{"id":9423,"date":"2009-06-11T08:00:21","date_gmt":"2009-06-11T12:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=9423"},"modified":"2024-10-27T15:40:25","modified_gmt":"2024-10-27T19:40:25","slug":"l-a-snapshots-no-context","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=9423","title":{"rendered":"L.A. snapshots.  No context."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s a quasi-dystopian universe.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;The leader of the group then tried to hug him into submission and he shrank into a fat Mexican.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;Say goodbye to cousin Sheila, Seamus!&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;BREAK A LEG!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;My needs as a woman are simple and biological.  I would like to have a penis on a regular basis and perhaps a child.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;Big Papi&#8217;s losin&#8217; it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;There&#8217;s a hegemony.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;A what, Cash?&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;Everything is one.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;Oh,  Okay.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;Nobody holds hands anymore.  And everyone has Brazilians.  I just don&#8217;t fit in.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;You drove the Volvo yesterday, right?&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;The black one?&#8221;<br \/>\nLong pause full of scorn.<\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;I&#8217;m at the point where I don&#8217;t want to know what anyone does.  Like, don&#8217;t tell me you use anal beads on your wife, okay?  I don&#8217;t want to hear it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;You have to know it has taken an act of superhuman strength for me not to write about all of this.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;Really?&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;Dude, are you kidding me?  Do you have any idea who you are dealing with?&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;Really?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;Please tell me you&#8217;re not a tax accountant.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;Meanwhile you&#8217;re just pissed off that you don&#8217;t have a hickey.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;I really like Star Trek, but I don&#8217;t want to be a Trekkie.  I am going to try really hard to not go down that path.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;It&#8217;s okay, Cash. You have a family who loves you.  We won&#8217;t let you.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;You literally cannot stump Seamus with Simon Says.  It&#8217;s amazing.&#8221; (it really was.)<\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;Julio Lugo is spending way too much time at his tango academy.  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=8215\">We warned him<\/a> that this could be a problem.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;No.  We do not put stickers on each other&#8217;s private parts.&#8221; (this is akin to Jean Kerr&#8217;s dictum &#8220;please don&#8217;t eat the daisies&#8221;)<\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;Can you just drop me off at Pavilions?&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;What?  No, we&#8217;ll wait and drive you home.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;Oh, please, I know I&#8217;m so weird, but no, please just drop me off.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;Uhm &#8230; okay &#8230;&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;I just want to stroll the aisles and get Chex Mix and Ginger Ale in peace.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;Wow.  Okay.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;Please?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;Hi, Uncle Sheila!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s a quasi-dystopian universe.&#8221; &#8220;The leader of the group then tried to hug him into submission and he shrank into a fat Mexican.&#8221; &#8220;Say goodbye to cousin Sheila, Seamus!&#8221; &#8220;BREAK A LEG!&#8221; &#8220;My needs as a woman are simple and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=9423\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[1101,1367],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9423"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9423"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9423\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":182341,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9423\/revisions\/182341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}