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August 2007

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British Chivalry

Upon arriving at Gatwick, after nearly 24 hours of waiting, flying, driving, thumb twiddling, I was edging my way through customs.

FSU was very sure to stress upon us the importance of showing the guy at the stand our letter of acceptance alongside our passports.

I trudged up to the twitchy man in the hard pressed navy suit.  Clearly British.  When I handed him my Seminole emblem’d letter he scoffed:

“Oh, I’ve seen about five bloody thousand of these this morning, don’t show me that.  The spelling is atrocious, grammar a mess, and I hope to God whoever wrote this piece of filth shan’t be attempt to teach you communications.”

Cheers. 

Aug 31, 2007
“In America you can ease into middle age with the accoutrements of adolescence still prominent and suffer relatively minor embarrassment: okay, so the guy’s still got his sideburns and rod and beer and beergut and wife and three kids and a duplex and never grew up. So what? You’re not supposed to grow up in America. You’re supposed to consume. But in Britain it seems there is some ideal, no, some dry river one is expected to ford, so you can enter that sedate bubble where you raise a family, contributing in your small way to your society and keep your mouth shut. Until you get old, that is, when you can become an “eccentric”— do and say outrageous things, naughty things, because it’s expected of you, you’ve crossed to the other mirror of the telescope of childhood.” —Lester Bangs
Aug 28, 2007
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