God Gave Rock and Roll To You

May 14, 2011

Home-made guitar project complete. Well, nearly so. There are a few details left to address, but I spent the morning with a soldering gun and a screwdriver until I was finally ready to string it up, plug it in, and let 'er rip.

"Oi, mate, I'm gettin’ the band back togetha."

Er. Um. Probably not. But hey, you never know.

In other news:

Several months ago, I was freelancing somewhere, and in the middle of the afternoon, everyone in the office suddenly crowded around a kitchen table for a quick employee birthday party. I'm not sure how it came up, since I'm sure it wasn't a meat cake, but one of the girls started talking about being vegetarian. She'd been a vegetarian for years and mentioned that her boyfriend was a vegetarian, too. Someone asked the girl how strict they both were, if they ever cheated with a hamburger or anything like that. No, she said, Someone else asked if she and her boyfriend were both vegetarians when they met, or if one of them had influenced the other, which led to a funny story.

The girl's boyfriend has a long red beard and dresses like an Amish farmer. He was standing on a crowded subway car one day when a guy standing next to him struck up a conversation.

"Do you eat a lot of sheep?" the man asked.

"No," the boyfriend replied, a little bewildered. "Why do you ask?"

"I dunno," said the man. "The beard and, you know, your whole look. You look like someone who eats a lot of sheep."

"Actually, I'm a vegetarian."

"Oh," said the man. "I see. So, how long have you been married for?"