Father's Day 98
Happy father's day, y'all. Once upon a time, my sisters and I created a
"FATHER" song analogous to the "MOTHER" song, but all I can remember is
that first line.. "F is for your farts so smelly" or something like that.
Now, my serenade song is the MST3K waffle song.
For those who were wondering why no posts in three weeks, and for those
who weren't, I was gone for a couple of weeks, and this past week I was
simply lazy. So nyah.
My spell on the city streets have been broken, I almost got run over twice
this week (well, not really the second time.) Both, I might add, at
intersections where I clearly had the right of way -- one was a stop sign,
van was making a U-turn from a parked position and nearly ran me over.
Sometimes I wish I were stronger so that I could have made a larger dent
when I slapped the hood. The second time, a charter bus ran a red light
(it had been red for 30 seconds already) while I was crossing fifth
avenue in front of the Met. I wonder who had given this guy a license to
go through red lights, even if it was only for the benefit of pedestrians.
There are cabbies in this city who will, at four in the morning, stop at
red lights even if there's no oncoming -- or even possible oncoming --
traffic. I remember stopping at blinking red lights on Creedmoor Rd. long
after I coul reasonably expect anyone there. And yet, I hear tell of some
problems in Charlotte over automatic surveillance at intersections. Seems
their tapes ran out after the first hour, not realizing that people would
run red lights about every other light cycle.
So on to my next topic: unnaturalness. Stopping at red lights is
unnatural. Four-way stop intersections are unnatural. Flying in a metal
cylinder, thousands of feet above the ground is unnatural. Simply this:
civilization and technology are unnatural. If such things were natural,
we wouldn't need laws and federal grants. So quit using "unnaturalness"
as an argument against homosexuality, women working outside the home,
whatever people! I'm tired of hearing this shit!
In any case, most people trying to make that point are also the same
people who say that sin is the natural state of man (heh, heh, I love
using "man" instead of "people" in cases like this. Such statements as
one hears from traditional translations of the Bible exempt me from all
manner of things.) So shut up, and let us get on with our sinning. We
only want to be natural.
I'm starting a non-fiction writing class soon, so perhaps I will be a
little more regular in my entries. Perhaps not. Who knows what evil
lurks in the mind of meep? The shadow do.