Get Out of Your Darn House!

Posted Oct 2, 2006 by Sir Robert Davis

Updated Oct 2, 2006 at 10:21 PM

I’ve been profiling places to go - and places to avoid - in the Friday Extra (but not every week, though I easily could).

When I am in a situation where the dunderheads present are incapable of undertanding even the most basic implications of wit, I cannot help but wonder how many homebodies would be capable of mustering a chuckle.  And why are these souls homeward bound?

You can whine about your day job, but I can guarantee that,  unless you are on the bottom run in a third world country,  there are people working a lot harder than you are and some of those people are brave enough to enjoy themselves and have a social life.  So why is the Bay Area so #####-Backwards?

When this area has the opportunity to be cutting edge at anything, it has always balked.  Sure we’re not as far behind as, say, Alabama, but come on.

Let me excuse the premise I have just established for something completely different:

Hedonism has become the red-headed stepchild of modern life.

When we think of hedonistic excess, the first image that pops to mind likely involves car crashes, cancer or pregnancy/VD.  When we think of erudition, our heads are too often filled with stuffy-shirted academicians and frou frou.  And when we think of nature, we think of discomfort.  Why?

Everyone wants to know what the “next big thing” is and I could tell you with confidence.  But I won’t.

Almost everybody is bored.  The rest are too uptight to know the difference.  Intellectualism has been out and mysticism has been WAAAAAAAY out.  Beauty is no longer.  Trash is in, meaning that, soon, it will be out.

When discussing the evolution of popular culture, “out is the new in”.

I need a colorful new cape!