Of Inappropriateness

Is it wrong to wish the new iPod Touch came out earlier so I'd have something to do at a funeral next week?

It is?

Well is it still bad to read a book? What if the book is James Joyce and I'm reading his short story The Dead? Is that just bad taste or highly apropos?

What if I wander off from the main ceremony to sit upon a stout tombstone with my jacket open and leg up, holding Joyce in one hand and clasping my wrist with the other, nonchalantly musing over the fickleness of life and the preposterous concept of the American family?

Really? Even then?

…

Well fuck me.