The motivation to do this is waning quickly. I did write to my doctor when I decided to embark on this session.
I found in my archives an entry I’d written almost twenty years ago, where I beat myself up for being lazy.
Mind you, this was when I was working basically full-time largely overnight, along with taking something like seventeen hours in college. And I was beating myself up over it. I’d spend my two nights off per week largely out driving around, listening to the radio, smoking way too many cigarettes, and trying to figure out what I was going to write.
Yeah. That was lazy.
Notsomuch. But that’s where I was, mentally.
As far as this goes, I was going to go on with what I suggested yesterday, and just find a random news story, and write about that.
Today, instead, since this wheezing PC decided it was going to flake out while I was trying to find where I write, I flipped over to the TV input.
The station I’ve been watching lately was talking about this. Even the reactionary mayor was in full maybe-this-is-really-fucking-stupid mode.
Because it is.
Is it the stupidest thing I’ve seen proposed in the past few years? No. That it’s not says a lot about the pols who’ve been put in office lately. Yes, that extends to the current occupant of the Oval Office.
But the disappointment that they won’t be able to execute him for treason could be amusing if I could bring myself to be amused.
Instead, it’s just disgust.
If I keep talking about it, I might turn into what I’m calling one of my Fantasy Football teams this year. Since Redskins is no longer okay, I think there’s a nice ring to “Washington Wokescolds.” My fantasy teams is the DC Wokescolds, because using the proper city name was too long.
Do I plan to keep doing this? Yes. Why? Because I started it, and it gives me a reason to pick through my archives to see what I wrote once upon a time.
So, from this day in 2000, I found this.
See, I believe in big miracles – 7/21/2000
It’s an inside joke, and if you haven’t seen the Robert Tilton Spiritual Flatulence bootleg video, you wouldn’t understand. (I have a copy somewhere, if you’d like a copy, drop me a line. I might be able to oblige).
Anyway, I just thought I’d say that I miss Art Bell. Mike Siegel sucks hairy goat balls.
The reference is to something that was much shorter than the YouTube find here.
Obviously it was incredibly funny to a seventeen year-old boy.
More tomorrow.