I'm doing a sort-of Cliffs Notes on blogs that I wanted to write but never wrote because I either couldn't articulate them or they might have come across as too offensive.
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The world isn't flat. Sorry, Friedman. I enjoyed the read a few years back, but it's round, way too round.
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I like narcisstic bloggers. I don't mean deeply narcisstic, but I mean that I like when someone writes a blog and makes it personal. You might be Henry Kissinger, but I don't care what you think if I feel that I don't know you. Incidentally, I won't ever know Henry Kissinger since he died (perhaps real recently, but I'm too lazy to go to Google and find out)
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Someone told me that I lost my man card once I watched the Christopher Lowell Show. Two days ago I broke up a four foot deep hunk of concrete with a jackhammer. Do I get my man card back? And, is the "man card" thing a piece of pop culture that I've missed from not seeing enough t.v.?
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I will someday look back at this period of my life and realize that I missed out on a ton of great movies, because most of what I see is animated.
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I'll never trust a curriculum map if they can't tell me the destination. Besides, I'd rather get lost on an exploration than spend a vacation eating Kettle Korn with tourists in high socks and fanny packs.
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I don't get the whole living together before marriage thing. It feels a bit like indentured servitude, like you have to meet a bunch of criteria and then you get to have the marriage. It feels like a marriage without trust. I'm not saying that I think you're a bad person if you live together before you're married. I'm just saying that I don't get it.
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My mentor Brad the Philosopher once told me that if I ever go to Europe I should only visit one cathedral. After that, it loses it's magic. I told him that if he wanted to see something something magestic he should see the sequoia forests in California. It's like a cathedral without the guilt and that you can spend a lifetime under them and they'll never lose their magic. He told me the real magic is in the look on a kid's face when he walks under one of them for the first time ever.
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Comparing a PC to a Mac is like comparing a Honda to a Lexus. Of course it's going to come with better programs if it costs three times as much. It makes me sad that the argument hides a deeper reality: schools could save so much money if they just switched to Linux.
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My friend Dan should really just pony up and buy a Sufjan Stevens album. Dan lives in Illinois, but that's not the album he should buy. He should start with Seven Swans. Here's why Sufjan is a good fit for Dan: his lyrics are poetic and smart, he uses a wide variety of instruments and his songs are never too long or too short for what they need to be. Dan might be the smartest guy I know and I really miss his blogs. Someday I think he'll surprise me and come up with a novel and I'll get a manuscript in the mail.
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Humor is almost always the last part of myself that I show people. I come across as way serious as a result. It's like I'm wired backwards. I don't get into the "fun and playful" zone until about the second or third year as a friend.
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I have a harder time than ever talking politics. It's not that I'm uneducated, but that I'm more unsure. I can see a lot of validity on both sides and even the term "both sides" bothers me because there are usually so many sides that all bring up great points. I'm not saying I believe in a trendy "all truths are the same" concept, but that there are shades to every argument and politically at least, I'm feeling like the guy standing at the paint store trying to decipher between "dusty moonbeam" and "french vanilla."










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