Are you not distracted?
In light of all the recent ‘outrage’ in the media lately, please enjoy a little ditty I wrote today:
“The libs stole the election!” Tucker yelled with lips furled.
How can this be? We’re the best in the world?!
“I know what to do, we’ll never lose again.”
“We need to stop them from voting, and wins will begin.”
But surely they won’t let us get away with this?
“Don’t worry my friend!” Tucker sneered with a hiss.
“Distraction is king and outrage will follow,”
“just like our morals are surely most hollow.”
I’m really not sure the people will believe you.
“Believe you say? They won’t have a clue!”
But what will make the masses fall into the noose?
“That’s easy my friend, have you heard of Dr. Seuss?”
While we’ve been hearing about estates privately removing 6 of 60 published works by Dr. Seuss due to racist content, Georgia and Arizona have been reworking their voting code to make it ever so harder for anyone but Republicans to win in the future. It’s called manufactured outrage and I’m always surprised how well it works. Sigh.
Anyway, I wrote a big article on how people are starting to call that passing the idiot ball and it will be published later this week. Hopefully, you can check it out on my Medium page later.
I also took a week or two or four off lately, my apologies for being quiet on the Far Eastern Front. I moved to another place and it kind of snapped my routine. Old habits of distraction, ADHD, and procrastination quickly set in and well, I disappeared from the internets for a little while.
On the plus side, I now have a huge kitchen and can make many peanut butter tuna sandwiches to my heart’s content. Winning!
I made a few new collections this week if you’re keen to check them out. I bought a Kindle e-reader a little while ago and I’ve been busy reminiscing on some of the books I’ve read throughout my life and celebrated that in the most exciting way possible in human existence—book reviews!
Malcolm Gladwell’s most recent book—such a creative style of writing nonfiction
AOC’s only book list she ever recommended—a nice glimpse inside what formed some of her viewpoints
Che Guevara’s biography—this one is a crazy read, and definitely impacted how I view conversations with people since
Last but not least, I dived into a few fun history pieces too. I’m really enjoying writing these and the responses seem to be nothing but positive as well (care to change that?). I basically mix a little of my weird humor in with a shorter version of some of my favorite stories from history—I definitely will be writing more of these in the future.
Did you know roller coasters were invented to stop prostitution? Totally worked, I’m sure.
The fun story of the greatest invention in history—with a surprise winy ending
That’s it for this week! I’m pretty sure I’m back in my groove now with the new place, new kitchen, and fresh supply of peanut butter and tuna—so expect a lot of new stuff coming soon.
As always, thanks for reading peeps!
J.J. Pryor
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I think I’m going to enjoy this experience:))
I got pulled in by the peanut butter & tuna sandwich and Che Guevara. You must be a psychic mind reader.