How to have Anittah Patrick want you just the way you are
PBS (WLIW) is playing some Billy Joel concerts circa era-of-really-tight-jeans, and I just really listened to a snip of his lyrics for the first time:
I don’t want clever conversation
I never want to work that hard
I just want someone that I can talk to
I want you just the way you are.
Wait, what?
I mean, I like lotsa folks — even some folks who get sweaty palms when so much as a sound wave from a clever conversation makes its way to their earballs. But I don’t really like them like them, if you get my drift.
Drift not yet gotten?
From a short story by Abigail Thomas as excerpted in Anne Lamott’s Bird by Bird:
My mother’s first criterion for a man is that he be interesting. What this really means is that he be able to appreciate my mother, whose jokes hinge on some grammatical subtlety or a working knowledge of higher mathematics. You get the picture.
You, to picture: gotten.
(If not, please assemble yourself into the above diagram’s far right segment.)
3 Responses to “How to have Anittah Patrick want you just the way you are”
Wow. A Billy Joel Venn diagram.I’m speechless.
By dorie on Jul 24, 2008
Wait, if you’re speechless, this means you can’t be in the “someone I can talk to” bucket! Come back to the bucket, Dorie! Come baaaaaaack!!!!
By Anittah on Jul 24, 2008
i’ll come back. will you give me your original diagram? must frame.
By Dorie on Jul 24, 2008