Descending; a sumo; disdainful ungulates
I’ve perfected the art, if that’s what it is, of descending through thick black thunder / snowclouds in flimsy aircraft. Two quick G&T’s, a novel with prose just dense enough to be unreadable in turbulence, and music which is both ethereal and grounded, ideally with strings - I have found the Beatles’s “Good Night” and the last movement of Mahler’s fourth symphony effective. As we dive, I enter a euphoric trance: the buck and tumble of the plane feels like a hundred hands beneath me, bearing me off to some wild ecstatic festival or pagan rite. I can’t say if this approach would help with aviophobia, but it makes an otherwise tiresome descent the highlight of my trip.
I asked one of the girls at the mine today if she was planning on dressing up for hallowe’en. “You bet” she said. As what, I asked. A goblin, a superhero, a hag? “No,” she said, “as a sumo”.
I wasn’t sure if I had heard her right so I said, “a sumo?”
“Yeah. I’ve got this sumo suit that makes you look like a sumo. You know, biiig.” While she said “biiig”, she extended her arms forward and curved them inward, to simulate the encircling of an enormous belly.
-20˚c this morning. Looking into the sun, I could see tiny droplets of ice scintillating in the air. And haughty lugubrious elk, stood in and alongside the road, licking at the salt, eyeing approaching vehicles disdainfully.
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Especially vehicles carrying people who didn’t take a coat with them.
Posted on 30-Oct-06 at 7:08 pm | PermalinkIt’s alright babes, there is heating in the car, so as long as I’m not waylaid and trampled by raging elk I should be okay.
Posted on 30-Oct-06 at 7:48 pm | PermalinkBRRRRR
I need a coat even in the flat.
Posted on 30-Oct-06 at 9:10 pm | PermalinkJust avoid the last movement of Mahler’s Second. It is so dramatic that it would ensure your plane was struck repeatedly with lightning just for effect.
Posted on 31-Oct-06 at 3:03 am | PermalinkAlso … does this weather mean I should be booking for a christmas session in Whistler?
Posted on 31-Oct-06 at 3:04 am | PermalinkThe sumo costume sounds a particularly warm and clever choice of costume.
Posted on 31-Oct-06 at 4:35 am | PermalinkIf you ever watch sumo wrestling - although I don’t advise it - you will be amazed by how positively slim some of the wrestlers are. However, this does not prevent this ancient and noble form of combat being one of the ugliest sports in the world since, besides the weird hairdos, all sumo wrestlers seem to exhibit spotty buttock cheeks.
Posted on 31-Oct-06 at 7:40 am | PermalinkMoobs - we’re forecasted a ‘drier than usual’ winter. Make of that what you will. I think it will be an excellent season at Whistler, but what do I know?
I wonder how many times the phrase “spotty buttock cheeks” has been uttered on this blog. Must be 30 or 40, at least.
Posted on 31-Oct-06 at 8:47 am | PermalinkMoobs: ha. I can think of worse ways of snuffing it.
lilo: I wasn’t there today but apparently she didn’t wear it, claiming her kids had wrecked since its last outing. A likely story, she probably got over-enthusiastic in some murky sumo-bar and snagged it on a pool cue.
ae: i’d like to think that even the slim ones are fat on the inside.
Posted on 31-Oct-06 at 8:01 pm | PermalinkI’ve been to a couple of sumo tournaments and my favorite wrestler Kotooshu(http://sumo.goo.ne.jp/ozumo_meikan/rikishi_joho/image/20020091.jpg) is white, kinda skinny, and Bulgarian. You should see some of the fat Russians…
Posted on 02-Nov-06 at 4:13 pm | PermalinkDo you know what O, Kotooshu looks very similar to a bloke I used to know called Ian. Please, keep your fat Russians to yourself.
Posted on 02-Nov-06 at 6:48 pm | Permalink