Saturday, March 15, 2003
Rainy Saturday in March. I will stay in all day.
Yesterday was shopping. At a mall. I dislike both shopping and malls, but the time can arrive when both become a necessity. I can't believe that women are wearing velour and terry cloth by choice, and thinking it fashionable. Actually, I'm sure it is fashionable, it's just horribly distasteful, tacky, ugly, etc. See what Oscar Wilde said about fashion.
I think even he would have been taken aback at this thing with velour.
Last night at dinner the main topic of conversation was America's present hystrionic Francophobia. I'd heard about the Congressional "freedom" fries and toast, of course, but I hadn't heard about the restaurant owners dumping out French wines rather than sell them. Yeah, that's showing those damned Frenchies! There's talk of asking that American soldiers buried in France be returned to the U.S. Basically, if you won't play the game our way, hell, we'll just take our mouldering corpses and go home. Will the Statue of Liberty be next, I wonder? And what about the influence that the French had upon Jefferson and the Declaration of Independance and the Constitution? I know Bush and a lot of other Republicans (and not a few Democrats) are uncomfortable with those documents already, so this could be the straw that breaks the camel's back. Wait, camels are bad, too. The French Foreign Legion uses them. The straw that broke the bison's back. That's better. Bison are tres American (which is probably why they're all but extinct). At least I get my absinthe from Spain. This year, the Spaniards are the Good Guys. Or at least the buddies of the Good Guys. I wonder when we're going to decide to declare something against Quebec (I say "something" because we won't dare call it war)? And what's to be done with New Orleans and Savannah? Purging France from our history and culture could get pretty messy.
If you're reading this from France, I apologize for our childish behaviour. We're assholes. It's something in the water. Just console yourselves with the knowledge that you were always right about Ugly Americans.
I just have to wonder, if this is how we treat our long-time allies who disagree with our foreign policy, how are we going to treat our own citizens who disagree with our foreign policy?
I was going to talk about writing, and not writing, about Farscape and the termination (not end) of Farscape, but I think I'm too annoyed. I shall save those subject for tomorrow.
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