Writing is like being able to put life into a snow globe. It takes the things that are too big and scary and reduces them into a form that I can put away when I want and look at from a distance. It also takes all that’s good in life and captures it into something I can take out when I want and look at close up and keep forever. It makes the bad things into something I can hold…and the good things into something I can hold onto. Both help so much that I need that little souvenir of life.

Friday, September 3, 2010

Senior Sex(less) and the City: Episode #8

Martian Man
Remember Big Boy restaurants? Martian Man looked like Big Boy, but much more grave. He was grave on account of the Martians. It’s not for me to say whether he really did have a close encounter with a U.F.O. 30 years ago. But using that as his opening line didn’t overwhelm me with the excitement of his life. Even under the assumption that it did happen, if it was 30 years ago and that’s still all he’s talking about, it’s time to take the lawn chairs out to that hillside to stake out the firmament again. Oh, wait, he does that. So maybe time for a new kind of hobby. Or therapist.

Next week: Episode #9, The Health Nut

6 comments:

  1. Oh, I just ate there Wednesday! I love these little snippet posts of yours. :D
    Jules @ Trying To Get Over The Rainbow

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  2. I saw that same UFO, loaded up the kids and had the ex husband chase it. It was a helicpoter with lights strung all around it that lit up with an advertising message every time it paused and hovered. You crack me up!
    Linda http://lindaoconnell.blogspot.com

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  3. Rot-roh! This sounds like a guy I know. He actually described being "probed"...ugh!

    Pat
    www.critteralley.blogspot.com

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  4. Ok. He gets the weird0 award.
    Think he got hungry during his abduction and ate the aliens--hence the Big Boy appearance?
    Donna V.
    http://donnasbookpub.blogspot.com

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  5. Glad to hear they're still around, Jules! They must've taken down the giant man?

    Linda, you crack me up right back! Think we should break the news to him?

    Becky, Pat, and Donna--Hee hee!!! Have to admit it would be interesting to hear about the probing. In a gross way.... :-o

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