Mister Green

Gone!

This weekend will be an enforced absence from blogging, the Internet in general, and even from using a computer at all. Mrs. Green and I are meeting some friends and spending the weekend at a cabin in a state park, where there is running water and electricity, and even a television, but no phone and no cell phone reception. We spent a weekend there last year, and the most wonderful thing about it was the complete absence of noise. Living in a city, you forget how much ambient noise there is. Planes, trains, trucks, buses, sirens, car alarms, the ever-present bass thump from a Chevy Cavalier decorated with tasteless decal work and a neon purple license plate frame being driven by a suburban white boy who thinks that making people a mile away aware that he’s listening to an angry black man yelling to a beat makes him a 21st century James Dean and not a suburban white boy in a cheap car with an expensive stereo, my idiot neighbor screaming for the third time today at his wife/girlfriend/babymomma/whatever about how she’s such a stupid bitch, and yes she is a stupid bitch, and she needs to shut up, and he’s getting sick and tired of this shit, and whatever else it is he expounds on after I turn up the TV. At the park – silence. You can sit on the patio and have a scotch and a cigar and hear nothing but the wind and the occasional animal sound. You can even see stars, because there’s no light. Perfect.

See you next week.