signifcant & sublime

saturday emily and i went to a local art gallery in the basement of a house.  it was the opening for an exhibit featuring regional art teachers’ work.  i was impressed both with some of the pieces and with the open bar.  my favorite piece was ram skull with stripes by josh criswell.  it reminds me of austin, texas.

after art we sat in the car outside emily’s house for about twenty minutes trying to decide which direction the night should take us.  bouts of silence broken with discussion, followed by whispers, then building to crescendo.  imagine the conversation as the spoken word equivalent of “breakers” by local natives.  it was awkward yet perfect, the stuff of larry david situational comedies.  i’m not a sadist so i wouldn’t want to drag out decisions like that all the time but when the perfect storm of factors causes a simple choice to be much more difficult than it ought to be it’s hard not to enjoy it from ten thousand feet.