Patrick King

Woes of an Intellectual Part 2

A buddy and I are at another party, still by the keg. I see an attractive blondeon the other side of the room and decide to give it a shot.


Me:¼/span>Hey what’s up, I’mat. What’s going on?

Girl: Oh, nothing, just having a good time.

Me: Hey listen, are you into readingat all? How about existentialism? Like Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, Nausea, you read that stuff?

Girl:¼/b>(clearly uninterested): Umm…

Me: Forgive me, Forgive me, I’m sorryI always talk about existentialism when I’m drunk for some reason. What’re you into?

Girl: Um, well, I really liked the¼span>Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants books! Those are my favorite I think.

Me: Really? Haven’t read them. How about Chomsky? Or Foucault? You know, biopower, biopolitics, all that great stuff.

Girl: Oh! Is that kind of like that movie with Pauly Shore? Oh my god that movie is so funny!

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