"Dude, you look just like Salmon Rushdie!" This little snippet o' love came from the cashier at my first meal at Moe's in several months. I was sort of half paying attention...which has been kind of an issue for me over the last few weeks..., so it was only the weird juxtaposition of place, person and reference that made my ears perk up to confront this little gift from the realm of randomness. Given my state of mind, I was actually seriously calling to mind all I could remember of what Mr. Satanic Verses looks like, and thinking, jeez...I can't look that old..., when my eyes focused on this person. Über nerd. Kind of like myself, I guess, but more of the comic book variety than the purely musical. And he meant it as a compliment. Sincerely.

I assented to it as a compliment, albeit a tad grudgingly, but still had not collected my wits enough when he said, "At least you don't get Silent Bob." No sooner had I agreed than it hit me...this guy is the spitting image of Silent Bob...

Krista had let a (fairly cute...) girl in line in front of her so as she saddled up to the cash register, Silent Bob's doppelgänger draws her into the conversation...or well attempts to... She has no clue who Salmon Rushdie is, was, or could be, and just wants her burrito...

Back at work and a google image search later, the consensus is eeehh, sort of...and that Rushdie's ex-wife is quite attractive...

And so, at least one person in this universe thinks I look like an author living under a religiously prescribed death threat.

I can live with that.

Better than a thousand useless words is one single word that gives peace.
Better than a thousand useless verses is one single verse that gives peace.
Better than a thousand useless poems is one single poem that gives peace.
If a man should conquer in battle a thousand and a thousand more, and another man conquer himself, his would be the greater victory, because the greatest of victories is the victory over oneself; and neither the gods in heaven above nor the demons down below can turn into defeat the victory of such a man.

--The Dhammapada

May all beings know peace.