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I’ve been putting this little talk off for a while, but I think it’s
time I said what’s on my mind. I’ve thought about it long and hard,
and I don’t think it’s me - it’s you.

I’m talking to you, calf, because I’m really tired of your nonsense.
We’ve been together a long time, and I’m really attached to you, but
c’mon - you need to be pulling more of your own weight.

So what if I ran a few miles, so what if I’m a couple of cheeseburgers
overweight. I warned you, you knew this was coming. But for you to
suddenly start acting like a spoiled child (”I’m gonna take my ball
and go HOME”) is totally unacceptable. You don’t see your brother
acting like that, do you?

Buck up, mister. I need to get back out there and run again, for my
mental health as much as anything.

My son has not stopped singing “Deep in the Heart of Texas” since we
left soccer. Why? I have no idea. He just started singing it.

He sang it while eating the rest of his dinner.

He’s singing it in the shower as I type.

And me? All I can think is how badly I want to see Pee Wee’s Big
Adventure right now.

Netflix sure knows me

I signed on to Netflix to see this message today:

Because you enjoyed:

Blade Runner: Theatrical Version
Blade Runner: The Director’s Cut

We think you’ll enjoy:

Blade Runner: The Final Cut

Hmm. Am I that predictable?

Pasties

Are you a CTRL-V or a SHIFT-INS type of paster?

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Should I hate a people for the shade of their skin
Or the shape of their eyes or the shape I’m in
Should I hate ‘em for having our jobs today
No I hate the men sent the jobs away
I can see them all now, they haunt my dreams
All lily white and squeaky clean
They’ve never known want, they’ll never know need
Their shit don’t stink and their kids won’t bleed
Their kids won’t bleed in the dad’s little war
And we can’t make it here anymore

Will work for food
Will die for oil
Will kill for power and to us the spoils
The billionaires get to pay less tax
The working poor get to fall through the cracks
Let ‘em eat jellybeans let ‘em eat cake
Let ‘em eat shit, whatever it takes
They can join the Air Force, or join the Corps
If they can’t make it here anymore

And that’s how it is
That’s what we got
If the president wants to admit it or not
You can read it in the paper
Read it on the wall
Hear it on the wind
If you’re listening at all
Get out of that limo
Look us in the eye
Call us on the cell phone
Tell us all why

In Dayton, Ohio
Or Portland, Maine
Or a cotton gin out on the great high plains
That’s done closed down along with the school
And the hospital and the swimming pool
Dust devils dance in the noonday heat
There’s rats in the alley
And trash in the street
Gang graffiti on a boxcar door
We can’t make it here anymore

James McMutry

(he wrote this several years ago, btw, and this isn’t the whole song…)

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