Michael Jackson's funeral today looked pretty normal compared to what the news was saying. I imagined a full blown Watts Riot or Rodney King style beating about to happen and be live on tv, but really it looked like a normal memorial. Thank goodness my brother and Teri got out of L.A. before that airport exorcism took place. My brother needs about 5 years of smooth sailing at airport after what happened the day before my Grandpa's funeral.
The polish festival was pretty sweet and I had a good time considering we split around 1030ish. Seeing a few people and catching up was cool, but I definitely need more time with these folks. Maybe next year i'll stay all night and get crazy trashed like the old days. Well, seeing as next year it'll be a much further journey than just 2 hours to get to Bay City for the festival, i'll probably need it pretty bad.
the 4thof July fireworks were pretty tight. I really took them for granted when I lived there and watched them every year, but when you see others and then come back to see those ones, you are blown away. They really are the best around, and the festival was pretty cool too...minus the (how do you say it) donkey riff-raff hoodrat hillrod's walking around. I mean, come on people. The carnival looked like every wanker from every sewer in the tri-state area emptied out and said, let Bay City take care of you today. Now, i'm all for everyone living life how anyone wants, it is your life after all, but when you've got a row of six, hood rat homegirls, each 8 months pregnant with there newest way to get another $9,000 from the government, and they've each got 2 other kids (all under 5 years old) already tagging behind, and no one is sight who even remotely looks like a father-figure...and multiply that by 89...well, you've got the carnival.
I am sooooooo glad that my friends and the people I care about have not gone down that path. Now, by no means am I saying everyone I/we know is making 100 grand a year and rolling with perfect kids and lives, but I do say everyone is doing good! Not pumping out kids because they are too lazy to get a job and just want free money.
I've got experience in this. I single-handedly heard over 100 times while working in Saginaw for 4 years how the "system" works, and still wonder why I didn't just start having kids at 17. Call me naive, but doesn't knocking up a bunch of girls, getting free money, buying rims for my car, chillin on the corner all night, sleeping in til 3pm everyday, getting high and drinking all day, and then not having any responsibility for those action sound good?!?!? Fuck yeah it does, but I guess my and our parents just taught us better than that.
I don't know, I really couldn't have done that shit and acted that way if I wanted to. Honestly, my brain wouldn't have allowed me to do it. It would literally be hard work for me to "fuck off". I guess my best advice to everyone who has passed that age and now notices every little nuance of these festivals is that remember how you are doing now, and how bad it could be or could've been. Everyday no matter how shitty getting up and going to work is, regardless of what youre doing, at least you are doing something and trying to get somewhere. Even if you don't no where that place is, you're headed somewhere, and eventually it'll all work out. Not one of those forementioned dipshits has any clue of the future, or of how when all those little neglected kids turn 18 and split, and all your checks stop coming cause the government runs out of money, well, they'll all be sitting around with nothing, when you'll be around living pretty damn well because of all those days you didn't feel like getting out of bed, but you did anyway. It might seem shitty now (believe me, i know) but in 5-10 years, when that shit sneaks up on you, you'll be doing fine, laughing at how you though you'd never get through those hellhole jobs, but you did, and you'll be talking how I am now.
Ahhhhhhh, i'm sorry about rants, but i've got too much on my plate that pisses me off, and no release. I miss too many people and am too far away to do anything about it. I need like a month's vacation to see everyone and talk about stuff. I will always help anyone with anything, all they have to do is ask!!! Silence doesn't help anyone, that's why I talk so damned much.
Well, back to Eddie & the Cruisers...i wish I lived in the 50's (i wish everyday of my fn life)
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