Open Thread

…from the sounds of it,
there may be an Nitrous Oxide gas leak in his office.
That could account for a lot of talking.

Went to the dentist yesterday afternoon to get a root canal. Time of arrival to finish: 3 and a half hours.

The root canal was only 2 hours. Pre-root canal, my old friend the endodontist informed me of what’s new since my last root canal and caught me up on the following:

— Tour of his new office.

— Introductions to all of his new dentist partners.

— Discussion of how he quit the Japanese sword marshal art he was doing. Got 3rd degree black belt but too bad for knees. (got demonstrations of Japanese moves).

–Comparing Japanese sword play to Chinese sword arts (has black belt in that too) martial arts – The Chinese value longevity and human life. The Japanese style. Long history of Japanese sword play and basically why Japanese are wierd.

–Japanese people make great endodontists.

–Discussion of history of Tae Kwando

–Discussion of how his Sicilian grandmother ran off the mob.

— Discussion of how it was interesting that his uncle and my uncle were part of the Battan Death march by the Japanese in WWII. His uncle lived till 96 and was a surgeon. My uncle died in his 70s from complications from that time.

— How I should concentrate on casseroles and stop killing myself at my dinners and parties. (followed with discussion of particular casseroles – lasagna moussaka

— How to make Italian sauce and freeze (knew that)

— Teaching molecular biology in dental school

— New techniques in endodontics. New equipment, got a demo of new wierd new glasses.

— Discussion of new tenor at Metropolitan opera.

— Discussion of the canals and lacunae of my teeth.

quote:
My mom liked to wallpaper a lot.
To this day, I have vivid memories of scantily clad classical Greek figures dancing across the bathrooom wall in a black and white in a winsome fashion suggesting a decadent ancient bath ritual.
The bedroom my sisters and I shared was characterized by super bright day glow orange and yellow repetitions of the word LOVE on a white background. The effect of which was to have the feeling of being inside a giant blotter paper gift box without any of the benefits of actually taking LSD.

LOL! my grandmother loved… i dont know what it’s called, but it’s basically wallpaper, but like pretend it’s crown molding or something.. accent paper? something… it came in rolls, sticky on the back.. you put it on the wall where it meets the ceilings. it was tacky as hell. she had to change it every month or so and made my nearly BLIND grandfather put it up. then she got into a wallpaper kick and would invite, francisco the super of the complex to put wall paper up… and she’d change it like seriously every month. i remember her being like, why dont you pick out some wall paper (and that thing you put up near the top of the walls) and francisco will come and put it up for you while youre in school? um no you fucking freak! thinking back i think my grandmother was having an affair with the super!

*rob*

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