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| Current music: | Coast To Coast AM---Saturday October 24, 2009 |
Today's Random Coast And Local Writers' List Notes
Maybe I'm biased and perhaps even a little unfairly advantaged because I have a degree in Philosophy but I found this morning's show to be one of the best, most intriguing and highly entertaining Coast's ever. It was also one one of the most eerie Coast's ever, for personal reasons I'll get into in the next entry, or the previous entry, depending on what order I post them in and what order you read them in.
To be honest...and why wouldn't I be? Because lying doesn't pay. That's why I never lie. Especially when I tell girls that I am a 25 year old extremely 100% faithful, sensitive and caring gourmet chef/massage therapist with a 30 figure income and an 11 inch tongue who is often mistaken for a young Robert Redford...I don't even know when this or the next (Or previous) one will be posted, because I somehow did something to my right shoulder and the right side of my neck that is causing me indescribable amounts of unbearable pain and suffering.
So I guess you should add Prophet to my already irresistible resume but do that later because we have quite enough to do right now and the last thing we need are further delays caused by countless more women lusting after me. And the first of those things is Philosophy & Mortality, or, as I like to call it, This Morning's Coast.
The big problem we face at this point is that the show was far too big to explore in single blog post. The other big problem is that I'm in far too much agony to even talk about a little of it. That's why I'm just going to tell you to go listen to it on StreamLink if you haven't heard it yet.
First, though, I'm going to do the impossible and, in spite of all the discomfort being caused by my crippled shoulder, I am going to talk, briefly, about one thing. And that one thing is a statement that Ian made this morning that went a little something like this (Sorry, I can't remember his exact words), "If Heaven is so great and wonderful, why are we wasting all this time here?"
I wonder...as do, I suppose, most of you, too...about that all the time. Suicide fascinates me and I am constantly wondering why I don't just do it. There are a lot of possibilities---like maybe I do have a purpose here that keeps me going or maybe I am having more fun than I think I am or maybe I somehow know that what comes next isn't as good and there are lots more but you get the general idea---but the cool thing about this morning's show is that Ian and his guests didn't answer the question.
They discussed possibilities but they didn't do what most people do, which is to get preachy and judgmental and make themselves look like idiots by merely repeating (Usually badly, at that) what they have been told and showing that they have never put the tiniest bit of thought into what they are saying. And it doesn't matter if they are Holy Rollers or atheists, they are both selling the same product, only with different packaging.
That's why I appreciate Ian, Tom and Daniel and what they did this morning so much. Life would be a million times less annoying if everyone were more like them. And that brings us very neatly and seamlessly to our next topic, which is: If everyone were like Shane Brown, life would be a million times more funny.
If you haven't read his column for this week yet, you can check it out here (Eventually, I suppose) and find out why he is Number Three on my Top Ten Favorite Local Writer's List and also discover just how afraid of Catie he is, because she is beautifully poised to swoop in and steal his spot the very next time he screws up.
I hope that covers everything because I have to go now and attack this shoulder that is trying to kill me with a hot shower and a few million more aspirin.
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