The darkness keeps coming, People!
But the weather has been great where I live. It’s hard to reconcile. Encroaching societal/economic collapse, the oncoming environmental apocalypse, the plague and the beginning of fascism but, hey, is that a Robin? I think that’s a Robin. I didn’t know we had those here.
Monkey is about done and it’s crushing me. Look, I know he wasn’t going live forever but you keep hoping you have one of those cats that lives abnormally long. Like 41 years. I’ve been keeping up his maintenance. I brought him to the vet the other day. I never know if it will be the last time but I am prepared for that now.
I'm able to compartmentalize now. I wasn’t a couple of months ago. The idea of him dying so close to Lynn dying was too much for me to handle and I guess he knew that. I don’t know. I'm able to separate the two now. It isn’t just a fluid continuance of death and dying. It is separate. Lynn’s death was a tragedy. Monkey is an old sick cat. I love them both. Soon, both will be gone forever. Is that a Robin? I think it is.
Here’s something I’ve been wrestling with that would sound like a conspiracy theory if it didn’t feel kind of possible. It begins with the question: How desperate does your neighbor, who doesn’t like the way you think, have to be to kill you because he doesn’t like the way you think, if it was his job? Not that Trump is playing three-or-five-dimensional chess but it's not a big leap to think this administration could let the economy and country collapse and close off trade with China specifically to nationalize and feed on the desperation and anger of Americans, then outfit them with uniforms and ranks and a ‘cleansing’ agenda and the ones that can’t kill can work and manage state run factories. Maybe I’m crazy but I’m ready to go. I like Robins.
Today’s episode comes with a trigger warning. If you are an anti-Semite it will trigger you to commit violence. This talk with Seth Rogen is by far the Jewiest talk I’ve ever had with a Jew on air. On Thursday I talk to the legendary Marsha Warfield about comedy and life. Great talks.
Enjoy!
Boomer lives!
Love,
Maron
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