Hawker’s Pot seeks to entertain, but only because he can no longer remember what he came here for in the first place.
Saturday, 7 May 2011
Like a Wholegrain Cowboy
Cowboy Jim has to move with the times and takes a job at a vegetarian restaurant. The hours are long and every night he comes home weary and salad-sore.
There's a joke here too about "riding side-salad" but a fortnight of scratching my head tells me that I can't work it out. Oh hawkers! Oh potters! What do YOU think?
[Hawker’s Pot] is the Gimbel’s man in Macy’s and the Macy’s man in Gimbel’s; he is the fashion spy and the foreigner at National Air Meets. [He] is a person who has a technical right to see the show but [whose] interest ... is from the wrong perspective, at once more lively and more bored than that of a thoroughly legitimate spectator. (Erving Goffman, 1959)
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There's a joke here too about "riding side-salad" but a fortnight of scratching my head tells me that I can't work it out.
Oh hawkers! Oh potters! What do YOU think?
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