Further to my totally awesome and extended post on Monday, and further proof that I'm an idle so and so, I just direct you to Neddie's amanuensis. Of course, he writes a lot less purty than the Nedster, but who can quarrel with:

You drown in a sea of Rank Bullshit. It shrieks at you every day from field and fountain, moor and mountain. And it pains me to say it, but the longer we humans live, the greater the reservoir of accumulated knowledge, the easier it becomes for Bullshit to hold sway. You know the phrase, the cocksucker "knows just fuckin' enough to be dangerous"? That's humanity's fuckin' epitaph, boys. That's what the the cockroaches will carve on your tombstone when it's time to plow under the blackened subdivisions and the crusted industrial parks and let the cocksucking cupboard pests take over.

Actually, the idleness thing is interesting. Well, I say it is, because it makes me feel better. But the point is that I am involved right now, for the past three weeks, and for at least another couple of weeks, in work of such stupefying lack of inner satisfaction at the Job That Dare Not Speak Its Name that you would think I'd be itching to get home and get some real writing done. But I'm not. I lie around, wondering which plug-hole my creative energy drained out of, and parasitizing fine people like Neddie.

Oh well, someone has to do it.

2021-08-04: OK, this is getting weird, because my post referred to above, originally posted on Monday 3rd August 2005, got hoisted to the present day (3rd August 2021) by virtue of its timeless truth. But this post, I’m leaving on its correct day, partially to celebrate the continued existence of By Neddie Jingo’s website, even though it has been moribund since this time 2013. And, children, if you’re wondering about the inspiration for Neddie’s flummery, it was Deadwood, which I stand ready to rewatch just as soon as there’s nothing new I need to see.

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