{"id":146,"date":"2001-09-06T00:34:48","date_gmt":"2001-09-06T05:34:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/burgwinkel.com\/blog\/?p=146"},"modified":"2001-09-06T00:34:48","modified_gmt":"2001-09-06T05:34:48","slug":"push","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/burgwinkel.com\/blog\/?p=146","title":{"rendered":"push"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nAnother great thing about blogger is that when midnight comes and I have wasted an entire goddamn day stuck to this web like a dying insect, I can still post something dated yesterday, thus redeeming the lost day.&nbsp;  <\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n&lt;pushed the push-button publishing button&gt;<br \/>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n&#8220;<i>everything becomes so damn complicated when it gets late.<\/i>&#8221;<\/p>\n<div>\n-from [<a href=\"http:\/\/brianharkin.blogspot.com\/\" title=\"brianharkin.blogspot.com\">go away (but come back)<\/a>]\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\nWell, now I see that that is not true.&nbsp;  I must have gotten the time warp notion from Blogger&#8217;s main page where, for exactly one minute at 9:34 PM PDT, it appeared that I had stopped wasting my life three hours ago.&nbsp;(As if posting this drivel stops my descent toward absolute zero.&nbsp;No offense, Blogger, but keeping this blog probably accelerates my descent &#8212; I only do it because I really want to look like I have a life, too..&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nI&#8217;m starving.&nbsp;  That&#8217;s the substance of my existence right now.&nbsp;Actually, it is a dilemma; I have in the freezer a pint of ice cream, which I should <i>not<\/i> have purchased two days ago, but that is a story I have already failed to tell.&nbsp;Gotta move on.&nbsp;  Someone &#8212; a writer probably &#8212; said once, &#8220;If you wake-up feeling the inspiration to write, just eat something sweet and the feeling will go away.&#8221;&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nI&#8217;m starving, and I&#8217;m gonna eat the ice cream, even though sugar depresses me, and I certainly don&#8217;t need to be any more depressed than my usual.&nbsp;But the alternatives are&#8230;&nbsp; well, dull.&nbsp;  I mean, what would the world be without an occasional plunge from a bridge to spice-up the drive-time?&nbsp;&nbsp; Or an airline disaster to make us wake and wonder if there&#8217;s not more to this destination than we thought?&nbsp;&nbsp; I grew-up wanting to put my cock where it was not supposed to be, simply because everything I was taught about life &#8212; and how to live it &#8212; was so goddamn dull.&nbsp; As it turns out, cock-placement has never provided anything more than merely fleeting relief; it&#8217;s not where you put it that matters, but what you do when you get there.&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nI&#8217;m starving, but I&#8217;m going to tease the gnawing hunger a little bit, like gastronomic foreplay, because there&#8217;s a three month old leak in my bike tire that I didn&#8217;t fix today &#8212; again.&nbsp; And because there&#8217;s a classified section from Sunday&#8217;s paper right beside me listing apartments for rent with phone numbers I should have called Sunday night that I still haven&#8217;t called, in search of the apartment that I am going to need in three weeks, which I still haven&#8217;t found.&nbsp;  And because in twelve hours I&#8217;ll be firmly under my employer&#8217;s thumb again, at a subsistance job I hate, where all my skills and talent and inspiration will be discounted out-of-hand &#8212; much like when I am home all day, alone.&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nBut it is all OK, because once I fill my gut, everything will matter a little less, and that is bad because there is little that matters now.&nbsp;  Writing this blog isn&#8217;t much, but at this moment it is something.&nbsp;In twenty minutes whatever tiny inspiration may have briefly flickered here will be thoroughly buried under a pint of Ben &amp; Jerry&#8217;s Apple Crumble.&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nI&#8217;m not despondant, I&#8217;m just sick of all the nothing. &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another great thing about blogger is that when midnight comes and I have wasted an entire goddamn day stuck to this web like a dying insect, I can still post something dated yesterday, thus redeeming the lost day.&nbsp; &lt;pushed the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/burgwinkel.com\/blog\/?p=146\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[262,4],"class_list":["post-146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-airline-disaster","tag-writer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/burgwinkel.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/burgwinkel.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/burgwinkel.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/burgwinkel.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/burgwinkel.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/burgwinkel.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/burgwinkel.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/burgwinkel.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/burgwinkel.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}