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Wrap Up<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

So this is the last one. We’ll see how much more I have until the end of the year. I do have some Notes of a Goon<\/a><\/em> writing to do, but I really can feel finished.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Christmas is going to be unsettled, just like Thanksgiving.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Whatever. Keep plugging along until I have to make a change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lots of thoughts listening to Mean Age Daydream<\/a><\/em> this morning, as well as some of the Thanksgiving podcasts. The guest was a comic who wrote, and was pitching a book on “woke” comedy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the things he had was following a rape victim on an open mic…and how that really killed his act for the night.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Another was following a disabled comic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Going through my inventory, I really don’t fit nicely into a lot of the categories of concern. (Which sounds a lot like one of Fauci’s comebacks to Rand Paul about gain-of-funciton research being conducted in Wuhan; No, Senator, we weren’t conducting gain-of-function of concern<\/strong>….)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So what the hell am I? Disabled? Yep. Rich? Nope. White? Not completely, and that was a bit of an issue for my father growing up in the deep South in the 1960s. Product of an affluent school? Fuck no. I grew up all over the place, and really don’t have anywhere I consider “home.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I could ask what considerations I should have, etc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But I don’t care. Leave me alone, and don’t try to make me live the way you think I should.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There was a radio host to whom I used to listen (when he was still on the air…) who had a video message a couple of days ago that was targeting the sorts of things people think are important today. His message? “So what.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I agree, of course, but that also makes me out-of-place today. But that comes with being a recovering radio guy, I guess.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’ve written every day in November, now, for thirteen straight years. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

So what?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Because it’s what I<\/strong> fucking wanted to do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Wrap Up So this is the last one. We’ll see how much more I have until the end of the year. I do have some Notes of a Goon writing to do, but I really can feel finished. Christmas is going to be unsettled, just like Thanksgiving. Whatever. Keep plugging along until I have to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-journal-writers-month"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4047\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}