+ Tiger Woods said "sorry" today and i'm not going to talk about it.
i'm not going to talk about it because my computer is a decade old and it can no longer support video content, so i cannot watch the 13.5 minutes that everyone is talking about.
+ i've been on twitter for almost a year now. my account started as a place where my friends and i could post fictitious statements to make fun of each other. for the month or so that we all actually followed through with this intent, it was a blast.
then we got bored, lazy and tired of making fun of the same things about one another's personality over and over again.
twitter is strange. at multiple times during the day i will read several posts by people about what they are doing. it's fascinating to have access to the lives and thoughts of people i will never meet.
through twitter i get notified of interesting articles to read and when podcasts of Bill Simmons go up online. that's helpful.
the rest of twitter is near-obnoxious reminders that a lot of other people are doing a lot of stuff that i am not.
*Bill Simmons is watching a dramatic conclusion to a thrilling basketball game.
*a great show is taking place in Chicago tonight.
*Chad OchoCinco is inviting everybody and their grandmother to eat with him at a cafe in Miami.
*Amazon has amazing deals on DVDs that i still cannot afford.
*a friend is drinking a rare beer and really enjoying it.
*check out this hilarious Youtube clip (again, i can't because of my geriatric computer).
*etc.
you get the point. why do i subject myself to this? i don't know. this is the part of the blog where i am supposed to come to some profound conclusion or make a witty comment.
i got nothing.
+ i was reading Neitzche, "Beyond Good and Evil," the other day, and he theorizes that there are two types of morality that govern all people: slave and master.
Neitzche talked about people like the Christians, who have swam against the master morality and assumed a slave morality identity. instead of entitlement and power, they (we) subject themselves to everyone else and serve the greater good, rather than grabbing whatever power, pleasure and capital they can.
master morality types take whatever they can and think of themselves exclusively.
according to the commentary i have heard/read about Tiger Woods, up to this point he has operated under a master morality mindset, but has committed to pursing the slave morality lifestyle from this point forward.
(i included the last section only to inform the reader that i engaged in a philosophical and scholarly exercise recently. in fact, the only reason this blog will be posted is to notify you of this fact. you don't care, but i care that you know this. i don't know why.)
+ Heidi and i spent last weekend in Chicago. it was awesome. i had to take a stupid test for teaching, but once that was concluded, we embarked upon a journey of excessive calorie consumption with a few of our closest friends.
i will be back in Chicago in exactly one month, sans Heidi. during this trip, i will be interviewed by several Chicago Public Schools principals who will determine whether i am worthy to be hired to teach their kids how to read and write. from what i hear, it is a "speed-dating" type of set up. my greatest hope is that i land at whatever school is closest to my friend Kevin, so we can move in next door to him. once this happens, we will have dinner parties and grill outs, and Kevin and i will stand in his garage and drink Budweiser as we stare at his motorcycle and talk about master and slave cylinders.
talking about master and slave cylinders will bring me even greater pride than talking about master and slave moralities, because i am of the mindset that manliness is defined by physical brawn and manual prowess, not intelligence and sophistication.
and eating large quantities of food. that's definitive as well. fortunately, i have an excellent wife who delights in my exercise of consumption. thanks, dear.
+ if i ever get cancer, i want to handle it just like Matt Chandler, pastor of Village Church, in Dallas, TX.
+ with at least a half-a-foot of snow still on the ground, let me be the 4 millionth person to state that i am ready for Spring.
hey Winter - it's enough already.
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8 comments:
seriously your blog is one of the funniest i ever read which is why it is of the few i read. that twitter shit had me crying.
glad you're on the move to c-ago. miss you man. much love.
and yes matt chandler is bad mo fo. spiritually speaking. neitzsche is a douche bag and burning in hell praise Jesus!
I wish for nothing more than to stand in a garage on a summer night, smoking a cigarette, drinking a Budweiser in a can, and staring at motorcycles.
This is my dream, and I plan on making this happen very very soon.
By the way, this is a great blog post. Random Justin thought bubbles on the Internet will always be a good thing.
you know what? i don't think in that whole twitter nonsense, no one ever made fun of you. no one ever makes fun of you. how do you achieve this? people make fun of me all of time.
Hey, we had a good time. Those good times will continue, I reckon.
i should have said "anyone" not "no one"
I love how you started this blog saying you wouldn't talk about Tiger, but half way down, talked about it.
hey commish - you should know that nobody can talk about anything these days without talking about tiger. it's impossible.
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