MY TEABAG IS MISSING!

It wasn't until we left the burger joint that I realized I had forgotten teabags. Imagine my inner voice, much like the lead character in one of Don Herzfeldt's insightful movies, intoning "my teabag is missing" in the style of "my spoon is too big". Precisely so. This Dutch American pipe smoker with a Canadian WW2 bomber pilot in the family lives on tea.
Which is very Anglo - Canuck - Continental of me.
En eigenlijk verdomd beschaafd.

Civilized life is impossible without caffeinated beverages. As a brief stroll around this city often makes abundantly clear.

Everywhere there are happy puffballs ecstatically cheering while one of them exclaims "for the love of gob and all that is holy, my anus is bleeding". After which comes the porchoppy segment done with his left hand. A spaceship falls from the sky.
As intended for The Family Learning Channel.

Bean Lard Mulch. Now with vitamin C.

[©2000 BITTER FILMS]

Educational programming at its finest. Don Herzfeldt is responsible for many fine informative films and nature documentaries, which comes to mind particularly because the bookseller has tooth work at the dentist scheduled tomorrow, so he should watch Wisdom Teeth (Visdüm Tooten) in order to be well-prepared for what awaits.

Fortunately both places where we went after the burger joint had tea. So I did have a hot stimulating beverage despite having left my teabags at home. There was doleful moaning at the karaoke bar, halfhearted and apathetic, misery made vocal, which suited us fine, and Miss Vivien's was almost totally empty when we walked in. Sadly, neither place allows smoking on the premises, so the pipe was enjoyed while exposed to the elements.

I miss smoking my pipe with a cup of tea in sundry low dives.
The world doesn't cater to civilized delinquents.


I do not know what the music was at the karaoke bar. A hip video with a young characterless twit being emotive, except that the lyrics were fatuous and jejune, and pleased the fluttery young people near the mike. We sat nearer a woman speaking Taiwanese-style Mandarin, who was quite vehement about something, and consequently somewhat more interesting.
I have no idea what she was on about.

Yes, I am judgemental.



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