Robot Wars

Author notes

Issue Six page 4: Kitchen Curiousity

ipokino

on Aug. 15, 2008

Well, back from vacation number one…trip to visit family for parents fiftieth wedding anniversary. Great fun. Old hometown sure has changed a lot in eighteen years. Seems like all the things that were near and dear to me in my youth are mostly gone or radically changed. The skeleton is the same, but the skin has morphed a lot. When I moved east I hated the crowds and the fact that there wasn't hardly a bookstore in sight (hometown had two!) Now I am so used to the population density of the east that the lack of people in Iowa was scary! And now my old hometown has no bookstores at all, and Brattleboro has five within easy walking distance and two Borders within thirty minutes drive! How weird is that?
Anyway, the whole religion thing was a spooky topic. I think the family realizes I'm not quite fitting their mold, but it went no further. No one cared much for Robot Wars (too much nudity and lesbian girls!?!?!?!?!?) but I expected that. Still, you put my sibs, and sibs-in-law all in one room and you get what I expect the ancient Greek Forum was like…ideas blasting all over, friendly insults and jests, laughter and discussion. I really was great–as long as religion did not rear its head. Poor Dad, he used the 'N' word in a joke and boy did he get flamed. We tore him up over that–and I don't think he was expecting it. He is from another time, when races just didn't mix, and he still can't quite get his mind around the changes.
My folks also have been so propagandized against Hillary Clinton and (oh Goddess) Barack Obama that the mere mention of their names in the house is like throwing gasoline on a blowtorch! Did you know that Obama is a Muslum Terrorist?!? I sure didn't (*coff* *choke* *wheeze*) Where do people GET this stuff!?! Iowa sometimes felt like I had fallen down the rabbit hole…
Anyway, here's my page!