{"id":3062,"date":"2020-07-21T17:44:42","date_gmt":"2020-07-21T22:44:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/control-h.org\/?p=3062"},"modified":"2020-07-21T17:44:42","modified_gmt":"2020-07-21T22:44:42","slug":"twenty-one-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/2020\/07\/21\/twenty-one-6\/","title":{"rendered":"Twenty-one"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The motivation to do this is waning quickly.  I did write to my doctor when I decided to embark on this session.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I found in my archives an entry I&#8217;d written almost twenty years ago, where I beat myself up for being lazy.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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&#8217;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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yeah.  That was <em><strong>lazy<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Notsomuch.  But that&#8217;s where I was, mentally.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The station I&#8217;ve been watching lately was talking about <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fox5dc.com\/news\/dcs-proposed-ad-tax-tabled-could-be-nixed\" target=\"_blank\">this<\/a>.  Even the reactionary mayor was in full maybe-this-is-really-fucking-stupid mode.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Because it is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Is it the stupidest thing I&#8217;ve seen proposed in the past few years?  No.  That it&#8217;s not says a lot about the pols who&#8217;ve been put in office lately.  Yes, that extends to the current occupant of the Oval Office.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But the disappointment that they won&#8217;t be able to execute him for treason could be amusing if I could bring myself to be amused.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Instead, it&#8217;s just disgust.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If I keep talking about it, I might turn into what I&#8217;m calling one of my Fantasy Football teams this year.  Since <em>Redskins<\/em> is no longer okay, I think there&#8217;s a nice ring to &#8220;Washington Wokescolds.&#8221;  My fantasy teams is the DC Wokescolds, because using the proper city name was too long.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So, from this day in 2000, I found this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">See, I believe in <em>big<\/em> miracles &#8211; 7\/21\/2000<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s an inside joke, and if you haven&#8217;t seen the Robert Tilton Spiritual Flatulence bootleg video, you wouldn&#8217;t understand. (I have a copy somewhere, if you&#8217;d like a copy, drop me a line. I might be able to oblige).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Anyway, I just thought I&#8217;d say that I miss Art Bell. Mike Siegel sucks hairy goat balls.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>The reference is to something that was much shorter than the YouTube find <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/P-JjaAh0NeU\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Obviously it was incredibly funny to a seventeen year-old boy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>More tomorrow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8217;d written almost twenty years ago, where I beat myself up for being lazy. 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