I took a week off from Moss Island and didn’t record a podcast either. The world kept turning. Riots in Baltimore, candidates pandering, more Cosby accusers, Antonin Scalia mentally composing ways to say “The founders never intended to allow gay marriage…” Social media posts and tweets and shares all insisting, “If only everybody in the world could be just like me things would be wonderful.” And the New York Times wrote a piece about toilet seat bidets.
Category Archive: Bits
It’s never as dark, and we’re never as alone as we think we are.
Cold hot panic
Rushing thought bubbles
Easing in find the voice
Never let them see you shake
My own sex education was covered formally and awkwardly in eighth grade, then entirely corrupted by Christians a few years later. I was seduced at 17 by a college-aged youth group leader, and cast away from the group by another leader who was sleeping with one of my friends.
In the first paragraph he blew my mind. By the fourth I felt my kidneys explode. But wait, that’s not all – if you click now, we’ll throw in a set of steak knives!
…do we hold celebrities to a higher standard? I don’t think so. Think of local scandals you’re familiar with – the minister who ran off with the church secretary, the legislator who took a bribe, the teacher who had an affair with a student. Probably none of these were held to a lower standard than the celebrity who did something similar. In many ways, the celebrity enjoys more support than the less famous person does. But our understanding of the nuances of a local situation becomes more sophisticated, less black-and-white, because we’ve considered similar issues in popular culture.
I was thinking about songs people choose for their weddings. Have you noticed how inappropriate some of these are? (Yes, I realize I’m not one to talk.) I went to DJ web sites and looked at “top wedding picks.” The same dumb songs turned up again and again. As Mandy Patinkin’s Inigo Montoya said in The Princess Bride, “I don’t think it means what you think it means.”
Another movie you should see except it’s pretty boring is Still Alice, which is very realistic and exactly what happened when my uncle had alzeimers disease, which makes you forget things and people except things that happened to you a long time ago. Sometimes we need to see movies like this to understand things that other people go through in their lives. If you don’t want to see it which I totally understand maybe you can see a different movie but just go a little early and sneak in to see part of Still Alice, which is what I did. I think that is still o.k. because it’s not like the movie is selling out or anything.
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