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Conversations Over Cocktails in Georgia

"Drink beer, the custom of the land! Beer he drank, seven goblets. His spirit was loosened, he became hilarious. His heart became glad and his face shone." --From Epic of Gilgamesh, 3rd century B.C.
 

I am Not Upset that I Did Not Win Karaoke.

I am not. My song was not good. Things did not go how I imagined them in my head. My song sounded better when it was in my head. When I imagined the song throughout the day in my head, it sounded very good. The crowd cheered for me very loudly when I sang the song in my head. Their cheers made me win karaoke. Outside of my head, the song was only fine, and the crowd clapped a lot in the beginning, but less and less as the song continued, until, finally, I think most people wanted the song to end. Eventually, the song ended, someone clapped, I drank many beers, and a middle-aged man with a pencil mustache won karaoke. The karaoke lady used the microphone to say that judging all of the singers was very difficult because everyone was very good, and that nobody should feel like a loser because there were no losers there that night. But I disagree--I think that the guy who won was kind of a loser, pencil mustache aside.
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At December 24, 2006 at 10:03:00 PM PST, Blogger Tao Lin said...

the gilgamesh quote is funny    



At December 25, 2006 at 3:17:00 PM PST, Blogger Gideon Gladwell said...

It is true--he did become hilarious. More importantly, everyone around him became tolerable. That is why his face shone.    



At January 7, 2007 at 5:08:00 PM PST, Blogger Tao Lin said...

his heart became glad, that is bad writing, because it anthropomorphises the heart in a banal and unselfmocking way, i don't know    



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