Wed
Mar
11
Wendy's exciting career news, now with uncomfortable urban lingo.
- WENDY: i am super-urban
- my rap career is about to drop, as they say.
- right now it's mainly mumbling to myself and not making eye contact, but that's how most rappers start off
- ALISON: wow you must so excited!
- are you?
- WENDY: yeah
- i'm cautiously optimistic
- that's the name of my album
- and also my rap moniker
- ALISON: I like it
- WENDY: it was either "cautiously optimistic" or "courtney"
- i think i made the right choice
- ALISON: not "this 40's half full"?
- WENDY: yeah, but like 1940's right?
- my rap has a 1940's theme
- ALISON: that's why you're about to drop and go viral
- WENDY: My sound evinces both the relief that the long wars in Europe and Asia are over, but also the grinding sense of moral ambiguity about the dropping of the A-bomb
- which will eventually explode into the outright anti-government stance of the populace in the 60s and 70s
- ALISON: but you can dance to it
- WENDY: yep
- my rap got a 5 on the US History AP exam
- ALISON: your rap had a pretty cushy senior year of college because it had some credits already, huh?
- WENDY: you betcha!
- ALISON: my one woman show only got a 2 on the AP History exam
- it's called "Hooray for the Hindenberg"
- and it's about great moments in history
- WENDY: yeah, "hooray for the hindenburg" is a pretty unsupportable position
- ALISON: like how flappers invented the printing press
- (flapping paper)
- WENDY: oh boy
- it's wrong AND it's a pun
- ALISON: and how you can cure polio with bathtub gin
- WENDY: gunshot sound
