I Believe… [Love Actually?]

...that if you can’t find in yourself, when in a huge empty lobby with Christmas rock playing, the impulse to dance across the lobby like a chorus member from Billy Elliot, you’ve given up on life.

...that the trouble with pornography is that it creates a sexual fantasy with people who you would never want to actually have sex with. The sex part is only part of the date. If you have to talk to a person who fucks with impunity you’ll soon discover how broken and unhappy they are and then need to become their emotional support dog in exchange for some naked mambo.

...that my favorite part of Love Actually (which, mind you, is like declaring my favorite part of a Sizzler salad bar) is the story about the aging rockstar who realizes he’d rather spend Christmas with his loyal friend than party with Elton John.

...that the Weiner Circle has the key to retraining customers to be less asshole and more appreciative which is both funny and sad that the only way to transform the power dynamic between angry consumer and minimum wage line worker is to treat the consumer like shit to get them to be asshole-ish.

...that most people will only remember the slights, which grow in import over time, than the generosity provided along the way. Misanthropy is the the other side of the coin to Stoicism and often a tremendous way of life in a world filled with ungrateful, petty fuckwads.