An ass out of you and umption

[mrissa]

Crowded Culver's in the middle of Wisconsin. Table of four guys in their mid-twenties dressed in hunting winter camo and orange jackets, eating burgers and cheese curds and frozen custard. As I stood there propped against a wall waiting for a table to open up, it became clear what they were discussing:

"Like Mirror Dance? I liked that one, with the crazy clone brother."
"No, not Mirror Door, Mirador. It's a place. They're all places, all the titles. Fake word places."
"I just read Melusine."
"Well, you gotta borrow the others. There's this actress...."

I did not jump in to tell them that truepenny had put trains in the last volume, but oh, was I tempted.

Comments

[songwind.livejournal.com]

I'm frequently surprised by the Venn intersection of Geek and Hunter up here. Where I went to high school and college it was much more segregated. I suspect it has to do with the # of dads who forced their geeky/unusual sons to go hunting to "prove he ain't no sissy" or whathaveyou.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

I don't know, maybe. My closest friend who hunts has a much less fraught relationship with his dad than the one you postulate. They're from up north, and hunting is just a normal thing people do--and a lot of people in the Cities moved down from up north this generation or the one before it. So for my friend there isn't any question of proving anything, there's a question of spending time with his dad and acquiring venison, both of which he favors.

[redbird]

Right.

Despite what some people would like us to think, hunting doesn't have to be a matter of machismo, or proving toughness (though, as a wimp, if someone wanted to take me hunting, I would insist on warmer weather, because otherwise neither of us would enjoy it).

[dd-b.livejournal.com]

I can't even tell which way you're arguing that -- geeks up here AREN'T forced to hunt because the dads are more sane, so more of them do it because they like it? Or more are forced, and many find that they like it and keep it up anyway? No experience personally, my father was a rather non-geeky math professor who did not hunt.

[songwind.livejournal.com]

Meaning a lot of my geek friends down South that had hunted were forced to, and hated is as a reaction.