{"id":7629,"date":"2021-11-17T06:40:00","date_gmt":"2021-11-17T10:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fadingstar.mx\/?p=7629"},"modified":"2024-01-23T03:26:45","modified_gmt":"2024-01-23T03:26:45","slug":"oh-no-is-it-riot-season-already-i-still-have-my-covid-decorations-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/v4.fadingstar.mx\/2021\/11\/17\/oh-no-is-it-riot-season-already-i-still-have-my-covid-decorations-up\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cOh no, is it riot season already? I still have my covid decorations up!\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I don\u2019t know if I want to improve on my Spanish.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Having a vocabulary of about 200 words makes it difficult to really piss anybody off.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Starting to understand one of the more pressing questions we had, back when we had enough social cohesion to have a conversation as a community , which was along the lines of why our water cooler\/office talk and pleasantries are so shallow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And you stop in your tracks and go \u201cah, fuck, I literally don\u2019t know how else to greet you or how to respond to you or how to talk about \u2026. anything.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fucking jet age. Fucking \u201cmulticulturalism.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That\u2019s what did it.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>\u201cI want to be polite in this setting, but I only know how to say good afternoon, and to respond \u2018bien\u2019 when I am asked \u00bfcomo estas?\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019m totally immune to advertisements or what\u2019s on TV.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The guy who invited me over for a \u201ccontactless fuck\u201d through a plastic sheet is suggesting I move to Long Beach.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He amuses me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I do not want to go back to Commiefornia.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cRemember Mrs. Lot, and when she turned around?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"422\" height=\"201\" src=\"https:\/\/v4.fadingstar.mx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Screen-Shot-2022-05-25-at-12.47.35-AM.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-15367\" style=\"width:668px;height:318px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/v4.fadingstar.mx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Screen-Shot-2022-05-25-at-12.47.35-AM.png 422w, https:\/\/v4.fadingstar.mx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Screen-Shot-2022-05-25-at-12.47.35-AM-300x143.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 422px) 100vw, 422px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Fun fact: Sodom and Gomorrah were an advanced civilization who invented electricity before we did. Unfortunately, PG&amp;E happened to be the first electric utility on earth , and the rest is history. \/s<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Imagine going back to California and paying $2000 a month to live in a closet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And I really like Spanish but have a tendency to forget languages I\u2019m not using.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Oh wait, it\u2019s California , silly me.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I think I\u2019m going back to where I crashed my car. My health had rebounded somewhat there and if things get really bad I know some guys who will put me to work in a field and call me gay slurs all afternoon and send me home with more asparagus potatoes and oranges than I can eat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019m not sure what Tow Daddy\u2019s sexual orientation is but he seems to be a bit of a&nbsp;<em>maricon<\/em>&nbsp;when he gets a little bit of Tecate in him , AIEEEEEE, I\u2019mma snatch a kiss if I ever make it back there again some day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don\u2019t know if I want to improve on my Spanish.&nbsp; Having a vocabulary of about 200 words makes it difficult to really piss anybody off. Starting to understand one of the more pressing questions we had, back when we had enough social cohesion to have a conversation as a community , which was along [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/v4.fadingstar.mx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7629"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/v4.fadingstar.mx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/v4.fadingstar.mx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v4.fadingstar.mx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v4.fadingstar.mx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7629"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/v4.fadingstar.mx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7629\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15368,"href":"https:\/\/v4.fadingstar.mx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7629\/revisions\/15368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/v4.fadingstar.mx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v4.fadingstar.mx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v4.fadingstar.mx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}