A.H.W.O.S.G. cita previa

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At the moment I'm seeing a woman who is twenty-nine. The twenty-nine-year-old, an actual woman-woman, is the managing editor at the weekly where I do some design and freelance illustrating. Though it becomes clear early on, after she wears a beret one day, of purple velour, that we're not meant to be, I continue the relationship, gloating about my ability to procure and relate to this woman-woman, seven years older. She is smart, with long blond hair and laugh lines, and is also midwestern, from Minnesota I think, and knows how to order and drink actual drinks. And she's twenty-nine. Was that mentioned, that she's twenty-nine? This I conisder fitting, fitting that I, who am bearing the weight of both Toph and the world, I who have been through so much and already feel so old, should be dating a woman seven years my senior. But of course!
Her motivations are unclear, but I have a theory: at twenty-nine, she, like most people at or near thirty, is feeling wretched, old, as if their chance has passed -and the only way to regain even a smidgen of their squandered youth would be to drink in someone like me, bursting with virility-

Get the idea? Por si preguntan, no uso boinas moradas. Punto a mi favor. Y no estoy vieja. Ni me siento vieja. El próximo año no cumplo años. En Oceanía, me han dicho, las actas de nacimiento no tienen fecha.

A.H.W.O.S.G. parte 2

All we really want is for no one to have a boring life, to be impressive, so we can be impressed.
We try to convince people that we're a lifestyle magazine.
'See, we're talking here about a style of life.'
'Huh.'
'Get it? Not lifestyle like lifestyle. Life. Style. A style of life.'
'Right.'
'A style. Of life.'

Y después vinieron los traseros al sol. Este libro me empieza a gustar. Gracias, Guillermo. Gracias, amigo Julián. Ustedes sí saben qué es bueno para Tinajero.

A.H.W.O.S.G.

De la carta que escribió un personaje de A.H.W.O.S.G. a los productores del show de MTV, The Real World:

Oscar Wilde wrote, "Good artists exist in what they make, and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are. A great poet, a really great poet, is the most unpoetical of all creatures. But inferior poets are absolutely fascinating... [they] live the poetry [they] cannot write." As with Dorian Gray, life is my art! Oh MTV, take me, make me, wake me from my formless slumbers and place me in the dreamy Real World of target marketing.

Yeah!