I had a good evening tonight. Went to a party at Heather’s place and watched the premiere of this season’s Amazing Race.
Don’t know if I told you, but I applied to be on the next season with my friend George. We never heard back. It’s too bad, we’d have had great fun, up to the point where frustrations grew so high one of us took the other’s life in a bloody, creative and highly ironic post-modern way. It would have made for great television.
Actually, if you work for CBS and you’re reading this blog, let me be clear: that was a joke and that George and I would be great competitors, we’d play hard and fair, and if necessary, one or the other of us would wear a blonde wig and fake breasts.
“Almost every American I know does trade large portions of his life for entertainment, hour by weeknight hour, binge by Saturday binge, Facebook check by Facebook check. I’m one of them. In the course of writing this I’ve watched all 13 episodes of House of Cards and who knows how many more West Wing episodes, and I’ve spent any number of blurred hours falling down internet rabbit holes. All instead of reading, or writing, or working, or spending real time with people I love.”
“Live a good life. If there are gods and they are just, then they will not care how devout you have been, but will welcome you based on the virtues you have lived by. If there are gods, but unjust, then you should not want to worship them. If there are no gods, then you will be gone, but will have lived a noble life that will live on in the memories of your loved ones.”
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