2 Yez, a convession. Leaf me uhlehown.
3 I am amazed at normal guys who can do extraordinary things that LOOK normal to the average guy, but which would stump a guy like me.
4 Yesterday I walked the parking lot over by Target. This guy in an oversized A's cap stepped in front of me and did a perfect tongue spit.
5 It arced, and then it hit the street on pointe.
6 He continued into the liquor store without to no applause. Didn't miss a step. A true professional.
7 Spectacular.
8 Tough guys who spit always impressed me as a kid. They just knew how to do it.
9 And on pointe. I've seen the same sorts of guys able to do that for years. It's a certain sort of dude who could do that so elegantly, and stay poker-faced.
10 Convession: I used to practice.
11 I'm sure a lot of young men used to practice.
12 I don't know about anyone else, but it seems the to me that the thuggier guys could always out-spit the unthuggier guys.
13 You'll never guess which guy I was.
14 Yeah, that's right.
15 It seems they ought to create a reality teevee show about those guys.
16
17 Something to think about, seriously.
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19 Anybody lookin'?
20 All apologies.
21 Does it occur to those guys that as cool as they think they look, nobody needs to spit, in general. Except baseball players and managers. But that's just tradition.
22 Moving On, Part One: And so it goes.
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24 Vonnegut. Slaughterhouse Five, each time anyone dies. He saw a lot. He lived through the Dresden bombings. He retained an amazing sense of humor, for a guy who experienced something so hideous. Good man, Vonnegut.
25 He also wrote this: "The only difference between Bush and Hitler is that Hitler was elected."
26 Ah, Vonnegut! You scoundrel you! Poor Dubya. Innocent little varmint.
27 Here is a wonderful overview of Vonnegutese:
http://www.avclub.com/article/15-things-kurt-vonnegut-said-
better-than-anyone-el-1858
28 Fifteen Things Kurt Vonnegut Said Better Than Anyone Else. It's worth a look.
29 It is all Truth.
30 Whatever THAT is.
31 Loves me some Vonnegut.
32 Remember when it was okay to read controversial things?
33 Those days are vanishing.
34 We are pressured these days to censor anything that might make students think.
35 Just sayin'.
36 Over the years when we would have to teach non-fiction I would teach about the assassination of John F. Kennedy. Last year was the fiftieth anniversary of the assassination. There is monstrous proof that one lone nut didn't do it, and that it is more likely he was done by some very high fallootin' hombres.
37 The entire beginning of Julius Caesar allows us to sit in on the clandestine meetings that surely took place when JFK was taken down. I don't think our country has ever recovered.
38 The trouble is, I'm finding myself moving to safer things these days. I don't want anyone higher up getting upset with what I teach.
39 Education has subtly reached that. We teach what the state tells us to teach.
40 Big brother is here.
41 I'll teach it anyway, but will probably not use the film JFK, even though I think it is pretty spot on. Too many cuss words.
42 Imagine that. My feeling used to be this: if parents don't want their kids to hear cuss words, don't send them to a school that has 2700 teenagers.
43 Not anymore.
44 The control is so subtle and silent that most don't see it.
45 Some day nobody will understand the reference to Big Brother.
46 Chilling.
47 I'll be retired by then.
48 I'll sit and watch.
49
50 Gottago.
51 Peace.
~H~
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