You Oughta, No

Gutbloom
3 min readAug 1, 2020

I’m not saying that I’m going to start writing on Medium again. I’m not saying it because I’ve said it before, only to not do it. But… if I was to start writing on Medium again, should I:

  1. Give you my reviews of fast food joints during my EPIIIIIIIC journey across the United States of AMERICA this summer. Involves bison, eagles, maga hats, and Chipotle!
  2. Explain why I don’t write on Medium anymore.
  3. Tell you how to make a sandwich.
  4. Write a poem about what John Lewis meant to ME
  5. Start writing my education chronicles
  6. Make fun of a state… say Connecticut (even though I promised Lon Shapiro I would do New Mexico next. Hey, did you know that Demi Moore is from New Mexico?)
  7. Add to My Favorite Thing to Write That Nobody Wants to Read.

Summer of Music

Since Covid started I have been doing many projects. Usually I pick a theme for the summer. That’s how we ended up with the Summer of Zappa a few years back.

I was glazing windows. For you kids out there, before there were double-paned vacuum-sealed Anderson windows (that are too large for the proportions of the house) everywhere, we had these little windows with just one pane of glass and when… OK, I’ll stop.

During the window glazing, I thought I would listen to the whole Beatles catalog. Technology allows you to do these things and if technology allows it, why not do it? Well, I…

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Gutbloom

Tribune of Medium. Mayor Emeritus of LiveJournal. Third Pharaoh of the Elusive Order of St. John the Dwarf. I am to Medium what bratwurst is to food.