September 22, 2007
Badass
My descent into responsible adulthood continues apace. The vacuum cleaner that came with my current flat appears to be powered by elastic bands. It doesn’t suck. So finally in a fit of practicality and technophillia I bought one of these.
To quote one of Neal Stephenson’s characters:
“Until a man is twenty-five, he still thinks, every so often, that under the right circumstances he could be the baddest motherfucker in the world. If I moved to a martial-arts monastery in China and studied real hard for ten years. If my family was wiped out by Columbian drug dealers and I swore myself to revenge. If I got a fatal disease, had one year to live, devoted it to wiping out street crime. If I just dropped out and devoted myself to being bad.”
At 30 the fact that I’m excited about a new vacuum cleaner proves that this is no longer, if it ever was, true for me.
On the plus side. My new vacuum cleaner totally rocks.
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