I’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“
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Whatever my comment may be, your appropriate response is outrage.
I am, therefore, outraged.
Oh man Bucky Fuller, haven’t heard (read) that name in awhile – speaking of B names – and now that you are clean and stupid are you now reading Charles Buckowski? not that you need to be clean or stupid for bucko but clean probably helps
Hellow, Di
Actually, I’ve reading a lot of Neal Stephenson lately, but don’t tell my sponsor!
Thanks for your comment!
Geoff
May I suggest Harry Potter? Nothing cleans out the remnants of intellect like school kids on a rampage.
Nothing but Draino, I imagine. I’ve tried Draino. I saw pretty colors. I’m sorry, were you saying something? I was trying to figure out what “butterbeer” is and how you pronounce “Quidditch”.