(Alternative title: "I like to post about the things I post about when I post about the the things I post about when I post about things).I recently read that on average 2 million blog posts are generated each day. Which I'm certainly not responsible for. But it did get me thinking about "what I post, and why I post it" and if I should be doing it better. I tend to lay off posting about the "controversy du jour", as among those millions of posts someone said what I'm thinking better than I would say it. Or has a "LOL Cat" of it. Also, I'm lazy. For example, just putting up a post that basically says "racism is bad, and it killed this kid in Florida" has a kind of pointless point to it, as many other blogs have already made the point more eloquently.
So instead, I tend to post things that interest me that are not mainstream. For example: Jane Fonda will play Nancy Reagan in new film. I find that to be a delicious irony. "Hanoi Jane" as the wife of republican saint Ronald Reagan. That's the kind of thing you couldn't make up in a piece of fiction. Fiction has to be believable.
Also, this reminds me that some of what I find amusing doesn't translate well across generations. The woman I live with (who is 21 years younger than I am) didn't see any humor in Jane Fonda playing Nancy Reagan. For her the Vietnam War was a chapter in her history book, and Ronald Reagan was president when she was born rather than an actor who shared a movie with a chimpanzee. The humor was lost on her, but she did agree that I should include it in a blog post, because "most of the people who read your blog are older" she said. Which is likely true, and I think I like that.
So, just because I haven't posted about 'something' doesn't mean I don't care about it. It just means I don't have anything original to say about it. Or, this is "my blog" so I can be as lame as I want to. And I really thank you for reading it (cuz' you only had 1,999,999 other posts to choose from.)
4 comments:
"Older"
Damn right I am older.
I hate to tell your girl friend, but I have T shirts older than she is, ya lucky bastard.
Reagan was a rotten sonofabitch.
He went from being the President of the Actors Guild, a union, to President of the United States and wound up killing a union, The Air Traffic Controllers union.
There is a damn good reason some of us still hate his memory and the fact that Hanoi Jane, who actually was a traitor to our nation, is going to play Nancy Reagan in a movie, ya have to cut the irony with a vintage Vietnamese Machete.
Mitt fucking Romney would love to be the next Reagan.
With age comes wisdom and appreciation. Maybe your girlfriend will get that at some point maybe not.
I hear Jane only has a bit part in the movie at the end. At her age she could probably pull it off. I still think she was a CIA plant but could never divulge the fact. Don't laugh it's been done before.
I certainly get the irony. (:
Oh yes, the irony is not lost on me either! We are all from that generation I think!
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