Took another crack at riffing on the news but what came out wasn’t funny.
It was strident. Or put more generously, passionate.
See, this is one of the reasons I can’t have a fixed format. Even with the best of intentions, I do not end up with whatever I set out to make.
That’s why the product pretty much has to be me.
I’m the only thing it all has in common!
Anyhow, here it is :
Like I could easily do a whole short video essay on my thoughts about direct democracy (I’m for it) and about the psychology of conservatism (they’re dumb) and share my extraordinary insights with the world at large.
And maybe I will do that. And maybe not.
I am slowly coming to grips with the fact that I am, in fact, a flake. An airhead. Kind of of a space cadet.
While also being a startlingly intelligent and talented dude.
But all my character points are concentrated in just a few stats and that means things like “common sense” and “ability to focus on the here and now” are way below average.
To be honest, any truly decent society would have figured out what a genius I am when I was still a little kid and made sure to nurture and develop my mind and my abilities so that I could grow up and truly contribute to the society that raised me.
But alas, nobody even wanted to deal with me.
I might have been a little hard to handle, admittedly.
I mean, what do you do with a kid who’s way smarter than you? Like I have said before, so much of adult authority rests on their intellectual superiority. As a kid they are supposed to know and understand way more than you about life and the world and so you can go to them when you don’t understand things and they can nurture and guide you with their superior minds.
All that goes out the window when you’re way smarter than your teachers.
Ergo I was impossible to control. I could think rings about them. Luckily for them AND me, I didn’t require a lot of controlling. I was an agreeable and eager to please kid who for the most part followed the rules.
But at any moment I might derail the whole momentum of the lesson by asking the teacher a question they could not answer.
And I would do so from a place of total innocence, with absolutely no malice or mischief intended, and that meant their usual tools for handling unruly kids did not apply.
Teachers do not like kids who make them look or feel stupid.
But I was just being my irrepressibly bright self.
And I get the feeling that I am still kinda dangerous like that. I seem quite harmless and friendly, and I am, but I also might suddenly loom over a person like the intellectual giant that I am and not even know I am doing it.
And I am not sure there’s a lot I can do about that. I lack the fine social skills to know and understand how not to do that.
All I can do is rely on my being generally lovable and friendly and harmless enough to gloss over my well intentioned mental mayhem.
Thank God I’m cute.
It’s saved my ass so many times. It may not help me to be less of a spaz or a flake, but it at least makes my clumsiness endearing more often than not.
The youngest child always develops odd coping mechanisms.
More after the break.
Oh right, the vid
You know, maybe it’s okay that I can’t stick to a topic and never seem to end up where I was trying to go.
I might not nail every subject but I sure cover a lot of ground.
Anyhow, today’s vid.
I’m not happy with it.
It’s not very funny. I just ended up soapboxing a bunch. Hence my little crack about being a commentator not a comedian.
I was trying to be a comedian…. at first…
I guess I just did not have anything particularly hilarious to say. So I will have to make a mental note to slow down and gather the stories before video making time and gather them based on whether I have anything funny to say about them.
Or at least something interesting and hopefully somewhat related.
I suppose I could think of myself as “a pundit who is sometimes funny” instead of trying to compete with Colbert and the Daily Show in the whole “news with jokes” category.
After all, they have swarms of very well paid talented writers and I am just one admittedly very gifted dude.
But meh. I wanna be funny AND insightful. Or at least to keep the funny and the profound in different videos with different intents.
Or maybe I will just keep making whatever I end up making and trust that one day it could find its audience. I dunno.
Maybe what really matters is putting my insight and wit and personality into whatever it is I end up doing and trust that this will coalesce into a personal brand of sorts where my fans are up for whatever it is I put out next.
Sounds sorta risk, kind of like I think I’m like Neil Young switching genres and style with every album but somehow retaining a certain number of diehard Neil fans.
So what the hell. One day I’m singing, another I’m riffing (or trying to), another I am writing a song, another I am delving deep into the musty caves of my moribund soul in search of priceless personal insights and catharsis, and so forth and so on.
It’s all sort of entertaining, I hope. My idea fan reaction would be, “I have no idea what he’ll do next but I know that I’ll like it, so… start the show!”.
If I could manage that, my very unpredictability would become an asset. What will he come up with next? Tune in and find out.
Can you tell I was raised by television?
I will talk to you nice people again tomorrow.