Burned out
Welcome to this week's Reno News & Review.
My co-worker threw his back out. The rumor mill had it he did it while twerking. Now, I don't want to feed the mill so I got verification. The problem is, when this slanderous rumor was first spread, I asked another co-worker the question, “What do you mean, he was twerking?”
Here's the part that bothers me, she thought I meant, “What does twerking mean?” Am I sensitive or did this person suggest I didn't know what twerking meant because I'm 51 years old? “Mm hmm, just like Miley Cyrus,” she said. I know who Miley Cyrus is. What I didn't know, was just how she got identified with twerking? Of course, Cyrus' performance on the MTV Video Music Awards showed up later on Google News.
It happened to me twice last week, too. I posted something about looking for photographers going to Burning Man. Suddenly the deluge of advice about Burning Man photo policies, how much time it takes to get to Burning Man, that I could hire a photographer before Burning Man, or that I could pay a photographer to use their images.
Come on, I was doing the pelvic thrust when Rocky Horror was still in theaters. Parents used to freak out because Elvis Presley did it. In fact, Ed Sullivan would only show him on network TV from the waist up. That shit's 60 years old. My dog Alice does it when she sniffs Charlie's boy-dog parts. And somebody thinks this is new? People need to learn some history so they don't seem so ignorant.
I had crushes on both Nina Blackwood and Martha Quinn. I remember the Boomtown Rats.
Burning Man? Open fires were still allowed when I started going to Burning Man. People openly carried and shot guns when I started going to Burning Man. In 1996, I flagged a road for Michael Michael and helped Flynn Mauthe build Helco. I'm acknowledged in the first Burning Man book, for Christ's sake. I've got gut flora that have been to more Burning Man's than these “Burners.”
You want to know why I don't know what happened on the MTV Video Awards or care to go to Burning Man every year anymore? Think about it. They're related. And it's not because I'm new at any of this.