You're Still Wrong.. Mykel's Feb 2020 Blog I DON'T GET IT (Pt. 1)

NOTE: This will be my first WEEKLY blog. I’ve heard from several readers that “it’s too long.” Maybe they’re right. I know the feeling of reading on a screen. An old friend from the band The Apostles sent me a 65 page book he wrote. It’s a great read, but I can only manage 10 pages at a time on the computer. Something about the media shortens attention or concentration. For me, this is a test. Please let me know what you think.

YOU’RE STILL WRONG
Mykel’s Post MRR

Feb 2020

Part one

or

I Don’t Get It

I write this as the year is twenty days old. I sit at the shaky wooden table I use as my desk. I’m naked... not for any good reason… but just because it’s too much effort to step into my clothes. It’s Monday, 5 o’clock in the afternoon. I was supposed to meet some friends for a weekly get together at The Peculier Pub, my favorite bar in New York. They all bailed.

I’m recovering from the flu… hit January 3… the usual: headache, cough, phlegm greener than Greta Thunberg… the whole kit and caboodle. Urgent Care told me I had the flu. No shirt, Shitlock. I cudda told THEM that. Only the cough is left after the $30 urgent care visit and 5 generic Tamiflu pills… at $11 a pill. Ah America… ya gotta hate it.

Last night I lost a friend of 30 years… not through death… but through facebook. She suffered a molested childhood, and thought my posts were making fun of that abuse. Pow!

I don’t want to see you again. Don’t ever come to where I work. (She’s a waitress in a nearby bar/restaurant…. my SECOND favorite bar in New York.) If I’m not at work and see you in the same place as I am, I will leave.

It’s a writer’s dilemma… write honestly and suffer the consequences… or write TV commercials.

But wait! There’s more: Today I'm walking in the 20 degree cold... heading for the subway. This old homeless-looking guy (gray beard, shaggy eyebrows, second hand coat) passes me on the sidewalk.

"Hello Mykel" he says.

I turn to him... I spread the sides of the hood on his jacket to get a better look at his face.

"Do I know you?" I ask.

"Mykel, it's Izzy." he says.

When I moved into my apartment building 30+ years ago, he was the 5-year-old kid down the hall. His parents screamed at each other late into the night. I think they got evicted.

"Mom died last year," he says. "Dementia"

I give him a hug.

"Where are you living now?" I ask.

"I'm homeless," he says, his voice barely more than a whisper. "I live on the street."

I reach into my wallet and take out two single dollar bills and hand them to him. "I hope this helps a little. I wish I could do more."

He gives me a hug.... and another. We pass and I go into the subway station.

2020... I tell ya'... it's EVIL!

My friends have it worse. Death, disease, mom lost a limb to gangrene... the rot, not the band. 2019 was bad enough for so many people. Starting the new year on pain, death, disease and loss of friends... just WRONG… but it does strengthen my belief in God (goddess). There’s just too much shit for it to be a random/accident. God is real… and she hates you… me… us.

But I’m not writing about God… or the New Year. I’m writing backwards. Instead of telling you about the world as I understand it… I want to –for once-- write about the world as I DON’T understand it. Specifically, how people think.

I’ve spent more than 40 years telling you WHAT you should think. It’s taken me all this time to finally realize I don’t understand HOW you think in the first place. Maybe when I get that, I can better comprehend why you’re so fucked up.

END OF PART ONE

ENDNOTES: [You can contact me on facebook or by email at god@mykelboard.com. Through the post office: send those... er... private DVDs..or music or zines... or anything else (legal only!) to: Mykel Board, POB 137, New York, NY 10012-0003. If you like my writing, you can be notified when anything new is available. Subscribe to the MYKEL'S READERS Yahoo group readmboard-subscribe@yahoogroups.com]

→ Take a bite outta this one dept: Fox News reports that a woman bit a camel’s testicles at a Louisiana truck stop petting zoo -- and was cited for criminal trespassing.

The woman was chasing her dog when she crawled into the camel’s enclosure at the Tiger Truck Stop. She told deputies she bit the 600-pound camel when he sat on her. “She said: ‘I bit his balls to get him off of me, I bit his testicles to get him off of me,’”

     I guess it worked.

LINK TRADE DEPARTMENT:

I read that the search engines like lots of links... and it's also nice to support my friends --and enemies-- in their blogs. So facebook me or email me if you have a blog, webpage or something else to connect to. I add you. You add me.

Here's a start:

David Goldberg's Busy Microbes Blog

And another Goldberg: goldberg.wordpress.com

Poetry and humor fans will like Justin Martin in The Latency

And my friend Mike R has a nice site with recipe hits from the past! (He cooked for me once... great stuff.) Check out Yesterday's Recipes.

And here's one by a member of ANTI-SEEN... a tour diary of sorts.

Andy Shelton has an interesting blog here.

Savage Hippie is a guy who has been YouTubing for a long time. Our opinions largely overlap... but he complains that I'm a Communist. I'm not! I'm a communist.

Chris Stecher publishes a zine called PRECIS. You can see the back issue links there... and he promises a new issue soon.

If there’s no link here (I can’t find it temporarily), then Google… er… Duckduckgo him for information.

And my long-term pal Sid Yiddish contributes with his Mishegas Master Blog.

Then there’s the link for people who hate links. Real live XEROS, a zine in a world of e-zines and virtual ideas. Check out ASYMMETRICAL ANTI-MEDIA “The Review Zine with Lunatic Fringe Tendencies.” What’s the URL? Hah! You need to put a crisp (or wrinkled) dollar bill in an envelope and MAIL IT (With a stamp. Get it?) to: Jason Rodgers, PO Box 10894, Albany NY 12201 And you should.

My pal Matt Sheahan has a contrarian political blog: https://matthewsheahan.com/ Hard to imagine that I’d have a contrarian pal, huh?

Then there’s the transgressive Harry Palm… https://harrypalmesq.wordpress.com/ Crank up the psychology!

Then there Dumbkat Press… more than a blog, but you gotta see for yourself!

Let me know if you have a blog… or a PRINT zine and want to be added to the list. You show me yours… you’ve already seen mine. god@mykelboard.com