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“The vanity of others is only counter to our taste when it is counter to our vanity.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil
Educational Broadcasting Corporation, Anxiety: the Endless Crisis. 1976
So of course I walked up to the front desk and asked to see the manager. When he showed up, I demanded to see the senior manager. After much discussion, the manager agreed to call up his superior, who drove on over to meet with me in their break room.
“I want to see the owner,” I said, once the senior manager arrived.
The senior manager was obviously a bit angry. She had just driven all across town to meet with me and now I was asking for her boss.
“Fine,” she scoffed, wanting to get rid of me.
She left to make the call. Yeah, some guy wants to see you out here and is refusing to talk to us…
So I take a seat in their break room to wait and even microwave myself some popcorn I spy on a shelf. Pouring my popcorn into someone’s coffee cup, I sit down to eat my snack. About an hour later the owner shows up. He’s all sweaty and confused, thinking there’s some huge issue like the place burnt down or I’m suing them.
Coming over to me, he reaches over my popcorn coffee cup and shakes my hand while I’m still sitting there, trying to get a kernel out of my teeth.
“Uh, what can I help you with?” he says, weakly, afraid of me.
“Y’all hiring?”
Dale Frank (Australian, b. 1959), Eddie T Chest the Man with a Cricket Bat Shaped Penis Helping Men Manage Their Responsibilities (The Gulf), 1997-2000. Synthetic polymer paint and varnish on linen, 262 x 200 cm.
“You cannot pick and choose what parts of her to love. Just as you cannot pick which parts of me you accept.”
— Sarah J. Maas
Lender, Fontal View, in “Chilpéric” (Lender de face, dans “Chilpéric”), Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, 1895, MoMA: Drawings and Prints
Gift of Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Size: composition: 14 5/16 x 10 5/8" (36.4 x 27 cm); sheet: 21 7/16 x 11 7/8" (54.5 x 30.1 cm) Medium: Lithograph
