The Relief In Openly Being a Jackass

Quotes from emails to my friend David in the past week

From: Red
To: David

… Have I mentioned to you before how dense I am, and how I have no idea what is up with me at any given moment? I can tell you in detail about Cary Grant’s childhood, but if you say, “Why are you upset?” I will give you a blank look like “What the fuck are you talking about?”

From: Red
To: David

… I have had this huge soul-growth week and I feel like a complete and utter jackass. But it’s good. It’s good to just openly be a jackass, as opposed to trying to be cool and “okay with everything”, and “Yeah, whatever, man, it’s cool, it’s cool.” Well, you know what? IT’S NOT COOL! What a fucking relief.

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6 Responses to The Relief In Openly Being a Jackass

  1. Curtis says:

    Geez.. know how you feel there. I just started a new job last week and I don’t have a clue what the hell I am doing. At least once a day I send Sarah (the Mrs. Curtis) an e-mail proclaiming my stupidity.
    Or the occasional IM stating succinctly: I AM DUMB.

  2. red says:

    Ha! It is a relief to, once in a while, “proclaim one’s stupidity”.

  3. Curtis says:

    Too true… openly being a jackass can be nice too… Reminds me of Jeremy Piven in Serendipity: “Now, I want to be a jackass”

    Dude cracks me up.

  4. Bryan says:

    I’m reminded of an exchange from “Cactus Flower.” I don’t remember if “jackass” or “jerk” was the word used.

    Walter Matthau (playing a character named Julian): I’m the biggest jackass in the world!

    Goldie Hawn (his girlfriend): Please, Julian, you make it sound like bragging.

  5. Bryan says:

    It’s kind of like how at one of my former computer programming jobs the guys would brag about who wrote the worst software, i.e., “My software sucks so bad that etc….”

  6. red says:

    But this past week I have been what you might call an emotional jackass. I’m telling you. I am DENSE. I have a nervous breakdown, and I’m pretty much the last one to know about it.

    heh heh heh

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