{"id":406,"date":"2008-09-22T07:04:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-22T12:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dlynz.com\/?p=406"},"modified":"2008-09-22T07:04:00","modified_gmt":"2008-09-22T12:04:00","slug":"interview-with-a-camera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dlynz.com\/?p=406","title":{"rendered":"Interview with a Camera"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Intrepid Interviewer: Hello?<br \/>Coolpix: <span style=\"color:#666600;\">What do you want?<\/span><br \/>II: &#8211; Wow &#8211; you sound kind of grouchy.<br \/>Coolpix: <span style=\"color:#666600;\">I have a right to be grouchy.<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_8YuevXJXjqg\/SNeKEG3B8FI\/AAAAAAAADR8\/HAljr6nFPBo\/s1600-h\/coolpix1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5248815693889138770\" style=\"DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_8YuevXJXjqg\/SNeKEG3B8FI\/AAAAAAAADR8\/HAljr6nFPBo\/coolpix1.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>II: Really? Why is that?<br \/>Coolpix: <span style=\"color:#666600;\">I am under a lot of pressure lately.<br \/><\/span>II: Because &#8230; ?<br \/>Coolpix: <span style=\"color:#666600;\"><em>You<\/em> know why. It&#8217;s <em>your<\/em> fault.<\/span><br \/>II: My fault? What did I do?<a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_8YuevXJXjqg\/SNeKEQjYgII\/AAAAAAAADSE\/4Ukq3gcb5CU\/s1600-h\/coolpix2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5248815696491085954\" style=\"DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_8YuevXJXjqg\/SNeKEQjYgII\/AAAAAAAADSE\/4Ukq3gcb5CU\/coolpix2.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>Coolpix: <span style=\"color:#666600;\">Ever since you had to send the big camera to the shop, you have done nothing but give me a hard time.<\/span><br \/>II: I don&#8217;t think that is true.<br \/>Coolpix: <span style=\"color:#666600;\">Oh Yeah? I have spent the last 8 months on your desk or, if I am lucky, in your purse, while you drag <em><strong>him<\/strong><\/em> all over creation, fondling his buttons and murmuring endearments into his lenses.<br \/><\/span>II: Well, you know how I love to take photos. I still love you, but he is just&#8230;<br \/>Coolpix: <span style=\"color:#666600;\">What??? Better??? Is that what you are trying to say?<\/span> <a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_8YuevXJXjqg\/SNeKEire4JI\/AAAAAAAADSM\/0ShcW8YCPe4\/s1600-h\/coolpix3.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5248815701356896402\" style=\"DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_8YuevXJXjqg\/SNeKEire4JI\/AAAAAAAADSM\/0ShcW8YCPe4\/coolpix3.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>II: He is a very different kind of camera. You are very good at what you do, but there are some things that he can do better.<br \/>Coolpix: <span style=\"color:#666600;\">Huh! Like everything you mean. C&#8217;mon, admit it! You love him more than me.<\/span><br \/>II: It&#8217;s not like that. I love you both &#8211; just in different ways.<br \/>Coolpix: <span style=\"color:#666600;\">I think I read lines like this in a bad novel once.<\/span><br \/>II: Don&#8217;t be bitter.<br \/>Coolpix: <span style=\"color:#666600;\">Bitter?<\/span> <span style=\"color:#666600;\">You don&#8217;t want me to be bitter? You have barely given me the time of day for 8 months and then when HE decides to stop working, you drag me out and get all bent out of shape because I am not performing up to your high standards. And the language &#8211; when my pictures don&#8217;t come out just the way you think they should &#8211; it is just insulting!<\/span><br \/>II: I&#8217;m sorry. I guess I didn&#8217;t think.<br \/>Coolpix: <span style=\"color:#666600;\">That&#8217;s right &#8211; you <strong>didn&#8217;t<\/strong> think!<\/span><br \/>II: You have done pretty well actually &#8211; I guess I should tell you that more often.<br \/>Coolpix: Whatever. When is he coming back anyway?<br \/>II: <span style=\"color:#666600;\">I am not sure &#8211; they had to order a part.<\/span><br \/>Coolpix: What??? A part???<a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_8YuevXJXjqg\/SNeKE5QJ5lI\/AAAAAAAADSU\/SschGT855s8\/s1600-h\/coolpix4.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5248815707416290898\" style=\"DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_8YuevXJXjqg\/SNeKE5QJ5lI\/AAAAAAAADSU\/SschGT855s8\/coolpix4.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>II: I&#8217;m afraid so. I guess we will just have to try and get along a little while longer.<br \/>Coolpix: <span style=\"color:#666600;\">Shut me off would you? I need a nap.<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_8YuevXJXjqg\/SNeKE_3mPBI\/AAAAAAAADSc\/ZZp8gg8YTWE\/s1600-h\/coolpix5.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5248815709192338450\" style=\"DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_8YuevXJXjqg\/SNeKE_3mPBI\/AAAAAAAADSc\/ZZp8gg8YTWE\/coolpix5.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Intrepid Interviewer: Hello?Coolpix: What do you want?II: &#8211; Wow &#8211; you sound kind of grouchy.Coolpix: I have a right to be grouchy.II: Really? 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