A Delicate Balance
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It didn't take the town very long to realize that giving Rube Goldberg an architecture commission wasn't the brightest of ideas.
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posted by George at 9:17 AM
Monday, February 11, 2008
Originally uploaded by aBuzzi
It didn't take the town very long to realize that giving Rube Goldberg an architecture commission wasn't the brightest of ideas.
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- Name: George
George markets only for the forces of good for a living. He has a paid hobby that involves eating, drinking, and writing, things he’d do for free, which is almost what he’s doing it for. In a previous life he taught mostly illiterate and generally ungrateful college students how to write. He has been a body guard for Jodie Foster, a walk-on dancer with French avant garde troupe Maguy Marin, a film programmer, a judge at an Iron Chef style competition, a political activist, a textbook author, a bassist in a band, a two-time league winning fantasy baseball manager, a union local president, a pr flack helping run a red carpet at an Angelina Jolie event, a janitor, a chauffeur to folks from TC Boyle to Andrei Codrescu, a delivery man to Plato's Retreat, a reluctant writer of a non-snarky intro for Colin Powell, a radio DJ, a corn detassler, an escort van driver, a rock journalist, a lab assistant for a company that made everything from mouthwash to super skin lubricant, and even, once, a poet. His biggest brush with fame was when Julie Christie fondled his tie, a tie George Lopez belittled to 1000 people minutes later. The best thing about him is his wife. His dogs aren't bad, either.
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3 Comments:
Well done, sir.
(Though I admit I don't really "get" the next one, with the cop-cab.)
The car looks like a cop car model, but it's yellow like a taxi, so....
Well, as they say, if you have to explain the joke....
I'd like to see a video of that Rube Goldberg contraption set in motion.
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