“Life’s like a movie, write your own ending” – Jim Henson

“Life’s like a movie, write your own ending” – Jim Henson

Thirty years ago today the world lost an entertainment genius when Jim Henson passed away.

May his memory always live on, through the movies, music and magic that became The Muppets.

Do yourself a favor at some point in your life.  Visit the Museum of Moving Image in Astoria, NY.  They have an incredible exhibit of Henson’s work, displaying stuff from his entire career.  You can also see an episode regarding The Muppets on “Prop Culture”, a show on DIsney Plus.  In the episode they visit the museum as well.

 

“Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent” – Isaac Asimov

“Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent” – Isaac Asimov

Fools of Stillwater, OK need not worry about having to wear their face masks in public when they go shopping, to the hair salon or to get their free refills at restaurants.  They have threatened their way out of protecting themselves and others from COVID-19.  Because they are cowards and assholes.

On May 1 an emergency declaration requiring customers to wear face masks inside businesses went into effect.  No sooner did it go into effect, all hell broke loose.  Customers visiting establishments began threatening employees with verbal and physical violence and even one threat of violence using a firearm.  To protect their employees, the declaration was lifted.

What really should have happened was that anyone threatening violence should have been tossed out on their asses, arrested and permanently banned from these places.  There is no need to act like banshees because you are being asked to protect your life and the lives of those around you.  No employee gets paid enough money to deal with violence, nor should they ever have to.

I can’t speak for the people of Stillwater, OK.  I’m sure they’re not all like these insecure idiots.  But for the people that acted like this, I have one thing to say:  COVID-19–do your thing.

 

The Special One

The Special One

The Vice President (also known as SHITHOLE 2) thinks he’s pretty special.

So special he can waltz right into the Mayo Clinic and gallivant all around among the patients without wearing a face mask.  Because he’s regularly tested.  And the morons around him are regularly tested.  Or so he says.

Really?  How regularly?  On the hour, every hour? Which we all know is bullshit.  And if that were the case, which it isn’t, maybe there’s the answer to where all the tests are.  They are up SHITHOLE and SHITHOLE 2’s asses.

The Mayo Clinic isn’t getting off easy on this either.  Since it is their policy that everyone in the hospital wear a face mask, and since they didn’t say a word or do a damn thing when this prick decided he was too special to wear one, they are as liable as SHITHOLE 2 is.  Their credibility as a high-ranking hospital just went out the window.  They are fools.  Just like SHITHOLE 2 and of course SHITHOLE.

If It Were Today Forty Years Ago

If It Were Today Forty Years Ago

You think stay-at-home orders are tough now?  Could you imagine what it would’ve been like going through this forty years ago?

Most people who work in offices would be as unemployed as retail and restaurant workers.  It was a paper-filled world back then and very much hands-on and face-to-face.  There were no wireless phones you could connect to your laptop so you could converse with customers.  There was no Internet.  The lack of technology alone would have everyone lost.

And that’s not even getting to the medical field and how different things would have been there.

Unless kids were getting hand-outs mailed to them, there would be no school.  Aside from pizza joints and fast food restaurants, most other eateries did not have the ability to offer take-out forty years ago.

So considering the circumstances and the inconveniences of the current times, let’s be grateful this didn’t happen forty years ago.

The Aberrations of Born Fools

The Aberrations of Born Fools

A handful of states have decided to take the plunge and end their stay-at-home policies, tossing caution to the wind, letting their citizens run amok, so they can get their haircuts, tattoos and drink refills, among other “pertinent” things.  I’m sure these fools are all gearing up for Friday, possibly even camping out at their salon, so they can be the first patron in the door.  Little do they know that some of these places are still refusing to open.  Little do they know that many of the restaurants that may open will not have their favorite dishes available because they are short on supply.  These fools are expecting these places to reopen and have it be just as it was back in March when they closed.  These fools are expecting to go to these places and be safe.  Boy, are these fools in for a surprise.

Let the fools have their day.  They already have by holding their “protests”, demanding a freedom that they already have.  Only a fool would “protest” the very means that is keeping them safe.  Only a fool would hold a “protest” in a state that isn’t going to change their stay-at-home policy because they and a bunch of their buddies decide to block the entrance to a hospital.  Only a fool would show up armed at a “protest”.  That doesn’t make them a “protester”.  It makes them a terrorist. And a fool.

Other than foolish, the signs have been comical:  “I need a haircut”.  Have you ever heard of a pair of scissors?  Then cut it.  “We need our teeth cleaned”.  Holy fuck.  Do you not brush your teeth?  Shit, you only see the dentist twice a year for a cleaning and most people don’t even do that.  The statements have been hysterical as well.  My favorite is the fool who insists he needs to have restaurants open so he can get his free drink refills, because he’s tired of ordering two drinks at the drive-thru.  That one doesn’t even win for bad excuse of the year, fool.

So to the fools I say “go for it”.  Please be the foolish dummies that you are and demonstrate to the rest of us how it’s done.  Better you fools than the majority of us.