Matthew Whitaker, former toilet visionary and current United States ambassador to NATO, speaks:
“People are enjoying the United States of America ’cause it’s an awesome place, and we have extraordinary things, like Buc-ees, like Chick-fil-A, you know, just some very convenient to eat in your car as you’re, you know, doing, having a phone call. It’s an amazing country, and I’m glad that people are finally, you know, kind of discovering what real America is. You know, being from Des Moines, Iowa, obviously I like it when they see places outside of New York and Los Angeles.”Happy Independence Day.
[If David Foster Wallace were still with us, he might be out of a job. Truly, we are living in the Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment.]
Many, many years ago, I shared a story about a professor who compared seeing Shakespeare’s plays when he was alive to contemporary sit-coms like “A.L.F.” I told you that I’d never seen an episode of “A.L.F.,” and asked where that left me. And you replied, deadpan and in anticipation (I think) of Domestic Comedy: “standing outside the Globe Theater.”
ReplyDeleteI don’t have a cell phone and have never visited Chick-Fil-A or Buc-ees. I guess that leaves me standing outside of America itself.
Seriously, what a seriously unserious administration.
I’ve had Chick-fil-A once, in the absence of anything else to eat. I had to look up Buc-ees — no idea.
ReplyDeleteThank you for reminding me (years ago) of that line about the Globe.