An omen?
This past Saturday my wife and I conducted a garage sale, the main purpose of which was to get rid of some bulky old furniture that was occupying way too much space in my house and garage. The garage sale was a success, netting us about $400 and more importantly getting rid of the clutter that we've accumulated in the past few years.
In any case, I went out in my 1966 Dodge Polara to pick up the garage sale signs I had strategically placed in my neighborhood. I got to the corner of SW 102nd Avenue and 120th Street and there was a man with a wrench at the fire hydrant. He was in a small pick up that said "pest control" and he was pumping water into his tanks. Now I don't know if this is legal or not but what got my attention was the lettering the man had neatly placed on the windshield of his truck. It spelled out I N T R A N S I G E N T E !.
If you remember a few days back I made a post about T-Shirt I'm designing and it included the word "Intransigent". Some of you felt the word had a negative connotation. But I said I was intransigent about the word intransigent. So now this guy has the word on his car and I decided to ask him what he meant. He said "I've always been intransigent, since I was a kid." For a second I thought I misunderstood him and said "Is that all?" and he said "well I'm intransigent about fidel and all that shit." We had about a five minute conversation and told him about blogging and we discussed the controversial library book, etc. Interesting how a word can be used to demean but then how it can also unite. Intransigent. I like the sound of it.
Henry, what a great story! I like the word as well, intransigent, it does have a nice ring.
wzup babula, playertwo up here in Detroit where anyone marching down the street better be in kevlar....why no march HERE?!!!
anyway, I have found someting to warm your heart and finally get you to change your mind about the workers paradise (s/). In Ann Arbor, home of Juan Cole's University of Michigan) there's a coffeehouse with a photographic exposition put on by one of our Wolverine State's great professors. Its all about the success of socialism in Cuba and is all full of pretty pictures of pottery and chickens and environment saving old cars rebuilt nineteen times. I will be taking my camera in for a more detailed expose' of the castroworshipping scumbag's filth but was wondering where I could get some better pictures of ..say Isla del los Pinas (sp?) or maybe some librarians in chains?
Any hints as to where to get some pics?
Playertwo - the best place I know to get recent pics is therealcuba.com - lots there.
A GARAGE SALE?
You mean you didn't save the furniture for ManCamp?
DEMERITS!!!!
It is a nice story. Part of it, I think, is that "intransigente" in Spanish does not have the same connotation that "intransigent" has in English. Cognates don't always mean the same thing in different languages. Here's another example -- To be "ambitious" is a good thing in the U.S. To be "ambicioso" is not a good quality in the more traditional societies of Latin America. I'd get out my dictionaries to be more precise, but by posting this comment I've left myself open to being called a nerd and I have an image to protect. Peras e higuitos, anyone?
I want one of these intransigente shirts too!