Friday, January 28, 2005
Cherry Vanilla?
Lileks is just a delight today. He combines a penetrating political observation; a patented Lileks riff on some element of popular culture, complete with a single, devastating photographic response to it; and an hilarious yet touching scene from his home.
We learn that his young daughter Gnat had had a bloody nose in the middle of the night. Here is his discovery of the residue:
I ran upstairs to straighten up before we left. Make the bed, check. Quick dust, check. Straighten towels, check. Align bathmat so its edges are perfectly arranged to match the pattern of the floor tiles: check. Note the huge quantity of blood in Gnat’s bathroom: check. Wait a minute – oh, right. What had she done here? It looked like she’d taped her mouth shut and sneezed six times.
Classic Lileks.
We learn that his young daughter Gnat had had a bloody nose in the middle of the night. Here is his discovery of the residue:
I ran upstairs to straighten up before we left. Make the bed, check. Quick dust, check. Straighten towels, check. Align bathmat so its edges are perfectly arranged to match the pattern of the floor tiles: check. Note the huge quantity of blood in Gnat’s bathroom: check. Wait a minute – oh, right. What had she done here? It looked like she’d taped her mouth shut and sneezed six times.
Classic Lileks.
# posted by mds : 8:30 AM
