Peeking Through Blinds In The Middle Of The Street
the fuck is everyone staring at?
there's only one street i've walked down where i haven't been completely hawked and gawked at, and that's the one where all the expats go to eat banana pancakes. everwhere else i've gone, and by that i mean everywhere outside these 2 blocks, the locals watch me as if i was wearing a cape and tights, and i'm about to jump into the air and fly away... and all they'll ever know of me are the stories from those lucky enough to have seen me.
the looks come mostly from the people out on the street (not necessarily homeless, there's a great street culture here where it seems most would much rather be outside, eating a bowl of noodles (pho) or having a drink with their friends, than indoors watching TV) but also from the hordes of motorbike riders that swarm every street with a presence that is totally unbelievable unless you see it for yourself. the only way i can think to describe it is imagine if you gave everyone in chinatown either a motorcycle or scooter. and i don't mean that because they're asian, although it is convenient for the metaphor, but that huge masses of people are trying to get from point A to point B and the lines intersect every which way, and most every rule of orderly conduct is completely disregarded. chinatown on wheels.
and they are all fascinated with me. and i'm not sure if it's because of my clothes, or cool hair, or my lazy eye, or because they think i'm frodo just passing through on my quest to destroy the ring, or michael j fox, back from the future where i had had parkinson's but now i'm somehow young and healthy again, or they can smell my club foot, or what. shit. maybe they should spend less time out on the streets and more time indoors watching MTV.
oh, and happy birthday salamanella, dr. eyebrow...tho i think it would be funnier if it were german: herr eyebrow
posted by mat @ 7:48 AM
3 Comments:
Matt, the reason that they're gawking at you is because you're the tallest person there, yet you look like your 12. It's as if a 7 foot tall baby was walking down the streets of New York. People would gawk at the baby.
I like ur headline for this one...but I think it woulda been cooler if it were Peking through the blinds...
I know...Peking is in china, but they all look the same anyway.
yeah so i tried out for the vietnamese national basketball team, but they already had a star center.
he was only an inch taller than me but he owned the box like it was nobody's business.
well, it doesn't bother me... but it is a little freaky.
i definitely get an MTV station at the hotel but it's different than US MTV, chinese maybe? it plays music videos more or less nonstop and the only american one i caught was that britney spears one about her perogative. but i haven't seen all that much so i really don't know.
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