Corn.
Cast of characters for today's serial (in no particular order)--
Aunt Glou-Glou: Our hero
Walter: The hero's Prince
Billy Clem: Gardener who's a perv
Larry: The hero's brother-in-law
Oh my God.
I just realized that I am becoming as PC as the rest of the world. Was just watching a Kia commercial and a pretty girl comes into the Kia showroom, daintily bearing a tray, to offer the male customer a choice of milk or cream for his coffee. Sat there thinking "WHY a girl, and a pretty one? Will it influence his decision? Will it give him a boner while he picks his condiment?" Sheesh. The whole commercial was about how easy it is to make a decision to buy a dang Kia. Or was it?
I just had my first taste of Billy Clem corn. Two ears' worth of tender, juicy, buttery salty bliss. I love summer vegetables and Billy's corn is by far the best I've eaten this season. I wonder if it has to do with the way he loves his vegetables like he loves a woman (I just choked as I wrote this.) Billy is an old man whom I met through Walter who met him through Larry. He used to be a streetcar-and bus driver in DC before they converted to Metro. Fascinating guy, has a lot of ribald and raucous stories to tell about the numerous affairs he'd had. He and his wife have been married fifty-odd years, had 8 kids, and he still screws around on her like he's a sixteen year old. Walter and I took him on his birthday for a crab-feed and he kept trying to pick up the waitresses, shouting things like "Come ere and I'll give you a lil taste of my raw oysters!" I was ready to leave, and Billy doesn't care what he says. Walter says to let him do whatever he wants, he's an old man, etc etc...sorry, but there's a way to conduct oneself in public inside a family restaurant, and being stuck with 2 drunk men kind of makes me look bad, n'est-ce pas?
Aunt Glou-Glou: Our hero
Walter: The hero's Prince
Billy Clem: Gardener who's a perv
Larry: The hero's brother-in-law
Oh my God.
I just realized that I am becoming as PC as the rest of the world. Was just watching a Kia commercial and a pretty girl comes into the Kia showroom, daintily bearing a tray, to offer the male customer a choice of milk or cream for his coffee. Sat there thinking "WHY a girl, and a pretty one? Will it influence his decision? Will it give him a boner while he picks his condiment?" Sheesh. The whole commercial was about how easy it is to make a decision to buy a dang Kia. Or was it?
I just had my first taste of Billy Clem corn. Two ears' worth of tender, juicy, buttery salty bliss. I love summer vegetables and Billy's corn is by far the best I've eaten this season. I wonder if it has to do with the way he loves his vegetables like he loves a woman (I just choked as I wrote this.) Billy is an old man whom I met through Walter who met him through Larry. He used to be a streetcar-and bus driver in DC before they converted to Metro. Fascinating guy, has a lot of ribald and raucous stories to tell about the numerous affairs he'd had. He and his wife have been married fifty-odd years, had 8 kids, and he still screws around on her like he's a sixteen year old. Walter and I took him on his birthday for a crab-feed and he kept trying to pick up the waitresses, shouting things like "Come ere and I'll give you a lil taste of my raw oysters!" I was ready to leave, and Billy doesn't care what he says. Walter says to let him do whatever he wants, he's an old man, etc etc...sorry, but there's a way to conduct oneself in public inside a family restaurant, and being stuck with 2 drunk men kind of makes me look bad, n'est-ce pas?
posted by Jules K at 8/16/2005 05:44:00 PM
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