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RE: feeling cranky

> Oh, shit, you're right, monkeys do have opposable thumbs.  Dumb Fred. 
> Finish coffee, then write.  Never predict an Emery reaction.

I zig when you think I'm gonna zag, Fred.  Never forget it.
 
> Once in a while, I express myself poorly.

Don't be so hard on your self, Fredo.  We all express ourselves poorly at
times.

But don't ever take sides with anyone against the family again. Ever.

> If you don't believe that the human soul has nothing good to offer, how,
> I have to ask, did you end up on the Over the Rhine list.  B/c if OtR
> doesn't make beauty, then what's the point?

If someone has something to say, and wants to express themselves in music,
why does there have to be a point?

Indeed, why does there have to be a point at all?

> Why do we apply the category of evil only to humans.  If a 
> wolf steals a
> baby out of a crib and eats its brain, why is that something 
> other than
> evil?

It's not evil to a hungry wolf.

<cue Bruce w/Duran Duran>
 
> A monkey will not paint if the monkey is not given the notion 
> by humans. 

Maybe a monkey not in captivity just doesn't have the leisure time that one
in a cage has.

> I apologize.

Accepted.
 
> But I'm not up to list goblin antics today.  Maybe tomorrow.  Today, I
> want to know what people believe, not what they feel they can 
> be glibly
> dismissive about.

But it's so much easier and more entertaining to be glibly dismissive.
 
> I feel like I'm whining.  

Yeah, a little.
 
> I apologize.

Accepted.

> Cemery said: "Anything is funny if you look at it in the right way." 
> Which I believe, sort of.  But it's not hard to make a list of things
> that are really hard to make funny.  I choose rape as an example.  Not
> funny.  Not remotely.  And it's not hard to see that sometimes we use
> humor to help us cope with tragic, and that's okay and good.

Then explain to me the abundance and constant propagation of 'prison bitch'
jokes.

> I used a variation on this a while ago, and it's still applicable in this
> environment: If I go bend in half all of your OtR CDs (along with The
> Lamb Lies Down on Broadway), because I think your reaction will be funny,
> that's bad funny.  I think you'll agree.

That's vandalism, which is a much less verbal form of humor than we were
discussing.   If you came and bent my CDs in a creative and/or interesting
way, then maybe you'd have something.
 
> I think Kyle is funny.  Very.
 
> Sometimes too funny, but mostly funny.
 
> That was another country,

Why do I get the feeling that somewhere in there was a U2 reference that I
didn't get?

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Chris Emery
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http://www.ecoutlook.com
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