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Sunday, May 06, 2007

It could happen.

It could happen that you are on a business trip, sitting in a chain Chinese restaurant, when a slender, odd old man who looks more than a little bit like a benign Sam Beckett walks by each table quietly handing out business cards that say:

FRED'S WATCH REPAIR.

And that, after finding an item on the menu titled
Dali Chicken.

(There's something surreal afoot, underneath the manicured commerce of it all.)

6 comments:

Reya Mellicker said...

Some people would never notice. But you have an eye for the real and the surreal. Your snip of life on the road sounds like a scene from the X-Files. Americana ... wow!

Lee said...

LOL, love the links and it sounds like my sort of experience :) hope you kept the card...you never know when you might need it

Ernesto said...

"The number of watches and clocks to be found today must be an affront to eternity" -Charles Simic (Notebooks 1996-2006)

Ah, the persistence of time! What a lovely sketch, Lori.

Pod said...

i would have noticed such things too. a little twin peaky. how wonderful and funny!
;0)

MjM said...

Major points for panoptic cultural triangulation.

:)

Vertigo is fun, as long as it doesn't spoil dinner, no?

Mise said...

Reminds me of O Henry's "The Green Door' :D