the period piece

the period piece is ok, but it'll only ever be a reaction. an afterthought. now that the votes are in and we can weigh judgment on the past from the comfort of the future.

but if we all exist always at the same time maybe part of our oppression is coming from the future. maybe in order to stay the future it must shun and ridicule the past.

the gods of us in the future are laughing because they know the only way out is through, and when they hear us yelp or cry or whine, they laugh because they know the worst is yet to come.

this is about television. mad men is good, but maybe too good. maybe a bit too stylized, but i like how they've sharpened their edges. and by sharpened i guess i mean ground down to a baby bottom smooth glistening finish. they've excavated the mineral from the ore. they're showing the 50s exactly how the 50s wanted to be seen. it's the ghosts from the past haunting or present. forcing us to tell their final story, what they couldn't get out before the grave.

you know why i write? why anyone writes?

because when we die we want our ghosts to rest, or see what it means to be a ghost, not stay caught up in what it is to be a human being, not forcing the living to think about the dead. you remember the past by living in the present. i wouldn't want my ghost skulking around like some jealous ex-boyfriend waiting in the parking lot of a movie theater to spring out and ruin the next good thing to come along. but, OH MY GOD PEOPLE REALLY THINK LIKE THIS, some people are living and lost among the dead.