Overheard at Table 3: On Jordan Peterson ... <= ew!

 

Damn that Jordan Peterson!  He's an arrogant prick, but he's the arrogant prick that I wanted to be if I wanted to be an arrogant prick.

Oh honey, you already ARE an arrogant prick.  Just not a famous one.

 

Overheard at Table 1: Holidays

Columbus day is coming up in October and that pisses people off because they want to call it Indigenous People's Day and some people have a similar problem with Thanksgiving because white people in the past did bad stuff to Native Americans ...

and Christians are hating on Halloween because it's Satanic and the non-believers hate Christ in Christmas and they say stupid shit like "God raped Mary" and then people are mad at Mother's Day because they had shitty mothers and the same thing for Father's day because they had abusive or molesting dads ...

and people who want to be single or who don't have a romantic partner absolutely DESPISE Valentine's Day and Republicans sure as hell hate Labor Day and peaceniks don't like Veterans Day and people who say the American empire trampled over the rights of Central Americans really hate Memorial Day

and that's the same reason why people are all like OH WELL INDEPENDENCE DAY sucks because that's Americans enshrining the SLAVE TRADE ...

you know what?  Let's just cancel ALL HOLIDAYS!

All of them.  GONE!

GoodBYE.

No more holidays, for no one.  Ever.

You're welcome.  A few fewer things for some segment or other to bitch about.

Buncha whiners!

Overheard at Table 3: Watching "Under the Queen's Umbrella"

Watching "Under the Queen's Umbrella"

Me: So, who are all those kids taking the test.

Wife: Four are the queen's sons, all the rest are from the King's concubines.

Me: Wow.  It's good to be king!

Wife: DUDE!  You can't even please ONE!

Me: *sad face*

 

 

 

Overheard at Table 2: Car Keys and a Boatload of Cash

It has become quite evident that God has not, indeed, blessed America, but rather,

God has given America the keys to the Charger, along with a fistful of hundred dollar bills,

knowing full well that America will get blasted on cocaine and beer, and rage that car to the end of the highway, off a cliff into the ocean, taking out as many pedestrians as it can along the way.

Overheard at Table 3: Horrorscope for July 31

Horrorscope for July 31

Aquarius – 1 of you will die today

Pisces  – 1 of you will die today

Aries – 1 of you will die today

Taurus – 1 of you will die today

Gemini – 2 of you will die today.  Sucks to be you.

Cancer – 1 of you will die today.  Of cancer (but of course!)

Leo – 1 of you will die today, but at least you’ll go down fightin’

Virgo – 1 of you will die today

Libra – 1 of you will die today

Scorpio – You guessed it.  Venom/poison.

Sagittarius – You know the drill.

Capricorn – No death. Just a boatload of maimin’

Overheard at Table 2, Tarzan and the Golden Lion by Edgar Rice Burroughs

 ... annnnnnd following on the heels of yesterday's revelation, I was trying to read this book (the 9th Tarzan book by Edgar Rice Burroughs) on the plane coming back to Houston from Newark.   

While I do enjoy the fact that the books show Tarzan as more than the grunting fool portrayed in the movies, and chapter one opens with a well written scene of the lion cub witnessing the death of his mother, chapters two and three seemed poorly written and indicative of a writer who was more pushing through the years to rush to some future story than desiring to build up the suspense. 

Tarzan has a bratty son, seems to be almost worshipped by the African tribes (so, yeah, in our contemporary culture, this smacks of White Savior Syndrome) and chapter three with the weird relation between Flora and the Spanish actor who resembles Tarzan ... well, let's just say, I was not really intrigued to go further.

It's not badly written, but again, from the book the day before, there are other things I want to read, and so I shall cast this back into the world and move on to other tomes.

First copyright 1922

This Ballentine Edition 1976

Overheard at Table 2: The Code of the Executive

Perhaps it has since been revised and updated, but this 1997 edition is not only outdated, but it is a relatively insipid read.  While the idea is brilliant - to take the Bushido code and apply it to Executives (by this, he obviously means upper Management, those who have direct contact and responsible for support of the CEO)  - the actual advice reveals nothing new.  There are the ideas of studying your business even while not at work, making certain that your CEO is always prepared for meetings, that audio-visual for any conference has been tested, that you have your golf game adequate, etc.   

As I said: a bit pat, and now even a bit dated.  Yes, this book does speak to the need for absolute integrity, and yes, perhaps I was a bit ruffled when it suggests that I, as an Executive, shouldn't focus too much on my creative writing, but the one thing that I took away from this book was that time is short and my days are now shortening, and it does not good to waste precious time on books that I do not find enjoyable. 

So I haven't finished it.  Therefore, this can't be added to my list of 1,000 Books.  But I've read enough to put it here for the rest of you ... and hey, if it's been brought up to date, please let me know.