Stay home, People!
By the time Christmas comes around it will literally be snowing virus. That’s not a metaphor. It will actually be snowing Covid.
The thing I don’t understand is that most of us complain about having to go out of town to family gatherings. It’s a never-ending source of aggravation for most people. Going, being there, dealing, getting back. So, why is it so hard to NOT GO? Don’t look a gift horse in the mouth. I know being a shut in is annoying and you’ve had enough of it but still. Stay close, small, manageable. Enjoy the break. You’ll probably be able to go to a family gathering that will make you miserable next year.
I’m happy to be staying home. That being said, I am doing a very streamlined Thanksgiving for a couple of us. A tiny turkey and couple of side dishes and maybe a pie. I want to bake a pie. I want to make sure that I maintain a balanced diet. A balance between joy and shame on my off days. Off days from the barely satisfying healthy diet I have most of the time.
I am slipping, though. We are all slipping. The Covid numbers speak to that. The same thing that makes me rationalize eating foods that are bad for me because of my mild heart disease are basically the reason we are all going to get Covid and we know we are doing it. The human brain likes to hedge its bets and bank on the odds of denial which is really not even a crap shoot. It’s just dumb. There is some mixture of entitlement, selfishness, belligerence and annoyance that makes us all a little stupid. When you are a child and this happens, usually there’s a grown up to step in and draw a line. No one is going to do that for you now. This government certainly isn’t. No one can guarantee your safety in almost any situation in terms of the virus. Everyone who is enabling unsafe behavior in the name of business or ‘freedom’ knows in their heart that they are fucking up and putting themselves and others at risk. If you press them or yourself along those lines you will eventually snap and let out an angry, ‘I KNOW! OK?’ No. It isn’t really. It’s worse now than it’s ever been. I wish we could not be babies.
It seems there is hope at the end of the tunnel or at least a better bit of tunnel. Let’s try to get there before we kill ourselves one way or the other.
Today I talk to Johnny Flynn, my co-star in the film ‘Stardust.’ It opens this Wednesday the 25th. He plays Bowie. He’s also a musician with several albums out. On Thursday we’re finally posting a talk with Mike Campbell from the Heartbreakers that we recorded before Covid. He asked if we would hold it until the release of his record. It’s here now. Good talks.
Enjoy!
Boomer, Monkey and LaFonda live!
Love,
Maron