domingo, febrero 26, 2006

Saturday on South Beach

My friend Mariah was dropping me off. She pulled the car over by my house when we both caught sight of a well-figured female in a spectacular white tennis outfit. We were both gushing over the tennis outfit, how cute it was, how we could never pull it off, when the woman and her boyfriend saw us staring at them. Embarrassed, we looked away, but the boyfriend came over to the car as I was getting out.
“How are you?” he asked, with a British accent. He had gelled hair and wore one of those shirts of light cotton embroidered with flowers, a popular item with a certain kind of man on the Beach.
I was confused.
“I haven’t seen you in such a great while!” he proclaimed, like, starry-eyed.
“I don’t think I know you,” I ventured carefully.
“Ah…” he replied, suddenly straight-faced. “I don’t know you either, but you were looking at me like we should know each other.”
“No,” I said. “We just like your girlfriend’s shorts.”
“Oh never mind,” he huffed, and walked away.

viernes, febrero 10, 2006

No internet in my apartment makes this project much less enjoyable. In the absence of any postings from me, please enjoy this instead. The weather in Miami right now is too lovely to even be called weather. Palms and sun during the day, a slight chill at night. It's perfect.

I went up to NYC last weekend and did very little worth reporting (although it was very nice seeing folks.) The Rauschenberg exhibit at the Met was excellent, and not even worth linking to because his work is of the sort that must only be viewed in person. Each combine is a little kit of perfect things.

What else: I have been rigorously studying every telenovela filmed in Miami and spending lots of time on sets with leading ladies in various shades of spray tan. I love novelas, and think they are underrated by English-speaking U.S. of Americans.

My editor wants to send me to Gitmo. What I can accomplish there seems almost pointless, (a complex process of signing away the right to free speech must be undertaken before visiting,) but I hope it works out.