March 14, 2011
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The Daily News1 So...I read somewhere on Facebook that today is Pi Day. I thought we already had that day. Ah, whatevs.2 I spent most of my weekend dodging pies.
3 Long story; won't bore you with it.
4 I enjoy the irony though, because on Friday I believe I wrote about how a pie-in-the face comes with the job.
5 I was of course referring to acting, but after I put a little thought into it, I realized I talked about all of us on Friday.
6 Or it might've been Thursday.
7 Or Tuesday.
8 I'm too tired to care, really, but at length, the concept is tied directly to modern hubris, which the Greeks saw as the idea that human beings sometimes get so full of themeselves that they inevitably wind up with a pie in the face.
9 I rather like that.
10 I sometimes drink hubris in place of coffee.
11 I order it à la mode.
12 It is such a tantalizing invite to the gods.
13 It's sort of humorous in a way.
14 As long as YOU aren't the pie-ee.
15 Like I LOVE when some guy who is tailgating another driver is seen around fifteen minutes later on the side of the road getting a pie in the face from the Highway Patrol.
16 Sucka deserves a pie.
17 Hmmm. Who deserves a pie in your life?
18 Charlie Sheen, certainly.
19 But am I the only person in America who couldn't care less about Charlie Sheen?
20 And it is becoming hip to forgive him. Or even to like him.
21 I'm so disinterested in the guy that I don't even know what he did wrong.
22 At least any more wrong than the stupid, idiotic things that we all do in the process of living.
23 Dude.
24 Let he amongst us who walks without sin throw the first pie.
25 Yeesh.
26 There are so many worse (not "worst") things.
27 So there you go.
28 Moving on, Part the First: The devastation in Japan is almost too much to watch.
29 Of course, the conspiratorial person in me wonders how an earthquake near Japan just happened to be within a stone's throw of a nuclear plant.
30 I'll say no more, because I would rather not receive a pie.
31 Anyway, it's a tragic, tragic scene. I can't even imagine what those immediately affected by the tragedy are going through.
32 As of right now, I still think helping by donating money is probably the best most of us can do.
33 The Red Cross jumped on it immediately, so if you wish to help, donate some coin to the Red Cross. You can earmark your donation easily if you go to this website:
34 And secondly, you can pray. You can pray, send good thoughts, pray to Joe-the-Bear, or to whatever almighty deity you might feel works best.
35 Bottom line is that none of us can sit here and cry. This needs fast work, and money does change things.
36 Moving on, Part the Second: Tough weekend, but it's now 5 a.m. on Monday morning; the cat is OWWWWING! loudly, and all seems back to normal.
37 I fell down a rabbit hole this weekend and lived in a bizarre world that brought every nightmare imaginanable.
38 I somehow regained my trust that the ground on which I walked was once again solid, and sanity has landed a gentle carpet beneath my feet.
39 Except for the fact that the clock radio in the living room just now went off blaringly loud, the same clock radio that Saturday sent me to the rabbit hole.
40 And the cat is "OWWWWWABLY" loud.
41 Thanks.
42 I'm up and awake, whoever wanted me up and awake at 5 a.m. on a Monday.
43 Well, I think I can head this off by turning OFF the radio and opening the front door so the cat can go out.
44 I'm done withal.
45 I'm going back to bed immediately.
46 I refuse to go down a rabbit hole on a Monday.
47 So as usual, it's Monday.
48 Fly low.
49 See you again.
50 Peace.
~H~
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