Blue Like Jazz Page #6

Ah, store-bought or not,

they're still cookies.

Sure is lonely here without you.

Sorry that you're lonely.

- You could always unenroll.

- No. I can't unenroll.

- Why not?

- Because I like it here,

and another 30-minute b*tch session

is not gonna change that.

- Uh, did you just call me...

- No, I'm not calling you that.

I'm using it as an adjective.

So is that what they're teaching

you at that school?

Yes, Mom, that's what they're

teaching me at this school.

You going to church anywhere?

No, I haven't found a church yet.

I'm looking for one with a really

dynamic puppet ministry.

Stop with that. There's nothing

going on with Kenny.

He's just helping me through a rough spell.

I don't care if nothing's going on, Mom.

It's weird.

He's a married man,

and he's not a licensed counselor.

He's a pastor, Donny.

- Donny.

- Huh?

- Are you listening?

- Um,

no, there's just a guy

dressed in a pope outfit

pushing a burning shopping cart.

Is that a Catholic school, Donny?

Don't let them brainwash you.

Can somebody tell me the difference

between archetype and stereotype?

A stereotype is an archetype

with no sense of fashion.

Come on. Give me some examples.

Yuri? You want to join us?

You want examples

from mythology?

I'll take any literary example.

Okay, um, archetype is

Emily Dickinson,

and stereotype is Lisa Simpson.

Nice, Penny.

What about you, Don?

Um, archetype is Tolstoy.

Stereotype is, uh, Tolstoy.

What do you know

about Russian literature?

Yuri, everyone's entitled.

Okay. Archetype is...

Texan.

Big car,

tracks sh*t everywhere,

closet racist, inbred...

Ooh.

Fundamentalist Christian.

Okay, now you're insulting me.

Notice he doesn't deny it.

Oh, chill out, dude.

There's plenty of Texans

who ain't Christian.

Bonnie and Clyde,

ZZ Top,

David Koresh.

I hadn't technically

denied anything.

It just felt good to have people

laughing with me for once.

You wake up here every day

feeling lost in a sea of individuality.

Everyone here

seems so sure of themselves.

Double... Hey, Penny.

They have their own look.

They occupy their own space.

...whereas in a patriarchal society,

our concept of God tends to mimic

the way we see our own fathers.

Thoughts?

Why would a loving God refer to himself

as "Father" anyways,

when so many fathers

abandon their children?

Seems like a marketing mistake.

They reward you for asking questions

I'd never even thought of in Texas.

I didn't care what it took.

I just wanted to fit in,

so I did what anyone else

in my position would do.

I got drunk.

- I had a lesbian take me shopping.

- Go.

No.

No.

You're so soft.

And I searched for the perfect

campus organization

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