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Why am I a Medium Vampire?
We all know that outrage and anger are the easiest emotions to convey over the ether. As I explained to Roz Warren yesterday, it’s why being a troll is no fun anymore. It’s too easy. And, besides, everyone is doing it, even the president of the United States.
It’s much harder to be positive and pro-social on the tubes. Much, much harder. Really, I’m no good at it. I like to complain. I was born cynical. Well, I’m not sure if I was “born” this way, but I got infected early in life. My mother says that she took me into a florist’s shop to see a minah bird that could talk and I said, “That bird can’t talk. It just knows how to beg in English.”
Imagine my glee when I went to the Tsongas Arena to see Bob Dylan recently and got to hear him sing this:
People are crazy and times are strange
I’m locked in tight, I’m out of range
I used to care, but things have changed
That, from the guy who wrote:
Come gather ‘round people
Wherever you roam
And admit that the waters
Around you have grown
And accept it that soon
You’ll be drenched to the bone.
If your time to you
Is worth savin’
Then you better start swimmin’
Or you’ll sink like a stone
For the times they are…
