Thursday, August 11, 2005

pandas, plus three counts of attempted vehicular zachicide

baby panda is so fucking cute. Right now, i'm watching him on the pandacam (which is admittedly very panoptical and fucked up, but... pandas... cute... and i'm reduced to inarticulability.) He's repeatedly trying to curl himself into a ball, he's waving his tiny feet around in circles, and putting his little forepaws on top of his head. He's so adorable. Now he's trying to scratch himself. And every now and then he makes little noises, I think.

In the last two days three motorists have apparently attempted to hit me with their vehicles while i was lawfully crossing an intersection with the light and the pedestrian right of way. Yesterday it was these two guys in an SUV. I remarked to them that I had the right of way, which was dumb of me, and they shouted obscenities and threats and sped away making obscene gestures. so i called my mom. Today at the same intersection (5th Ave and 9th street in park slope) as I was aga-- excuse me, baby panda is now grasping a bamboo stalk in both paws and seems to be chewing on it -- ahem, again walking to Manhattan, a grey sedan nearly plowed into me. This time i didn't say or do anything.

Then, once i made it to Manhattan and was walkign up Broadway from the city Hall area into SoHo (eww) towards the east village, a large RV driven by a hasidic man in his late twenties or thirties with like "Lubavitch Mobile" or something like that written on the front and detailed with lots of stars of David and the phrase "The Moshiach is Coming Now!" (which confuses me because i thought they thought that the Moshiach was that Rabbi who passed away a few years ago) --Mommy Panda was eating, while Baby panda was doing his ball impression, now they are showing her defecating, which seems very invasive. Now she's eating some more. -- anyway, Moshiachmobile turned a corner as I and some goyishe tourists were crossing the street and nearly ran us over. Am i being too aggressive in my street-crossing? Am i zoning out because i've been walking way too much in 94 degree weather? Or do they just hate me for my freedoms?

Back to baby panda writihing around on ground and munching on bamboo. Awwww.

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