Overheard at Booth 3: When I Will Relax

and when my wife asked me when i will relax i told her that i will relax the day we have retired to a house by the sea on some caribbean island and never more do i have to deal with spreadsheets and fixed assets and depreciation and corporate overhead reclassification and net cash flow statements and all that shit.   just drinking a beer while the sun goes down over the marbled sea, with her by my side and the wind in our thinning hair and that is when i will relax!

Overread at Table 2: To Some, Love is the Open Palm

To some, love is the open palm.
To others, the clenched fist.
To some, love is a feather on the breast.
To others, the slit on the wrist.

Some will find love divine,
And others will find love sour.
Some will say love is the noonday sun.
Others, the midnight hour.

We have so many words for love,
In countless combinations.
Love changes and changes and changes again
In infinite variations.

At times we try to obscure our love
But love appears as surely as the dawn.
But, the moment we know that we have truly loved:
is the moment Love is gone.




MR
@2015-0410
[with some slight editing 2020-0412]

Overheard at Table 1: Happy Good Easter

Lucky Moran: HE IS RISEN!!

Otis Redwing: HE IS RISEN INDEED!!!

Niall Carter: HAPPY GOOD EASTER!!

John Steppenwolf:  I was just in it for the Jelly Beans.

Overheard at Table 2: Dead Saturday

You know, you always hear about Palm Sunday and Maundy Thursday and then Good Friday and Easter Sunday, but you never hear about that Saturday.  That must have been the day when all the Apostles were just sitting around in shock saying "What the fuck just happened?"

They should give it a name, like Dead Saturday or Down Day or Shock Saturday or something like that.

Overread at Booth 3: BoJo Caught the Rona

Lyrics for

BoJo Caught the Rona

BoJo got the Rona

Says he caught it from Ramona

Now he’s gone to CaliFOANa

With an achin’ in his heart

He don’t need to ventilator

You know he says he’s feeling better

He says “I’ll catch ya later”

As he jumps the midnight train

Now BoJo’s goin’ fishin

Says there’s too much repetition

Now Chillaxin is his mission

Time to slow way down

uh huh.

BoJo got the Rona

Says he caught it from Sharona

He’s in Winslow Arizona

Trying to catch a ride

Overheard at Table 4: Stoplight Fight

Yesterday evening I was going to the store and I pulled up at a red light and I saw two guys half out of their cars.  I rolled down my window to see if something was wrong.  The black guy in the front car was yelling to the white guy in the other car, "You want a piece of me?!  Come on!  I fuck you up, bitch!"

and the white guy was saying, "Let's go, motherfucker!  I'm ready!  Let's go right now!"

and I shouted, "Whoa!  Guys!  Do you really wanna fight in the middle of a pandemic?  What about social distancing?!"

and I don't know if they heard me or not, but the black guy said, "Next time, motherfucker!  Next time I fuck you up like the little punk ass bitch you are!"

and the white guy said, "Yeah, next time I beat your ass, stupid motherfucker!"

and the black guy got back in his car and drove off through the red light.

Overheard at Table 2: The Last Stand

I used to have respect for Teri Gross but my goodness did she have a strangely vacuous series of questions for Stephen King today... she asked him about The Stand, which he wrote 40 years ago, and about how he "felt" about how the virus is now a reality. 

King described how his researcher at the time and he discussed how the flu mutates every year, and how it was just a matter of time, and Gross just kept going back to how did he "feel" about having written such a book.

Finally, he just said that he only felt some cabin fever, like most people now have.

She is normally such a perceptive and thoughtful interviewer.  I wonder how she was feeling today? It sounded like even she felt she was not bringing her "A" game.