Thursday, September 4, 2008

Long drive on the 5 to San Jose

I packed a thermos full of dense, cheese-tasting butternut squash soup that Curator made last night as my long-drive snack. Hot, dense, spiced squash soup is vastly superior to Pringles, as it turns out.

Car smells,
soup smells -
now stockyard!


The last time I made this drive, instead of listening to all the This American Life episodes I had prepared, I just listened to the two Joanna Newsom albums I had over and over again. This time: two new Boris albums - the beloved drone-sludge stoner-doom-metal Japanese band.

Boris -
makes time
vanish.


Traffic is perfect - I make the drive in 5 hours flat. My mother greets me with these words:


"How was the drive?
You came so fast!
Your tits are enormous!"


(translated from the Vietnamese by me)

2 comments:

Sister Y said...

A useful phrase to know in any language.

Megan said...

did you respond with
a giant warm smile and

"not as big as yours, Mom!"?