I was just wondering why I had only 20 readers still……………and, worse, I know that some of them (the reg’d few) only signed up to be supportive but don’t, in fact, read the blog on a regular basis. My daughter is one of them.
“Well, dad, you know……..I was reading it every day and all and then you took a few days off and, well, I wandered away. You know? Like, kinda bored.”
“Bored! Your dad is spilling his guts while battling the elements in a fight for survival against the harsh, cold viciousness of the wild Pacific Northwest and you are bored!?”
“Well, yeah. Sorry. I mean Bri and I just got a new 48 inch TV screen and, like, I also gotta new Mac, ya know? Like………it’s hard to compete with that.”
And so there you have it: virtual life is simply more interesting than real life. Or, maybe better put: Hollywood tells better stories than I do.
Damn.
How about?
Yesterday an Orca blew up in the channel outside our door. It was spectacular. The body parts flying in slow motion, the huge blob of red blood filling the air. I saw other Orcas scattering as the invading pod cruised by. There is a pod war afoot. It’s over who controls the seal trade. Bruce Willis does the voice-over for the invading gang leader,
“Take that, fatso! Yippee Aye Ki yeah!”
Whoopi Goldberg does the voice-over for the dead whale’s girlfriend,
You dead, man! Dead tube swimmin’ is what you is! I gonna Bobbit yo ass!”
Her little brother is played by Chris Rock, “Girl, what’s wrong wich you!? Whales don’t have no asses! Sheeeet, girl, we talking like fools out here, now. Git yo self back in the damn pod!
Is that better? Less boring? Or should I go with a sit-com about seals and otters trying to get along together on a small rock?
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