So here we are in Corona-daze, week four? Have I lost track? One week can feel like one endless day. I don't mind that. Plenty to do. And wow does time fly. Bird had to weigh in.
Having said I was grateful, I am still capable of getting heartily pissed off. Talking to myself. Feeling irritation surge in my tightened jaw.Wanting to weep and wail.
No. Just feeling that need to scratch deep where it itches.
I close the door and let it out.
FUCK'S SAKE!
OH COME ON!
TOERAGS! NUMPTIES! ASSHOLES! BASTARDS! FUCKERS!
An internal rant.
And then I start craving potato chips.
Rant Item #1:
And excuse my expletives.
Really? Dylan Howard. How is it that folk like you can just sneak off?
What is the future of media when we keep encouraging Yellow Journalism?
Why do sensationalist reports capture so much attention?
Why do we crave tabloid information?
How many outlets for gossip and manufactured content now exist?
When does the line get blurred?
Should publishers of exploitative content face any kind of punishment?
Why is Dylan Howard called "Splashy?"
Isn't that kind of a strange adjective?
Connotes fresh, live, attention-getting.
Creep away, with your golden parachute.
Will all of us get sick and tired of this kind of "news" and eventually put rags like the NE out of business?
Rant Item #2:
Ok. Please let me make this an un-partisan comment.
It annoys me that someone, particularly a powerful someone, can dispense information that is NOT information. That is dangerous.
Hard enough to know what is going on with this virus. Can we leave the dispensation of information to the scientists and health professionals, PLEASE!
Rant Item #3:
Haven't we all been to Vegas? What happens in Vegas stays there.
But right now, do we want Hidden Vegas hot spots?
Not so sexy, really, and the kind of gamble no person would want to take?
Unless , of course, a sweet gullible addictive type could be conned back to the craps.
It's no joke that people are hurting for money. But can't we get creative in the meantime? Does anyone have to lose a life because we didn't listen to science and health professionals?
Rant Item #4:
Whether you believe in the big Global Warming or not... THIS HEAT WAVE..?
In April? IT SUCKS!
And with Santa Ana winds?
We had rain. We had cool temps.
Easier to deal with, particularly when you have to shelter in place.
It is nerve-wracking to think that people might emerge mask-less with the idea that heat destroys this virus.
NOT PROVEN (...yet...?)
I don't want to use my AC! ARRGH.
Please don't let this be the start of a hot summer, complete with wildfires?
Rant Item #5:
I know that Quentin Tarantino now owns Eddie Brandt's Saturday Matinee.
I also know the building is in disrepair and not worth spending hundreds of thousands saving. Tear down is slated May 1st.
But I truly hope we can find a new home for Eddie's in NOHO.
We have so little unique and weird left. Years ago we lost Eagle's Coffee Pub to Starbuck's.
I am sickened by the ugly expensive apartment towers going up choking the earth in NOHO. I hate seeing all the same boring food franchises. Do we really need more SUBWAY sandwich shops? And Mod Pizza? And Jimmy Johns? It's tricky, I know, especially in Virus Time..but I wonder how we can keep NOHO spirit. Spumante's. Republic of Pie. We need a Valley relics Museum. We need to protect our NOHO History. Ok. Rant over.
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