After the sweet post yesterday, so many people tried to take the piss out of it by making fun of me. Many looked at it as an opportunity to make me do what they want me to do, to use my new found power of good against me, to bring me down and kill my buzz. People will love you until you don't do what they want then they'll turn on you. They'll tell you you're being mean because you can say, "No." Or, "I don't want to." And even saying, "I don't know," will cause their systems to crash. Can't you smile and still say, No?
 
"But you are so nice, how can you be so mean to me, can't you just do what I want?"
 
It's like that scene in "Platoon" where Charlie Sheen goes apeshit because some gook is smiling. How can he be smiling in all this horror? You get taken for being weak if you are happy. You become a target. I use to work at a place on a street where just walking out to get lunch you were constantly hassled by hucksters hustling you for change or CDs of their rap group, so I started doing a thing where I acted crazy, crazy stare, crazy walk, talking to myself, twisting up my arm like a birth defect, limping, slight drooling, all this just to go get a slice of pizza. People leave you alone if they think you're crazy. But it's just as tiring to act crazy as it is trying to be happy.
 
One day I meet this girl who ran a boutique on the same street getting pizza and trying to make my moves on her she told me, "What, are you like Kevin Spacey in 'Usual Suspects,' you're acting normal now, I thought you were insane?" Seems she would see me everyday walking by her shop like Ratso Rizzo.
 
I remember being with a friend and we saw Dr. Wayne Dyer getting ready to record some pledge drive plug at KCET in Hollywood and my friend was staring off into space and I asked, "What are you thinking?" and he said, "I wonder what it would be like to walk up to him and punch him right in the nuts? No one would ever expect it. It'd be like depantsing Gandhi." And this guy LOVED Dr. Wayne Dyer!
 
It's like David Lynch says in the awesome documentary, "Lynch," "Einstein man, what a burden it must have been being surrounded by a bunch of fucking morons!"
 
Still, I'm going to do my best to make it through this day with a smile and without getting AIDS.