Call It A Comeback
...I've been here for years
frontin' the hurricane
Call it another product of the narcisskepticism, but this birthday - tomorrow - has been an unattractive marker looming for the last few weeks. Perhaps it's the lack of work & project mojo I've had recently. Cal says I need a vacation but I usually find them prosaic. Still, I suppose the only way to kill apathy sometimes is to out-bore it, and then come back ready to roll.
I think the latter years in a decade are the hardest (I felt the same way at 17, yes I realize this makes me odd). If you turn 30 or 40 or 50 etc., there's a resolution with those numbers: a distinct disjunct with the past, and 9 "older" years ahead of you. In other words, you're "young" relative to your decade.
Isaac, having just turned 27 himself, had his own take on things. A perspective I believe worth owning. It goes something like this: In our early 20's we were drinking life up, everything was new & fresh etc. Then post-college in our mid-twenties we get jobs, families, mortgages, a lawn mower, basic cable, and begin the slow transition towards becoming Republicans. The energy of living plateaus at that stage. It's in your late twenties that you need to, as Isaac put it, stage a "Comeback".
All that aside (or maybe not), this Saturday at Hoppy's April is putting together a little get together on the deck (she managed to get the whole thing reserved). So be there.
And props to Doodlepost for the photoshop work.
Josiah Q. Roe | By Josiah Roe | 2:59 PM
Comments
Those images of your face on LL Cool J's body sorta creep me out, too...
And I made them.
Posted by: Ron at June 8, 2006 6:05 PM
That's sure to attract some new clients!
Posted by: James "longdong" Long at June 8, 2006 6:08 PM
So are you saying that you recognize that you are becoming an old boring Republican and you’re going to turn back to optimism, idealism, and liveliness and become a Democrat? I’m all for midlife crises if that’s what happens. Officially it is your B-day. Happy Birthday Josiah.
Posted by: ari at June 9, 2006 2:44 AM
