Notices by David Todd McCarty (davidtoddmccarty@me.dm), page 2

@WarnerCrocker I have given up on this season. I’m watching but with zero confidence. It’s just background noise, but it won’t stop me from waiting around for it. Big dumb animals that we are.

@WarnerCrocker I’m old enough to remember when they were a force of nature. Guess it’s been a minute. We’re getting ready to play Dallas in Texas. Favored by 7.5 pts, which seems overly generous.

I think the only reason we have a winning record is because of our RB Barkley. The team is a hot mess.

Our head coach is like a coked up hedge fund guy coaching his kid’s little league team.

There is this assumption that we are to take agency over the creative work that we do. That we must somehow be ready and willing to discuss and defend the art we make with anyone who sees it. What did that song or poem mean? Why that picture? Explain that story.

I don’t believe any of that.

I did my part. How you interpret is entirely out of my control. I didn’t ask to be part of a conversation. When I was writing it, I was alone. There’s a reason for that.

#Writing #Creativity

My favorite thing to write about is nothing. The dumbest, most mundane, pedestrian thing possible. That’s where the gold lies. Somewhere in the middle of nothing.

I wrote an entire restaurant review today about potato chips. Crisps for you wankers.

#Writing

There was an HBO series in 2008 called “Generation Kill” about the invasion of Iraq. It was based on a book by a reporter from Rolling Stone who got embedded with the 1st Recon Marines. Nearly all the officers in the story are depicted as incompetent morons, but one in particular stands out. His name was Dave, but the grunts called him “Captain America.” He was constantly hysterical and freaking out. I’m seeing the same thing on this platform as of late. We know.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFLqya9_Ikk

“The easiest answer is to say that, like most humans, I am hungry. But there is more than that. It seems to me that our three basic needs, for food and security and love, are so mixed and mingled and entwined that we cannot straightly think of one without the others. So it happens that when I write of hunger, I am really writing about love and the hunger for it, and warmth and the love of it and the hunger for it.”

~ MFK Fisher

@WarnerCrocker Never read The Jungle.

I’m even avoiding the late night shows. I can’t imagine watching SNL in the near future. I don’t want to hear about any of it. I should just concentrate on 20th-century literature. Tons of shit I never read. Classics.

What are your top five favorite 20th century novels? Don’t feel the need to be pretentious. Stephen King is awesome. So is Dickens. What are the books that rattled your cage?

#Books #Reading #Writing #TopFive

I killed an intruder last night.

I’m not gonna lie. It felt pretty good. No, that’s massively underselling it. It felt fucking great. A little retribution for the many transgressions put upon me by a strange, cruel world. Payback for years of unequivocal terror at the hands of blood-sucking parasites. An attempt to beat back the vermin that plague us on a daily basis. One small step for a man. One giant leap for mankind.

#Writing #Memoir #Humor

https://abitdodgy.uk/last-night-i-killed-an-intruder-18f0e579eb55

When things get too overwhelming, I tend to go quiet, like a submarine commander that fears he has been detected by the enemy. Turn the lights out, hold your breath, and wait for the threat to pass.

They teach Naval Aviators to remain calm in the event of a water landing, watching which direction the air bubbles go and then follow them to the surface. So, I’m trying to sit quietly and see which way the air bubbles go so I can find my way.

#Writing #MentalHealth

https://abitdodgy.uk/so-that-happened-30384987a769

“Hope is the thing with feathers,” the poem says, but hope has a dark side also. You are what you believe, and this is a hard thing to accept. Not just about ourselves, but about others as well. It is why it is so hard to get people to change who they are, just as it is difficult to get them to change what they believe. You cannot do one without the other. As it has been said, “The body cannot live without the mind.”

#Writing
https://medium.com/ellemeno/hope-is-the-thing-with-feathers-61fddc99e731

If you’re a pragmatic type, who walks through life with little expectations, who takes the good with the bad, never getting too high or too low, then hope is just another emotion. But if you’re a dreamer, one who imagines what life could be, but is not, then hope has an edge that can cut both ways.

#Philosophy #Hope #Writing

https://medium.com/ellemeno/hope-is-the-thing-with-feathers-61fddc99e731

It’s 2016 all over again.

Lauren Boebert won. Lauren Fucking Asshat Boebert.

The polls are closed and I’m still getting fundraising emails. Come on. #USPol

What do the markets know? Just kidding. They don’t know shit. But some investors definitely cut bait.

@WarnerCrocker Why wait?

I’ll say this now so I sound overly demanding later. If the Dems were to be so lucky as to sweep, they better pass everything they can as quickly as they can. Get rid of the filibuster, expand the court, protect voter rights, codify reproductive rights, etc… I can’t think of everything right now. Do it all.

No fucking around.

I did have one optimistic thought concerning what certainly appears to be record turnout. I have a hard time believing that Trump had any additional supporters who hadn’t voted for him previously. I considered him tapped out when it came to upside potential. Which could mean a big upside for Democrats.

I have zero evidence and no scientific theory to support this. Just a thought while I was packing a bowl. My head feels tight. BP has to be high, so I might as well be.

#USPol #Election

Also, I don’t think there are enough incels to make up for the loss of old white people who died since the last election. #USPol #Election