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Hi its me, the Stream of Consciousness Guy again.
this is such a cool thing to do, I don't know how or why I blow it sometimes. Maybe it was all those years I cultivated the image of a Bad Boy.
When did "Bad" get to be good? I believe it was my generation, the Boomers, who made it so. There was fandom for Le Noir previously (think Bogie, Cagney and Raft) all the way back to Poe but my generation really perfected the concept of antihero. Like Bonnie and Clyde, the Beatty-Dunaway version--gorgeous people running round shooting other people up. Live fast, Die Young and leave a Beautiful corpse. that was my motto also when I was young but like a lot of other things I really believed, didn't work out quite that way I thought it would. Now I'll have to settle for dying old and leaving a semi-beautiful corpse. If I thought I would live to be this old I would have taken better care of myself, you better just darn betcha.
Useta be that even the bad guys wanted to be perceived as good. Now people revel in being bad and getting away with it. being bad adds to your cred in the world. When I saw Pat Boone with an earing pretending to do Heavy Metal I knew an era was over.
once upon a time I got to where I was as bad as I ever wanted to be. Ive spent the rest of my life trying to pretend to be good, with mixed results. A general overall success, though, proving once again Lincoln's Theorem on Fooling people.
But anyway I digress: Back to doing wonderful things in the world again to make up for any karma that may have gone astray over the months and years and decades and eras.
here's what I do now:
Write the tag.
hit Save and Preview
Correct spelling and syntax errors.
hit Publication manager
Doodle in the right info
Click the button
So easy and I gain another 1300 Karma Points on my account which I can trade in for more legspace or early boarding on The Final Flight up, or down
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