Recovery
Saturday, April 5th, 2008I’m tempted to start this post with a fart or nose picking joke. You see, I have been told by many people who should know that my humor is too intelligent and I want to get along.
Hello, my name is Geoff and I’m a recovering intellectual. It all began in grade school when I started reading Shakespeare in secret. I started small, Twelfth Night was all I could handle. Eventually, of course, I moved up to Love’s Labour’s Lost, then on to Julius Caesar and Hamlet. By junior high, I was up to two or three monologues a week. By my senior year in high school I was mainlining Buckminster Fuller.
It came to a head about two years ago. They found me wandering around the West Side of Los Angeles. I was listening to Joni Mitchell on my headset, muttering passages from the Bhagavad-Gita. I was clutching a Thesaurus and had a copy of Jung’s treatise on male archetypes in my back pocket.
I was incarcerated. They only let me out when I agreed to enter the program. Now, thanks to my sponsor and my Higher Power, I have been clean and stupid for six months.
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Geoff Hoff is co-author of the best selling satirical novel “Weeping Willow: Welcome to River Bend“
