A conversation between my friend Andres (SirQuing) and me October 5, 2000: (I fixed a couple typos, but left most of them, and added a couple links so things would make more sense)
SirQuing: what's your website url? can't get to it from howfresh anymore
Yodarkritz: oh, i think dave is fixing that
Yodarkritz: it's at http://m-a-m-a.com
Yodarkritz: the link from hfitg seems to work for me, maybe there's a broken one
Yodarkritz: there is. on the see all the fresh guys page
SirQuing: that's where I tried. I have no patience.
Yodarkritz: oh dres...
SirQuing: yessir
Yodarkritz: no, that was just a sigh over your lack of patience
SirQuing: ah.
SirQuing: I am so very tired.
SirQuing: Went to Oklahoma city this week.
SirQuing: Made me tired.
Yodarkritz: did you bomb?
SirQuing: har har.
Yodarkritz: i hear it's great for that
SirQuing: actually, I went to the memorial.
SirQuing: It was really nicely done.
Yodarkritz: jokes about people who died unfortunately are not good
Yodarkritz: especially bad ones
SirQuing: There are two entrance gates. On one it says 9:01
SirQuing: On the other it says 9:03
SirQuing: The bomb went off at 9:02
SirQuing: get it?
Yodarkritz: that's pretty harrowing
SirQuing: Then in between the gates there's a nice reflecting pool
SirQuing: There are also stylized bronze chairs, one for each of the 168 people who died.
SirQuing: Including little ones for kids.
SirQuing: There names are written on them
Yodarkritz: I'm glad they didn't just do a vietam wall rip off like everybody else
SirQuing: totally
SirQuing: The chairs are arranged in rows
SirQuing: corresponding to the floor people were on.
SirQuing: There's also a tree that survived the blast, called the "Survivor Tree".
SirQuing: I was moved.
SirQuing: for real
Yodarkritz: that sounds really moving, actually
SirQuing: Finally there's a chain link fence, preserved from the post-blast site.
SirQuing: People hang things there, like poems and stuffed animals.
SirQuing: There was one thing that pissed me off, though.
Yodarkritz: what?
SirQuing: Across the street there's a church...
SirQuing: And they erected their own monument.
Yodarkritz: you said erect
SirQuing: The main part was a huge statue of Jesus with his head in his hands.
Yodarkritz: sounds cheezy
SirQuing: It says "And Jesus Wept"
Yodarkritz: ouch
SirQuing: This tour guide was there.
SirQuing: She said the people who put it up "were sure that Jesus wept on this occasion".
SirQuing: As if... if he existed as they say he does...
Yodarkritz: if baby jesus cries every time you tell a lie, that's bound to be true about a major bombing
SirQuing: He wouldn't be weeping every fucking day.
SirQuing: good point
SirQuing: But people tend to like to make their tragedies seem the worst.
Yodarkritz: yes.
SirQuing: As a form of entitlement
Yodarkritz: I think tasteful, moving monuments are good, even great
SirQuing: me too
Yodarkritz: gaudy, insensitive ones are worse than nothing at all
SirQuing: yes
SirQuing: The main one was great because it was truly peaceful there.
SirQuing: The perfect way to respond to such a violent act.
Yodarkritz: yeah, like a place to contemplate the trajedy
Yodarkritz: where you can be sad, but also see the beauty of the world
SirQuing: yup
SirQuing: you got it
SirQuing: man
Yodarkritz: there's a place on the new site for reviews of anything
SirQuing: Oh?
Yodarkritz: it's called Points!
Yodarkritz: because points are involved
Yodarkritz: I don't have many reviews there yet.
Yodarkritz: i thought of it yesterday
SirQuing: i'll try to add one.
SirQuing: but now I'm too tired
SirQuing: but I promise I will
Yodarkritz: someday.
Yodarkritz: I'm in no hurry. no one sees this site
SirQuing: I see it
Yodarkritz: you're just a nobody
Yodarkritz: just kidding
Yodarkritz: I meant nobody as in "almost nobody"
SirQuing: Recognizing the Nobody in yourself is very important
Yodarkritz: totally
Yodarkritz: individualistic anonymity
SirQuing: Way to sneak an email in while we're IMing. You've got Skills
Yodarkritz: i wanted to send it to both you and dave
Yodarkritz: and the doktor was not in
SirQuing: funny story
SirQuing: he's never in
Yodarkritz: yah
Yodarkritz: fucker
SirQuing: I made up a game, but I haven't played it yet.
SirQuing: It's called "mid-air charades"
SirQuing: It's very simple.
SirQuing: You play at a pool.
Yodarkritz: sounds fun
Yodarkritz: just kidding, what else is there to it
Yodarkritz: ?
SirQuing: It's just like charades, but everything you act out you have to do after jumping of a diving board
SirQuing: and before you hit the water.
SirQuing: So the first jump you would say "first word"
SirQuing: the second jump "first syllable"
SirQuing: If it's a high board maybe you can get in both.
SirQuing: Then you start pantomiming in mid-air.
SirQuing: It would take a long time, so I thought it could be done by duos.
Yodarkritz: sounds like a lot of diving
SirQuing: While one is getting out of the pool, the other is jumping
Yodarkritz: maybe if you could do it on a big trampoline
SirQuing: good idea!
Yodarkritz: it would be hard not to mime when you were hitting the trampoline, though
SirQuing: you would lose points for that
Yodarkritz: that's a motivator
Yodarkritz: points are important
SirQuing: good point
Yodarkritz: even when they mean nothing
SirQuing: when their pointless
SirQuing: they're
Yodarkritz: exactly
Yodarkritz: they can still be tabulated
Yodarkritz: or taken away
SirQuing: a lot of numerology seems to be like that
SirQuing: pointless points
Yodarkritz: some people get crazy ideas about conincidence and such
SirQuing: no way I was just thinking that!
SirQuing: he he
Yodarkritz: contrived ones too, like performing math functions until they get a certain number
Yodarkritz: like three
SirQuing: don't take the number three's name in vain
Yodarkritz: Like in my book?...
SirQuing: ?
Yodarkritz: Not the Magic Number, Debunking the De La Soul Principle
Yodarkritz: out of print
SirQuing: ah
SirQuing: shame
SirQuing: speaking of numbers
Yodarkritz: 2787210384173042
SirQuing: I was watching sesame street in oklahoma
SirQuing: ha ha
Yodarkritz: and
SirQuing: and the 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 song came on
SirQuing: That song is so fucking good.
SirQuing: Crazy syncopations
Yodarkritz: you're right
Yodarkritz: 816 deal
SirQuing: It deserves a gover
SirQuing: cover
SirQuing: 816?
Yodarkritz: trying to write in numbers
Yodarkritz: supposed to be big
Yodarkritz: didn't work
SirQuing: ah
SirQuing: boobless
Yodarkritz: what a great phenomenon
Yodarkritz: that word/number
SirQuing: I like writing numbers like this:
SirQuing: 6ix
SirQuing: 7even
SirQuing: 4our
SirQuing: 5ive
SirQuing: 2wo
SirQuing: 9ine
Yodarkritz: yeah, i've seen that before
Yodarkritz: my friend writes his name 6rady
Yodarkritz: it's brady
Yodarkritz: doesn't look so good in helvetica
SirQuing: cool though
Yodarkritz: there's a girl who works for us called amy
Yodarkritz: she writes her name: @my
SirQuing: nice
SirQuing: @ndres
SirQuing: 1ndres
Yodarkritz: she calls in and says it's amy
Yodarkritz: and then I say, oh, you mean "at-me?" (phonetically)
SirQuing: chuckle
Yodarkritz: I always call her atme.
SirQuing: 9ndres
SirQuing: non-dres
SirQuing: that's my nobody alter-ege
SirQuing: ego
Yodarkritz: visit http://www.openletters.net
SirQuing: ok
Yodarkritz: sometime. go to the back issues
Yodarkritz: download the pdf of the first one
Yodarkritz: print it out
Yodarkritz: and then read it sometime
Yodarkritz: it sounds stupid to print something from the web
Yodarkritz: but it's nice, too
SirQuing: no, I like that
SirQuing: I often print things out and go read them while I take a crap at work.
Yodarkritz: I predict that you will soon after you read the first issue
Yodarkritz: you will read more
SirQuing: I'm too tired now, but I'll remember
Yodarkritz: of course.
Yodarkritz: I should probably do a couple things now
SirQuing: just saved it to my desktop.
Yodarkritz: work kind of things
SirQuing: I'm going home
Yodarkritz: bye
SirQuing: nice talking to you
Yodarkritz: get some rest
SirQuing: will
Yodarkritz: yes, this was a good conversation
SirQuing: i'll save it!
Yodarkritz: i was just thinking that
SirQuing: done
Yodarkritz: ok, bye! for now
