The Apple Falls in Another Time Zone, and is an Orange

[strange_aeons]

I accidentally watched Sleepwalkers, a terrible and middling-old Stephen King movie, earlier today. (It ended about an hour ago. I was planning on putting just the first half-hour on so as to have some noise in the background, because there was something I intended to actually watch on at nine — or so I thought, but it turned out to be on at ten.) I remember watching it with my parents when I was much younger, and my father, when one of the characters stabbed another in the back with a cob of corn (I said it was a terrible movie), making a really offensive joke about cornholing. I didn't put together the 'offensive' bit until years later, when I figured out (a) what he meant by 'cornholing' and (b) that not everyone regards queers as just, you know — all of their favorite relatives. (Except for the diagnosed schizophrenic, but I have my suspicious about him.)

I also remember the relish with which he told me about his fear, when he was a kid, of homogenised milk — because the cartons were marked 'homo' and, I guess, he wasn't a very smart kid.

Heh. I wonder if he has any idea.

There are some really bad effects cuts in this episode of Angel. Who edited this thing? On the other hand, and I hadn't noticed this before, the guy who plays Holtz has one hell of a voice on him.

Comments

[kiya]

It took me a while to parse your title as a munge of "apple doesn't fall far from the tree" and "apples and oranges", but I'm not sure where the time zones came in.

My inner daemon's suggestion that if he decides to be an ass about it within earshot, one should respond with a comment about the good example his obsessiveness on the subject set, is probably not the course of wisdom so much as the course of belligerent and pointless snarkiness.

And your free-associator is running completely normally again.

[oneironaut.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure where the time zones came in.

Just to indicate farness-away, though I suppose a carefully-placed tree would kind of ruin that. Originally, the orange was a nectarine, which made even less sense; I just like nectarines.

I don't think earshot's going to be an issue any time in the near future. I haven't spoken to him in a couple of years, and that's the way I likes it.