Post by loveless on Jan 30, 2019 18:37:52 GMT
You ever just think something so goddamn clever and mind-blowingly insightful that you can't find nearly enough opportunities to take it out for a spin?
A hot take, perhaps?
A witty referent or comparison applied in some new withering context?
An opinion of such novelty that it might potentially change the way the whole world thinks about.....Burt Reynolds? Baked potatoes?
The sort of thing that quickly goes from "My goodness - how trenchantly observed." to "Oh, dear God - he's gonna say the thing again, isn't he"?
We can do it in the flesh, we can do it on the internet. In my own first flushes of intoxication with my own borderline trollishness, I shudder to think how many times I trotted out my handful of zingers. Much of it is well preserved in the ether: and - at best - only as defensible as "Well, we were ALL callow then, right?" can make it.
It's the sort of thing you eventually see coming a mile away - if a certain topic emerges, you can almost be assured that the guy's gonna come along in a matter of minutes and do his thing. Some grim recognition that "Oh, shit - we've all memorized our lines, and could easily recite both acts of this epic play on the spot" is what eventually drives some of us to greener pastures. You bristle at another person cycling through their material, and then almost immediately realize "Oh, no - I've been doing it too!"
I was recently in the company of friends and acquaintances, and...amidst the merriment, I noticed a dear friend of mine (smart guy, older than me) visibly reacting to an opportunity to "recite"...like, I saw his opening, then I saw his body language, and...yeah, he was practically bursting with the need to let it out (which he did). For me, it was material I knew (vintage, actually), and it sort of went back to the memory of the kid in school opining that the second "Go ahead, make my day" in Sudden Impact was so deflatingly anticlimactic (ditto Bart Simpson as the "I didn't do it!" kid).
Are you aware of this impulse in yourself? In others?
A hot take, perhaps?
A witty referent or comparison applied in some new withering context?
An opinion of such novelty that it might potentially change the way the whole world thinks about.....Burt Reynolds? Baked potatoes?
The sort of thing that quickly goes from "My goodness - how trenchantly observed." to "Oh, dear God - he's gonna say the thing again, isn't he"?
We can do it in the flesh, we can do it on the internet. In my own first flushes of intoxication with my own borderline trollishness, I shudder to think how many times I trotted out my handful of zingers. Much of it is well preserved in the ether: and - at best - only as defensible as "Well, we were ALL callow then, right?" can make it.
It's the sort of thing you eventually see coming a mile away - if a certain topic emerges, you can almost be assured that the guy's gonna come along in a matter of minutes and do his thing. Some grim recognition that "Oh, shit - we've all memorized our lines, and could easily recite both acts of this epic play on the spot" is what eventually drives some of us to greener pastures. You bristle at another person cycling through their material, and then almost immediately realize "Oh, no - I've been doing it too!"
I was recently in the company of friends and acquaintances, and...amidst the merriment, I noticed a dear friend of mine (smart guy, older than me) visibly reacting to an opportunity to "recite"...like, I saw his opening, then I saw his body language, and...yeah, he was practically bursting with the need to let it out (which he did). For me, it was material I knew (vintage, actually), and it sort of went back to the memory of the kid in school opining that the second "Go ahead, make my day" in Sudden Impact was so deflatingly anticlimactic (ditto Bart Simpson as the "I didn't do it!" kid).
Are you aware of this impulse in yourself? In others?
