The Hinterland
Rants from the hinterland. Denver writer and pretend anthropologist Dave Cullen's take on the world.

Wednesday, September 15, 2004


An outer body experience

So Oprah is doing this "dream come true" thing, and today's dream was meeting Barry Manilow.

I'm not holding that against Oprah, I just have to relate how one woman described the incident where the show set her up for a surprise meeting with him a few days earlier. "I had no clue! It was absolutely an outer body experience."

No, I didn't hear it wrong. I backed the tivo up six times. And she ennunciated the phrase.

Poor woman. But I'm insanely curious. What in the hell does she think that means? Something so powerful you only feel it in your outer body? In your skin? That seems like a really shallow experience--isn't that the opposite of say, "It was like a stake through my heart"?

Maybe it's when your skin is all tingly, the hairs stand up on your neck. You feel it way in your outer body.

What I would give to question that woman. You think if I wrote Oprah, she'd provide me with an email address? If I said cracking that riddle would be a dream come true?

But here's the other question. How many times has that woman said that in her life and no one has ever corrected her?
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