The Summer Sounds of Silence

The Blurst of Times
Sep 3, 2018 · 2 min read

What happened to the Summer? I’ll tell you what happened. It was hot, and then it ended. Some people didn’t make it, the rest of us lucky enough to have A/C units got a break from the heat. Others did not.

Summer seems like a million years ago, man…

In light of Senator John McCain’s passing, all major US statespersons should be obligated to donate their bodies to science when they die. It will give them a sense of humility and allow them to continue to serving the public. (e.g. Ronald Reagan torn apart by rare vultures in a zoo, Nixon as a crash test dummy for General Motors, LBJ dissected by med students, Eisenhower decaying on a body farm, etc)

Around 20 years ago, when my high school summers involved working in low-end retail, a fellow employee was arrested for trying to steal a pair of JNCOs from the stockroom while his parents were in the store(for some reason). I never got the whole story as to how this happened, but the cops took him out in cuffs by way of the front registers so everyone could see. I don’t remember his name and I don’t know what happened to him. Another young life tossed away in the JNCO game.

Police rounding up the usual suspects.

The more Elon Musk appears to descend into madness, the more he is testing to see if we are worthy of his great techno-salvation. Oh, joy of the Martian sky! Oh Teslian rapture! Bring us your tweets!

A VERY INCOMPLETE LIST OF JEWS WHO INFLUENCED THE MODERN WORLD, BY SEMI-ARBITRARY SELECTION!
10. Maimonides/R.L. Stine (tie)
9. Sigmund Freud
8. Theodor Adorno
7. Bob Dylan
6. David Ben-Gurion
5. Ayn Rand
4. Jonas Salk
3. Albert Einstein
2. Karl Marx
1. Jesus Christ
TIMES CHANGE AND SO DO LISTS. DISAGREE WITH ME AND YOU MAY FIND YOURSELF IN SHOEL.

Honorable Mention: Harrison Ford.

Agroup of sophisticates sit together at a party, listening to a jazz internet radio station that’s broadcasting silence.
MAN: “It’s the notes you CAN’T hear that matter.”

Because these are not the blest of times.

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