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| See how much better surrender looks? |
(Greensboro, NC) Yeah, so this coming week is an anxietyfest with a crisis coating, under a layer of awfulness, stuck in a disaster, which is on fire and has raisins on top. The world is seeing an insane number of COVID cases but has largely stopped caring because a vaccine that many people are refusing to take is being deployed problematically. National Guard troops are bivouacked in the US capital for the first time since the (first) American Civil War to maybe fight with or against incoming rioters, protestors, or possibly the incoming administration. And, on a personal note, I've caught two mice in my attic but don't know how many more may be up there. No, that's not all that's going on...
With the infinite number of headlines out there, I could guess at the best one for this week, but it would be the statistical twin of trying to win the Megamillions (which is at, like, 850 million!?) Sorry everyone, but I just don't have the energy for it. I put together like four different headlines, but none of them felt good enough. So, yeah, this is what you're getting. Bam. I just put on "Surrender" by Cheap Trick and started writing. I'm not okay with it, but I'm going to be okay enough with it to hit "publish" in about fifteen minutes.
This is where I am. If you're still reading this, it's where we are. Thank you for reading. I'm thinking of taking this much more local in the coming weeks. There's enough satire that's (inter)national. What if the Piedmont Triad had its own, homegrown jerk who just wanted to write things about stuff. That not specific enough? Well, that's the great thing about low-stakes writing of this sort. If I don't deliver, who's really going to be all that disappointed? Me? ...well...
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