I've always said that I loathe "New Year's," & since I've stopped drinking, it stands in high relief as "Amateur Night." It's an excuse for people who don't drink to drink & act like idiots, & for those who do drink to overindulge. It exposes previously dormant issues to be revealed by the night's overcharged spirit of bacchanalia. This can translate to physical violence, which outside of sports looks very boorish. (This is my problem with the UFC. I can never take it seriously, because without heavy boxing gloves, it just looks like two drunk guys fighting. Yes, they wear gloves, but they're comically light--they're almost unnoticeable. I don't want to sound boorish, but it has always seemed to me to be very homoerotic--two men without shirts grappling.). And, anyways, the history of the calendar disinterests me as much as the explanation of Back to the Future, Part III, which simply makes no sense to me because... I stopped caring, already. I know the names "Julian," "Gregorian," & "equinox," but my knowledge ends there. & I think that is more than most people...ooh, LNE just told me that True Grit is on Netflix Instant. More later.
I just wrote an entire post about subjects as seemingly disparate as the Republican caucus in Iowa, the NFL, The Hurt Locker, Full Metal Jacket, my complete disinterest in science & math, & the total arbitrariness of the concept of recorded time, & now it's gone with the wind, as my great-aunt would have said. Oh, technology, it does have its drawbacks.
I know it'll anger me, but I can't resist watching the results of the Republican Iowa Caucus. The candidates are all insane, & the wholly bland Mitt Romney is a perfectly vapid-enough person to lead the pack. Newt Gingrich? He sounds like a Dr. Seuss villain. Ron Paul? A story about his past statements on race will rightfully sink his fledgling campaign. Rick Santorum? The dead baby thing can never be extricated from my mind. Rick Perry? Please--I think we've had enough of Texas governors this century. Michele Bachmann? She makes Rick Perry look like a Rhodes scholar. If there's anyone else--oh yeah, Jon Huntsman--he doesn't have a chance, so it's not worth mentioning.
Do you know how frustrating it is that that post is gone? Ugh.
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