Mythical New Year and Crying Babies – Thoughts from January 2, 2023

Here we are in 2023. This is my first entry of the new year so you know it’s going to be good. I can say that because you’ll probably forget I said it by the end of reading this paper. As always, I’m going to live in the past for the first part. I was at home with Patti, Quest, Scout, Willow, Beatrix, and Luna for New Year’s Eve. Because it was raining, we barely had any fireworks around our area. That’s good for all of us. Patti and I had guacamole, two dips, and various chips when it was approaching midnight. We had various wines to keep ourselves hydrated and sparkling wine at midnight. I don’t like sparkling wine so I had one sip at midnight and then went back to regular wine. We watched the YouTube show Good Mythical Morning earlier and watched a marathon of it by the end of the night. I’ve seen people at my work watching it for a while, but we old people are slow to catch up. To give you an idea, I accidentally put “Good Mystical Morning” and didn’t catch it until this sentence. I had to look it up to make sure.

Rather than describe Good Mythical Morning for those who have never seen it, I’ll just say it’s funny, entertaining, and has many pop culture references in it. As we watched more of it, I looked up the two hosts of the show. They grew up together in the South and were members of a Christian punk band. Most people (including Patti) would find this to be an interesting fact about them, but I am not most people. I found this knowledge disappointing. I’ve listened to several memoirs recently that I found entertaining until they started talking about their religious experiences. They are usually discussing their childhood. If I hear one more person talk casually about going to a Catholic school, I’m going poke my eyes out with a number two pencil. I won’t actually do this just like Catholicism doesn’t stand for anything real.

I feel like other people have to live in absurd circumstances to notice the weirdness around them. Things others consider normal seem absurd to me. They have normalized religion, sports, and a love for money when all those things are absurdly abnormal and illogical. The only people who find these things entertaining have normalized them. They have learned these things as if they are scientific truths. These things are all based on beliefs. If you don’t have these beliefs, none of the rules of these beliefs make any sense. People all over the world celebrate birthday parties for one-year-olds and find it surprising when their baby cries throughout the entire event. We have created unnatural events only young people see as abnormal. When they point out how absurd these things are, we punish them for not following the rules. The problem is not with the young people. It is with the illogical rules that are not based on reality.

I still have my Amazon money minus $6.99 for buying the animated version of The Hobbit from 1977. I still have $113.01 left. For those of you who are asking why I would buy The Hobbit from 1977 for $6.99 when it is only 77 minutes long and is only the movie with no special features, I remind you to think about movies that came out when you were seven. That’s what we’re dealing with here. I really should get a pillow with the remaining money, but I probably … I’m still not ready to say what I think yet. Part of me just likes that the money is there and available for buying more movies that came out when I was seven.