9.11.2005

ENTER THE DRAGON

so i'm driving along by the lake yesterday, driving along, la la la la, enjoying a quiet pleasant day, just miiiiidin' my own business, driving up s. main street like i've done a million times before, driving along, making that gentle left turn by the water treatment plant, when all of a sudden, BAM! ninjas everywhere.

imagine my surprise.

the quiet lawns on both sides of the street were littered with men and women dressed in black ninja uniforms fighting with wooden swords. i quickly went through a simple psychological test i happened to have in my glove compartment to determine if, in fact, i had left this dimension and arrived in one of the earlier scenes of Enter the Dragon (you know, the part where Bruce Lee gets the tour of the island and there are all those ninjas training in the courtyard?) but, yea verily, i had not left this dimension, and ninjas were, in fact, training on the grassy knoll down by the lakeshore. i found myself filled with an uncomfortable sense of awe and the fear that perhaps we had reached a point in our history in which--owing to the unraveling of our military dominance and the ever-shittening of our foreign policy--we had regressed to a feudal system of land ownership, and it was now necessary for titled landowners to maintain private armies of well-trained, fatally loyal samuri.

on the other hand, i also felt a strange sense of comfort in the fact that i could now, deep down in my heart, believe that somewhere in this world there were, indeed, ninjas training en masse in some grassy courtyard. ahhhh....

1 comment:

reg said...

"There were lots of young men running around with their swords," my 85 year old grandma.