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Mothers are a foreign country – pt. 2


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It seems I finally managed to buy the 2012 edition of the maternal birthday present. For a moment I even thought that I accidentally used HER credit card to pay for her present—could have been a thrilling birthday, indeed—but I didn’t. Every goddamn year it’s the same story. It took quite a long time to choose, as my mother doesn’t really like anything, apart from playing cards—but she has an assortment of decks in various shapes and colors and featuring all kinds of decorations, from trolls to Disney characters—and sipping alcoholic beverages. Even if she’s not crazy about them, another thing she likes is Westerns, so western-related present it was… Wait. Now that I am writing this, I realize that my mother fits the description of Calamity Jane, even though my mother’s name isn’t Jane and she’s quite alive. Whatever. I got her Western movies and comics. I am 99% sure though she won’t be able to use the DVD player to watch any movie as among other things she is also barely knowledgeable when it comes to technology and devices making use of connectivity of any kind. She will probably end reading the comics and the movie’s synopsis on the rear of her DVD, thus I hope at least that her imagination has gotten better in recent times.

Mothers are a foreign country – pt. 1


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How mothers can prove in less than 150 characters that they have no taste in music, no tact, and no idea about geography.

After almost a month of silence, my mother sends me a laconic text message stating she has received her birthday present. The present in question is a CD by Ólöf Arnalds — not the latest, the previous one. Mother’s opinion, in less than fifteen words, is the CD sounds like Japanese music, although of course she knows it’s not Japanese but Icelandic from the bits of text contained in it. She doesn’t know Icelandic, but she can tell it’s not Japanese because titles and credits — but I doubt she actually looked at anything besides the title on the cover — look like they are written with some sort of alphabet, although very bizarre; Japanese is written differently, of course, a bit like hieroglyphs, but without the fancy little birds and men with bobbed hair doing stuff. She doesn’t say if she likes the music or not: I can affirm from experience that this is evidence she doesn’t like it or, rather, that she doesn’t get it at all. She concludes her message saying she’s happy I’m living in Iceland instead of Japan right now, like they were close countries and one could end up in either of them just for a chance.