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I always find it interesting that I'm the "go-to guy" when people are upset. But when I have some things to talk about or need to get off my chest, the people I want to talk to are either not around or don't want to hear about my problems (oh, they don't say so in so many words, but you start talking to them about some of the things going on in your life and they change it over to "what's wrong in THEIR lives." I sigh and act as father-confessor once again, take my meds and go to bed. The problem is, I love my dream-world so much now, I never want to leave!! (or wake up) *sighs*

Conversation I had earlier today:

Why are you ignoring me?

I'm not ignoring you. I'm doing laundry. You know, multitasking?

Washing clothes, eh?

Yeah, and ironing.

Oh? Do you have a job interview?

No, today is Sunday! LOL No, I'm just ironing the shirts as they come out of the laundry.

Dress shirts?

No, my everyday shirts.

You iron your EVERYDAY shirts?

Yes

WHY???

Because I hate wearing wrinkled shirts and looking like that asshole, Carson Daly

What's wrong with him? He's cool!

No he's not. His mother never taught him the first thing about looking respectable.

So?

It's disrespectful to me as a viewer!

How so?

Because he's saying "I'm too fucking cool to have to dress up for you, the viewer." It irritates the shit outta me to see him wearing a $1000 Armani suit and have his fucking shirt untucked. Someone should thwap that boy upside the head and then teach him some good grooming habits. Same with Craig Furgeson.

What did HE do?

His head looks like a birds nest! Someone buy that man a comb, goddamn it!

Well, my, my! Aren't WE the fashion-grump today?

Has nothing to do with being grumpy! The "laid-back" look keeps getting more and more laid back. Pretty soon people will be coming on TV either dressed in bowling shirts (looking like "Bikers On Parade" and drinking Schlitz) or they'll dressin those shapeless MooMoo's or "robes" again *shudder* Jimmy Kimmel finally gets it, now. He's up against Leno and Letterman and realises that the "hip" crowd is a vast-wasted-land minority and that you need to dress like your competition - you need to dress respectfully for those paying your salary and providing the venue. I've seen him become progressively nattier in his dress habits. Even to wearing a tie now. Neither Daly nor Ferguson is going to go beyond their time-slots unless they start dressing the part!

This from a guy that wears blue jean shirts all the time?

I wore a suit and tie for 20 years!!

So? You should hate it then!

Hell no! I LOVED wearing a suit! A "man-in-a-suit" can go anywhere and no one challenges him. I once wanted to get to the other side of a mall and cut through the stockrooms of two stores as a shortcut. I wasn't stopped ONCE!

LOL... that's pretty cool!

Yeah, when I go to work - especially in an office, I wear a tie EVERY day, unless it's physical work. Sometimes I even wear a vest! Ask Kat!

Why do you wear a tie?

because it looks good... and I want to shame those jr execs that arrive to work with their shirttails hanging out as if they've just come in from recess. I absolutely dispise that trend. I'd say more about tattoos, but I know you have a few.

What about tattoos? I thought you liked mine!

Yours are tasteful and you're not trying to cover your whole body with them. I mean, a little tattoo of a heart on your ankle or maybe a Celtic knot on your shoulder is fine. I'm shaky on the whole barbed-wire-wrapped-around-the-upper-arm thing, though. I look at Pamela Anderson who, while plasticine, Barbie-doll "beautiful" is not my type... but still, a lovely woman... until you see how she's marred that beauty with those tattoos... well...

So, what's your problem?

Well, invariably, the woman showing me her tattoo is the one that just lectured me for twenty minutes over the fact that I'm "eating meat" and how my "body is a temple" and how "red meat is bad for me" and that I "shouldn't be filling my body with all those poisons!" I look at her and think, "so, having 30% of your skin surface stabbed tens of thousands of times with a needle pushing inks filled with all sorts of chemicals (while risking untold infections) isn't poisoning and defiling that self-same temple that you worship so much? Tattooing celtic knotwork, pentacles and wiccan symbols all over your body is, to me, the same as spraying graffitti all over someones church. I mean, think of your mother or grandmother (or, in your case, your GREAT grandmother) whipping her blouse off her shoulder to show you a montage of her favorite musicians, her wrinkled and translucent skin twitching as you try to make out the faded, forty-year-old ink lines of Jimmy Dorsey, Glen Miller and Harry James

Who? LOL

... then she pulls down her stretch pants to show you the one over her wrinkled ass and on her upper thigh, both of which look like they were printed on crumpled paper. Do you REALLY want to see that?

EWWWW! Not when you put it that way!

Well, that's every male and female in their 20's in 40 or 50 years. And removal? It's fuckin painful! I know, my brother just removed ten of them from his arms! Cost him five times as much to remove them as it did to put them on!

I suppose you don't like piercings either!

Piercings don't bother me. You can take those out and no one will ever be the wiser. I have issues with a tongue piercing, but that's offset my my lecherous nature of... well, you already know what a perve I am...

This whole discussion went on a little more, but not much different was said.

Let me make myself PERFECTLY clear: I have NOTHING against tattoos! Many of the ones I've seen are really nice. They fit the personality of the person that got them. To me, there is just a limit, a point where it goes from "making a statement" or "being an adornment" to being unattractive TO ME! I don't really dislike or hate them, I just can't personally see the attraction. I have my foibles and faults. I read, write and collect porn. I believe in polyamory. I'm a pagan conservative. Some people find those things upsetting. But that's my lifestyle choice.

Tattoos are YOUR lifestyle choice and YOU should be the one to live with it. But, like smoking and the tax dollars being spent by MY generation to remedy the lifestyle choices of my parent's generation (i.e. lung cancer, throat cancer, et al), when you finally DO want to have it removed, I don't want my sons tax-dollars being frittered away on expunging a "lifestyle choice" from your subdermal.

And yes, I was in the Navy. No, they never got me drunk enough to get one. Part of it is that I hate needles, but moreso, that these tattoos, when you look back on them in 40 years, will appear (again, in my mind) childish and stupid... Hopefully, those that will be my grandchildren will look at their folks and the "olders" and say, "EEEEWWWW! That's GROSS" and the trend will stop. Usually these fads do. And when it ceases to be "cool" and then you DO have to go through the pain and expense of removing them, you'll think back to this rant and go... Fuck. He was right!

7:39 p.m. - 2006-01-16

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