{"id":2933,"date":"2005-06-16T12:59:28","date_gmt":"2005-06-16T17:59:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/gazette\/2005\/06\/16\/youre-psychotic-im-logically-cautious\/"},"modified":"2022-05-06T16:17:37","modified_gmt":"2022-05-06T21:17:37","slug":"youre-psychotic-im-logically-cautious","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/2005\/06\/16\/youre-psychotic-im-logically-cautious\/","title":{"rendered":"You’re psychotic; I’m logically cautious"},"content":{"rendered":"

I finally got around to watching The Aviator<\/em><\/a> yesterday, thanks to NetFlix. If you having been paying attention, this epic movie (meaning that it’s really, really<\/em> long) brings to life on the big screen (or the 15″ TV in front of our treadmill) the story of Howard Hughes, the reclusive (paranoid) eccentric (psychotic) billionaire (billionaire) who did a lot of wild and wacky stuff.<\/p>\n

I was intrigued by the account of Hughes’ self-consumption brought on by his obsessive-compulsive behavior. I can’t understand how such a brilliant mind could also be so tortured by such seemingly trivial matters. I kept wanting to yell at the TV, “aw, c’mon, Howard; snap out of it…you’re embarassing yourself!”<\/p>\n

After the movie ended, I decided to edge and mow the lawn before the day got any hotter. I went into the garage and grabbed my hearing protectors from the nail on the side of the storage bin…and froze.<\/p>\n

There, on one earpiece, sat (stood? who can tell?) a small spider. On. My. Hearing. Protectors. The ones that go over my ears. On my head.<\/p>\n

With a full body spasm I simultaneously brushed, blew and flung the hideous creature…somewhere? I didn’t see where. For all I knew, I actually missed him, and he was now hiding INSIDE one of the ear cups, biding his time until I placed them on my head. Over my ears.<\/p>\n

I spent the next…oh, it’s not important how long it took…suffice it to say that I checked, re-checked and double-re-checked again every square millimeter of those cups. I squashed ’em real hard to make sure he couldn’t survive, then I did serious reconnaisance for the remains. I found nothing. Not a smidge or a smudge. Obviously, I had been successful in flinging him from my presence, and the headset was safe.<\/p>\n

Or…was it?
\nCould I risk it?
\nCould I risk it?
\nCould I risk it?
\nCould I risk it?
\nCould I…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I finally got around to watching The Aviator yesterday, thanks to NetFlix. If you having been paying attention, this epic movie (meaning that it’s really, really long) brings to life on the big screen (or the 15″ TV in front of our treadmill) the story of Howard Hughes, the reclusive (paranoid) eccentric (psychotic) billionaire (billionaire)… Continue reading You’re psychotic; I’m logically cautious<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kitchen-sink","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2933"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2933\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10246,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2933\/revisions\/10246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}