It occurs to me that I have been something of an ass. This occurrence doesn't occur very often, but that it happens at all shows what a super cool dude I am. I mean, like... you know?
I stumbled onto some really extraordinary YouTubery this morning that made me LOL. And although I LOL from time to time, I realize that I haven't carried that attitude forward in the blog since having made the dramatic decision to mash the mute button. What a self-important jackhole I am. Now I'm like totally my blog is all signal and no noise. Yeah right. I'm going to get a million hits this way, yeah like 2012. (Actually I'm at about 750000 right now).
So, EC over on Facebook was talking about how spoiled we are, we Americans and I was going to say something deep about it that went a little something like this. Oh yeah it was an anti-victim thing for black Americans about electrical current or something - like being a historical beneficiary of Western Civilization and having indoor plumbing and just sitting on the couch eating Cheetos and watching Ricki Lake, or maybe Keith Olbermann and what he's saying is making you feel self-righteous and a victim at the same time and then you're all talking back at Rush Limbaugh and at the snack bar at the gym after work you're all like talking about the controversy but what really has you upset is Jacko is dead and nobody really understands what he meant to us...
And it's so absurd, the whole conversation is surreally dramatically silly. We don't split hairs, we split atoms of difference.
So anyway, Boy was at the beach and school's out and he used the term 'Asian invasion' and I'm thinking that he's becoming a douche because he's complaining about the number of non-locals in the path of his boogie board. So I'm thinking, hey. Is he getting his recommended daily allowance of cool Asianity? And the answer is, not really because the fact is he's racially confused. I think I would be genuinely surprised if he could make sense of multiculturalism - he didn't realize that he was the other black kid in school back when he was in elementary school. It's not worth it to set any records straight - there are no straight records.
But I got started on my LOL track almost by accident because Unk in Florida sent me a heavy dose of 'black people should' this morning. And I can't remember the last time I heard the expressions, Miss Ann and Mister Charlie, but woot there it is. And it gets excruciating, but I...understand.
So things are all good, really. I'm back on the job with a big fat client who desperately needs what I can provide. And it's still in California, and this weekend for the first time in about four months, I am feeling perfectly happy with my own personal economic prospects. And yeah I've been reading about Hitler and obsessing over leapfrogging technology in my competitive environment but this weekend it's really time to chill and laugh at the absurdity.
It's time to remember a sense of freaking humor. Why on earth did I forget?
