Exeleutherostomized Coprolalia

I haven't watched the Force Awakens yet, it's not that I won't, but I really don't like the idea of adding my hard earned pocket change to the billions of dollars it has "forcibly convoked" so far. You would think that Disney's stock price would continue to climb, but, so far, it has done exactly the opposite. They are losing ESPN subscribers at a very alarming rate. They blame the millenials for cord cutting, which could very well be partially true, but I think they have a much larger problem on their hands. It's much more probable that the reason that they are losing customers has more to do with marketing overkill than anything else. Who really wants to watch 40 minutes of advertising for every 20 minutes of game time. Who wants to watch all stars, who are often paid an annual salary in the millions of dollars, pump themselves up with every sort of drug imaginable? What about the families that are affected by chronic traumatic encephalopathy?

The most obvious, ubiquitous, important realities are often the ones that are hardest to see and talk about - David Foster Wallace

When a husband says that his wife is a terrible mother...it makes everything Trump has ever said seem less maniacal. It isn't my place to say how anybody else should raise their family, but it is terribly upsetting to see an egoist claim that he's a "great father"in the very same breath. O'Leary might have earned his place on Santa's Notley list, but at least he recognizes that it's important to have (business) partners whose strengths compensate for his weaknesses. - It's a rather amusing reflection; even if it's marble topped, there are still some things that money can't buy.

Together we can face this wildness and walk hand-in-hand into the etcetera. - Margaret Laurence

Today's blog entry will be short and sweet, and might even end happily ever, but that would be too predictable. Instead I'll leave you with a beautifully tragic alternative, and we'll try to forget that global warming might very well spin out another Death Star.

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Under a Streetlight

She could have had
Anything she wanted
My heart devoid of care
She set my soul on fire

She used me up
She left me drunk
On the cold cement
I could not speak a word

She left me
In the depths of my depravity
There was a sadness all around

My skin crying for a touch
No matter how cold
To bring feeling back

If you ever wondered
I'm right where you remember
If you ever wanted
To take my breath away - K.B.