https://archive.rustgeek.me/tags/distance/ Recent content in Distance on A Geek's Life Hugo en Wed, 22 Feb 2012 07:22:32 +0000 https://archive.rustgeek.me/2012/02/22/she-had-me-at-duh/ Wed, 22 Feb 2012 07:22:32 +0000 https://archive.rustgeek.me/2012/02/22/she-had-me-at-duh/ <p><a href="https://archive.rustgeek.me/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/woman_green_dress.jpg"><img alt="woman_green_dress" loading="lazy" src="https://archive.rustgeek.me/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/woman_green_dress.jpg"></a></p> <p><a href="http://bnbaccessories.com/bnblog/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/Femella-Women-Green-Dress_90aeb3ccfc0d82091a63172f54d867e3_images_1080_1440_mini.jpg">Source</a></p> <p><em>To the woman in the green dress: Oklahoma City, December 24th…</em></p> <p>She had me between &lsquo;duh&rsquo; - and the nonchalant, sultry blur of her unruly hair; and the pouty, smouldering incandescence of her blood red lips; shimmering life-like in the dull, barely there blues and reds and flickering purples of the BeeJay&rsquo;s mirror ball.</p> <p>We were like two large - lumps of rock; boulders locked in the unwilling, eternal waltz of gravity; stuck in distant orbits around the crowded dance floor like as around a stranded, listless star. In the interludes between the mindless drone of the DJ&rsquo;s songs, and the rude, insistent scratch of his beatbox our eyes weave and bob, like corks floating in a sea of ice cold beer.</p>