Wordsmith; Jester
You could fall on the ice, and someone will help you up while saying:
“What are you, new here? It’s January, wear boots, you clown.”
But they’ll also brush the snow off your back.
That’s love. In our language.
It’s not passive aggressive. It’s efficient aggressive.
I’m honestly shocked ICE hasn’t come for the Statue of Liberty. She’s an immigrant, she’s not white, and she is holding a tablet with the date July 4, 1776 written in Roman numerals.
“JULY IV MDCCLXXVI”
That’s suspiciously foreign and clearly not an acceptable form of ID.
A woman at a bakery asked me “is there anything good about a Donald Trump presidency?”
Yes, Melania can call herself First Lady instead of Third Wife.
We have learned how far democracy can bend before it starts making that cracking sound.
He got people reading again. Mostly indictments, but still.
I don’t know how to explain Boston traffic to outsiders.
Like, I can fly to New York in 45 minutes… but it takes an hour to get from Boston to Boston.
People say New Englanders are bad at directions — but that’s slander.
We just use the ancient ways
Navigating by the sacred sigils of CVS, a university, and the glowing beacon of Dunkin’ Donuts.
Street names are for outsiders and GPS apps with no soul.