I think things translate well in screen format, and here’s an exchange that occured last night. Warning: the “Innapropriate Joke” (TM) – though not terribly crass – follows.
[Minor corrections here since my first post, via Tia’s different memory of some details. And might I add, as this was posted on the fifth anniversary of 9/11 – take this, you terrorists! Here in America we still consider doing things the American way!]
Sitting at the computer and accross the room from Alex, Tia is looking through her digital photograph portfolio.
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- TIA
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- Nope, nothing to show here.
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- ALEX
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- You should just do some nude photography. It would get you more attention [Like Michelangelo!].
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- TIA
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- No.
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- ALEX
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- Did you think I was even half of a percent serious? Because I wasn’t. .. I was a quarter of a percent serious.
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- TIA
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- I’d love to, but there isn’t any time.
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- ALEX
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- What!?
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- TIA
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- Oh, did you say “nude?” I thought you said new!
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- ALEX
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- No, I said “nude”.
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Without intending to, Tia provided some very deft, in-your-face retorts. This was a perfect way of handling my innapropriate joke, and she wasn’t even aware – it was all accidental. Playing along without any shock was an excellent way to deter.
And may I say that Tia’s photography is of notice. And there’s a veiled insult I didn’t intend in the comment; which is the lie that her photography doesn’t get a lot of notice. Everyone who came and happened on her BFA final show loved it (including me).