I don't understand why two things need to be completely, mutually, exclusive. I have a great desire to be healthy. I would like to live a long time and bare (bear) many children and live see if all my predictions for the year 2118 come true and son on and so forth. But I love to drink and smoke and indulge in acts of physical pleasure that most bone saws (that would be Doctor to all you people who respect the profession) would frown upon. I am not currently unhealthy, but I do have a tendency towards imbibment and I am afraid that in the future this will affect me.
In retrospect (or current spect I guess) this is kind of a silly topic for tonight's rant, but the fact of the mater is I am bored, It is 2 of the clock in the morning and I don't want to sleep. I have bourbon, my book on Teddy Roosevelt (which is very good, it won the Pulitzer) and a computer, so I am bitching and showing an affinity for run-on sentences and comma splices. So I will go on to a different issue.
Book Collecting.
I, Todd (which is a Scotch Gaelic word meaning fox and the Spanish word for fox is Zorro, therefore I am Zorro) am a geek. This is a sad realisation I came to recently. It is true I make the best Martini you have ever tasted and it is true that I can seduce any woman I meet (if I try and/or really care to) I can out box, out drink and out fuck any person that you know, but I am a geek. I love almost nothing more than to sit quietly with a good book and relax with my wife. I have and extensive collection of Hemingway, Kipling and Hunter Thompson novels (first or second editions) and I can argue the finer points of Todd McFarland's career at Marvel comics with anyone I meet.
This seems to tie into my whole problem with dichotomy (thank God for spell check). How is it possible that 2 things that are so different can exist inside of one person or one idea. The only logical answer is that I am in fact one with the cosmos and will exist forever.
Don't worry, I'm already deciding what to drink at your funeral.
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