Saturday, May 10, 2008

About "That's Stupid"

Thursday, May 8, 2008 (Facebook)

“That’s Stupid” is a stone that resembles a small bomb: it’s going to kill more birds than I really feel like counting. Blue jay: to get rid of a nagging velleity. I’m annoyed at my general ignorance of news but too lazy to read the newspaper. Cardinal: I should be reading the newspaper since I’ll be journalism-ing more seriously next year. A robin: to give me something that I might actually do between Hillsdale and Tapico--because honestly, I’m not going to finish Paradise Lost. A finch: an assignment from a friend. When something’s bothering me, I keep asking why, why, like a little kid until I can’t anymore, then I follow the last answer with “that’s stupid.” Joe’s heard this from me quite a bit, and he told me that every day this summer I should find a news article and write two thousand words on why it’s stupid. I don’t know about the every day and I don’t know about the two thousand words, but we’ll see what I can do.

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