I had lots more to say on the Punisher (as in the comic, not the movie) but that’s so yesterday’s news and I’m not really sure I care that much about it anyway.
Although I did spend quite a bit of time thinking on that topic yesterday.
Instead I’ll jump on the bandwagon trundling through blog-ville and make up my own list of things I ought to be ashamed of and aren’t:
– I cry fairly easily when intensely happy or proud. Rarely is this due to something actually happening to me, generally it’s because I’m hearing/seeing some great military triumph take place. I cry everytime I hear the quote about Federal cavalry entering Richmond in April 1865 in Ken Burns Civil War.
– I talk to myself – all the time. Sometimes I even talk to myself when others are around. I can’t help it. I’m just so much on my own wavelength. I am, in fact, talking to myself right now. About you, idiot.
– I revel in stories of my family’s questionable behaviour through the decades. I have a deep and abiding respect for my great-aunt who stumbled along on her walker with a beer in one hand and a cigarette in the other. She had a coffee can attached to the walker leg for ashes.
– I harbor an intense dislike of everyone I’ve never met. Since this includes 99.9% of humanity I feel perfectly comfortable stating that I hate the human race. This attitude may or may not change toward individuals upon meeting them.
– In a sort of corollary to the above: I believe there is a special place reserved in Hell for overly happy, cheerful people. I’m not talking about folks in a good mood, I’m talking about that sort of forced, Ned Flanders-y sort of cheerfulness. When being served, in a diner for instance, I don’t like the miserable people who just want to get through the day but I can’t stand the bubbly, overeager twits who try to improve your life while slinging hash. What the hell is there to be so damned happy about anyway?
I actually thought of something else but forgot it just as quickly. Anybody want to take the plunge and list their own shameful secrets?
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