Poshdeluxe

I must say that among educated people, politics occupies far too great a proportion of time. All the periodicals, all the newspapers are saturated with politics, although many of the objects they are discussing are very transient and short-term. Of course, many people do occupy themselves with higher themes…But in general, modern humankind is characterized by the loss of the ability to answer the principal problems of life and death. People are prepared to stuff their heads with anything, and to talk of any subject, but only to block off the contemplation of this subject. This is the reason for the increasing pettiness of our society, the concentration on the small and irrelevant.

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i completely and whole-heartedly agree with this statement… and speaking of things that seem huge but are probably, in the long run, irrelevant [ok, not irrelevant, but not life & death]:

thomas (my car) almost�exploded last night due to some sort of issue with jumper cables. thankfully, i was not there to witness the toxic smoke billowing from the engine and the flames bursting from the melting cables… poor seth sacrificed his own right hand to tear the burning cables off of the car batteries… thomas now owes him a life debt.

seth has a terrible, ugly burn on his hand, and thomas has melted plastic dripping out from under the hood and onto his right headlight, like blood oozing from his brain…

at this point, each day brings some sort of insanity that could be blamed on spring fever, the full moon, spiritual omens… regardless, i’m completely at a loss.� but i think i can still laugh about almost all of it.