As I was walking to the train station this morning, I thought about how hard it really is to be a blogger. Especially now, with my car still in the shop, I’m not listening to the news during the commute, not finding out about someone’s finger in the soup and what have you that is happening in the world.
I walk under the walnut trees, with their sickeningly sweet walnut fruits rotting under them, trying to come up with something exciting to write, incorporating the walnut allergy I have. I try, and come up with nothing.
I just spend the weekend in Phoenix. I flew in, and arrived at the hotel just after 11:00 am on Friday morning. It was “downtown.” Between Central Station and Chase Field. I was struck by how empty the streets were. Empty. Bare. The streets in our city are more crowded at 2:00 am than the streets of Phoenix at high noon. Maybe it was the fact that there were no Diamondback games, basketball season hasn’t yet started, there was no hockey, and there was no football for another two days. Maybe. Maybe no one wants to go outside in the hot summer sun. Don’t know, but it was sure good to come home.
I think about the pennies, discarded on the streets that I stoop to pick up. Each penny is a month’s worth of interest on a dollar. Well, depending on your rate, it might be a month’s interest on $4. Old Ben Franklin said, “A penny saved is a penny earned.” Old Ben Kenobi said, “This was your father’s light sabre.” I say, “A penny found is a penny earned tax free.”
I try to come up with something witty about deodorant. It’s hard to be witty about that to begin with, but every once in a while I get a stick that is fine for a couple of days, then I get an allergic reaction to it. Someone I know claims that it’s from sodium stearate, but it is supposed to be a non-allergen. Must be one of the fragrances that they mix with the sodium stearate to keep it from smelling.
I try to come up with something witty and a worthwhile read about the smarmy ass on the train who is either showing off by just standing on the train or is really full of himself. Most people who don’t get a seat end up holding on or leaning up against a seat or the wall. No. This smarmy ass who I see most every day gets on the train, looks like he’s about to squat, and reads the paper.
That makes me think about the smarmy asses who stop somewhere to get a cup of coffee, because having enough time in the morning to actually drive half way out of the way to pay $4 for a $1 cup of coffee then getting where you need to be is a status symbol. Next time you’re in a place where there are lots of people in the morning, look at where they bought their coffee. It’s from some prestigious smarmy status shop. You never see someone with a McDonald’s cup or a Burger King cup of coffee. Speaking of coffee, if Togo’s and Baskin Robbin’s aren’t selling Dunkin Donuts coffee when they sell coffee, the CEO ought to be fired instantly. From a cannon.
Besides not having enough material for a blog post, it’s hard keeping some blogs separate from each other. Sure, I’m here, blowing it out my pie hole so you don’t have to, but there’s another side of me, a gentle, sophisticated, different blogger. I can point to my other blog from here, but if I point to this blog from that one, there may be repercussions as this is not gentle nor sophisticated.
So, in short, that’s one of the problems of being a blogger. I make every attempt to give to you a 4 days of oppobrium each week, but sometimes it’s tough. Oh, it’s not too tough for the bloggers who just point at everything else. That’s like the top of the hour news on the radio. “Here’s what’s happened in the past 24 hours, wrapped up in a neat little 5-minute box.” So when nothing exciting happens in my world, where do the articles come from? When I’m the only person blowing it out my pie hole, where does the oppobrium come from? That, my friend, remains to be seen.
In the mean time, just for good measure, BLOW IT OUT YOUR PIE HOLE!
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