What the Fork?
After finding out the rental office had moved to my apartment building, I had a little extra time to kill in the commons so I decided to make the trip worthwhile by going window shopping. I stopped at two stores: Evolution and Jabberwok.
Evolution is at the far corner of the commons if you're coming from where I live. If you're not it's the near corner, but if you're not coming from where I live then you're not cool enough to read this blog so it doesn't really matter. Evolution was not as exciting as I had hoped. Besides the Indian Kathakali masks, fighting nuns, and various potato shooters I found only two things of interest. Ryeclothing.com t-shirts and Young Mozart. The t-shirt I liked was this green one with a peace sign that said shalom on the top in a wavy font. The Young mozart was a little mozart doll with a short biography on his life on the back at the box. What was interesting about Mozart was at the end of the biography it said "...but then he died." Trust me it's funny.
At the Jabberwok I found a sculpture of 2 forks, one bent in the shape of a banana and the other one with 3 of its 4 tongs bent back, with the lone still-extended tong balancing on the but end of the banana fork. Intrigued, I asked the woman working the shop where this sculpture came from. She told me the fork guy. The fork guy is a man who lives in the woods nearby Ithaca who makes forks all day. I smiled and left, glad that in this world there exists a man who devotes his entire life to forks.
There are many questions left unanswered about the fork guy, that I'm sure if answered would help lead us to world peace. The following are the questions I came up with. Please feel free to submit yours along with $5 (paypal) to berlinerster@gmail.com.
Is that really all he does for a living? Make forks? Doesn't he have to also make spoons and knives? If not does that make him crazy? What does he look like? Does he have a mustache resembling a fork? Does he himself look like a fork? Did he go to fork school? What's his alltime favorite fork? Does he drive a forklift? Does he know the fork canoe joke? Does it bother him when people use the wrong fork at the dinner table? Does he make specialty forks? Tuning forks? Have any celebrities every used his forks? Spork: ya-ya or nich-nich?
Ok. Time to stick a fork in it.
Evolution is at the far corner of the commons if you're coming from where I live. If you're not it's the near corner, but if you're not coming from where I live then you're not cool enough to read this blog so it doesn't really matter. Evolution was not as exciting as I had hoped. Besides the Indian Kathakali masks, fighting nuns, and various potato shooters I found only two things of interest. Ryeclothing.com t-shirts and Young Mozart. The t-shirt I liked was this green one with a peace sign that said shalom on the top in a wavy font. The Young mozart was a little mozart doll with a short biography on his life on the back at the box. What was interesting about Mozart was at the end of the biography it said "...but then he died." Trust me it's funny.
At the Jabberwok I found a sculpture of 2 forks, one bent in the shape of a banana and the other one with 3 of its 4 tongs bent back, with the lone still-extended tong balancing on the but end of the banana fork. Intrigued, I asked the woman working the shop where this sculpture came from. She told me the fork guy. The fork guy is a man who lives in the woods nearby Ithaca who makes forks all day. I smiled and left, glad that in this world there exists a man who devotes his entire life to forks.
There are many questions left unanswered about the fork guy, that I'm sure if answered would help lead us to world peace. The following are the questions I came up with. Please feel free to submit yours along with $5 (paypal) to berlinerster@gmail.com.
Is that really all he does for a living? Make forks? Doesn't he have to also make spoons and knives? If not does that make him crazy? What does he look like? Does he have a mustache resembling a fork? Does he himself look like a fork? Did he go to fork school? What's his alltime favorite fork? Does he drive a forklift? Does he know the fork canoe joke? Does it bother him when people use the wrong fork at the dinner table? Does he make specialty forks? Tuning forks? Have any celebrities every used his forks? Spork: ya-ya or nich-nich?
Ok. Time to stick a fork in it.
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