Suffice it to say that I am swearing off parties and returning to my safe, almost-completely-awkwardness-free hermetic lifestyle. ![]() I'm pretty sure at some point during the evening I also said, with party-speaking volume, "I think I really like Dick!" Sometimes I wish English had fewer homophones. The awkwardness of the words coming out of my mouth did not even occur to me for several sentences. Or rather speculative fiction."Īnother conversation involved me explaining to a white guy how interesting I (a half-Japanese guy) found reading about defeated white Americans kowtowing to their Japanese overlords. I don't do scifi." "But it's got Nazis!" "Oh my god I love Nazis!" Another conversation involved me explaining to a white guy how interesting I (a half-Ja On Wednesday I found myself at a party (an occurrence itself worthy of remark) at which everyone wore "I'm currently reading." stickers, so I had several opportunities to explain why I was loving The Man in the High Castle. One such conversation went like this: "So what's that about?" "Well, it's scifi. ![]() On Wednesday I found myself at a party (an occurrence itself worthy of remark) at which everyone wore "I'm currently reading." stickers, so I had several opportunities to explain why I was loving The Man in the High Castle.
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