How To Disappear Completely

the dark side of the moon

Since Abbie is a cool science teacher, she has been attending the Space Symposium being held this week at the Broadmoor Hotel. So she invited me to see a private screening of The Shadow of the Moon, which is a documentary of the US space race, with tons of original footage and interviews from the nine men who have walked on the moon.

The film was in the Broadmoor's little cinema. And...wait for it....Buzz Aldrin introduced the film! He was the second person to walk on the moon, after Neil Armstrong. In the documentary, he explains why footage of his descent shows him pausing on the ladder before he hops down onto the moon's surface: "I was relieving myself."

So, Abbie and I laughed afterwards, we just saw the first person to pee on the moon. I have to say that everything exciting in my life has happened because of Abbie. Because of her, I have a picture of me and Matt Friedberger. Because of her, I shook Lee Ranaldo's hand. And now, because of Abbie, I have seen the first man to pee on the moon. What excitement.

I also have to say that I find coffee shops that play music to be horribly distracting. Especially when I get the distinct impression that Neil Young is singing Knives Out, but I don't want to tune out the person I am talking to so I am left in a daze of confusion, punctuated intermittently by vague snatches of Postal Service and The New Pornographers. I just don't multi-task very well.