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January 27, 2006
Lunchtime Tales
Today I'm happy. It's Friday, sunny, my boss is out, I'll soon be at lunch with some co-worker friends, and I've been lost in "In the Reins"all morning, after a little bit of the Edwin Hawkins Singers to spice things up.
Yesterday Tami and I attended our volunteer orientation at the Bird Street Community Center in Dorchester, where we plan to tutor highschoolers on Monday nights. I didn't know they were going to be highschoolers. Aaahh! What to do when my student brings me a theorem she's having trouble understanding, and all I can say is, "Sorry baby, I can't help you, because I don't remember how - that was a good eight years ago - but I can tell you how to construct a convincing thesis and watch out for dangling modifiers [great name for a band, by the way - credit to jb], and perhaps knock off a few of those adjectives. What are we studying again?"?
Speaking of bands, we're starting one. Don't have songs or instruments, and I don't want to reveal the band name just yet (in other words, don't be looking us up on Pitchfork), but we've got some song titles in the works. That's a start, right? Tell me if you have any good ideas.
One final story of interest (although it's really the first "story" in this entry): yesterday at Harvard Square station I saw a woman with an Abercrombie and Fitch bag, and lo and behold, who should be staring back at me from that bag but Hoyt Halvorsen himself! Yes, the Covenant-grad-turned-male-model. I'd heard of his escapades with A & F, but didn't see any evidence until yesterday. The woman boarded the train, her bag facing the window, and his euphoric expression in the reflection made me laugh all the way to Downtown Crossing. I don't mean to make fun of Hoyt...but I think anyone can understand the strangeness of the situation.
I'm still not persuaded to shop there.
| By laurajuanita | 12:23 PM
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for a band name or even song title, i've always liked "techno prisoners."
Posted by: tacyjane at January 27, 2006 12:54 PM
"Beware the Dangling Modifiers" or "Dangling Modifiers" for a band name? I prefer the first choice.
Song titles, or possibly band names: "The Latter and the Former" and all 16 Myers-Briggs personality types. You could even read _Please Understand Me II_ and give each song the correct personality to match its title..."ISTP" and "ENFJ" and so on...
More song titles:
"Organza"
"Melange"
"Mother-In-Law"
Posted by: Krista at January 28, 2006 02:01 PM
ooh i have another for you: sengoku gunto-den. ask tami what it means. in case she doesn't know (ha), it means "saga of the vagabonds" and it's the title of a kurosawa film.
Posted by: tacyjane at February 1, 2006 04:11 PM
thanks, guys, these are good ideas. tacy, i'm all about that kurosawa. we'll see what we can do with it.
Posted by: laura at February 1, 2006 07:59 PM
I'd just call the band Kurosawa. The other phrase is a bit too long, I think. It won't fit on the t-shirt.
Split Infinitives might make a nice metal label.
Posted by: funke at February 1, 2006 10:28 PM
And as far as song titles go, I've never heard one that topped "Who Threw the Overalls in Mrs. Murphy's Chowder?"
Posted by: funke at February 1, 2006 10:31 PM
