The Island of Fuego
Friday, May 16th, 2008I am headed out this afternoon to the Fire Island. Do you know this place? It is an island actually made of fire. Everything. The plants, animals, beaches, houses, people. They are all MADE OF FIRE. It will actually BLOW YOUR MIND if you could only withstand the awesome heat of the things made of fire. OK fine, nothing is made of fire. I was lying. It’s just called Fire Island probably because someone made a campfire on it once and they were like, damn what should we call this totally sweet place we discovered and someone was like, how about Campfire Island and people were like, that sounds really lame and like summer campy you are a total douchebag why don’t we just call it Fairy Princess Island? So then the person was like hey, first of all, there is nothing wrong with fairy princesses, they are ROYALTY. Second of all let’s just call it Fire Island then. And everyone was like ok fine. Now many people think of it as the “second gayest place on Earth.” The first would be Provincetown, MA, which truly is the gayest place on Earth. Nice and cute and fun, but like, really, really gay.
Anyway my friend and his family have a house on Fire Island so we are going to go and hang out. When I visit Fire Island I basically sleep. I sleep and sleep and sleep. It is glorious and delicious. Then I wake up to cook. Watch some kind of zombie movie. And then sleep. I go for a walk. Sometimes we try to gather bikes to take a bike ride but that rarely works out because they have like 15 bikes but only 2 of them work. So we have to take all the bikes apart and put them together to make 3 working bikes. It is a real chore and at some point I say, screw this, let’s go sleep. And then everyone says Annniieeee and I’m like, shush I am trying to sleep.
Last night I had dinner with Emeco, the chair design people I sometimes, occasionally, rarely blog for. I am majorly behind on the bloggings. I’m behind on everything. If you go to the site you’ll see a very naked man named Tony sitting on an Emeco chair. He was also at this dinner. I didn’t recognize him because he had clothes on. Those chairs are brutally cold so I’m surprised he could sit on it nood. But he was in the Navy so he’s tough like that. There were also some people from Mono, a Japanese magazine. Dan from Emeco is hilarious. He’s some kind of VP there. I dunno, I forget exactly. He invented chairs. Yeah that’s it. He invented the chair. He is a very important man. He is also not ashamed to cry.


