Nooners Flashback

While some of us spent our Memorial Day weekend hiking, enjoying the sun and spending time with friends, others just spent time with their many personalities. To wit:

"In New York right now we are planning our Memorial Day weekends. We know we are in a difficult historical time, but we do not dwell on it. We don't always even think. We free-associate, like this: I should get a new dress for the graduation at the Saks sale. They could blow up the Lincoln Tunnel. Meg would love one of those little Chanel knockoffs from the street vender. If New York is bombed while we're in Boston, where will we stay? If Boston is bombed while we're at the graduation, how will we get home? Bring cousin Holly's number in northern Connecticut. Pick up mascara.

"From the dire to the banal. No, not from one to another but both interweaved. Having the jits and planning the party. People are dieting because summer's coming and wondering if an al Qaeda hit on New York would trigger a food shortage."

That's precious. The Bad Peggys are like those preschoolers who think milk comes from a supermarket. An al-Qaeda hit on New York would devastate this country's agricultural production.

In the next sentence, the Good Peggy responds that most New Yorkers disagree with the Bad Peggys:

My general sense is that New Yorkers don't really think anything bad is going to happen right now.

"And so goes the eternal internal battle for control of Peg's brain."

Someone should write a play based on Nooners' to-do list: Shopping and Fucking Lunatic.