The Shine

The real golden rule

If you drive as much as I do you realize that the road system doesn't make much sense. A lot of roads are illogical when you think about it. I wonder if there's any magic truckers out there who know the same thing. If you don't know about magic you have to assume that when roads are built they're trying going around something that would be too hard to build on. Or to avoid disturbing a natural feature they want to preserve.

When you know that magic exists and a little bit about it, you can convince yourself that the roads are laid out to channel magical energy. I have no way to prove it. I think about it sometimes on my marathon drives. If this is true that that means that the government knows about magic and is building roads to move it around. What that could mean is hard to wrap my mind around.

I worked a show in Amarillo last night and they trotted out a skinny woman in a red and green dress to sing the American and Canadian anthems. Most wrestling shows don't bother with the national anthem but this is Texas so I was expecting it. The Canadian anthem was a surprise. Once in a great while when you're at a real sporting event near the body heard they'll do that. But if you're not away Texas is not near the Canadian border.

Terry Funk is from Amarillo, or at least claimed to be for wrestling purposes. Years ago when wrestling was popular for a hot Texas minute they released a documentary about it called Beyond the Mat. It was in the movie theaters. In that movie they show Terry Funk with his daughters. Terry Funk, even before he annihilated himself wrestling into his 60s, was not a good looking dude. And his wife is nothing to get excited about either. But his daughters are all gorgeous. How does that happen?

There's a scene in that movie where a douchebag asshole piece of shit promoter says that he has to be a douchebag asshole piece of shit because if he doesn't the wrestlers will walk all over him. This is true.

The wrestlers are trying to fuck over the promoter because they're anticipating the promoter trying to fuck them over. That's capitalism in a nutshell, fuck or be fucked. It's like one of those snake eating its own tail things, it keeps feeding itself infinitely forever.

How can you fix something like that? There's no way to start. If you try to be the person who doesn't participate in the scam then you're like the person who doesn't hold onto the merry-go-round, you get fucking thrown off. It's like when two dopeheads who don't know each other meet and are trying to ask if the other one has the stuff. It's hard to make the first move because you don't want to show your ass. 

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