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| A scene from the movie Different from the Others (Germany 1919) |
It's lunchtime at the office. You order pizza with some of the other guys. All in IT. You're the sole humanities-based lifeform.
You stress the need to come up with a healthy option, light on the onions, peppers, and pepperoni.
They offer to buy a pizza primavera with broccoli, fresh tomatoes, and some other stuff. You're happy, although you're pretty much the only one who ate from that pie.
#2
Over lunch, the guys pull up on the computer (legally or illegally, who can say?) the second (or fifth) Star Wars movie, The Empire Strikes Back. They begin to discuss how much they love this movie, how they've seen it over and over, how as children (children?! This movie came out when you were in college!) they were fascinated by the world in which Luke, Hans, Leia, and the others inhabit. They know not only the plot points and the dialog but details about the filming, errors and continuity fails, commentary from the writer and director, the personality of various non-human entities, et al.
You remark that isn't it amazing how Carrie Fisher now makes commercials for Jenny Craig and that somehow Jenny Craig has not only fixed her weight problem but has given her a facelift and Botox injections as well?
It's not that amazing. In fact, no one else had noticed.
#3
You're reading your Twitter feed, because, well, it's there. Suddenly a news organization posts the following:
"Shields, Brooks on #Alwaki's death."
And in all seriousness you think to yourself, what in the world could Brooke Shields have to contribute to a discussion on international terrorism?
#4
A friend responds to your speculation with a snarky "Have you looked in the mirror lately?" And you reply with a bitchy "Pretty funny for a guy who named his dog after a character from Gone with the Wind!"
And, no, it wasn't Scarlet.
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