Sunday, September 23, 2001

It really should be harder to be a critic. There is no current penalty for flapping your lips in order to make someone else look or feel bad and I think that’s a shame. Gone are the days when an inconsiderate word might be rewarded with a punch in the face. That is one of the few things that I would look foreword to if the world was turned upside down for a while and we all had to revert to an old west mentality. My point is that a lot of the thought has gone out of the criticism process. There was actually a time in this country when you didn’t have to worry about your wife or children encountering a super sized helping of someone’s verbal vomit. Nevertheless, if they did it was acceptable to go hunting. But I digress. I’m actually talking about myself on this one because I disguise a lot of my criticism behind “just kidding”. I’m working hard on changing this cowardly practice. This will not stop the mountains of crap I will heap upon those that want to play. I hope that cutting down on my running mouth will intensify those moments when I need to call upon my powers of verbal abuse. The case in point is the graduation ceremony that I attended last night where the person running it did an outstanding job. I can’t just tell him how impressed I am, no, I have to make fun of the decorations and some poor design choices on the programs. I would rather feel guilty about making an idiot cry after taking the two easy shots at me (bald & fat) than feel like a wussy for verbally knocking someone down just because I can. Don’t take this as a complete turn around because I am still a huge proponent of corrective shit-blowing. 12:00:00 AM    says you