Vitiate Me Baby

Wow, that blog title just never gets old, does it?

Wilco was awesome, but I'll save that story for another night.

Word of the Day Tuesday, February 09, 2010

vitiate

\VISH-ee-ayt\ , transitive verb;

1. To make faulty or imperfect; to render defective; to impair; as, "exaggeration vitiates a style of writing."
2. To corrupt morally; to debase.
3. To render ineffective; as, "fraud vitiates a contract."


Jonah leaned back in his seat and took in the crowd. A mix of mostly thirties and forties. Hip looking, but with plenty of beards and balding heads. It blew his mind that the open house was allowing pints of beer into the seating arena. Albeit, the pints had to have little plastic lids on the little plastic ups. Glorified adult sippy cups but it was still beer in the opera house. But he supposed in this economy it made sense to let people spend their money more freely.

The sour looking elderly usher briskly lead couples to their seats as the house started to fill up. He smirked trying to imagine her rocking out to a rock band in the aisles.

It had been long time since he had last been on the stage. No amplifiers and electric guitars, but cellos and mandolins. Whatever, he thought, looking away from the stage. A different life.

And as the lights went down and the cheers erupted from the crowd, he discretely pulled out his pipe and quickly took a quick toke. A final act of vitiation to the setting of his downfall and humiliation, leaving dozens of rows all around him sharply sniffing at the air while they all clapped in unison