land of surprises

oh yeah, i forgot to say last post, but i saw this weird interview with clare danes talking about taylor dane's great dane's tail, which she thinks is mundane. pretty weird thing to see on prime time ukrainian tv, but i am convinced that when Angela Carter wrote "the infernal desire machine of Doctor Hoffman" she must have banged out at least some of that book on Ukrainian soil.

Today I was sitting on the mini bus waiting for it to take off, when in the throng I noticed something spectacular. There was this guy, who from the ankles up looked like your average workin class man in his early 30's, maybe a bit of a hard life type but nothing extraordinary.
but beneath his trouser cuffs there was a razzle dazzle disco goin on- lime green sequinned winklepickers! fair dinkum!
what is more, he was walkin around in them like it was nothing special. what is more than that, nobody else looked twice.

I think this afternoon it was about minus four outside, which made the next encounter also rather surprising. On the bench outside my building was another mid 30's guy, this one looked more of a hard living type, but was on the bench with a pedigree white long haired cat on his lap. both him and the cat had expressions of semi-disinterest and weren't really interacting with each other, just looking around with a look of aristocratic disdain. I think I gawked too long and whilst neither the man nor the cat looked at me, when i got closer the man acknowledged me with a dignified "good afternoon". at least i think it was the man.