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Sunday, July 11, 2021

Flossing Your Teeth Parts

    Flossing your teeth is about the most Stoic thing you can do. Consider!
    You're taking care of yourself. Of course you are! This is dental hygiene at its finest. Gettin' out all those bits and rocks. As soon as you've done it, you' re better off. You've left your mouth better than you found it. Stoic!
    You're taking care of your community. We've all had a conversation with somebody who smells like they've been hittin' the road kill buffet with the local poodle.

Did you just gargle with something dead you found in the woods?
 

And if you bring it up, they'll often say "That's strange. I done brushed my teeth this morning."

Was that before your breakfast of fecal toast and sulfur dots?

The answer could be the pieces of rotting meat stuck between their teeth. But not you! You've got the freshest of mouths 'cause you done flossed it! Stoic!

It's easy to do, easy not to do. This is one my favorite Jim Rohn lines and it's a real Stoic attitude: Do the good which you can as soon as you can because you can. This covers a lot of little things (up on time, a little stretchy, maybe a walk, eight onces of water) that would really help us through our days but we don't do them mostly because they seem so small and easy we don't attach worth to them. The people who do attach worth to them are the people who do them. They know the practice is the benefit, the habit of doing those little things is the juice. They make their bed and hit the day running. Stoic!

Nobody cares / Only you know. There's no glory in teeth flossing. No one gets prizes or accolades for most consecutive days flossing or the most flossed mouth. And whether you do or don't matters not a whit to anyone. The universe will be just fine with your mouth full of last night's popcorn and Sticky Fat ®. Chances are, nobody will even know. But you'll know.
    Character is what you do alone in the dark or, in this case, alone in the bathroom with the floss. And while two lines don't constitute a proper paragraph, this second line ends the entry anyway.  

   
Sticky Fat ® is a registered trademark of MoneyFude Inc.
So don't even front.

Friday, July 9, 2021

THE ABOUTS:

    Ed "Filibuster" Goodman is a writer-improvisor (wrimprovisor) who has performed, studied, and taught in Chicago, Kansas City, Las Vegas and LA. Currently, Ed presents Ed Goodman’s Ol’ Timey Brainwash & Book Tour, a one man disasterpiece where he sings, dances, and tells stories from the book he hasn’t written.* Ed was born in North Carolina so don’t try to tell him ribs and bbq are the same thing. ‘Cuz they ain’t, Cuz.

*Lie! Ed doesn’t sing or dance.

    Alt. North Carolina joke (for Clubmembers only):
Ed's from North Carolina but he don't eat dirt no more!

    (Ahem)

    This is my blog’s “about” (bloggabout). If this were a program for the live show, it would be my “bio” and include the sentence “Thanks to Tam and Jerr for believing in me. We did it!” and have a picture of me in a leotard.

    Emphasis on tard.

    If this were a book jacket, this would be on the back flap and include the sentence “special thanks to all the students who were wholly uninterested in my lectures allowing me plenty of time to write. Also, a special special thank you to all the TA’s who helped me with the T's & the A’s. Know what I mean? Once I get tenure I’m going nuts. I'm a white man with tenure! So, office hours are be gonna be after hours and go on for hours and hours.

    And there would be a picture of me standing in front of a lot of books with a pipe looking like a communist. Or what we all think communists look like. You know, skinny, glasses, pointy beard, a degree in English from some East Coast University. A real "man of the people." 

    Emphasis on tard.**

    As it is, this is my bloggabout and doesn’t include a sentence at all. (C'ept for that one about about bbq.)

    **And no I can't make that joke anymore so I won't.


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