{"id":891,"date":"2007-04-20T18:54:23","date_gmt":"2007-04-21T01:54:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/?p=891"},"modified":"2007-04-20T18:54:23","modified_gmt":"2007-04-21T01:54:23","slug":"january-31-2004","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/2007\/04\/january-31-2004\/","title":{"rendered":"January 31, 2004"},"content":{"rendered":"

love talk<\/strong><\/p>\n

Chris came by to see me yesterday. I was having a rough day, and he was worried about me.<\/p>\n

It wasn’t particularly difficult, I had just lost my sense of humor. You HAVE to have a sense of humor over here, or you grind out.<\/p>\n

So, he helped me feel better, just by being there. As I was getting sleepy, we had this conversation:<\/p>\n

“I have to be up very early in the morning. Tell me something.”<\/p>\n

“What do you want me to tell you?”<\/p>\n

“Sleepy things. Tell me a story.”<\/p>\n

“I don’t know any stories.”<\/p>\n

“Well, tell me what happened in the world today.”<\/p>\n

“Let’s see….Do you know about Skull and Bones?”<\/p>\n

“…other than their literal meaning, I couldn’t tell you. What are Skull and Bones?”<\/p>\n

“I was listening to the radio today, and this talk show guy was talking about Skull and Bones. They are a secret society at Yale; this guy claimed they controlled everything.”<\/p>\n

“Oh yeah…I remember hearing about them. They control everything?”<\/p>\n

“That’s what this guy said…”<\/p>\n

“If they control everything, I want to talk with them. There are a few things that need some improvement. How do we get a hold of these people?”<\/p>\n

“This guy was claiming that they orchestrated the Kennedy assasination, and the Mars landing.”<\/p>\n

“We need to find these guys and put them to better use. If there is somebody controlling everything, I say good. Too many things are out of control.”<\/p>\n

Pause<\/p>\n

“Chris..You’re going to become that guy, aren’t you?”<\/p>\n

“what guy?”<\/p>\n

“That guy who works from his home and listens to talk radio all day and turns weird.”<\/p>\n

“I do NOT listen to talk radio all day! I only listen to it in my car.”<\/p>\n

“WHATever. Next thing you know, you’ll be staying up late listening to that one talk guy.”<\/p>\n

“Oh…Yeah…that guy…But he’s not on anymore. You mean Art Bell. They have another guy doing his show now. He only comes on for special occasions.”<\/p>\n

“See? This is what I’m talking about. You already know all this stuff. You are gonna be that weird extremist right-wing guy.”<\/p>\n

“I am not. What about you? you listen to NPR all day. Are you gonna be a left-wing extremist?”<\/p>\n

“NPR is not extremist anything. They are all about the money. Do you know they play different songs depending on how the market is doing?”<\/p>\n

“They do?”<\/p>\n

“Yeah. If the market is up they play, ‘da da dedada’.”<\/p>\n

“‘We’re in the money’…”<\/p>\n

“Yeah. I don’t remember what song they play if it’s down. I don’t pay attention to stocks.”<\/p>\n

“Yes, you put your money into your condo.”<\/p>\n

“Right. But that just shows how NPR is all about the money. Whenever they do bring up some social cause, it’s so far away you could never do anything about it, so you don’t have to be distracted from worrying about your stocks.”<\/p>\n

“Well…What’s the left-wing equivalent of the talk shows?”<\/p>\n

“Pacifica radio. They are the ones who incite the peace marchers.”<\/p>\n

“oh yeah. They’re weird.”<\/p>\n

“I don’t listen to them very often.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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