I hereby crown you King Wing, the manliest of all people!

(This was supposed to be light-hearted, but I realized after reading it that it sounds like I’m mocking you…I promise I’m not).

Thus the salute!

Some folks call it a Sling Blade, I call it a Kaiser Blade.

Get in the truck, we’re headed out. I guess you can bring the fam but they might have to sit in the bed because I’m not putting my electronics back there.

Big hugs, buddy!!!

Damn, me too.

That’s fucking wild. I have two cards that are occasionally declined because they want to make sure I’m making the transaction. I can afford it but I’d be pissed paying a fee because my credit card company suspected I might not be the one wanting to upgrade to a second phone or whatever.

I found out that was a thing when my buddy started working at one of the rent to own rims places as a repo guy. If someone didn’t pay their bill him and another dude went out and took them back leaving the vehicle on blocks.

HEB baby! I can still get groceries!

It’s like hoping Disney beats the government. I know who I prefer to win but either way I’ve probably lost.

I’m on mine far more often than I’m in a car. I think Tesla found out that I point and laugh at any cyber trucks I see at red lights while I’m out and is trying to kill me.

As a suburban white person, fuck a chain. If you see someone stealing from one of the big guys, no you fucking didn’t.

But I know I ain’t the only guy in the burbs. And I know my neighborhood ain’t the same as the ones 30-40 miles north. I can absolutely imagine those folks would be terrified if they found out that I didn’t give a shit about folks stealing from Walmart or Kroger.

I’ve been around horses all my life and I didn’t know until I was almost 30. I think it’s only specific breeds that actually get them. It’s still wild to me because I have only seen a couple that have them.

I don’t know about y’all but that’s where I buy all my drugs. My drug dealer doesn’t take credit cards though.

It belongs in a museum!

There are both groups, and some in-betweeners. I have known several actual white supremacists. They are who they are. They hold “church” and talk about how all this is to keep the white man down.

I’ve known plenty who are casually racist but are more “I just don’t like them” than anything organized. They believe some of it, but they expect things to work out because they’re white so they don’t organize.

I’ve known LOADS of people who are just ignorant. They live in a bubble where all they hear is about how the government is trying to give others a leg up and they’re jealous. Where’s their help? They grew up poor. If someone in their past benefited from slavery or oppression it was squandered. They have friends and family of color and genuinely love them. Some of them are white passing POC. They do tremendous harm out of ignorance and because they were lied to. That’s not an absolution, because they could go find the information, but an indictment of the media bubble that they’re in and some of the others they associate with.

That doesn’t just go for racists. Sexists and LGBTQIA bigots are the same.

Back when I did stuff for the sake of doing it, I mapped DAW transport buttons to these. I never bothered replacing them when they broke because I moved to a jog wheel to scrub through much more efficiently.

I’m going to spend my money on more whiskey. I’m not sure if I’m too sober to understand or not nearly sober enough but we’re about to find out together.