Zinfandel employees are unwavering fans of the show. They've chosen, as their medium, food. He thinks a moment. It makes you think that shrimp cocktail can be something. I stare at him.
Shrimp cocktail is just shrimp cocktail.
I attempt to not look charmed. I refrain from telling him that many of my highly educated, highly articulate female friends were reduced to schoolgirl giggles and the throes of groupiedom at the mention of my meeting him. Glass withholds judgment completely and consistently, even with the inmates and the prostitutes. We've all been down there with the liars, the thieves, the hacks. But we've also been heroes and saints.