Blogging the nite away.........

My Aunt Eunice died this morning. She was 88 years old, the youngest and the last of my Dad’s family. She was married four times, had two daughters by her first husband and a son and daughter by her third. She raised tobacco, drove a school bus and worked in a convalescent hospital and I don’t know how many other jobs. I won’t be attending her funeral but I bet it’ll be something.
This is my third week of chemo, what they said would be my ‘good’ week. The first week, you’re full of chemicals that have differing side effect; the second week is fatiguing. Really tiresome. The third week, this week for me, is s’pozed to be my good week so I can, as my kids used to say, get ‘guts up’ so I c’n do it all over again next week.
I felt so good this last weekend that I even watched some political nonsense. We have such a lot of buffoonish poseurs running for the office of President that it’s impossible to really satirize them. Most of them have already turned themselves into the caricatures that the least talented political cartoonists have envisioned.
And of the pundits who report their doings, only Stewart and Colbert, who in reality are imitation pundits and in danger of hurting themselves with all the winking and nudging, seem to understand that it’s a joke and everyone is in on it but the candidates.
Of the real pundits, (is that like the real tinsel and glitter beneath the phony tinsel and glitter of Hollywood?) I’m surprised at their ability to keep a straight face in front of the cameras. Of course, in fairness, I’ve caught a few winks and bemused expressions there.

“There are two ways of getting along in this world. You can be oh so very smart or oh so very pleasant. I reccommend pleasant.” Elwood P. Dowd