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  1. My freshman year, there were 4 of us in a suite, with 2 bedrooms with bunk beds. My roomie was a very cool black girl from Da Bronx. I was in awe of her, and spent 3 of the next 4 years in her shadow. The other room had a Chinese girl born in Hong Kong, but lived most of her life in NYC, and a very rich WASP from the Wash. DC area. Ms WASP probably wasn’t too keen on a room full of minorities, which actually was strange, because they used to sprinkle us around more. She was scared of Ms Bronx, and thought Ms Hong Kong was wonderfully exotic, because she spoke Cantonese with her family on the phone.

    She didn’t know what to do with me, because I grew up in the country with nothing but white folks, and did not act properly black enough for her.

    Her father was some kind of diplomat or gov’t functionary, and they knew Katherine Hepburn. Whenever they came to visit, she would start drinking a lot beforehand. She used to keep a big bottle of chianti in her desk, which she would chug when she was particularly upset. Mummy and Daddy wouldn’t stay too long, and would always talk about how they were on their way to NY to visit “Kate”.

  2. “Sorry, jb, the people who fire up the sauna are all chanting….they ring a bell….walk around the halls….with gongs”

    That shit would seriously piss me off. Why can’t you just enjoy the sauna? Why do you have to get all crystal wearing new age hippy dippy about it? If anybody ever tried that in my sauna in VT I would kick their ass out.

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