Saturday, May 22, 2010

Overheard at the Bar

"You know what the One Ring did to Gollum? That's what the State of Israel has done to the Jewish people"
If that's true, then Taiwan Independence is Helm's Deep, and China is Saruman. And I'm Tom Bombadil... no wait, I'm Faramir. And my wife is the Witch King of Angmar. No, that doesn't make any sense. Fuck, this is hard.

4 comments:

Robin said...

Someone misses the good ol' days when pogroms were easier and jews easier to expel from Spain?

Chaon said...

If you can infer that sentiment from the post above, you are either drunk or being willfully obtuse.

Robin said...

But they were such nice, inoffensive hobbits before?

Chaon said...

They were non-expansionist and non-jingoistic hobbits before.

Hell, maybe someday Taiwan will achieve de jure independence, resulting in a twisting and poisoning of what is otherwise a pretty enviable culture here. I don't know.