You get an offensive but interesting blogger - self-centered, profane and vulgar but very smart and often amusing - that writes something about a young boy dressed and expressed and then distressed. And you follow a fellow that looks at the world, repeats his view graphically in four panels, that really does know the why of the young kid above and wouldn't trash him for his minor flaws in talent and technique. They do need to meet each other, but they won't, for diamonds in the rough cling to grease and clay, not each other. And I am very cautious about sponsoring the meeting of a person to another - in Korea you assume all kinds of responsibility for their future contacts when you do that.
Updated as I went for the morning heart jog, I thought about drawing a picture of a skateboarder poised on the top of a chalkboard, below which stood a formal, nose in the air, school marm with her mouth open into which was dropping some black ink - from the skater's pen and ink bottle in his hand. In my mind it was a perfect picture of many things, for I think both of these bloggers are self-centered - her because she is smarter and shows her superiority so well, except for the cute character flaw of cussin' (and America forgives that so well). And him, the skater that knows where his center of balance is as he flys through the air at all times, otherwise he will not have that skateboard to cushion his arrival at solids in conjunction with the reality of gravity and physics. But by the time my jog was finished I realized that all bloggers are self centered, we really do think what we have to say is worthy and I am always hurt by how little my family pays attention to my wonderful mind on these pages (but I will get over it, honest). When I get back and am still sweating gently, I read that I have been read and was graciously noticed, which like most of my blessings I don't deserve but get anyway. Thank you very much.
About the skaters, I still believe that they are there for our opportunity to live in space in zero g's, but what do I know? The picture is my son when I was off "Saving Saudis from Saddam".
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I am many things -- vulgar and profane, assuredly -- but hardly vain. Self-centered? I believe everyone (even thee, dear) who blogs has a degree of self-centeredness; after all, why would anyone in the great Wider World care about our mundanities? Yet we post them for the world to see and evaluate.
Thank you for the link, no matter how you intended it. Have a lovely day, Library Gentleman.
I always say that we are all a bit self-centered, but not vain, because all of us who blog so often portray ourselves at our worst moments.
"...I am always hurt by how little my family pays attention to my wonderful mind on these pages..."
If you're not offended at the link to someone who cusses (thanks to the Cranky Dad's and one brother's stint in the USMC, and a husband and two brothers in the Navy -- as well as my own abbreviated career with the DoD), I'd be happy to link you.
Bless your son for his service -- and his skateboarding!
Totally egocentric. I get more out of the comic than anyone. I am thrilled if people find it funny but I enjoy the discipline of putting it out regularly and occasionally get a chuckle out of it too.
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