Slog - Comments on Last Friday at the Sculpture Park http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/06/blind_date_at_the_sculpture_park Last Friday afternoon I raced--literally, ran down Denny--to On the Boards for what I thought was a 5 pm show but turned out to be an 8 pm show. Bummer. Had hours to kill. Bought a magazine at a Safeway, put my iPod on shuffle, walked down to the sculpture park. Sat on a bench at the entrance to the pavilion, where a few of the sculptures and the water and the sky are laid out in front of you like a gigantic painting. Was minding my own, legs crossed, when a pretty woman sat down next to me. "Are... Copyright 2008 Tue, 12 Jun 2007 14:10:50 -0800 Tue, 12 Jun 2007 21:59:05 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by SB WHAT DOES THAT MEAN? So cryptic, so potentially interesting, so disappointing.

Must have been eHarmony.

]]> SB http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/06/blind_date_at_the_sculpture_park#c741324 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/06/blind_date_at_the_sculpture_park#c741324 Life Tue, 12 Jun 2007 14:20:50 -0800 Comment by monkey Max is such a mother fucker! I've never liked him and in all honesty she could do better.

]]> monkey http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/06/blind_date_at_the_sculpture_park#c741346 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/06/blind_date_at_the_sculpture_park#c741346 Life Tue, 12 Jun 2007 14:26:18 -0800 Comment by Andrew Gee, could she be a prostitute? And Christopher could have had sex with a lady.... well a lady of the night.

]]> Andrew http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/06/blind_date_at_the_sculpture_park#c741371 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/06/blind_date_at_the_sculpture_park#c741371 Life Tue, 12 Jun 2007 14:33:50 -0800 Comment by Gomez I know kids today are emo and guys today get such a kick out of girls who say and do weird shit like this, but call me jaded... I've got a reality check for you back here on Earth: she's probably batshit crazy.

]]> Gomez http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/06/blind_date_at_the_sculpture_park#c741376 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/06/blind_date_at_the_sculpture_park#c741376 Life Tue, 12 Jun 2007 14:35:27 -0800 Comment by Andrew Hey Christopher, what are you reading these days? Reading Thomas Mann's Magic Mountain.

]]> Andrew http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/06/blind_date_at_the_sculpture_park#c741380 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/06/blind_date_at_the_sculpture_park#c741380 Life Tue, 12 Jun 2007 14:36:28 -0800 Comment by Christin She's been dating Max online for five months now. He lives in Spokane (supposedly) and they've made plans to meet up three times now, but he canceled the first two last-minute and he didn't bother canceling this one. She's written Dan two different letters seeking permission to DTMFA, but Dan doesn't publish her letters. This was Max's second-to-last chance.

At least, that's my guess.

]]> Christin http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/06/blind_date_at_the_sculpture_park#c741417 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/06/blind_date_at_the_sculpture_park#c741417 Life Tue, 12 Jun 2007 14:46:23 -0800 Comment by kerri harrop very nine stories, christopher. nice!

]]> kerri harrop http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/06/blind_date_at_the_sculpture_park#c741427 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/06/blind_date_at_the_sculpture_park#c741427 Life Tue, 12 Jun 2007 14:49:13 -0800 Comment by lar 'it was chemical'
i'm gonna steal that.

]]> lar http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/06/blind_date_at_the_sculpture_park#c741456 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/06/blind_date_at_the_sculpture_park#c741456 Life Tue, 12 Jun 2007 14:57:15 -0800 Comment by Travis if it isn't Thomas Mann, or JD Salinger . . . and it HAS to be derivative of something (right . . . RIGHT?), then how about Miranda July? No, wait! Zadie Smith! No, no, Melville! Er, fuck. Flannery O'Connor? Philip K. Dick! Douglas Coupland! Richard Hugo! Dave Eggers! No, not Eggers. That other guy! The one I read sorta on the bus and before I went to sleep that one month when the internet was slow . . . uh, Gary Lutz? Damn it! I give up. Maybe it's just an interesting literary vignette on the Slog. No, no. Can't be. Toni Morrison! Rushdie! Joyce! Frizzelle! Just give me a little nod if I'm getting at all warmer. Louise Erdrich? Breton? New or Old Testament? Oh,fug. Damn you! Damn you and your cloudy influences! Just forget it! I'll get you next time! NEXT TIME!

]]> Travis http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/06/blind_date_at_the_sculpture_park#c741484 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/06/blind_date_at_the_sculpture_park#c741484 Life Tue, 12 Jun 2007 15:03:50 -0800 Comment by Sean Actually, Christopher, I think you are Max.

]]> Sean http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/06/blind_date_at_the_sculpture_park#c741564 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/06/blind_date_at_the_sculpture_park#c741564 Life Tue, 12 Jun 2007 15:22:36 -0800 Comment by COMTE maybe she and "Max" were planning to poop in each others butts...

]]> COMTE http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/06/blind_date_at_the_sculpture_park#c741656 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/06/blind_date_at_the_sculpture_park#c741656 Life Tue, 12 Jun 2007 15:43:38 -0800 Comment by elswinger It just sounds like a typical Stranger fix up where the second person to arrive scopes out their blind date and just bales without any consideration of the other person's feelings. It's why I stopped doing personal ads.

]]> elswinger http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/06/blind_date_at_the_sculpture_park#c741671 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/06/blind_date_at_the_sculpture_park#c741671 Life Tue, 12 Jun 2007 15:46:58 -0800 Comment by anarkallisti My vote is Haruki Murakami. There is a similar scene in The Wind-up Bird Chronicle.

]]> anarkallisti http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/06/blind_date_at_the_sculpture_park#c741771 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/06/blind_date_at_the_sculpture_park#c741771 Life Tue, 12 Jun 2007 17:07:41 -0800 Comment by foley i agree with COMTE

]]> foley http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/06/blind_date_at_the_sculpture_park#c741895 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/06/blind_date_at_the_sculpture_park#c741895 Life Tue, 12 Jun 2007 20:05:04 -0800 Comment by Max You stay away from her or I'll cut you open like a tauntaun.

]]> Max http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/06/blind_date_at_the_sculpture_park#c741939 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/06/blind_date_at_the_sculpture_park#c741939 Life Tue, 12 Jun 2007 21:59:05 -0800