I owe various people e-mails and edited manuscripts, so I’m keeping this short tonight. Random thoughts: I was getting my the ramp on my van fixed earlier this week. While I was waiting, this old guy who I think owns the place comes up to me and starts prattling on like he knows me. I realize he’s mistaking me for someone else, but I don’t say anything. “How old are you now?” he asks me in this you-must-be-a-big-boy-now tone. I should have asked him the same, but I was polite. I’m always polite. But someday I’m going to get tired of all the condescending, infantizing bullshit I put up with and go medieval on someone’s ass. And it will probably be some poor little old lady, but I’ll still get a sick kind of pleasure out of it. Because sometimes I just want to be bad. I want to drink, ingest hallucinogenic drugs, urinate in public, tell a cop to fuck off, date a stripper, proposition the next pretty girl I see in the elevator, and generally be a bastard. Just for a day or two. But I’m not sure my superego would ever let me do such a thing. My head would probably explode or something equally unpleasant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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