Maybe all we needed was a martyr
Just woke up from a dream with those words in my head.
And JFK was dead.
They killed Captain America.
I graduate next week.
I lost my best friend.
I lost 60 lbs.
I'm getting married next month.
I've gained almost 30.
There's a Mormon, a black, a woman, and a man over 70 all running for president next year. Everybody says that they don't really think they'd vote for any one of these.
Until you attach names to them and then you realize that they're probably the best group of candidates we've had in a long time.
I can see Roe v.s. Wade being overturned for the sake of gay marriage.
"I'll give you equal rights to love if you'll give me a vote against those "breeders" that don't wish to"
I am graduating as a massage therapist.
I want to be a professional fighter.
I hate most of the people I work with.
I work with my mother.
I love her.
China is so quickly becoming the next economic super-power that last week when there was a "burp" in their #'s Wall street crashed.
For a moment many we're in panic over a burp.
I still am.
Many consider Hong Kong to be the pinnacle of Capitalism.
It's controlled by the Communist Party.
Some of my closest loved ones are there right now, in China, teaching Christianity.
The people there aren't even supposed to practice their native religions.
Maybe that was the miracle of Communism. Suppress the old, quietly inject the new, and watch the True Faith (and capitalism) flourish.
I am no longer Christian.
I had no brothers growing up. But I had a cousin who I was very close to.
He taught me how to role-play.
He's in jail for stealing my identity.
My car.
My camera.
and my vacuum.
I don't role-play anymore.
My fiancee's best friend is a lesbian.
She's considering me as a sperm donor.
Meg and I lost our first child back in December.
I might consider.
We dropped the bomb in WWII.
Morale was raised.
Sort of.
The fear of the bomb has been the prevailing global emotion ever since.
For the Cold War we sent men to the moon.
No casualties there.
Until the Challenger incident.
By then JFK was dead.
So was MLK jr.
And Reagan was president.
Our current president says there's a "war on terror".
We have lost more rights during his administration than during any other.
He's wrong.
I'm terrified.
And yet there is no war.
There is no one really bringing a battle to Washington's doorstep.
Gen X is defined by a number of things. Most sociologists agree that the most defining characteristic is that they will be the first generation to earn less during their lifetime than the generation preceding it.
Maybe losing their rights, their trust, their lives...
Captain America
and a vacuum
will be some others that they'll consider.
I have some younger friends that I truly love.
I am not in contact with them anymore like I'd like to be.
This can be fixed.
Someone they loved just died.
There's no fixing that.
I'm sorry.
Maybe all we needed was a martyr...
And JFK was dead.
They killed Captain America.
I graduate next week.
I lost my best friend.
I lost 60 lbs.
I'm getting married next month.
I've gained almost 30.
There's a Mormon, a black, a woman, and a man over 70 all running for president next year. Everybody says that they don't really think they'd vote for any one of these.
Until you attach names to them and then you realize that they're probably the best group of candidates we've had in a long time.
I can see Roe v.s. Wade being overturned for the sake of gay marriage.
"I'll give you equal rights to love if you'll give me a vote against those "breeders" that don't wish to"
I am graduating as a massage therapist.
I want to be a professional fighter.
I hate most of the people I work with.
I work with my mother.
I love her.
China is so quickly becoming the next economic super-power that last week when there was a "burp" in their #'s Wall street crashed.
For a moment many we're in panic over a burp.
I still am.
Many consider Hong Kong to be the pinnacle of Capitalism.
It's controlled by the Communist Party.
Some of my closest loved ones are there right now, in China, teaching Christianity.
The people there aren't even supposed to practice their native religions.
Maybe that was the miracle of Communism. Suppress the old, quietly inject the new, and watch the True Faith (and capitalism) flourish.
I am no longer Christian.
I had no brothers growing up. But I had a cousin who I was very close to.
He taught me how to role-play.
He's in jail for stealing my identity.
My car.
My camera.
and my vacuum.
I don't role-play anymore.
My fiancee's best friend is a lesbian.
She's considering me as a sperm donor.
Meg and I lost our first child back in December.
I might consider.
We dropped the bomb in WWII.
Morale was raised.
Sort of.
The fear of the bomb has been the prevailing global emotion ever since.
For the Cold War we sent men to the moon.
No casualties there.
Until the Challenger incident.
By then JFK was dead.
So was MLK jr.
And Reagan was president.
Our current president says there's a "war on terror".
We have lost more rights during his administration than during any other.
He's wrong.
I'm terrified.
And yet there is no war.
There is no one really bringing a battle to Washington's doorstep.
Gen X is defined by a number of things. Most sociologists agree that the most defining characteristic is that they will be the first generation to earn less during their lifetime than the generation preceding it.
Maybe losing their rights, their trust, their lives...
Captain America
and a vacuum
will be some others that they'll consider.
I have some younger friends that I truly love.
I am not in contact with them anymore like I'd like to be.
This can be fixed.
Someone they loved just died.
There's no fixing that.
I'm sorry.
Maybe all we needed was a martyr...