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
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:
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or by email at god@mykelboard.com.
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→ 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.
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.
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
