I have a friend who must be the sweetest, shyest person in the world. His name is brittle and ancient (Luke), his age modestly intermediate (forty). He is rather short and skinny, classic cardy ugg bootshas a thin moustache and even thinner hair on his head. Since his vision is not perfect, he wears glasses: they are small, round and frame-less.
In order not to inconvenience anyone, he always walks sideways. Instead of saying ‘Excuse me’, he prefers to glide by one side. classic cardy ugg cheapIf the gap is so narrow that it will not allow him to pass, Luke waits patiently until the obstruction — be it animate or inanimate, rational or irrational — moves by itself. Stray dogs and cats panic him, and in order to avoid them he constantly crosses from one side to of the road to another.
He speaks with a very thin, subtle voice, so inaudible that it is hard to tell if he is speaking at all. He has never interrupted anybody. On the other hand,classic cardy ugg boots he can never manage more than two words without somebody interrupting him. This does not seem to irritate him; in fact, he actually appears happy to have been able to utter those two words.
My friend Luke has been married for years. His wife is a thin, choleric, nervous woman who, as well as having an unbearably shrill voice, strong lungs, a finely drawn nose and a viperous tongue suffers from an uncontrollable temper and the personality of a lion tamer. Luke — you have to wonder how — has succeeded in producing a child named (by his mother) Juan Manuel. He is tall, blond, intelligent, distrustful, sarcastic and has a fringe. It is not entirely true that he only obeys his mother. However, the two of them have always agreed that Luke has little to offer the world and therefore choose to ignore his scarce and rarely expressed opinions.
Luke is the oldest and the least important employee of a dismal company that imports cloth. It operates out of a very dark building with black-stained wooden floors situated in Alsina street. The owner — I know him personally — is called don Aqueróntido — I don’t know whether that is his first name or his surname — and he has a ferocious moustache, is bald and has a thunderous voice. He is also violent and greedy.cheap ugg cardy boots My friend Luke goes to work dressed all in black, wearing a very old suit that shines from age. He only owns one shirt — the one he wore for the first time on the day of his marriage — and it has an anachronistic plastic collar. He also only owns one tie, so frayed and greasy that it looks more like a shoelace. Unable to bear the disapproving looks of don Aqueróntido, Luke, unlike his colleagues, does not dare work without his jacket on and in order to keep this jacket in good condition he wears a pair of grey sleeve-protectors. His salary is ludicrously low, but he still stays behind in the office every day and works for another three or four hours: the tasks don Aqueróntido gives him are so huge that he has no chance of accomplishing them within normal hours. Now, just after the don Aqueróntido cut his salary yet again, his wife has decided that Juan Manuel must not do his secondary studies in a state school. She has chosen to put his name down for a very costly institution in the Belgrano area. In view of the extortionate outlay this involves, Luke has stopped buying his newspaper and (an even greater sacrifice) The Reader’s Digest, his two favourite publications. The last article he managed to read in the Reader’s Digest explained how husbands should repress their own overwhelming personality in order to make room for the actualisation of the rest of the family group.
Archive for December, 2009
My Friend Luke
Monday, December 7th, 2009Professor Panini
Monday, December 7th, 2009Before my many years’ service in a restaurant, I attended a top science university. The year was 2023 and I was finishing the project that would win me my professorship. classic cardy ugg bootsIn the end, it resulted in my becoming a kitchen employee.
My forty-second birthday had made a lonely visit the week before, and I was once again by myself in the flat. Like countless other mornings, I ordered a bagel from the toaster. ‘Yes, sir!’ it replied with robotic relish, and I began the day’s work on the project. It was a magnificent machine, the thing I was making - capable of transferring the minds of any two beings into each other’s bodies.
As the toaster began serving my bagel on to a plate, I realised the project was in fact ready for testing. classic cardy ugg cheapI retrieved the duck and the cat - which I had bought for this purpose ñ from their containers, and set about calibrating the machine in their direction. Once ready, I leant against the table, holding the bagel I was too excited to eat, and initiated the transfer sequence. As expected, the machine whirred and hummed into action, my nerves tingling at its synthetic sounds.
The machine hushed, extraction and injection nozzles poised, scrutinizing its targets. The cat, though, was suddenly gripped by terrible alarm. The brute leapt into the air, flinging itself onto the machine.classic cardy ugg boots I watched in horror as the nozzles swung towards me; and, with a terrible, psychedelic whirl of colours, felt my mind wrenched from its sockets.
When I awoke, moments later, I noticed first that I was two feet shorter. Then, I realised the lack of my limbs, and finally it occurred to me that I was a toaster. I saw immediately the solution to the situation - the machine could easily reverse the transfer - but was then struck by my utter inability to carry this out.
After some consideration, using what I supposed must be the toaster’s onboard computer, I devised a strategy for rescue. I began to familiarise myself with my new body: the grill, cheap ugg cardy bootsthe bread bin, the speaker and the spring mechanism. Through the device’s rudimentary eye - with which it served its creations - I could see the internal telephone on the wall. Aiming carefully, I began propelling slices of bread at it. The toaster was fed by a large stock of the stuff, yet as more and more bounced lamely off the phone, I began to fear its exhaustion.
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Monday, December 7th, 2009The eighth of November was my birthday. I figured the best way to celebrate was to strike up a conversation with someone I didn’t know.
That would have been about ten A.M.
At the corner of Florida and Córdoba, I stopped a well-dressed sixty-year-old with a briefcase in his right hand and that certain uppitiness of lawyers and notaries.
“Excuse me, sir,” I said, “could you please tell me how to get to the Plaza de Mayo?
The man stopped, gave me the once-over, and asked a pointless question: “Do you want to go to the Plaza de Mayo, or to the Avenida de Mayo?
“Actually, I’d like to go to the Plaza de Mayo, but if that’s not possible, I’m fine with just about any place else.”
“O.K., then,” he said, eager to speak and without having paid any attention to me at all, “head that way” — he pointed south — “cross Viamonte, Tucum醤, Lavalle?
I realized he was having fun ticking off the eight streets I’d have to cross, so I decided to interrupt:
“Are you sure about what you’re saying?”
“Absolutely.”
“Forgive me for doubting your word,” I explained, “but just a few minutes ago a man with an intelligent face told me that the Plaza de Mayo was the other way” — and I pointed toward the Plaza San Mart’n.
The fellow could only reply, “Must be someone who’s not familiar with the city.”
“Nevertheless, like I said, he had an intelligent face. And naturally, I prefer to believe him, not you.”
Giving me a stern look, he asked, “All right, tell me, why do you prefer to believe him instead of me?”
“It’s not that I prefer to believe him instead of you. But, like I said, he had an intelligent face.”
“You don’t say! And I suppose I look like an idiot?”
“No, no!” I was shocked. “Who ever said such a thing?”
“Since you said that the other fellow had an intelligent face?
“Well, truthfully, this man had a very intelligent look about him.”
My sparring partner was growing impatient.
“Very well, then, sir,” he said, “I’m rather pressed for time, so I’ll say good-bye and be on my way.”
“That’s fine, but how do I get to the Plaza San Mart’n?”
Baucus admits he nominated girlfriend for U.S. Attorney
Saturday, December 5th, 2009Sen. Max Baucus’ office confirmed Saturday the Montana Democrat was in a relationship with a woman he also recommended for U.S. Attorney.
According to a statement released by the senator’s office, both Baucus and Melodee Hanes decided to withdraw her name for personal reasons, adding that their relationship was not the cause of their respective divorces.
“When Senator Baucus and Melodee Hanes, his former state director, realized that their relationship was developing beyond a purely professional nature, Melodee began the process of resigning her Senate employment,” Ty Matsdorf, a spokesman for Sen. Baucus said in a statement. “With an extensive background as a prosecutor and extensive legal experience, Ms. Hanes submitted her name for consideration for the U.S Attorney position from Montana.”
The statement, which includes a copy of Hanes’ resume, shows years of political and defense experience. Her name was one of six recommended for U.S. Attorney. After “extensive evaluation,” by a third party, Hanes’ name was submitted as one of three to be considered for the position, it said. After further interviews by Baucus and the junior senator from the state, Jon Tester, Hanes’ name was submitted to the White House along with two other top candidates, it added.
Khan destroys Salita in battle of faiths
Saturday, December 5th, 2009British boxer Amir Khan has retained his WBA light-welterweight title after winning the much-hyped “battle of the faiths” by stopping challenger Dmitriy Salita in the first round on Saturday night.
Khan, a devout Muslim, knocked down his Jewish opponent three times before the referee stopped after just one minute and 16 seconds.
Salita, an American citizen who was born in Ukraine and is nicknamed “Star of David”, was unable to follow up his bold claims made in the build-up to the fight, which took place in Newcastle in the north-east of England.
The 22-year-old Khan was successful in his first defense of the belt that he won in defeating Andreas Kotelnik in July.
He is trained by American Freddie Roach, who also guides Filipino star Manny Pacquiao, considered by many to be the best pound-for-pound boxer in the world.
Squirrel
Friday, December 4th, 2009It was when Squirrel Nutkin appeared at the October Board meeting that Mr Ramsay began to acquire his reputation for eccentricity. And that’s putting it mildly. A mild mannered man like him, too. Never said a word, usually. Kept his contributions to meetings to shaking his head in disapproval. Let everybody walk all over him. Especially Mr Giles.
To be fair, there were people who said at the time that there was nothing wrong in wearing a glove puppet to a board meeting as such, but there were more who disagreed, and several who thought that Mr Ramsay was off his chump. The matter was hotly disputed in every one of the company’s offices, on the shopfloor, in the canteen. Mr Ramsay was well-liked, even if everyone thought him ineffectual, so a lot of people stuck up for him, even if they thought the squirrel a bit odd. The one thing at which everybody drew the line, though, was his according the squirrel executive powers.
It happened during Mr Giles’s monthly overlong summary of the company’s financial position. Two factors, he was saying, were making the prospects for Ramsay & Co look bleak. These were:
1. the downturn in the ladies’ hosiery market. Sales had, like the inferior products of the company’s competitors, been slipping for years, and
2. the inefficiency of Ramsay & Co compared to its competitors.
The first of these factors spoke for itself, he said. There were simply fewer items of hosiery being sold, whether this was due to a new fashion for bare-leggedness due to the long hot summer combined with the undoubted increase in the uptake of feminine trouserings, or was a sign of continued recession was not for him to say. Ramsay & Co simply had to face the facts, whether they liked them or not, and accept what the market was telling them. Reality didn’t always turn out the way people wanted it to.
Jim Cramer and UGG’s
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Off the topic of stock picks, I caught Jenni Pulos, of Bravo TV’s ‘Flipping Out’ looking very cute in a pair of black leggings and black UGG Cardy boots worn pulled up.
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Friday, December 4th, 2009Fannie Poteet sat cross-legged on her Uncle John’s front porch; her favorite rag doll clutched under one arm. The late afternoon sun shone through the leaves of the giant oak tree, casting its flickering light on the cabin. This golden motion of light entranced the child and she sat with her face turned upward, as if hypnotized. The steady hum of conversation flowed from inside of the cabin.
“Ellen, I’m sure happy that you came to church with us today. Why don’t you spend the night? It’s getting awfully late and it will be dark before you make it home.”
“I’ll be fine Sally,” replied Fannie’s mother. “Anyhow, you know how Lige is about his supper. I left plenty for him and the boys on the back of the stove, but he’ll want Fannie and me home. Besides, he’ll want to hear if Sam Bosworth’s wife managed to drag him into church.”
The laughter that followed her mother’s statement broke the child’s musings and she stood up, pulled her dress over the protruding petticoat, and stepped inside.
“Get your shawl Fannie. When the sun goes down, it’ll get chilly.”
As the little girl went to the chair by the fireplace to retrieve her wrap, her uncle came in from the back with a lantern.
“You’ll need this Ellen. The wick is new and I’ve filled it up for you.”
“I appreciate it Johnny,” Ellen said. “I’ll have Lige bring it back when he goes to town next week.”
Ellen kissed her younger brother good-bye and hugged Sally gently. Patting her sister-in-law on her swollen belly, she said,” I’ll be back at the end of the month. Don’t be lifting anything heavy. If that queasy feeling keeps bothering you, brew some of that mint tea I left in the kitchen. Lord knows I’ve never seen a baby keep its mammy so sick as much as this one has. It’s a boy for sure.”
Upon hearing this, Fannie frowned. She was the youngest in her family, and the only girl. After living with four brothers, she had prayed fervently to God every night for Him to let her aunt have a girl. The only other comfort she had was the pretty rag doll that her mother had made for her. Tucking the doll under her left arm and gathering the shawl with the same hand, she stood waiting patiently. Aunt Sally kissed her lightly on the cheek and squeezed Fannie gently. “If I have a girl, I hope that she will be as sweet as you,” her aunt whispered. Uncle John patted her on the head and said, “Bye Punkin. When that old momma cat has her kittens, I’ll give you the pick of the litter