The Laughing Life

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1:05 AM, Wednesday morning...

In a book, an android was trying to understand why some hard-scrabble humans would name a space ship The Laughing Life. I bet I could tell him (and how melodramatic is that?) There is a lot you can laugh at in life -- problem is, hardly any of it is really funny.

Or maybe it all is.

While riding home in a car earlier tonight, "Scar Tissue" by The Red Hot Chili Peppers was playing on the radio. I thought: how pointlessly appropriate.

Hah.

--- JWR, 6/30/99

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