Saturday, May 04, 2024
Lightly Fictionalized Belt
I thought you'd want to know that Dr. Theresa bought me a new belt! The last time I bought a belt was 2015, as I know because I bought it to wear to the Peabody Awards, for which reason that belt was lightly fictionalized in Chapters 67 and 312 of my novel SWEET BANANAS. How could anyone ever forget that belt and all the adventures we had together, considering how I immortalized it so much? Now I will tell you something really remarkable. As I was doing the necessary belt research for this "post," I discovered that in 2008, I had made a joke here about nominating my own reflections on the subject of belts for a Peabody Award. Little did I know then that a mere seven years later I'd be going to the real Peabody Awards wearing an actual belt. In other literary news, I was reading an old comic book last night, and a man traveled back in time, where he scared off a panther with his modern cigarette lighter. I don't think it would work, but that's not the point. I just want to say that there was a whole section in my cigarette lighter book (cleverly titled CIGARETTE LIGHTER) devoted to the common narrative ploy of people going back in time and scaring people or animals with their modern cigarette lighters. This old comic book might have supplied yet another example that no one would care about. But life is filled with such regrets! In conclusion, I am sure you recall my "blog" post from 2007, about the time I lost weight so Dr. Theresa (who was not even a Dr. at the time!) took a hammer and a nail and made me a fresh homemade belt hole from scratch. Well, I've lost weight again and this time she was able to buy me a new belt. But a part of me misses the olden times when Dr. Theresa spent her days and nights making new holes in old belts like a tireless magical elf.