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so yesterday was the annual philly bar crawl. It was pretty fucking fun, but nearly as good as last year, which I'm sure is due to the fact that I was fucking broke and didn't even stay the whole night. It was a good time anyway, and I'd like to send out a big thanks to everyone who bought me drinks and food and whatnot. Great crew, great crew. Trophies for all.
Casie is currently in California with some friends and acquaintances, thus relinquishing her title of "least traveled" and placing that crown back on my head. See, neither of us had been further west than Hershey Park until I made a couple trips to Ohio and joined the ranks of "Awesome People Who Have Been Past Hershey Park," leaving her to her desolate east coast life of isolation and ignorance. But alas, my victory march has been cut short by her visit to the Golden (shower) State. I take these things very seriously. I'm awesome.
Anyhow, she's only been gone a few days but I already miss her. How lame is that? I can be pretty lame sometimes. But I'm rarely heinous.
My parents keep buying all this hippie food. I don't know what to do with myself. All I wanted was a handful of pretzels, and what do I find? Fucking organic oat bran pretzels. So I look for something else to snack on. Bar-b-que Soy Crisps? C'mon!! This must be some kind of midlife crisis or something. Next thing you know our house is gonna start smelling like fucking patchouli and my mom's gonna start wearing awful floral dresses and my dad's gonna grow a beard and ponytail and walk around barefoot all the time and then they're gonna start shitting in the woods and buy a Volkswagon bus and paint it so it looks even more retarded than it already did and they're gonna start dumping paint on fur coats and protesting every insignificant facet of American life and arguing about semantics instead of focusing their attention on real issues, growing some balls and actually contributing to improving the quality of life for all the people of the world, goddammit. But I digress....
No, I'm gonna continue on this rant. See, this is what pisses me off to no end about both liberal and conservative ideologies: priorities. On one end, you have hippies overly concerned with shit like animal rights, changing the words to the fucking Pledge of Allegiance, gay marriage, etc. And on the other end, you have these stuffy corporate fucks hellbent on pulling us back into the stone age by pushing prayer back into schools, banning abortion and anything else that conflicts with their self-righteous moral crusade, excessive free enterprise, etc. And you know what? None of that shit matters. None of it. You know why? Because right here, on planet Earth, there are fellow humans who are not EATING. Now, save your fucking "bleeding heart" comments, take a few steps back, and actually think about what I just said: HUMAN BEINGS ARE LIVING LIKE FUCKING ANIMALS ALL OVER THE WORLD. And as members of the same species, it is our sole obligation to put an end to that, no matter the cost, no matter the sacrifice. That is the most important thing in the world, so important that it renders every other issue completely meaningless. Let's figure out this whole "food/air" thing first (to quote Bill Hicks), and then we can worry about your fucking marriage license or the endangered fucking yaks. Now if you'll all take the magic pills I've provided....
But honestly, I'm not above all this. I'm just as self-serving as the rest of us. I get caught up in the whole "well one person can only do so much" excuse. But there really is no excuse. I mean, when that tsunami hit Asia and wiped out half the continent, the entire world should have stopped. Every non-essential aspect of our daily lives should have been put on hold, and the entire world should have come together and focused all of its efforts on cleaning up, rebuilding, helping our fellow people instead of writing a check and saying "good luck." I don't know. That may be a bit extreme. The point is, everyone's priorities are fucked up, and I find it amazing that we are able to sleep at night.
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