09-18-01

Do you judge people on the train or bus by what they are reading? Do you ever look to see what people are reading? I'm always curious. For example, this morning on the el I saw this selection of reading materials in my area (imagine the people who read them.)
Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment
People magazine
An Uncanny X-Men comic
The Wall Street Journal
A book by Joan Collins
and the Microsoft Window Me Instruction Manual

And then there was yesterday when I saw people on the train reading the following:
My Pants and the Reason Not to Remove Them in Public, a pamphlet by Burl Ives
Momentum, My Face and Your Fist by Teddy B. Pendergras
Testicles Reaching Mars, that new sci bestseller from Theodore Sturgeon
Damocles and the Sword in the Underpants, a kid's story by Tug McGraw
Silly Goose Wets his Nappy, a quarterly publication from Harvard
and The Pamela Anderson Story, an autobiographical pop-up book.


So what's next, folks? After all this. Enlightenment. Or extinction. (?)