349. Yr boring
August 4th, 2010 § 17 Comments
We’ve noticed that some new people have been coming to FFW — through things like links from other great blogs like Threadbared, and through the republication of Jenny’s star turn re: Christian Dior in Jezebel. So, to those of you who are new to our space, I/we say Welcome!
Yesterday Chris and I were walking back to my parents’ house (we’re staying here for two weeks while our new apartment is cleaned and painted) when a carful of teenagers began heckling us.
“YOU’RE BORING!” they shouted. “YEAH, YOU! YOU WITH THE BACKPACK! YOU WITH THE PLAID SHIRT! YOU’RE BORING! HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!”
We ignored them, obviously, but I felt a little speck of outrage and a little speck of embarrassment. Then I got home and thought deeply about the critique that they had just made about us.
I am so not a boring person. In fact, after we got home last night, Chris and I watched a BBC documentary about Van Gogh. Is that something a boring person would do? I think not. Van Gogh was a very exciting person to hear about. The documentary also had many reenactments of Van Gogh muttering about paint. There’s a scene where he squeezes an entire tube of yellow paint into his mouth. I think that it was mustard?
We also spent around forty minutes yesterday looking at terrariums online, and talking about terrariums. (See above for Our First Terrarium.) Terrariums are the most exciting thing to put inside glass objects since whiskey. Like I said: NOT BORING.
I was reading Wallace Stegner (Crossing to Safety) yesterday before Chris got home. Not sure if Wallace Stegner is boring or not. I’ll leave that for the judges.
Shopping for antiques and vintage knick-knacks with which to decorate our new apartment. EXCITING!
Doing yoga every day. EXCITING!
I don’t know what those young whipper-snappers were talking about. I’m going to drink my coffee and listen to some gramophone music now.
xo, mw
Oh my, what a strange comment to yell!
Your life doesn’t seem at all boring to me, so please don’t pay any attention to random people whose idea of a good time consists of yelling things at strangers. They’re akin to internet trolls if you ask me.
I would say though, that I’d rather be called boring than some of the other things I’ve heard hecklers yell. Especially when walking through the Tenderloin (I used to commute to work & school by walking down Market to get to/from Downtown to/from the Civic Centre) or now, living in the Mission.
ps. I ♥ van gogh!
Best. Heckle. Ever.
bahaha, love it! also, i was recently reading about geodesic domes on the internet with my boyfriend. not boring at all!
What a bizarre thing to say! Oh, kids these days…haha. Delightful post, I’m so happy I stumbled across your blog
Upon reflection, I think that girl was also talking about me when she kept hollerin’ about Chewbacca. Which is ridiculous. My sideburns aren’t nearly as impressive as they were 7 years ago when Tim Harrington called me “Son of the Wolfman” in the middle of that Les Savy Fav show!
Maybe…maybe my sideburns HAVE become boring…
Haha! Oh dear! I think all the things you just said sound more exciting than driving around telling people they’re boring. I assume driving because it doesn’t seem like something you’d do on foot really. That said, I have heckled passers by before whilst in a car with friends – because it was really funny to yell “coo-ee!” and see the reaction. Never anything insulting though.
Oh, I saw your post on Jezebel today. Congrats!
You should’ve told those hecklers, “Yeah, but who’s driving around yelling lame insults at strangers? Not me….”
Well, from what I’ve been reading, you definitely don’t lead a boring life. Don’t let them get to you!
I’m with mordicai, that’s a pretty damn awesome heckle.
I absolutely love those photographs at the beginning of the post, by the way. I am rather sad at the moment because my own camera is ‘sick’, the lens has somehow become dislodged and it’s having trouble pulling itself back in. It’s still useable (just) but it makes these really sad whirr-click noises when I turn it off
Sounds like they were yelling their own insecurities. Thanks for posting this, it was really heartfelt.
Julia
Tsss Tsss Tsss Heeeeehhhhh (that’s my old man wheezy laugh).
It’s awesome what constitutes this relative ennui. I think that eating paint is royally fascinating. I also think that terrariums are wickedly bad ass- so bad ass in fact, that you ma’am, are the Queen of Bad ass. And seeing as I am just one of many minions, I will follow suit and finally get myself a terrarium.
It’s not even the little earthiness that I like– it’s the miniature figurines that you get to pose on your little piece of earthiness.
I’m getting really excited just thinking about it.
And also— PLAID?! Plaid is like, the most UN-boring of all prints (except for maybe those really 90s fractal prints)!!!
So- poo on you, kids.
.Haiku
What a bizarre heckling incident! Maybe they think that people who aren’t in cars are boring…? Because, clearly, you are not boring. You are awesome!
What a heckle! One time when I was moving to my new apartment with Karan, some teenagers heckled me about carrying an armload of clothes. I think the exact heckle was, ‘Hey! Yo, you wanna do some laundry in my house?’ and I yelled back, ‘Um, do you have a washer and dryer or only a washer?’ At the thought, I thought that was a pretty good heckle, but you and Chris’ heckle takes the cake! If only those fuddy duddy teenagers knew what exceptional lives we really lead! And you are right about Van Gogh, terrariums, and Wallace Stegner. Not boring at all! Especially not good ol Stegner.
xo
I love kids who get original with the things they yell at us old folks.
I very much enjoy your terrarium. My mom has been begging me to make one with some of these crazy old mason jars I have lying around but I have no idea as to how to even begin.
no one boring writes a cool ass blog like this =)
lol, them kids be trollin’.
that’s all these kids could come up with? THEY lack imagination.