Today was weird. Hmmm, maybe not, I was weird the day was windy. I took my mom to the lab for bloodwork before the sun rose, well, before the dark grey was light grey, and later, left the dentists office while the light grey was going dark. In between I watched some trash suggested by amazon prime.
The show is called awkward, I think it ran on MTV, it’s hard to tell on amazon and Netflix as they have their own way of editing things. It’s a high school comedy/drama sort of thing, the sort of thing that is always on one channel or another. The message as far as I can tell is promiscuity is good, infidelity not so good, alcohol is fun, hallucinogens ambivalent but hysterical, marijuana is for burnouts.
Did they cure AIDS? I’m tired of the recreational hypocrisy of drug use arguments pro or anti, but shit, sex is dangerous. Sure teen pregnancy is in there but more comedic than dramatic, nothing about STD’s. I don’t know, it’s disturbing. Except for the stupid shit that’s sort of what high school was like for me, um, except for the high school part too. But that was before HIV, and, um, all the minors looked like minors too. Oh, and no cell phones, laptops, stuff like that.
“There are times, however, and this is one of them, when even being right feels wrong. What do you say, for instance, about a generation that has been taught that rain is poison and sex is death? If making love might be fatal and if a cool spring breeze on any summer afternoon can turn a crystal blue lake into a puddle of black poison right in front of your eyes, there is not much left except TV and relentless masturbation. It’s a strange world. Some people get rich and others eat shit and die.”
― Hunter S. Thompson, Generation of Swine: Tales of Shame and Degradation in the ‘80’s
So, I’ve got all sorts of dental work to look forward to, fuck, and other things. Ongoing doctor visits for me and loved ones and winter is coming. Today was wild. The sky looked like the sky in that one famous painting of John Brown. I want to say the band Kansas used it for an album cover. I’ve been to the far north, all over this continent and half of Europe. The sky doesn’t get more dramatic than it does in the Plains States.
I sure do miss Oregon.
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