Status Check
By most measures I can’t complain:
- Lucky enough to be born white in an industrialised nation, with nice parents, a decent brain, athletic ability and OK looks
- Travelled the world for many years
- Experienced being very, very poor
- And for a while was quite rich
- Had some levels of fame and infamy and heroism
- Created one of the biggest memes of the modern era
- Worked interesting shit jobs that let me see the nuts and bolts of society
- Was a sports star of sorts
- Published poet
- Have numerous children (best achievement ever)
- And some ex-wives
- Have presented a concept to a major corporate CEO
- And touched David Bowie
- Been drunk 5000 times, and most sans hangover 🙂
- And so stoned I can only crawl
- Done enough drugs and meditation to know there is more to this than the reality we sense
- Have experienced enough to realise that every single one of us is beautiful and just wants love. Even Trump and Hitler
- And I have loved and cared for animals – and plants, that many people forget are living beings too
- I’ve eaten $200 steak in Milwaukee and the greasiest, tastiest fish and chips in rural NZ
- I’ve worked as a dishwasher in loads of dive restaurants, and drank $1000 bottles (plural) of champagne at the Dorchester Hotel
- Been on TV more times I can remember, radio 10x that, cover stories of magazines big (Playboy) and small
- Inspired a fragrance!
- And solved puzzles like the location of Noah’s Ark and why stone circles exist
But right now I just work for the man, and otherwise drink. Part 2 is coming so hold on to your hats ! 😉