An Open (Face)Book

I’m struggling with my desire to be open and honest on facebook and I keep running into a wall because I’m afraid I am going to offend someone. It’s embarrassing but true. I’ve seen what my more outspoken friends' status updates can do -- they can start fights among “friends.” It happens, people.

For instance…

I can’t express my abhorrence for the local professional basketball team and the hope that the underdog team from my hometown (which happens to be a mile-high) publicly embarrasses them, because I’m sure most of my LA based friends don’t feel the same way and will not hesitate to shiv me in the parking lot.

I can’t give my honest review of the much-anticipated sequel that may or may not take place in Rome and may or may not have starred one of the guys from Bosom Buddies because I have a friend who may or may not do marketing for the studio that released the hypothetical film (which was stinky poo-poo). And how bad does that transforming robot movie look? But can’t really throw that out there because who knows who may have worked on it.

And then there’s the whole having to be vague about when and where I was at some point in case I was somewhere when I shouldn’t be. (Microsoft Word didn’t autocorrect the previous sentence so I’m going to go with it, as is).

I’ll just have to repress all this stuff until it comes out in a tell-all autobiography that I will self-publish because who really gives a crap.

Am I a dick because I didn’t devote my status update to berating the California Supreme Court for shaming our state by upholding Proposition 8? Quoting the B52s’ “Bushfire” is pretty much the same thing, right?



(shhhh) Go Nuggets!!
gretch