The Wee Democracy

so i changed the name of my blog.

it sprang from a descarded first line of yesterday's blog and i thought i'd try to take the first few steps away from my decidedly cantankerous disposition by changing the name to something not so...self involved? self pitying? i dunno, one of those self- words.

shall i explain the nature of the new title? by all means, you cry!

well, i've been trying this whole being decisive thing lately, and i figured that was my first step towards true independence, and seeing as how i weigh both the good and the bad in the decision-making process, i figured it somewhat resembled a personal democracy. but a democracy has parts to it, lobbies, if you will, and i had to figure out what, if any, personal lobbies i had in my sack of meat and bones that compiles my sovreign territory.

well, there is the Big Libido lobby. comparable to big tobacco, this particular interest group is very self serving and tends to bend the will of the land of josh to its own ends. big libido, too, is very much like the oil companies, in that it is always only thinking about acquiring new territories to drill.

next is the Piggy Bank. this group is many times at the mercy of big libido, but sometimes can stand up to their relentless filibustering. piggy bank is probably the most responsible of the lobby groups because they have to be consulted before any of the other lobbyists can receive that which they desire most. DVD's for instance. if piggy bank vetoes the purchase of a new DVD by the entertainment lobbyists, then they are powerless to fulfill their mandate.

the aforementioned group, the Entertainment Lobbyists are, like Big Libido, a base group, thinking only of their interests, without fully considering the repercussions that would result if the josh proper acquiesced to their whims. their big expenditures, the DVD market, is a blight and the bane of the Piggy Bank's existence, due to the immense number crunching and paperwork the EGroup generates. the two groups oppose each other a bit like spurs fans and mavericks fans. we'd both rather win, but we don't particularly dislike the other group.

Finally, of the major groups anyway, there is the Brain Lobby. it's a weak, almost ornamental effort on their behalf and it's widely rumored that Big Libido has a man or two inside, whispering in the ear of the leader of the Brain.

I guess i'm more like a wee republic rather than our model of democracy because we don't have a clear leader. but we may move towards a free election sometime in the coming years.

of course, a girlfriend would be the equivalent of a coup d'etat.



feeling: governing
thinking of: banging george lopez's TV wife
song of the day: radio radio - elvis costello