modern media

Earlier you had said that you didn’t have to have justification for what you believed, you could just believe it because you did. You could, dare I say it, refuse to submit your beliefs to the Sacred Crucible of Truth and go about your merry way. I thought I saw a softening of that attitude and hence my impromptu performance of that Aquarian love fest even though I have no love for those showbiz hippies, or astrology for that matter.

I thought it was the Freehold of Beaglesonia, when did you become a republic?

I’m still going to challenge you on the notion that some states have tightened up their gun laws, in this nation prostate now before the whims of Wayne LaPierre, I think it would be headline news if such an event transpired.

I don’t think the murder rate has gone down anywhere now that everybody can conceal carry. Let me know if you read somewhere that it has, but please note where you read it so that when you see the light and join the KBW movement we can submit it to The Crucible.

John Denver. I remember there was a Doonesbury comic strip where Duke, the Hunter S Thompson character, moved to Colorado and as it turned out, next door to John Denver, whose songs filled the air which pissed him off and he shouted, “John Denver, why don’t you change your name to John Akron and move to Ohio?”

Most movies these days, particularly the box office boffos, are still the good guys are always all good, and the bad guys are always all bad, and even though they both lead legions of followers, who are all armed to the teeth, the final battle is always the ace good guy vs the ace bad guy punching it out on the top of the mountain, and of course the good guy always wins. And that’s pretty much the same for romcoms, less shooting, more, ugh, kissing, and pretty much all genres. In the first scene the good guy gives a baby a lollipop and in the second scene the bad guy snatches it away and right away you know at the end of the movie they will be punching it out on the top of that mountain and that the good guy will win. Drives me nuts, why even watch something like that? Why not just play solitaire? At least there is some suspense there.

Speaking of movies, I think I have learned that while you would never be seen in a movie theater (does Cheboygan even have movie theaters these days?), but I think you rent DVDs or something from time to time, and I am wondering if you have seen Inside Llewyn Davis, kind of about the pre Bob Dylan folk scene, very loosely based on Dave Van Ronk.

That whole adult thing for pornography is strange isn’t it? A space alien seeing an adult book store would think it is full of high toned classic literature. I guess they mean adult as opposed to children. But that has also seemed odd to me. Is some kid going to be scarred for life by seeing people fucking? I don’t think so. But I am not going to run for congress on that platform.