re: #43 Killgore Trout

The Brits are odd. Even with American culture there’s still a strange love/hate thing. They really do idolize much of American culture in a strange way.

There’s the language. There’s the pieces of shared history. There’s, I swear, a sort of simmering resentment that we didn’t sit still long enough to become part of the Commonwealth.

I once, unintentionally, rather unnerved an older British man who heard my accent and said, jovially, “Ah! A colonist!”

I said, (DAMNIT), “Well, yes, but not one of yours. California! Viva Espana!”

That was the wrong thing to say.

We have a …complicated…relationship.