2.16.2006

damn, I haven't been here for awhile...

so. yeah. i've come to a conclusion. knowing that no one gives a crap about this blog, and that it likely WON'T get me "discovered" and shit, I find it tough to keep up with. like, i'll have thoughts that I think, "hey -- I should blog this....." like, how I spent my MLK day. how i saw interracial couples comfortable in public places and stuff. how it was all cool, and a reminder of how far we've come.

then i remember no one will read it, and so much of everything else in America is a mess, so I forget to post it.

so, i don't know what people care about. i don't know what they're interested in. i'll be 44 tomorrow, and the most solid observation i have to share about life and people is that people become more disappointing by the decade.

like -- dave matthews band fans. why are they such idiots? look -- here's a couple of threads currently popping on the anstmarching fansite. see for yourselves: seriously. those are merely three examples of exactly the worst of the web, a testament to how people -- given the freedom to be abslutely themselves -- will either fake it entirely, or sink to the lowest imaginable level.

and, once they get way down there, they find kindred spirits. by the truckload. gobs and gobs of other superficial people who have never quite risen beyond the 2nd level of Maslow's hierarchy of needs. though they act like it. then again, if i think about it while looking at the hierarchy, this particular breed of nitwits seems, from their conversations (used loosely), to suffer more from shattered personalities than any type of clearly defined retardation or developmental paralysis.

maybe they're just too stupid to even be charted. who knows.

what may be more interesting is how they are drawn in such huge numbers to the music of an otherwise innocent jam band. that may be the bigger question: what is it, specifically, about the music of the dave matthews band that seems to appeal so heavily to emotionally immature, superficial ADHD stoners??

really -- read the stuff. I'm serious. really not joking. this borders on being an epidemic. the site is huge, and is hugely active. yet, just try to find any real content. go ahead. try. if you find any, you can expect also to find whoever posted it to be roundly criticized for "harshing everyone's gig" or some other such bullshit. it's a mutual admiration society of the dumb and dumber, and if you don't fit in, you're about as welcome as gay bigfoot with leprosy at a monthly meeting of the middle aged republican housewives of Ohio.

i'm serious. if i were dave matthews, i'd look into this, 'cuz it's downright yucky.

seems a lot of them also love cats. draw your own conclusions.

you're far better off having a beer here.

but, hell -- what do you think? y'all never write me.

in the meantime, i'm watching the Olympics. yes, until they're over.