cookie-cutter comments

You start to get wary of people in the throes of arty-farty bullshit in my line of work; when they start waxing lyrical about, say, the “eternity between the falling dewdrop and the earth” you should squint, twiddle your eyebrows if you’re capable, brandish your cruxifix or perform any other outrageous, melodramatized gesture of abhorrence.

I recently met up with a friend from Singapore — ye gods, sometimes I miss that place so much it’s a palpable pain in my chest — and we talked and talked and talked for two straight hours. I wish I had more time, and I wish he did, but he wasn’t there for just idle chit-chat. We exchanged goings-on in our lives with each other, but in a very butch and touching way, if you know what I mean.

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It’s like devolution. Opinions have an interesting way of degenerating into so much idle chatter on the airwaves. For those unaware, bloggers in Singapore have been brought on charges and sentenced. An overview can be read here. The most interesting comment would not be easy to pick out:
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