Wednesday, July 22, 2009
Ice Cream Swan on The Lido Deck
Wednesday June 24th (lunchish [my birthday]): Of all the amazing things to eat on a Carnival Cruise, the ice cream swan may be among the most deceptive. Despite looking like an oversized cream puff drizzled with strawberry syrup, the truth of the matter is that the ice cream swan is plain old vanilla ice cream with tough pastry bread-stuff tacked on. Do yourself a favor and eat the ice cream swan with your eyes only, and then go get another soft serve cone.
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that is so lame. WTF?! for sure.
ReplyDeletebtw, i watched "deliverance" last night. had never seen it before. it was great. my growing familiarity with the appalachian mountains and my burgeoning love for them really lent a lot to my experience of the film. i've never really considered the appalachians to be all that sinister because, in the east, civilization always seem to be just around the corner. in theory, you only have to travel a handful of miles to reach the nearest store/town/hospital unlike the still-rugged and so so vast southwest where you may be desertbound with nothing around you for hundreds of miles. in "deliverance," though, despite proximity to civilization (even without the violent, debauched, inbred hillbillies) the landscape was so vividly hostile, beautiful, sublime. i suppose the famous hillbilly rape scene DID catalyze all of the subsequent sinisterliness and did, ultimately, force the hand of our weekend warrior heroes (man, burt reynolds was a sexy badass) and those events were admittedly surreal and unlikely, but it did make me question the imagined safety bubble that's surrounded me every time i've ventured into the appalachian backcountry.
ReplyDeleteWill. I hope that you never get gang-raped by hillbillies when you are out hiking. But I know you will always be looking over your shoulder from now on.
ReplyDeleteBrian. Is this post supposed to be an allusion to the myth of Lido and the Swan, where a human male named Lido gets gang raped by a bunch of Greek Gods and they keep telling him to "squawk like a swan" while they're humiliating him? Just curious.
gosh, i wish i were that knowledgeable and clever, but I never knew such a thing happened to lido 'til now! Some Carnival higher-up intellectual person may be responsible however... I smell an allusionistic conspiracy!
ReplyDeletei'll bet you knew it on some deep psychic level. that totally explains why i wanted to talk about deliverance.
ReplyDeleteomg, i did not even make that connection - you certainly knew it on a deep psychic level
ReplyDeleteYou guys are too much. And Brian, we did eat that swan on the Lido Deck.
ReplyDeleteI believe in the conspiracy.