to clean up the mess.
10:08 PM
HonkyBob - Nice to see you recovered from your trip.
Ubie - whatever happened to the Incredible Hulk. Didn't he blog?
Pants - for the most part, it's just another hunk of squishy flesh. Accept all substitutes.
Mongo - This was very similar to the time where you, me and Lou were sitting in a Roy Rogers Roast Beef restaurant? Care to elaborate?
Brooke - fuzzy insides and wine can make quite the mess.
1:15 AM
Remember when the Illini used to have a good coach? Where'd he go again? Oh yeah, I remember now.
4:47 PM
I LOVE SYSM!!!
4:51 PM
Yeah, he's pretty hot.
11:48 AM
It took me way too long to get your reply to pants. Me know how caveman feels.
3:55 PM
Babyjewels - it was my variation on the joke:
Q: What do you call the useless piece of skin at the end of a penis?
A: A man
5:22 PM
Did I ever tell you about the geurilla retouching I did on Bruce Weber's photo's? We used to produce all the image for Abercrombie & Fitch. We scanned his deviant B&W photo's, cleaned them up and made those oversized photo's that hang in every store. Well I would make sure and retouch out the nipples showing on the image of the 12 year old girl in a wet white t-shirt, or close up the gratuitous up the short shots etc...
I hated that bastard.
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