“I feel like I’m sitting on an atomic bomb waiting for it to go off.” …
So it would seem that it’s been a while since my last post, and for that I sincerely apologize to all of you (especially you in the back, Ted). That’s just procrastination taken to a ridiculous extreme, and my new year’s resolution is to make sure that I keep my procrastination well within the bounds of societal norms, which for blogs is currently no more than 7 fortnights between self-indulgent posts.
Hey, speaking of self-indulgence…
I’ve always liked the idea of kicking off the year with a clean slate of priorities and ideals, but I also find it very impractical. When your resolutions include vague, unquantifiable words such as “more”, “less”, “better”, “healthier” and “sexier” (all of which are terms I would normally use in regards to my blog posts), it’s no wonder that people just as quickly stop their goals as they start them. Am I doing “more” and “better”? “More” and “better” than what? What I think I should be doing… what I did last year at this time… what these directions are telling me to do? Instead, I would like to make a to-do list for the year.
In my on-again, off-again attempts to give this running thing a try, I’m currently in the middle of a decent on-again phase. And I’ve decided to set myself a couple of goals in order to stir up some competitive/pride juices to keep things fueled. And now that I’m blogging about it (which is what responsible geeks do when the world needs to know their every thought and movement), I’m accountable to literally tens of people to keep myself on the straight and narrow jogging path in the park across the street.
For those of us below a certain age, Michael Jackson has always been the absolute biggest of larger-than-life entertainers in the world. Gloved hands down. In fact, I can’t remember a time of pop culture consciousness in my life when he wasn’t miles above and beyond everyone else in terms of brand name status. The Beatles, Elvis… Sure, but they had all stopped active entertaining by the time I was aware of such things. No, it was always just Michael at the top. In the beginning that stature was for his immense musical and theatrical talent. More recently it has been for less noble press.
