“Once you get past the punishment for the fart, you’ll have a good legacy.”
-Chuck Scarborough, to the nun who was sitting next to him on the plane

“Nah, man. They’re just making a cat food commercial, and trying to soundtrack it with ‘Deuce’ by KISS.”
-me, to an unnamed guitar player who interrupted my pornography reading to tell me that people were actually making pornography in the next room

If the US media decided to spend all the money they’re pissing away covering this stupid goddamn wedding in England on health care for the uninsured.

Oh well.

So I had a weird dream this weekend that Lee Mazzilli had a band in the late ’70s that reunited in the late ’90s, produced by Billy Corgan. They covered “Medusa” by Anthrax.

I don’t want to live in a world where I never hear differing opinions that may open my mind, cause me to reconsider my positions, and ultimately might make me a better person. Echo chambers suck.

However, I’m not terribly interested in being relentlessly subjected, passively and aggressively, to arrogance, ignorance, idiocy and madness in the interest of “keeping an open mind” anymore, either.

I’ve spoken of this a bit before, but in the past few days, I’ve started to take a more proactive approach toward eliminating some of the noise, and am carefully considering my options before taking further steps.

What steps have you taken to find the middle ground I’m searching for and working toward?