This past Sunday night, Richard Bonomo had a sort of
birthday dinner for Mr. Icon. Kathbert, Mr. Luxuli, El Vegetariano, and some
people I didn’t know were also there. You know how Mr. Icon has always looked
like he stepped out of an icon? Now he lives in Kodiak, Alaska, and with his
striped sweater and knit cap (or as the Canadians say, toque), he looked just
like he had stepped off of an Alaskan fishing boat. He told us right now it’s a
lot warmer in Kodiak, which doesn’t surprise me – recently, it was warmer at
the South Pole than here, so why not in Alaska? Apparently Kodiak never gets
that cold. Mr. Icon loves it there; he is working for some combination of
Baptist missionaries and the Russian Orthodox Church, or maybe Bulgarians. It’s
always a little hard to keep his life straight. He says in Alaska every “real” man
has a beard (which he does), a pickup truck (which he doesn’t), and what they
call a “dawg.” These are enormous creatures that are part husky, part malamute,
and part golden retriever. (How’s that for random?) Nobody owns little dogs
like Rodney on Kodiak – they would probably get eaten by wolves, or by the “dawgs”
that the “real” men own. There are a lot more men than women up in Alaska, or
as my OTHER choir director noted, “The odds are good, but the goods are odd.”
Just something to keep in mind, single ladies reading this blog.
Famous Hat
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