I’m always fascinated to learn why people like what they like, especially if it’s an affinity I don’t share. I always make my best effort to be nonjudgmental when I’m asking.
Which is why I asked Steve, in an utterly neutral, deadpan voice, “So what do you like about zombie movies? Is it the flesh-eating?”
Beat.
Followup: weeks later, I asked — apparently in exactly the same tone, with the same expression — why he likes political blogs.
“The flesh-eating.”
sdn
November 8, 2005 at 3:20 pmi like your wig!
johnaegard
November 8, 2005 at 3:30 pmVictoria and I do this with Mountain Goat lyrics and Eddie Izzard punchlines:
V: How does this outfit look?
J: Like the shrieking of innumerable gibbons.
J: How was class?
V: Like the border between Greece and Albania.
V: (anything)
J: YOU’RE COVERED IN BEES!
dirtylibrarian
November 8, 2005 at 4:13 pmThat is so romantic. Sigh.
kenllama
November 8, 2005 at 9:24 pm*giggles*
this is what my morning needed =)
erce
November 9, 2005 at 12:39 amtee hee! That was lovely!!
capn_jil
November 9, 2005 at 5:52 amYou are collectively my favorites.
carapace_green
November 9, 2005 at 9:35 amMore apt to say, “I do this -to- Victoria with Mountain Goats lyrics and Eddie Izzard punchlines.”
Which may be just desserts, considering that the time I got the “innumerable gibbons” comment, I’d asked Johnzo’s opinon of the same outfit about three times in a row.