New York

Overheard in New York: "Obama is the best one. McCain sucks."

Today, after gawking quite unashamedly and  covetously outside NYU film school, a man comes up to me in the park and asks me where is the 21. I say I don't know, unless he possibly means me, because I'm 21. We talk a while. He's from Brazzaville. I've just been in a Congo obsession for the past few months and I tell him this. He says I must like Africa a lot. I try explain what I mean and I tell him that it is mostly because Africa is so full of stories. It is so so wealthy in that way that I am completely awestruck. i could just keel over right there, thinking about it (no really, I mean this). It is so untapped, so unexplored, like the Congo jungle, we fear it, we do not know it, and thus we are fascinated and want to know. As a filmmaker, what more can one ask for, I ask him? His name is Lin, named after a Chinese man his father used to work for a long time ago. There, I say, that's a great story already.