082709
from me to nana to dad to me to the internet
remember that game "telephone"?
I called my grandmother today to say "hi", "how are you?", "I know you're on the cusp of death and I haven't seen you in nine years and we only talk like thrice a decade, but I'm reaching out to let you know 'I'm thinking about you because you matter and I love you'...".
it's funny how much things get lost and transformed in translation.
but pappa has ma back.
this apple fell a little far from the tree (well, more like the tree took a leaf of absence when the apple was sprouting), but we GET each other in an uncanny way. he's called me "the strange fruit of his loom", but he's a little cuckoo himself. some of my favorite quality talks with pops are when he's called me after he's ingurgitated a case of bud light, we get into religious debates and exchange dirty jokes, then he closes out the conversation with something like "this is the trunk talking to the branch". in all our dystopic splendor, I love the guy.
he cc'd me both nana's message and his response. nana's missive is quite dramatic, which I'll repost here for entertainments sake:
----- Original Message -----
From: "bigmamma"
To: "danny"
Sent: Thursday, August 27, 2009 7:39 PM
Subject: season
season called me today. she lives in that planet called delusional. she has become a hindu, she is goddess toshiba she is a healer body and soul of the human race. according to her God, Jesus, and the holy spirit are a farce, she works as a bartender , she writes poetry, the bible was written by disneyand she lives in a demension highter than the average person. All this amoung many other weird talking she did. She tries to sound so inteligent and important she talks alot of jiberish that even she doesnt know what she saying. the girl is nuttier than a fruit cake and I told her she needed to to go into an intervention program and a ocult cleaning. she just laughed. write more later. mom
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alls I gotta say is:
"talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish"
(...and then she emails your dad, totally misquoting and slandering you)
-euripides
side note:
I don't eat many traditional holiday baked goods, but a more accurate metaphor inspired by fruitcake and intended to hint at insanity would be "fruittier than a fruitcake" as opposed to "nuttier than a fruitcake" (hence the name "fruitcake" not "nutcake"), no? what hypocrite coined that idiom anyway? it anthropomorphises a pastry ingredient! being called a "nut" isn't really even an insulting illustrative similitude, especially erupting from the rictus of a nucivorous creature. as known in botany, the nut is high in protein and nutrient rich, and in egyptian mythology "Nut" is the goddess of the sky.
some dogmas die hard I guess.
but I believe it's never too late to teach an old dogma new tricks...
